New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
journalism Is
Called Vice
By DR.. Butler
Columbia Head, in Annual
Address. Decries News
Methods Now i'm Use. Say
ing Values Are Distorted
Attacks Elective System
Declares School Criticism
Would Lessen if Home,
Church Did Their Duties

anr.a, address, made public yesterday,
s.,,, <nsea the "spirit and temper of
;o,,vualisrnn as the besetting vice OF
.,sucssisnal activity in this generation,
9L- purpose of education, he declared
q make clear @ distinction between
rses.s swness and real value.
ssAs education which does not CON.
-shsad this fact" Or. Butler said, .or
IN education which neglects 60 emnha.
.ise and TO interpret this fact. IL III.
/ ..s IL any better than no educatiar ~
all. Tfis spirit ard temper have nots
sN II aided American education to ite
gSxy r1doing.'
j !. Butler also emphasized The ne
ceS siiyfor cooperation between school
Sasaiiy snd church if the individual IL
70 receive a rounded education Ha
declara that IL the family and ths
churca performed their fvil dutiea
nsay OF the severe criticisms now
brcught against schools and colleges
would disappear. eos
Financial Condition Discussed
speak,ng of the tendency of the elec-
i've system to confne s students in
tsfest to his chosen speciality. DR.. But
Ter described the success of n broad
ening cultural course Instituted al 10.
iumbia as AN introduction to eontem
porary civilization The faculty ;s
now going step further, he said, and
IS preparing 20 introduce a second
course of general character, an ssintro-
duction to modern SCIENCE
Referring to the financial condition
of the university, DR.. Butler said:
"Despite the fact that the inteyven.
ing years include much business uncer-
taiuty, it is with deep qualification that
record may be made of the fact that
more than S2S,00,00o of the SS3 ,0oo ,O0O
which six years ago was said to be
needed, has been paid or pledged to the
university. That the remaining s1o.-
100000 will come in due season is not
to be doubted"
In the matter OF salaries, DR.. But
Ter referred TO the present minimum OF
$4,000 year for professors rendering
tuIl time service, and announced that
for the budget of 1922, the committee
on education had recommended to the
trustses the creation of ten professional
positions TO pay $4,000 a year each
and twenty-five such positions to pay
$500 year each.
New Buildings Under Way
Toward the S15,000,000 required for
school, additions to the resources of
the university amounting to $12, 2,426, 900
nave been made or are pledged, DR..
Butler announced. He added:
Some S7,00o,000 additional would
enable the university to come fully
abreast OF its present undertakings
ana TO maintain them in vigor, effec-
tiveness and comfort. The larger part
on this sum is required for the build.
Ing program already under way. The
$ooosoo0 faculty house will be ready
for occupancy about February /. On
East Field residence hall for women
graduate and professional students
costing $940,000 is in course Of con-
struction, Erection of business build
ing to cost s850,00o will soon begin al
Broadway and 116th Street. Both
these buildings will be ready in 1924"
The trustees. DR.. Butler said, have
approved plan TO erect for Columbie
College g students hall, containing q
dining hall and commons, modern
gymnasium, rooms for alumni and un-
dergraduate organizations. He also
urged the erection of residence hall
for law students, saying:
Need for Residence Halls
at is to be remembered that the pro.
vision of residence halls is quite as
important and as essential part OF
the work of the university as Is the
provision of libraries, laboratories and
classrooms. The chief purpose of uni
rersity residence halls is not one OF
mere housing, but rather one of edu-
cation and educational influence. Few
things i'll the recent history of Colum,
bla University are more interesting
than the steady growth in the number
Of students of all classes who are In
Mnro than z O0n 4e
now live in residence halls, fraternity
houses or in the immediate vicinity OF
the campus during winter months, and
more than twice that number during
the summer session.
1t was under the caption "The Pass
ing Show" that DR.. Butler made his
stack on what he called "day-to day
ness," or "the spirit and temper of
journalism" Celebrating his opening
remarks on this aspect Of the educa-
aonal problem he said:
Says New Values Uncertain
Day to day events may or may not
ae correctly reported and interpreted.
they may or may not be OF consider
able or permanent importance. Given
only the fact that they are current
ssents, they are hastened on the at
ention of curious youth with all the
paraphernalia that would accompany
NE revelation of a fundamental law Of
asture or an Interpretation OF the rise
snd fall of the Roman Empire. 1t is
an instinct of this point OF view and of
sass method of mental occupation to
gut the newest book in place of the
osss book and the newest theory in
n.sce OF the soundest theory. Since
Sns I time OF Thomas q Kempis and
s0hn bungan it has been unusual for
pest seller to find it's way into the
history OF literature. Novelty, instead
VI arousing suspicion by reason of it's
CO.. HeWhess' offers attraction by rea-
ioh o. Its departure from that which
as ass heretofore been. TO find this epirit
S,na,I ~nu Isemper SO widely abroad in the
sos,a Is distressing enough, but to find
disasaoiag the school and college is
rehlng rN,,g in the extreme"
-. s'seies popularized, He Says
.tian "s n United States Bureau of Educa-
inc snnd ~, nutler declared, is populariz-
inc fsuaGental fallacies by publish
cnnea. .om Time to time statistical data
and ,a.ng What it describes as public
profspD.iyate psiiyate universities, colleges and
IN Tsssionai schools. He added:
saeb ~ america there cannot be any
lsga sning as private university, cell
ehsnMsa W professional school unless, per-
ana asee' an institution bearing the name
trict senducted for governing the Dis
stst.. ol Columbia or some one of the