Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-06-23
BISHOP APPEALS
FOR HIGH MORALS
In Address To Cathedral
High Graduates Says That
Most Students Want
Trashy

In speaking before the graduating
class of Cathedral High school in
Burlington at the second annual
, graduation exercises Of the institution
Bishop Rice said:
This well-balanced and co-ordnated
training Of your normal, intellectual
and physical faculties has cost many
sacrifices on the part Of your parents,
your priests and your sisters, and we
sincerely trust that you will show
your gratitude by living up to the
lofty though attalnable ideals traced
out here for your guidance. Above all
do we trust that you will not swell
The ranks of that ever increasing NUN
Der of high school graduates VINO go
forth year after year to the dsCredit
of their Alma Matters; unframed
minds with A smattering of many
things but woefulIy lacking in the eS-
sentals and fundamentals of a common
school education; proficient especially
in dancing, athletics, cigarette smok-
ing and movies After graduation
they seldom open a serious book; the
trashy novel of the blood and thun-
der OF the sensuous type is the zen
it'll of their mental efforts Little
wonder that the reports OF the en-
trance examinations from Annapolis,
West Point various colleges and nor
NAL schools sound like a wall of deS-
pair Then ensueS the annual anus
ing but unproduCtive discussion as
to who is really responsible for the
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Pupils Undisciplined
The high school faculties throw the
blame back on the graded schools,
they say it is unreasonable to expect
us in four years to correct and undo
the mistakes of the faulty and super
fetal teaching of the eight years spent
in the graded schools; then in turn
the teachers of the graded schools re-
tort that it is unfair to blame them
for bad results Of a curriculum so
overcrowded with fads that thorough
ness is out of the question; it is un-
reasonable, they say, to expect the re
suit of thoroughness out OF the en-
for2ement of a curriculum which leads
logically to superficial smatterlng;
moreover, the pupils are so pampered
and undisciplined at home that they
will rise in mutiny against any at
tempt on the part OF the teacher to
insist on serious study.
Opponents of Socialism
Where on this planet Of ours could
there be found sturdier opponents OF
the peruicilous doctrines OF atheism
and socialism than among the grand
fathers and grandmothers, the fathers
and mothers OF the present genera
ton of college students! What would
thev have left undone to blot out
these nefarious isms, the one destruc-
tive of all religion, the other seeking
to overthrow civil society, even civil
ization itself Yet many OF these
same parents have spent small Tor
tunes to have their sons and daugh-
ters taught these nefarious doctrines
which the willy college and normal
school professors labelled Scientific;
but has it come to this that social
istic professors must don a red shirt
and proclaim themselves anarchists
before parents of intelligence are able
to detect the destructive character
of the principles they are teaching
their sons and daughters' Are they
reduced to such 4 state OF mental
slavery that they hold their reason
ing powers subservient to the emotions
evoked by the tinseled labels OF sci
entiic," "up-to-date," progressive"
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