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The New York herald., 1922-03-05

quiring a physical examination and
throughout the freshman year a cer-
tain amount Of regular physical ex-
ercise. Both requirements have JUS
titled themselves. The former has
had the curious and happy result OF
setting at rest the fears of many boys
whose supposed ills either never ex-
listed or have been outgrown. And the
required physical exercise-in direct
ing which we have tried to lead men
into activities that they can keep up
through middle age-has made our
courts, field and river buster and more
profitable than ever before.
Now let us suppose that you have
more or less successfully picked the
right men for college and got them
well into the work of their freshman
year. How are you going to direct
their studies for the remainder Of their
course?
About one-third of their work. we
tell them, they must Concentrate" in
certain field, about one-third they
must distribute" over certain broadly
designated fields and with the re-
mainder they may do as they like
This arrangement. on the whole, has
worked well. though we are still-and
probably shall long be-tinkering over
details here and there to make it bet
ter. It secures a certain amount Of
specialization and fairly well protects
a man against the danger (Which was
very real danger when I was an
undergraduate) of never getting be-
yond courses that were of a difficulty
about suited to sophomores. 1t also
protects man against the danger of
| never getting into certain fundamental
fields furthest from his own-intc
science. for example, in the case of a
man SO interested in languages that
| If left TO himself he would never take
a course In physics or chemistry or
biology or mathematics, and so would
graduate with very doubtful right,
in spite of his diploma, to be called an
| educated man.
But courses may very well be chosen
in complete obedience to these rules
and still be forgotten as fast as they
| are taken. l can very distinctly re-
| member how a classmate of mine, as
we went to his room Just after a
| final examination In a certain course,
slammed his notes at the fireplace, and
remarked, so much for that" (These
may say. were not precisely his
words.) How are you going to deal
with that? How are you going to
make the point that a degree should
mean something more than scoring In
separate-even IL more or less re-
lated-courses of study?
The New York herald., 1922-03-05
Giichrist Is Interested.

Commissioner Gilchrist yesterday said
that he is awaiting with interest what
ever proposal may be submitted by the
joint committee made up OF representa-
tives of the Producing Managers Asso-
citation, the Actors Equity Association
the Dramatists League, the Catholic
Theater League the Y. VI. G. A. and va
rious other ore 'nizations, and that he
saw no reason why the city authorities
could not stand firmly behind any vol
untary censorship plan agreed upon by
the Joint committee-the panel-jury plan
by which a jury OF twelve persons would
be drawn by chance from a panel OF
500 citizens having no connection with
either the theate- or reform movements.
MY own belief" said Commissioner
Gilchrist. "is that power should be given
to some city depa. tment-not necessarily
this department-to take off play that
has been pronounced indecent by a jury
Of intelligent persons. / have employed
such committees or juries myself. and
have followed their judgment but we
have no power TO stop plays that are
bad They can get a restraining order
against us. This plan would be better.
in my Judgment, than any official cen
sorship. / am willing 70 go as far as
they like and the law permits to CO.
operate with the managers, the dramat-
lists. the actors and the reform ele-
ments."
John S. Sumner. one OF the executive
committee or the Joint committee which
purposes to clean up the stage, said that
probably IL would not be necessary Ia
confer such power as Commissioner Gil
christ suggested.
The New York herald., 1922-03-05
Results of President LoweRs
General Examination Idea

The Introduction of the general ex-
animation" to meet this difficulty is, I
think. one OF the most important ac-
complishments of President Lowell's
administration. IL creates an educa-
tional unit larger than the course-the
field of knowledge. which may be a de-
partmental field, like history, or gov
ernment, or philosophy. or perhaps a
combination of fields such as the his
tory and literature Of period or q
country. Furthermore. it creates lin
those departments which have most
fully developed the art OF preparing
their students for I'D two very i'm
portant persons-the tutor and the
examiner.
The tutor Is important because, In
stead OF watching over a student in a
single course. he carries that student
along for three years and. especially
in the senior year, watches over his
total intellectual welfare. That, at
least. is the theory. or course no
human tutor was ever wise enough TO
do all that that phrase might mean.
but n good tutor can, and does. lead
a man to put things together as no
would never do II he merely went from
course to course with no teacher go
ing alongside. / am told that a cer-
tain undergraduate who had heard
Alexander Hamilton mentioned in
three different courses was much sur
prised to be assured by his tutor that
these three professors were all talking
about the same mani
Tho examiner is important, because
he is examining not his own men, 1s
is customary in this country, but men
prepared and passed on TO him by
some one else. That keeps everybody
on his mettle.
Meanwhile We are holding onto
The New York herald., 1922-03-05
Would Enforce ITSELF.

What we are after" Mr. Sumner
said lis a contract, a hard and fast
contract. entered into by producers.
playwrights and actors to take off and
keep off any play that shall be con-
demned by a jury of twelve intelligent
and disirrerested citizens. II all con-
cerned enter into such a contract 1t will
enforce itself. We do want friendly
cooperation OF the city authorities and
their sympathetic understanding that we
are not trying to take away any of their
prerogatives."
Mr.. Sumner said that he was antici-
pating an early decision by the Prodrc-
Ing Managers Association in favor Of
the voluntary contract plan, and when
that was received the associated inter-
ests would be ready to 90 before Mayor
Hylan and Commissioner Gilchrist.
a few nights ago a group Of citizens
not connected with the joint committee
os which Mr.. Sumner is an executive
member bur who were inspired TO make
ar independent investigation OF their
own. attended n performance of THE
Rubicon" at the Hudson Theater. They
reported 10 Chief Magistrate McAdoo
that the play was indecent and stupid
The Chief Magistrate forwarded the -e-
port to Mrs. Henry p. Harris. owner of
the theater, and received from her
letter saying that she agred with the re
port. she said she regretted having the
name of the Harris estate associated
with the play and asked what legal
measures could be taken. The Chief
Magistrate commended her FOR the stand
she took and suggested that she confer
with her lawyer Mrs. Harris sailed FOR
Europe early this week.
II Is und erstood that the jury which
reported to Chief Magistrate McAdoo
was headed BY Alderman VI. Hadden.
chairman of the Grand Jury Association
end vestryfnan OF st. Thomas's Church.
lie refused, however. 10 discuss the in
vestigation or report.
The New York herald., 1922-03-05
Instructors Leave to Others
The How to Study

Then, too, we have a great many
men on our hands who do not know
how to study. When you ask them
how long they studied on a certain
job, they tell you. and they think they
are telling the truth. For it is true
that they did sit with an open book
before them for exactly the time that
they say. But It is more than likely
that, measured by the standard OF in
tensity that they expect to meet on
the athletic field, they did not really
study for one-third OF that time
Whose fault is Il? Everybody's. /
suppose. At least, nearly every in
structor that / know is so busy that
he is leaving this matter to somebody
else. 1t needs lot of time and a lot
OF skill to meet this problem, for
every case is little different from
any other and a solid foundation OF
method has hardly been built as yet.
The college of the future will have,
uppose--certainly Harvard in the
very near future hopes to havc--a
little staff of experts directed by one
or two particularly shllful men who
can themselves take on the most diff
cult cases; and these people will con-
stitute n sort OF hospital STAFF to which
the general practitioner--that IS the
instructor who finds that his men
don't know how TO study properly
can send the freshman who means
we'll but doesn't know how to plan his
day how to concentrate. how to build
up his memory and all the rest of II.
don't for a moment mean to imply
that when you have done all this you
have got your freshman safely started.
Far from II. In many cases you have
10 help him financially, of course. and
in many more cases you have - help
him find work. That we are trying to
do. and in these hard times II IS
difficult.
Then there is the matter or physical
development. At Harvard we are re-
The New York herald., 1922-03-05
Transfer From Schools to
Higher Institutions Is
Wide Problem.
LowELL's SUGGESTIONS
importance Of the Tutor Il
Emphasized in the Process
Of Selection.
BY DEAN c. N. CREENOUCH,
of Harvard.

MIS- is hasty article: no dean
ever has any leisure. But It is
at least an honest article, in
that haven't attempted to play up
those phases OF college education
which Harvard has already carried
furthest toward satisfactory develop
ment. Indeed, fear that have made
too much of certain ideas very diff
ficult to realize and as yet very little
developed either here or elsewhere. Tt
IS, however, more profitable to look
forward than back.
First in order. and equal to any in
difficulty, comes the question: How
are you going to select the boys who
ought to go to college and reject the
others?
In earlier times when all the boys
who sought a college education were
more nearly alike than they are now.
admission requirements were. properly
enough, stated almost wholly in terms
of scholarship. If boy knew enough
Latin, algebra, French. and so on, he
got In. But nothing is as simple as
it used to be. and nowadays many
are wondering whether entrance re-
quirements-quite apart from the
question Of limiting the number of
students who shall enter college
ought not to include tests of general
intelligence, character, capacity for
leadership, willingness to cooperate in
school organizations, and other more
or less essential points that we seem
unable to decide merely from an in
spection of the regular examination
books.
Whether to meet this need by get
ting more evidence about candidates
from those who know them, or by hav-
ing them answer a paper OF general
questions, or by seeing them person.
ally, is a query that many colleges are
now asking. 1t Is extremely difficult
to see how any of these devices can
be made to work satisfactorily alone.
or how they can be made to do the
job, except very imperfectly, when
tried together. Certificates of char
acter are likely to be vague and mega
tive. Psychological tests are valuable
in connection with other evidence. and
not without their uses even when they
stand alone. The personal interview is
perhaps the best single test; but q
national university like Harvard can
not administer such an examination
without great difficulty and great cost.
The New York herald., 1922-03-05
SOVIET TO COLLECT STAMPS.

MOSCOW. March stamp collecting
is TO be a government monopoly in Rus
sia. The Council or Commissars has
announced the creation OF special
plilatelic bureau which will deal in
stamps for the benefit OF the state ex-
port fund.
The New York herald., 1922-03-05
How to Get Boys Safely
From School to College

-fSvn nrt-r great cesl more Prog
ress has been made in selecting the
right material it will still be difficult
and many sided problem to help boys
get safely from school to college.
When q boy comes from school to
The New York herald., 1922-03-05
Raps Yellow Newspapers.

Bishop Williams hurled a few oral
lances in the direction of certain sensa-
tion seeking newspapers.
BEFORE we can raise the morals Of
our youth to-day we must drive the
sensational newspaper off the man." as
serted the Bishop with emphasis
Take the case OF one OF our news
papers divorce suit was being tried
IN the courts with the usual charges
and counter charges hurled by both
sides. The accusations were too vile
for repetition This enterprising sheet
printed all the accusations together with
practically all the testimony
Il appealed to the editor to refrain
from printing the lascivious details and
! chronicle the proceedings along the
| same lines as the other Detroit news
papers were doing. The only satisfac-
tion | got was that the public was in
| terested In the details of the case and
| that it was his duty as the editor to
give the readers what they wanted.
THE church was ignored by this
| editor. | was only anxious to safe
| guard the young girls from reading
these revolving details. Five of the big
gest merchants wrote to the editor the
next day saying that unless the filthy
details of this divorce case were elimi-
mated they would forget to patronize
| the paper. Strange to say handful OF
| retail merchants accomplished more
than the combined clergy Of Detroit" :"
| Bishop Williams was asked to pre-
scribe set of rules for fathers. mothers
and children to follow. which would IL
| followed to the letter produce homes 100
per cent. happy.
Your question can almost be an
swered by an answer given TO Bishop
Greer of New York and myself several
| years ago by the Bishop OF Ripon." re-
Piled Bishop Williams. I'VE asked the
Bishop his formula for his wonderful
sermons. and we received from the
brilliant English prelate this reply:
How do I do it. you ask; II knew.
couldn't do it.
Il am positive we are at the bottom
OF our moral slump. II Is only n passin :
phase. The pendulum must swing back.
\ There seems to be a loss of confidence
in all the moral forces to-day. IT is an
other reaction of the recent world war.
| History teaches us that there is always
| let up in morals generally following
a conflict between nations. Affairs must
be restored to normal as soon as possl-
BILE.
Il must confess that the present
transition that this country Is expert
kencing is far the worst ever chronicled
1t must be taken into consideration that
we in this country were keyed to a
higher tension than ever before known.
and naturally II is the young people
who ALWAYS go to the devil fret 4"
The New York herald., 1922-03-05
More Time and Money Might
Be Spent in Raw Material

Yet IL seems to me that 1t would pay
In every way If a good deal more time
and money were spent in selecting tho
raw material upon which the mysteri-
aus processes of education are to be
attempted. Even IL we can grant-as
I fear we cannot-that our present
examinations sufficiently test candi-
dates on all the points that they cover.
1ust think of the points that they do
not cover. They do not cover person.
ality, and the consequences are seri-
Gus IL we admit to college lot of men
who are not and never can be. officer
material" They do not cover char
acter, and the consequences of error
here are still more serious. For stu
dents who loaf or run wild mean hours
of labor for deans and administrative
boards. The worst cases even mean
that finally whole faculty of scholars
who might otherwise be teaching or
working in their libraries and labora-
tories must take time to consider just
how to punish a young man who
probably should never have come to
college at all. This not only costs a
great deal OF money, but also takes the
time OF people who ought to be giving
more attention to the good student
and the honest, well meaning mediocre
student. In a dozen ways 1t Injuries
the interests OF those who desire to
get, not to resist, education. If. there
fore, those who select the material for
the freshman class-the purchasing
department, so to speak. of the univer-
slty--could be given more money, a
larger staff and more extensive powers
a considerable gain might be made In
permitting the college to devote moro
of It's time to education.
And the candidate himself, II he Is
one of those who for various reasons
would better not go to college. is alto
gether the gamer by a system that
tells him so at the outset.
taink the great majority of people,
even in n democracy like ours, will see
the justice of this rigid scrutiny and
the wisdom of applying 1t early. The
business of q college that is trying to
serve the best interests of country
like ours should be. think. first, to
assist every one of its students to
reach as high a place as his abilities
will permit. and, secondly. to teach
him that the higher he gets the more
people there are below him whom he
must help. And men cannot be taught
that second point unless they have
character as well as brains.
The New York herald., 1922-03-05
Control of Amusements.

Bishop Williams then outlined n plan
for the public control OF all amusements
for the young people.
There are many OF our public dance
halls that are nothing less than re-
cruiting places for every conceivable
kind of vice." declared the Bishop
Every amusement that Is patronized
by the young people must be placed
under State control. 1t is the COM
mercialization OF pleasure that debases
Il. We must raise the tone OF recreation
before we can ever hope to straighten
out the morals OF our children. The
movies also need State control.
II am looking forward TO big results
Postmaster-General Hays takes hold
The motion picture industry OF to-day
needs a big man Of clean morals like
Mr.. Hays. The movies are just like
newspapers. The screen. like the
printed page. reflects the ideas morals
and thoughts OF its directors and edi-
tors. A rigid censorship OF the movies
before the picture leaves the studio
must be put into effect at once.
THE motion picture is one OF tho
greatest educators OF the present day.
IL is one OF my favorite amusements.
I encourage my family to patronize the
good pictures. One OF the public school
heads here IN Detroit has installed n
motion picture machine IN his home.
and every Sunday night he entertains
his family and few friends with the
latest pictures"
The New York herald., 1922-03-05

| college he comes from a place where
instruction usually takes the form of
recitation to a place where much of
the instruction is in the form of lee
lures. The Harvard freshman, for ex-
ample, may very probably be taking,
among his five courses, history 1.
government 1, and philosophy A. all
lecture courses. Comparatively few,
even among reasonably intelligent and
well intentioned freshmen, know how
to handle themselves we'll in lecture
course. I am not now speaking Of
boys who when they get into lecture
course think that they have at last
found a place where the teacher does
all the work. am speaking Of those
| who really want, in vague way, to
do their share, but who do not quite
know how to take good notes on lee
lures or how to extract and retain in
memory the gist Of a fairly difficult
piece of reading. Such boys need
| highly skilled instruction in these
matters-instruction which can be
given only in very small groups-and
/ think 1t would be difficult to point
| to a college which Is at present CIV
| ing that instruction in any such
amount and quality as the needs of
the situation demand. But we are
getting little nearer to 1t each year.
| Again, the transition from school to
college-or, at least, from most Schools
| to most colleges-is a transition from
small library to a large one. At
Harvard 1t is a very large one. A
| university which has such a large
library is likely to be the very place
where professional tutors encamp
upon the outskirts and furnish sup
posed substitutes for that which car
be found only by digging for ones
self. A considerable number OF Har-
ward undergraduates go to the library
SO rarely that they do not know how
to use the catalogue: they have only
the --LATEST notions about reference
books; they do not begin to realize
the resources of the stacks. The idea
that periodicals as well as books have
to be consulted is strange to some of
| them, and how to find these periodi-
calls is more than they can tell. But
the library staff. though very busy. is
glad to help. and instructors are each
year taking greater pains to make the
use of the library more necessary and
more interesting in their courses. So
here also we are doing n little. though
we see infinitely more that ought to be
done.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-02
AWNINGS and TENTS
Check From Member
Hospital Auxiliary
In North Received

One member of the Winter Resident
Women's Auxiliary reports an unex-
pected but very gratifying develop
ment In connection with her part in
the hospital work. This member be-
longs to a similar women's hospital
auxiliary in the north. and being de-
sirous Of further information as to
work of this character, she wrote an
officer of her hCxne auxiliary request
ing certain Information as to bylaws
and the like.
In her letter she told something Of
the plans being developed here. ex-
planning that there was no such hos
pital here now and that everyone de-
sired to secure a modern, adequate in
stitu;ion as soon as possible. She re-
ceived reply by return mail express
ing cordial sympathy with the local
effort. and giving her the information
asked. What was more. she found,
much to her surprise. that a check
had been enclosed. with a .request that
il be applied to the work here. The
gift came entirely unexpected and un-
solicited
The hospital Office is in receipt of
other letters expressing sympathy with
the movement and pledging financial
support. All Indications point to a
general desire on the part Of everyone
not only to make a contribution but
to have an active part in securing this
new hospital as quickly as possible.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-02
Islanders Book a
Game With "Philly"
Team Here Mar. IS

Jack Martin. manager OF the DAY :
toaa baseball team. announced today
that two exhibition games Will be
played in March With the Philadelphia
National League baseball team IL
Daytoaa remains in the Florida State
League
The games already have been book
"a with the mayor ieaguers. and ths
first is to be played ON the City Island
the afternoon o.. March is and the
second viii he played March p IN
lcesbure. where aoe Phiia aeiDhls.
Team viii do its spring training
Manager Martin also holses to ar
range games with three 'ctfser big
league teams which are To train IN
Florida this year
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-02
Regain, With Flying
Squadron, a Unique
: Artist and Talker

Hon Frank s. Regan. Of Rockford.
Illinois, former member Of the Hin
ois Legislature. who is to give two ad
dresses in DaytoEa in the First Zap
list Church Saturday afternoon anu
esening on February 4th in connection
with the campaign OF the FLYING
Squadron which is to spend two days
here, and one day In Daytona Beach.
is unique orator.
He IS a tax expert and that subject
IS supposed to be as dry as dust, but
he is also a cartopnist. rapid crayolz
worker Who. with lightning speed
draws pictures to illustrate his points
II is said that he keeps his audiences
keyed lip every minute OF the time
and has them aLplauding Throughout
his address.
No admission is charged for his lee.
lures or for the addresses of aI.y CT
the other six speakers who make W
the combination. Everybody is Invited
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The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-02

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The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1922-02-02

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