Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-04-07

sweet-smelling campus, is not as safe
as it used to be-
In the pioneer stage, especially
in the West, where the pioneers
struggle was prolonged by droughts,
grasshoppers and cyclones-whe
college education meant struggle,
co-education was safe and sane. II
is at least a question whether today
it is either.
In many of our colleges young
women come to the class room
dressed as if a semester were one
long tea party, with Interruptions
for dances and movies Pampered
young men-mother's darlings-
come, with high powered cars and
low powered brains, and the elective
system enables them to choose a
course which teaches them to do
nothing, gracefully"
Now, what do you think of that?
And he is a college professor, too.
But not in Washington. He is a
professor of applied Christianity at
Grinnell College, Iowa Maybe the
things he inveighs against are true
of Grinnell students. But can say
positively they are not of the State
College of Washington Why. only
today | went to an assembly of the
Women's League, composed of all
girls in the college. and saw-not
silk and satin and lace-tweeds and
serge, and MILDLY blouses of flannel
or linen. Wool stockings on neat
ankles, with sensible shoes. And
sensible heads above which were busy
planning a conference for high school
and college girls for discussion of
life vocations for women. saw
them coming out, greeting their eco
ed y men friends with CHEEKY. hearty
'Hello!' that was quite without the
giggle and blush and shipper YOU
would expect from Prof. Steiner's
description. And the men? Well
50 per cent of them are earning
either all or part of their expenses:
they can't fool around much under
the circumstances, and they work
TOO hard for what they get, to be sat
istied with learning Ito do nothing
gracefully"
In fairness to Professor Steiner,
however, | must say that this is but
an Incidental side-line of discussion
at the end of very interesting book
on immigration, a subject on which
he is an acknowledged authority. He
has called it "Old Trails and New
BORDERS, and given in it the results
Of his last summers trip over TO
Europe and about the haunts of the
lmmigrant-to-be. He first lived in
the New York tenement district dur.
ing the war to see how the war spir-
1t affected the foreign speaking pop-
ulation. With this as a background
his trip and the things he has to
say about it are particularly inter
esting. He came back after revisit
ing Sloyakia, from which he himself |
emlgrated to America not so long /
ago, more in love with his new adopt
ed country than ever, feeling he had
come "out of the tombs of empires. |
and from the grave of a civilization" 4
with an intensified will to save my 1
country from the doom of Europe, Il
and to that end she must think with
the international mind and feel with Il
the international heart"
All the way through the book, 1
though he shows America how little /
we really understand of the prob
lens Of the immigrant coming to our /
shores, and how often we have failed /
to support and tester the high ideals /
of liberty and equality and justice 1
and humanity that have been expect /
ed of us, still by comparison with /
the disintegratiOn and demoraliza- 1
ton abroad we have much to be glad /
and proud Of, much to hope for, much /
TO accomplish,
1t is no task for spiritual pigmies, /
thin-skinned pipers of popular
preachments, hunters for big salaries
but a task for noble, brotherly men"
Edward Steiners odd Trails and .
New Borders" CFleming H. Revell .
Co, Chicago, $3.50.
Some New Books
Raggedy Andy, by Johnny Greulle T
(Volland).
Mother Goose new edition) CVol-
land).
The Study of American History, /
by Yiscount Bryce (Macmillan).
The Soul of Ulster, by Ernest w. |