Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-06-19
SAYS COLLEGE CLASSES
FAST BECOMING MODS
HIGHER Institutions Are Afflicted
With Statistical Dropsy,
Saws Bates Speaker.

nv A.soclated Press 20 Every Evening.
lewiston, Me, June 19.-'Collegc
rrsJ,,,,cs ike seasoned bonds and SIX
syl,ndcr ears. must pass the test of
durability. said President Clifton Dag
rc,t GRAY of Bates College to the class
Il 1922 in the baccdaureatc aaoreSs'
delivered Yesterday IN CIege Shalei'
Defining faith not 20 creed 10 pc
rcpeated or n system OF doctrines Gaining
for intellectual assent, but rather As
simple patience in the midst OF adverse
conditions, loyalty TO the task OF INC
moment and 10 what we believe 10 he
the best in the world about us, Ut
GRAY deplored the Tenderness IN h'sner
education of today which initiate
against steadiastness OF character.
And not few are saying that the
colleges IN their anxiety for huge en-
rollments are not producing the hne
TYNE oi graduates they once were,
before the war, 10. 900 was the numerical
.cme IN university enrolment. Today
an announcement by a great university
ON the Atlantic Coast that IT has IN All
den,rtmcnts "A student body OF over
3oOOO is followed immediately by n
similar announcement on the part oil an
equally great university on the iac, no
Coast az an enrolment OF over 4o,tNO
IN ALI departments two kno'able, but
Ia no means the only, cases OF statsticSi
dropsy IN higher education
''rhc old topper says. JUST one Viess
moro il won't make any difference
The college president, old or new, Is
unto as ant TO say, Just one student
more n won't make any difference
"put II does make a difference, ana
hefcr, the college rs aware OF II, reclta-
,,ons y,vr way tn lectures, classes be-
como mohs. and low-powered student
who spends most OF hls time running
aho,,, IN a high-powered car can get
hrs bachelors degree SIMPLY by en-
plov,nr a tutor who personally conducts
HIM. a week or SO. before the finals,
an a ouas,.intellec,ual Cooks tour via
sightseeing syllabus past the principal
po,n,s of interest IN the course.
There Is no closed season these days
for critics Of our educational institutions
and n Is not AT all surprising To meet
those who are inclined to say with Aaron
If old. 4 cast the gold into the hre and
there came out this calf!
Moreover, the tendency To multiply
courses has been quite rs marked AS the
desire for large enrolment. \ university
m one of our most cultured ccntcrs an
nounced the other day, through rs
publicity department. u course Tor hcll'
hons. although II failed to state whether
the professor OF bell-hopping was con
nectcd with It's department ot bellies
lettrrs. should tins tendency IN voca
tional education become at all general
WHY not also a course for bOot-hlack:
who are altogether quite ~ useful mem
Der. of society as bell-hops?
The old education contented itsel
for the mos, part with polishing th'
mind. n looks ~ II the new education
might turn 20 the other extremity and
take to polishing shoes. Possibly The
dav isat hand IN the women colleges
when chairs Of manicuring and Marce
waving will be established and thes'
courses will be counted, along wit
mathematics and philosophy toward tn
degree of bachelor OF arts. and VIII
dsres TO affirm that these are not arts?
DIR Gray emphasized the value of tn
quality rather than quantity ot the edu
cational product, of character as lndIs
peusahlc 20 the highest type at educa
ton. and of religion as neceSsar.
adjunct to character. Religion with
out education he SAID. 'prndhcc
hipots: education without religion pro
iuces crooks; the world were better Ot
without either.