Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-22
LIMIT COURSE
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the world at the present time. Presi-
dent Hopkins said, are the spirits OF
youth and propaganda.
Many Of us thought we were 10
have been done with any necessity for
thinking Of or discussing propaganda
once the war should have been ended
but instead we find ourselves confront
cd with the definite possibility that
what was reluctantly accepted as
war necessity will be imposed upon us
in larger dimensions and with great
er thoroughness than ever before as a
working procedure Of daily life. despite
it's tendency to shrink minds and to
soil souls in the .muddied waters OF
things that are not So"
President Hopkins said he as
sumed that in the minds of think
ing men there is agreement that in
world seeking a basis of cooperation
rather than a conflict, the prevalent
wartime practice of distorting truth
and Of clothing plausible falsehoods
with responsibility, should not pre-
vail"
and yet it does prevail" he adj
ded.
Selection Of applicants for admis-
sion to colleges. President Hopkins
said, is "two-fold necessity on the
enc hand that men incapable OF pro-
fling by the advantages. which the
college offers, or indisposed, shall not
be withdrawn from useful work to
spend their time profitlessly. in idle
ness acquiring false standards OF
living; and, on the other hand, that
the contribution which the college is
capable OF making to the lives OF
capable men and through them. to
society, shall not be too largely les
sened by the slackening of pace due
to the presence Of men Indifferent or
wanting in capacity"
I'VE hear much Of men seeking an
education" he continued, but too
often they are only seeking member
ship in social organization which
has a reputation for affording an
education, from which reputation
they expect to benefit, if they can
avoid being detached from the asso-
citation. The assumption would be
humorous if it We're not SO serious,
that enrolment with a college re-
quires that the college shall either
force education upon the individual
man or surreptitiously bait him to it,
rather than that he should crave and
at the cos, of any effort possess him.
self Of the utmost which the college
can give.
1T woull be incompatible with all
OF the conceptions of democracy, to
assume that the privilege of higher
education should be restricted to any
class defined by the accident OF birth
or by the fortuituous circumstances
of possession Of wealth. but there is
such a thing as an aristrocracy OF
brains, made up of men intellectually
alert and Intellectually eager, to
whom increasingly the opportunities
of higher education ought to be re-
stricted if democracy is to become
quality product rather than simply
quantity one, and if excellence and
effectiveness are to displace the
mediocrity towards which democracy
has such tendency to skid
Il wish to safeguard carefully these
statements, however. by iteration and
reiteration that it behooves all Of us
to avoid confusing the symbols and
the facts of intellectually and hope
that under any circumstances we
might avoid confusing mental gym
nastics and facility in appropriating
the ideas Of others with genuine
thinking"