The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-30
RoweH Says
Bx CHESTER H. RoWELL

After Prof Richardson of Dart
mouth had completed his 1survey of
college life, and had reached his con-
clusion that its chief need was to
make scholarship respectable, Presi-
dent Hopkins asked a group of under.
graduates to make a similar study,
from the students standpoint.
Their report is a rather remark
able contribution to educational
} thought. gaS
They concede that scholarship is in
disrepute, but they deny that this can
be cured by compulsion, or by student
opinion alone, SO long as the faculty
think that teaching consists in in
shilling into the young mind the facts
and conclusions which the older gen
erations think good for it.
They want to be given the chance to
find out facts and reach conclusions
for themselves. And, especially, they
will believe nothing that they have
not themselves proved.
Tradition and dogma are the ener-
gies Of education.
From the journalistic standpoint,
CAG IuOSI QuOtdOAC la VIC ICDOAb
are two very smartly-phrased obser-
vations:
"It is in fashion TO satirize the
blusterings of Bryan as 4melodramat-
ic exhibitions of abortive monstrosi-
ties from fact-empty, eniotion-padd
ed brain" !.
The student must realize that it
is the primary duty of man to know
reality, undimmed by deadening dog
ma or sectarian standards.
Gas particular millstones that must
be removed from his neck, dead for
malism in religion and narrow think
ing in social relations stand out above
all others. Saccharine Sundayschool
religion-blatant Fourth-of-July patri-
otism, inherited class bias-all must
fall"
This is the response of the TWEEN
tieth-century college student to the
effort of the inquisiters, political and
religious, to impose compulsory ortho-
doxy on him. -
If he is to learn religion and pa
triotism, he demands something else
than the traditional .Sunday-school and
Fourth of-July varieties of them.
Where Prohibition Is Matter of
Course.
Can the sea be made dry" APP.
parently not, on some ships. But be-
tween American ports it is evidently
possible. @a E 2F
At least, it has happened on this
ship, the Maui, between San Fran
cisco and Honolulu SO far as can
be observed, there is not drink
aboard zt
Of course, nothing is served at the
bar; but on "dry" Atlantic steam
er that is not necessary. Your friends
have plenty in their cabins.
The Atlantic vessels, to be sure,
touch at a "wet" out port, while this
one plies between two dry ports. But
there is plenty Of bad bootleg gin in
San Francisco, and worse bootleg
"okolehao" in Honolulu.
The point is, not merely that mo-
body brings it aboard, but that no
body misses it. The lack of it has
not been mentioned. 1t is taken for
granted.
We are at least beginning our re-
adjustment to the new era.
Something Even Mans Mind Can't Do.
This is written thousand miles
from the nearest land. Outside are
three frigate birds, soaring and sweep
ing, watching the water for fish and
following in the wake of the vessel for
food thrown overheard from the kitch-
en-.
A thousand miles in the straightest
line these birds must at least have
flown. Actually, they have probably
been out for months, finding their
own way without compass or sextant
over the unmarked deep.
Once year they fly to some far
distant island, where they lay their
eggs and rear their young. Always
to the same island they come back,
and somehow they find the way.
That is more than any but the
most skilled man could do, armed
with instruments of precision and
technically trained in their use.