Evening star., 1926-09-17
STUDENT UPHOLDS
ATTACK ON GOODS
Seminarian Who Charged
immortality in Article Sur
priSed at "Storm."
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO. September I7.-Wilfred
Q. Cross, youthful and obscure semi
marian who suddenly leaped into
notice under an avalanche of criticism
from students. college presidents and
bishops because of his article on
morals of undergraduates published in
q church paper sees the hubbub as
IAN amusing storm i'm a teacup."
In q letter to the Daily Illini, stu
dent publication at the University of
illinois at Crbana. Cross claimed that
he had been the victim OF newspaper
sensationalism because of his %bit of
hack writing in an obscure paper"
Il am certainly no fit person to try
panning institutions as immoral, he
wrote. ITO most people my own
moral standards are ShockinglN per-
verted. In this amusing storm in a
teacup | am surprised to see myself
represented as an impossible fanatic
canting over the souls and sins of my
fellow collegians.
Nov | merely asserted that time
and manners have changed since the
coed came to the university. 1t is
extraordinary that Il paper cannot be
written discussing a current subject
without incurring deluge of misrep-
resenting journalistic sensationalism."
Admits Misplaced Emphasis.
Cross, however stands back of his
article, and after coming to Chicago
last night from his home in Pontiac,
he maintained that the only error was
one of literary emphasis, rather than
of facts. Published in two sections in
" Mi no
article said that immortality in Ameri-
can universities was traceable to CO.
education. The author declared that
women now participate in drinking
bouts to an astounding extent, re.
ferred TO back-do deliveries of gin
to sorority house, and related a
pajama dance by collegians of both
sexes in the aiSleS of a sleeper bound
for foot ball game.
Cross will spend a few days with the
Rev William Q. Spofford, managing
editor of the Witness, who arrived
from New York yesterday, and then
Will go East to enroll as a divinity
student in Berkeley Theological Semi
nary at Nliddletown, Conn.
MY mistake" Cross said here, "was
an artistic one. / placed too much
emphasis, | realize now, on the first
part of my statement. Yes, the state
N"'CN'H
sleeping coach, the gin drinking and
the rest. that was true. But |. per-
haps, projected it too much into the
limeliSht. inaSmuCh as the latter part
of the article, the real nub of it so far
as l am concerned. was not printed
until a later issue"
Calls His Article Tame.
Still maintaining that he could sub
stantiate every word, the student
author explained that he would not do
so because of the embarrassment it
would cause persons and institutions
Cross asserted that his article was
tame compared with one by two Young
women in a recent issue of a national
magazine.
Among the latest crop of statements
referring to young Cross was one by
Dean Thomas Arkle Clark of the Uni
versity of Illinois, that the former
student had cut classes, had been
dropped from one because of lack of
punctuality, that he objected to mill
tary training and had been placed or
probation twice.
Cross said the accusations were all
true, but called them dust throwing
and evasions of the subject.