Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-13
FACUL T|ESF FINDING
TASK FATHOM|NG
|. STUDENT PROBLEM
Two Intensive Studies Under
Way, Deans and Advisers
of Men Disclose.
EFFECTS OF WAR SEEN
BY KANSAS SPEAKER
Meeting Here Told knowledge
Penetrating Forbidden Fields
Also Influence.

stand their students and are finding 1t
hard Job.
Two intensive studies with this OBJ
jective now are under way, 1t was an
nounced at the meeting Of the Assoei-
alton of Deans Advisers of Men at the
Mayf1ower this morning. One is being
formulated by the State universities and
the other by the Bureau of Education
for the Land Grant Colleges.
In the midst Of a great shift OF
moral standards, Chancellor E. K. Lind
ley Of the University of Kansas told
the educators. there is the problem OF
deciding whether there VIII be com
plete collapse of standards or whether
the plant is Just shut down for time
preparatory to turning out new ma
chine" Some say" he continued,
that youth has repudiated the rather
rigid. legislatic, puritanical standards on
the way to better.
1.-The great war had something TO do
with it. Another factor is the marvellous
growth Of knowledge which has pene-
trated forbidden fields quite persistently.
yet with the astonishing candor We
seem to have among our young woman
students what seems to be moral fas-
tidiousnIss as marked as that OF thel-
grandmothers. Another factor Is the
spread of democratic ideals. The in
feriority complex has come to be de-
spised. Most important Of all IS tint
ancient feud between youth ana ag;
which has run through history. Every
age has praised its mothers and crit
icized its daughters. Youth is the age OF
action and experience, and age OF re-
Election and regret.
Change in Few Years.
"Up to a few years ago youth IN our
colleges was forced to abide by the
standards of age. They have a right
to revolt and we must help them flnc
their own standards. Adolescence mus;
be lived out. like the tadpole stage O.
a frog You can't change a tadpclf
into frog by cutting of its tail. Tn
only way is to feed it and the tail vii
be absorbed.
Youth itself must discover the dis
cipline of liberty. 1t will not come from
authority. There is a great ignorance
Of the subjects with which we deal. w
can't change the fundamental instincts
of adolescence"
To reach a clearer understanding
DR.. Lindley said the State universities
hope to enlist the aid Of college fra
ternities and other campus organizations
to answer such questions as ways 10
lessen irregularities Of conduct by pro-
noting scholarship, the proper cost OF
fraternity houses, and whether the
fraternity should be delegated the
power to discipline its members for
infractions CT college rules. In formu-
lating a program for dealing with youth
he said. it is important not to curb
indivuality, thus increasing the yes
yes" men.
1T remains for the next five years he
said, to decide whether the almost
fanatical faith Of the public in higher
education is justified. In my mind the
future of higher education is by no
means secure"
The other study is being made by
means of a 160-page QUESTIONABLE
which is being distributed to all the
Immigrant colleges covering almost
every detail of student life. Another
year will be required before sufficient
answers have been received to work out
any correlations.
Dean Henry Grattan Doyle Of George
Washington University explained the
results of recent QUESTIONABLE on the
collegiate" type to which answers were
received from nearly 800 institutions of
higher learning.
Wilbur Lauds Students.
College students of today were termed
"as fine group as the void has ever
seen" by Secretary Of the II terror Ray
Lyman Wilbur. former president of
Leland Stanford University, at the ses-
sion yesterday afternoon.
There has been such a change in
standards and environment. he said,
that it is almost impossible for alumni
of other generations to understand the
present student bodies.
Control Of intercollegiate athletics
and the migration of student bodies to
games were discussed at the session.
Use of automobiles was stressed by
Dean j. w. Armstrong of Northwestern
University as the worst feature of such
migrationS because of the many acct
dents and because there is no way to
control the students. He urged the
chartering of special trains by colleges.
which can be accompanied by faculty
supervisors.
Dean S. H. Goodnight of the Uni
verSity Of Wisconsin said that there are
growing evils in the athletic relations
between colleges. Home-coming teams
disrupt the lie of the college for days,
he said. He condemned the activities
of sporty" alumni who think they
are doing something big for Alma
Mater" by recruiting and financing
athletes. Some of these evils, he pointed
out, have been greG.:v modified by the
conference boards, but Lie policy of
leaving each college as much autonomy
as possible in managing its athlete
affairs has left much to be done.
Deans Of Eastern universities attend
ing the session last night voted r.
organize an Eastern Association or
Deans and Advisers of Men. In the
tentative association Dean Henry Graf
tan Doyle Of George Washington I'm
versity was elected president; vice presi-
dent, Harry F. Stone, dean of West
Virginia University; secretary and
treasurer, Dean Kenneth o. Mason of
Brown University.