The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-27

to carry a flask to the classroom,
you could count on him to man.
But his sense of social justice was
pretty rigidly bound by the campus
walls
You may study the youth of those
days in the curiously dated pages
of Scott Fitzgerald's first books. He
wanted to be something Of a rake
and he committed his little sins with
a grave oStent9tion 1t was his
headiest ambition to attain mem
bership in a club of undergraduates
who had all spent night in jail.
His college loyalty took the form
Of betting more money than he had
on the big football game of the sea-
son. His ideal girl was the prom
trotter and his economic theories
were limited to the best method Of
extracting money from the Old
Man.
This care-free, irresponsible young
man had no doubts about the
future; he knew exactly what he
was going to do. When he was
graduated he would get a job SELL
ing bonds and all his weel-ends
would be spent on Long Island
among charming millionaires. Some
day, inevitably, he would become a
millionaire himself and marry the
pretties girl within reach.
The most serious of the problems
which confronted the young men
and women of that age was the in
ability of their parents to approve
of the new code they had adopted
for themselves.
Urged Right to Live"
A great fervor and a great bel
igerency we're poured into the eff
fort to establish their right to live
their own liveS-Which meant stay
ing out until in the morning and
wearing low-cut dresses for the girls,
carrying hip-flasks and being mys-
ferrous about their movement for
the young bloods of the time.
Those girls and boys seem to have
vanished from the face of the earth.
The students of today, colleges re-
port, are studying economics with
all their might and are trying, like
so many senators, to find out what
has happened to the world They
SHOW an apathy toward football
success which shocks the older
graduates. They do not even, &C
cording to a recent poll of Harvard
freshmen, care about coming to the
prom.
A great many of today'S students
have gone through an unexpected
domestic earthquake, in which they
have discovered that the founda-
tons of fathers fortune were several
shades less certain than they had
supposed. A number of them have
found it necessary to earn their own
tuition, if they planned to go to
college-and their desire to bet $500
on the football game has been per-
Ceptibly lesSened as a result. All of
them have had to face the fact that
bond selling presents very dubious
future to the young man with moth
ing but a diploma and a lot of
friends to recommend him.
Now Aware of World
Our college students. have stuck
their heads beyond the campus walls
and begun to take an interest in
the grown-up world. Their war with
their families about individual free
dom has become a minor issue in
the war between an old philosophy
OF social living and a new one. And
sos Students Stage Rallies to Aid
Taxi Strikers"
1t does not matter much, just now,
what causes our undergraduates en-
brace or whether they are left or
right wing in their sympathies. The
exciting thing is that they are in
terested enough to take sides at all
that they are, at last. awake to is
sues of the day larger than those
involved in tea dances at the Bit
more and the New London races.
Can America expect a student
movement that will play an i'm
portant part in the policies of the
state?