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tory. or the hypothesis Of mathematics
though these subjects made up that
rigid old four-year course in college.
The little old red school house was
a plain. old-fashioned class room
without frills or furbelowS. 1t dealt
mainly with the three RS and its
graduates came eventually to check
the problems of their day with the
experiences Of history. Scepticism
was then . an unknown factor in
American life Boys and'girls. COM
ing out of school and college, were
eager to seize upon all opportunities
with an enthusiasm born of frontiers.
They looked upon the world as their
oyster and whatever education they
possessed as the knife that would
shuck it. From their hearts pumped
blood that stirred an empire.
Working silently, advising the lead
ing college and university presidents,
the little group of professors in Wash
ington now want to recapture some
of the enthusiasms of the past and
weld them into the new college cur
rfcula. They believe it can be done,
but it will take time. 1t will take
time because the colleges, they say.
slipped into bad ways during the
past five years, and some Of the
charges against them are well known
-publicized, in fact. by the Ameri-
can Association Of Universities. In
plain. unvarnished English. racket
eering went on in the American COL
lege. It had to do with paid ath-
letes, and unethical practices in other
fields, mostly the search for subsi-
died students.
Now there is q tendency to tighten
the reins, after the college curricu-
lum-trying to satisfy too many de-
mands-had gone haywire. The re-
suit is progressive professors all over
the land are trying to get the vehicle
back on the roadway.
There is one place, Of course, where
the hand of authority fails to assert
itself-and that Is on the check rein
that brides social life. This is the
main complaint of the professors.
1t may be supposed that the
$4,000 boys and girls who enter the
freshman classes of American colleges
and universities this year will have
their eyes clear enough to look facts
squarely in thf face. Old professors
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skin of their teeth" They go through
college, but college does not 60
through them.
The four years of college life are
designed to absorb all of a students
time. In the old college curriculum
the student had little choice in the
wastage of that precious time. His
course was prescribed. He was out,
then, for what became known as
liberal education. That liberal edu-
cation, in turn, was ordained 70 make
him a man among men-socially and
professionally.
In the nature Of progress, the class
room subjects became not only en-
larged but elective. More subjects
than any one student could master,
the scholar was given his choice.
Subjects were expanded so that a
man who wanted to be an astronomer
could graduate conveniently in the
same class with one whose ambition
was to be q chiropractor or veter-
marian.
Here the new subjects came rolling
into college, all of equal weight in the
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for himself? What can he say? What
account can he give of his four years
stewardship? Bluntly, can he pro-
duce?
Any college graduate may honestly
measure the value of his education by
examining himself in the subjects he
pursued at college.
Under the new set-up it is not ex-
pected that the 1885 model college
student will say of any subject he may
have studied, "Oh, I had that at COL
lege" and let it go at that, implying
that while he attended the classes he
is not now at liberty to discuss the
affair.
In other words, intellectual para1y-
sis Is to be rooted out of the college
curricula. At least, this is the hope
of the new system. It has the back
ing of many professors who have,
worked quietly the past several years
mapping out the Improvements needed.
One of them, who furnished the sub
joined information, has taught in five
of the leading universities in America
He says the average college curriculum
is at present overloaded with dead
wood.
Too many fads got into the super
structure of college life. Recently, for
instance, one university added to its
list of deans a man in charge of
hygiene. Another university had at
one time class designed solely for
the solution of the cross word puzzle.
The modern tendency is toward courses
in beauty culture. Domestic eco
nomics-home economics-is a course
still. mounting in popularity.
What this educator and his con-
freres want to get away from is the
old idea that college-bred man was
merely subjected to a four-year loaf
In making survey, looking over
thousands of examination papers pre-
sented for study by leading educators
in American universities, this group
Of educators in Washington came
across an amazing fact. They found
the present day crop Of college stu
dents, in contrast to current belief,
to be anywhere from 5 to 6 years
behind older generations-not only
in their ages and studies, but In their
outlook on life. Some Of the high
school graduates about to enter COL
lege have reached the ripe old a6 Of
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forging weapons to be used in fighting
that age-old battle-the struggle for
existence. They are not going for
a JOY ride.
1t is recognized by this serious group
of college professors that the college
campus is a panorama sufficiently
large to distract even the serious
worker. They divide campus life into
two parts and find it unevenly bal
anced. The clash Is betwee nthe Scho-
lastic and social life. This relation
ship is placed, variously, at 70-30 and
60-40. The major emphasis seems to
be placed on such activities as foot
ball, basket ball, track, the proms and
showmanship. Questioned, some Of
the college men themselves admitted
they went to certain institutions not
for the perusual of studies but to
make contacts"
AS each increase in the number
of social activities must be deducted
from time allotted to scholastic life,
it is readily seen that. the law Of
inverse ratio applies to some gradu-
ates who come through only by the
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23-above the average age of grad
yates in the 1910 era.
Somewhere along the line the world
has added five years on the heads OF
college men-and women. So far as
years 60, they are being thrown for
loss in time. The average papers read
by the professors we're written by
youths who ranged between the years
of II and % years of age-and all OF
these we're last years freshmen. In
the old days they would have been
seniors with college degrees on the
way.
MANY factors enter into this phase
of college education. Economic
conditions played part. 1t still
plays part. When young men get
out Of college nowadays they are any
where from to 10 years behind a
previous generation that considered
matrimony and the responsibilities OF
family life with the acquisition Of
bachelor degrees. Today. work is not
so readily forthcoming-which means
that only the unusual graduates OF
the present generation will carve
inches for themselves. The facts are,
almost 100000 of June college gradu-
ates have yet to find places in the
body polite. They are still being sup
ported by their parents-or, they are
on the dole.
With these startling conditions in
mind, the professors feel that some
changes are needed in educational
methods-to help young men and
women feel their responsibility to
themselves and to their parents.
Freshmen stepping within the gates
Of college this year will be told, quite
frankly, they are going into foundry
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RECOVERY REACHES COLLEGE

EMERY M FOSTER chief of the Division OF Statistics,
Office of Education estimates that this Fall 100000
young and oH be enrolled In the colleges and
OF the United States OF this number, $4,000
will freshmen This compares h the enrolment OF sir
years ago-,uhen American colleges first felt the depression
IS per cent the enrolment OF $780, it is
the first sign college circles haze soDn OF
recoDeru, -
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By John Jay DAILY.
T Ugh school graduates on their
Way to the college campus,

y y y
r Ugh school graduates on their
- way to the college campus,
the lecture room and the ex-
a animation hall are about to
confront new form or plan of
education.
order by the end of this scholastic
year, it will undoubtedly catch up with
the neophytes before they secure
their sheepskins.
Called the third grand cycle of
American education, the new order
Is an outgrowth of the old, rigid,
four-year curriculum. which was
superseded by the so-called elective
system. The new phase will be known
simply as general education.
While the framework of education
has changed materially in the past
several decades, objectives remain the
same-so far as America is concerned.
The purpose of education in this
country, as one of the leading educa-
tors explains, is ito reduce the inten-
sity of the struggle for existence"
A few scholars hide behind academic
walls, performing mental acrobatics in
the realm Of transcendentaliSm-the
art Of living in the cellar and thinking
in the attic. With these exceptions,
good living from college education
seems to be the sole human quest.
Reduced to plain terms, the college
graduate seeks:
1. Acquisition of common physical
comforts.
z. Peace Of mind.
TN A NUTSHELL, the aforegoing
are the two great rewards offered
by the professors who invite the youth
of America to drink at the well Of
learning.
The test of an ability to acquire
physical comforts is measured by this
practical question::
After graduation, what can a stu
dent do in an Office, factory or labora-
tory where situations demand certain
knowledge the graduate must have
with him on the instant and which he
cannot produce as the result of cram
ming as for college examinations"
In other words, when college grad
Hate is put on the spot what can he DO
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-20
STARS
HAND DEFEAT
To SAN DIEGO

A San Diego team which was hot
stuff" in night ball circles of the
coast city dropped over the hill last
night to pay a social call to the Ell
Centro All Stars and left after the
game much wiser and also sadder.
While here they dropped a Ga de-
elsion to the local team in one OF
the best games played here this
season.
Homer Chambers and Joe Hurst
shared the pitching duties for the
FL Centro team and they turned in
very good performances. The local
boys had their batting eyes primed
for the occasion and hits ratified
hither and yon to all corners of the
field.
The game was scorelesS for the
first three innings, but in the fourth
the visitors counted their initial
score. The advantage did not last
very long, however, as the Ell Cen
tro team drove in two runs in the
same inning to take the lead.
In the first Of the sixth tha visi-
tors added another score to their
total which was wiped out in the
last of that inning when the valley
boys scored another brace Of runs,
adding two more counters in the
closing innings of the game.
San Diego staged rally in the
eighth and scored twice but failed
to do any further damage.
The box score:
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-20
CentraPs Spartans Pry Off Lid On Grid Season
PACIFIC COAST
LEAGUE GAMES
BY United Press

The San Francisco Seals led the
Mission Reds by only two games to-
day in their race to the wire in the
Pacific Coast league pennant chase.
The Seals saw their margin re-
duced yesterday when they divided
double header with Seattle while
the Reds were taking their third
straight from Hollywood.
The pace-setters faced another
doubleheader tonight, then a single
game Saturday and a double bill
Sunday The Missions had one less
game to play, with single contests
today and Saturday and the twin
bill Sunday to wind up the season.
The Seals famed batting attack
was missing in yesterdays double
header. In the first game Ray Lu-
cas- shut them out for the second
time this week. The score was %.
In the second game little Roy Join
er, Seals southpaw, hurled his
mates to a 81 victory.
The Missions again feasted on
Hollywood pitching, clubbing out 10
hits for 1876 win that gave Wal
ter Beck his twenty-third victory OF
the season.
Sacramento scored its second win
in three games over Los Angeles by
beating the first half champions,
6-3.
Portland and Oakland battled 13
innings before the northwestern
Beavers scored an lilo victory.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-20
BULL FIGHTER
IS BOXER NOW

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 20. UP) -
Fillo Echeverria, 22-year-old boxing
Basque bull fighter, will make his
American debut against Pablo Dano,
tough Filipino bantam, here tonight.
The shock-headed Echeverria.
who has victory over Baby Ariz-
mendi to his credit, was picked up
in Spain as an apprentice bull
fighter by Manolo Brana three years
ago and brought to Cuba.
He traded his muleta and sword
for pair of six ounce gloves and
patterned his irng style after that
of Kid Chocolate. The Arizmendi
bout in Cuba popped the Basque
into something like boxing promin-
ence.
The Babe took him on for a set
up, and caught Tartar, Echeverria
taking seven Of the 10 rounds.
Dano will meet the Basque at 12C
pounds over the 10-round route.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-20
Baer States
He Will Quit
If Defeated

SPECULATOR, N. Y, Sept. 20.
UP)-MaX Baer is going home to
California, never to don a boxing
glove again, if he loses to Joe Louis.
IF lose this fight, it's 'Califor-
mia, here 1 come" Make said. Il
won't ever fight again"
Baer now weighs 211 pounds and
is in better shape than he was for
his unsuccessful title defense against
Jimmy Braddock.
His hands appear to be stronger
than when he entered the ring
against Braddock," DR.. William H.
Walker, boxing commission physi-
clan, said after giving Max a thor
ough examination. "All in all, in my
opinion, Max is ready to meet Louis
next Tuesday in excellent condi-
ton
POMPTON LAKES, N. J., Sept. 20.
U.R)-Joe Louis training program
has settled down to his two favorite
pastimes-eating and sleeping.
The Detroit Negro, already
brought to a fine edge, won't box
again until tomorrow when he will
stage his final public workout.
Yesterday he took six mile jaunt
and then went to bed. Today his
program is expected to be the same,
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-20
.RISKO TAKES
WORLD TITLE

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 20. UP)-As
far as this country is concerned.
Babe Risko, ex-gob from Syracuse,
is world middelweight champion.
Risko won the title last night with
15-round decision over Teddy Var
oSz, of Monaco, Pa, who only this
week had been listed as champion
by the National Boxing association.
Yarosz, knocked out by Risko last
New Years at Scranton in an nom
title affair, severely injured the
second cartilege of his right-knee
after being floored in the fourth
round. He was knocked down twice
for counts of eight afterward and
managed only by gameness to last
the distance.
Risko dropped Yarosz with right
in fourth. Teddy staggered to his
feet and lasted the round out. He
started the fifth with a knee in
tight bandage.
Yarosz was dropped for eight in
the sixth and again in the seventh.
Both times he staggered to his feet
and prevented knockout by div
ing into clinches.
The United Press gave Risko nine
rounds and Yarosz four, with the
first and eighth even.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-20
BY HENRY McLEMORE

L
PRINCETON, N. j., Sept. 20. -
Ask Mr.. Fritz Crisler, the football
magician who fiddled around until
he had lifted Princeton from no.
where to a national gridiron power,
about his 1895 team and he gives
you a thoroughly delightful blend
OF optimism and pessimlsm for an
answer.
We asked him today, and almost
in the same breath he said the 1885
Tigers would be just about as good
as the last years squad (Which was
one of the best in the country. But
that his boys were III for a terrible
licking in the opening game against
Pennsylvania.
All of which doesn't quite make
sense. If Princeton is as good this
year as it was in 80, Penn won't
even win, much less score a smash
ing victory. Princeton started work
this year minus five of the men who
started the Yale game last year, but
the only two they'll really miss are
Kats Kadlic, the smart, resourceful
quarterback, and Nose Kalbaugh,
center. And Crisler admits that
Kadlic and Kalbaugh will be missed
more spiritually" and physically. -
"Mose and Kats," Crisler said,
made that line work. Both were OF
the inspirational type and were able
to lift themselves and their COM
rades when the going got tough.
Three men are shooting for Kali
baughs old center job-John Bliss,
a substitute guard last year; Jack
Sergeant, 194-pound sophomore, and
Steve Cullinan, light but scraps
junior.
Backfield Good
The quarterbacking job will go to
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-20
To GET
REST BEFORE
CARD SERIES
BY HENRY SUPER
United Press Staff Correspondent


NEW YORK, Sept. 2O.-The Chi
cago Cubs get a well-earned rest
from their 1885 record setting pace
of 16 straight victories today as the
National leagues eastern teams
head home with the pennant al
ready the property of the west.
The only National game scheduled
ay-Pittsburgh-Cinc was
played on a former date, New York,
Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Boston
are on their way east to finish off
the season against each other af-
ter one of their most disastrous
western expeditions.
Headed by the Cubs, who didn't
lose a game against four eastern
opponents, the Western teams won
% and lost 10 in their last stand
of the season against the invaders.
Major league interest until the
season ends September 90 will CEN
ter on the Cubs and Cards who still
have to decide which of them is
going to play Detroit in the world
series.
The Cubs are riding the crest of
a 16-game winning streak. Charley
Grimm is rotating his five-man
pitching staff so precisely that each
gets at least three days rest be-
tween games.
The Cards, hanging on 2l2 games
behind, have been forced to depend
on the Dean brothers, who have ap-
peared in 16 of the last 10 games.
The schedule also faVorS the Cubs
They have two games with Pitts
burgh, one each tomorrow and Sun
day, and then are idle until We'd
nesday, when they open the final
five games of the season at st. Louis.
The Cards have 10 games left and
need to win their next five if they
are to have a fighting chance.
The Cubs extended their streak
another game yesterday by defeat
ing the Giants, 6-1 Dizzy Dean, who
lost his last three games, won his
27th of the season as the Cards de-
feated Brooklyn, 81, to remain 2R
games behind Chicago. Pittsburgh
defeated Boston, 7-6, and Cincin-
natl beat Philadelphia, 6-l.
In the only American league game,
Boston defeated Detroit, Al.
Sebastian Batali, Harrah, Wash
-
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-20
LOPEZ TAKES
MAIN EVENT
FROM Lutte

In a repetition of routine which
matched, almost move for move, the
last appearance of the two grapplers
IN the local arena some months ago,
Vincent Lopez, Lon Daro's Califor-
MA worlds champion won from
Nick Lutte in the two falls out of
three main event staged here last
night for the openg of the fall and
winter wrestling season. Lopez took
the first fall by means of a ham
mer lock which apparently forced
Nick to cry quits while the former
Idaho football star took the second
1all by a body spread after use of
strongarm tactics which knocked
his opponent groggy.
A fairly good house witnessed the
matches which were refereed by
Dick Rutherford who ordinarily does
his stuff in Los Angeles rings. Dick
showed plenty of pep in handling
the situation and got almost as
much exercise during the evening
as the athletes themselves.
The main event was pushed up
into the Semi-final spot due to
threatening weather, a shower be-
ing in the offing and the manage
ment thought it best to change the
order of evenys.
Strelich Overmatched
In the Semi-final event, last on
the program, Hans Steinke, Teuton
behemoth, completely outcllssed
Mike Strelich, and easily won the
necessary two out of three falls in
double quick time. The fans appre-
ciated this exhibition so thorough
ly that they proceeded to walk out
on the show as the hugo German
tossed his lighter opponent to all
corners of the ring with gleeful
abandon. Strelich may well feel for
tunate in this, that he did not Sus-
tain any broken bones during the
few short but hectic moments nc
was in the ring with his opponent
Harry Ekezian and Fred Corone
were the principals in the second
bout on the card which was won by
Harry with a body slam in Is min
utes and 10 seconds of milling. Fans
who failed to show up last night but
who remember Harry as the boy
who aspired to the roughhouse
crown of Ernie Dusek and Ted
Christy which gained both men the
hearty razzberry, may be glad to
know that he now sports a new
grown soupstrainer on his upper lip,
Corone took advantage of this added
beauty spot once during the match
and broke hold by nearly twisting
the ado.snment off his face.
In the preliminary Bill Hoolihan
won from Tiger Nelson by a body
slam in Ia minutes. The gladiators
dId little wrestling and the bout was
slow.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-20
Allison Has
Close Call

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 20. U,P) -
Stars met rough going as the Pa
cific Southwestern tennis tourna-
ment moved into the quarter final
round today.
Wilmer Allison, national singles
champion, was forced to extend
himself to the limit to stave off de-
feat at the hands of Jack Tidball,
former intercollegiate champion
Tidball swept the veteran Texan
off his feet in the first set, winning
6-2. Allison took the second 6-1, and
scraped through the deciding set 81
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-20
BETTING ODDS
FAVOR LOUIS

NEW YORK, Sept. 90 U.P)-Joe
Louis probably will enter the ring
2-1 favorite to defeat Max Baer,
according to odds quoted today.
The fight promises to be one OF
the biggest betting affairs in his
tory. Despite bales of Baer money
which showed throughout the ma
ton in the last week, and thou
sands of bets made at odds ranging
from 9-5 to rs, there was such
flood of Louis money on the market
today that the quotations must
lengthen in favor of Louis.
That's the opinion of Jack Doyle,
veteran Broadway commissioner,
and OSWALD Newton, Harlem bet
ting man.
Newton said he couldn't get Baer
money unless he offers more than
80 "and Louis money is just pour
ing in-there isn't anything will
stop Joe going into that ring less
than a 81 favorite."
Doyle, who has handled fight bets
since 1892, when Corbett upset Sui
livan, said he'd never seen SO much
betting. He predicted the odds
would lengthen, favoring Louis, es-
pecially on Tuesday when wagon
load of smart money will be bet on
joe The big boys" he said, "are
waiting to make certain that Joe
will enter the ring without any cuts
or hand injuries"
The preliminary card for the
fight Tuesday has been completed.
MaX's brother, Buddy, will fight
Ford Smith of Montana in the six
round semi-final, Hank Hankin-
son, Los Angeles, will fight Eddie
Nader, New York, in another six.
DR.. E. L. Overholzer of Washing
ton state college has been loaned
l. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1935-09-20

Ken Sandbach or Ed Giyens, a So
phomore. Sandbach has been a val -
sity halfback for two years and pro-
badly will get first call. Crisler says
he has but three really good tack
les-and two letter men, George
Stress and Fred Ritter, who weigh
1873 and 100, and the 2l0-pound
sophomore, Charlie Toll. The latter
two will take care of the right side
of thd line with Stoess and Dick
Dicke, a "a sub, working the left.
The guards are no worry. Crisler
is three deep there, with a great
starting pair in Jack Weller and Bob
Kopf, and powerful requirements in
Montgomery, Russell, Carr, Stanley
and Groel. The wings are well pro-
tected, with Gil Lea and Hugh Nc
MILAN, regulars, as the starters, and
Bill Roper and John Paul Jones as
underStudieS.
Princeton's backfield packs more
class than any other in the east,
and stands on a par with any group
in the country. 1t boasts three out
standing right halfbacks, Chick
Kaufman, Homer Spofford and
Paul PAX. Heading the left halves is
Garry Levan, one Of the fastest, Gle
yerest ball-carriers in football. I'm
derstudying him are Jack White, q
sophomore who Crisler says is the
trickiest number he has seen in
years, and capable Jim Miller. The
full-backing will be largely cared
for by Captain Pepper Constable,
one of the hardest runners in the
east.
After Penn, Princeton meets Will
ilams, Rutgers, Cornell, Navy, Har-
ward, Lehigh, Dartmouth and Yale.