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erein are enumerated some of?
nstances in which Mr. Eaton
himself feagues ahead, as well
agues' behind, the present mot-
ew at Michigan.
Eaton has told the world what
inks. It has filled the campus
different emotions. The "Dean
rs" of the University read Mr.
's sentimients with the vast
standing and generous tolerance
Is youth, youthful concepts, and
:ul caprices, which have made
the idols of all their students.
'Dean Bates" read it for recre-
their schooled and disciplinedj
unconsciously noting, as they
, from passage to passage, the
'easons thereof, or the inconsist-
manifest, and clearly and rap-
hecked the author's opinions
he eminent Blackstone, Omar,
am, .Ibsen, Shaw, and Nietzsche.
"Professor Hobbs," of whom
are not so many, read it with
and in their energetic, patri-
nd turbulent minds such ques-
is these arose: to what state is
esent unrest tending? Will the
bf our democracy and civili-
quiver to the jazz of these
champions of Greenwich vil-
Can they not teach them that'
cial and political standards
upon which our great Americans built
this magnificent republic are 'not
wrong, but that they are only incom-
plete? And many more like questions,
until we tremble for Mr. Eaton lest
they turn their belching Berthas upon
him, charged heavily with the erudi-
tion and experience belonging only to
matured scholarship.
Letter Perfect
The professors of the rhetoric de-
partment read and forgave, for the
construction of each sentence was
good, and according to the rules of
"Scott and Denny."
The "Dean Jordans" and "Dean Burs-,
leys" read and were amused, They
could afford to be, for they ae con-
scious of sitting "on top of the
world." Professor Novy absolutely
refused to read it at al. It didn't.
deal with the kind of bugs he is inter-
ested in.
The students read it with interest,.
awe, wonderment, admiration, aver-
sion, intelligence, doubt, approbation
or contempt, each according to him-
self.
For my part I read it with interest,'
awe, $nd admiration. It did me more
good than a Mack Sennett cohnedy to
see a student with pluck enough to
step above the traditional prerogative
of a mere student and tell the world
to its face what he thinks.
To every student of taste, I think,
the pastime of intemperately ragging
a teacher while engaged in whata
should be a social conversation in
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temptible. Yet we who are subject to
violent emotions must...continually,
keep ourselves in hand to refrain
from that very disgusting practice.
This is d thing which is much less,
common today than it was ten years
ago. I know, because I have lived in
Ann Arbor for ten years, and associ-
ated with students from every depart-
ment throughout that time. Ten
years ago it was a very common oc-
currence to hear # disappointed stu-
dent take violent oaths to plant a
rosebud on the end of a professor's
nose. I have many times listened to
these furious onslaughts. Today the
student does not so frequently make
such bargains with himself.
Profs. Have Faults I
If you have been this, or any other
school, very much, you will know that
there are many' who need correction.
Did you ever stop to think that there
are not very many more 'A" teachers
than there are "A" students? Per-
haps this is pretty harsh. Reflecting
upon the tribulations of a teacher I
think it is pretty harsh. After all,
think of the inexhaustible patience
they must have with us. Think of
the extreme care they must take in
accepting our childish themes and
recitations seriously, never giving us
an inkling as l o how rediculous they
really are, for if thpey did, it would
completely separate us from Mh:t lit-
tle poise we have.
So, looking back upon the teachers
I have had, I see they have been, in
large majority, exceptional men with
exceptional understanding and sym-
pathy, realizing always that we are
not really men, but merely metamor-
phising into the primary stage of man-
hood.. Of course you will agree with,.
me that this does not include all the
teachers. There are isolated instances
of an overbearing conceit, a bad tem-
per, a bad digestion, a cruel attitude,
a student hating bigot, a tyrant pure
and simple, and again there is the
young teacher who is forever beset
with the "boo'' that their students do
not respect them as they should, and
which causes them to do all sorts of
funny things.
But these last must be forgiven.
They too are just emerging into their
first stage of manhood. Many of them
will grow into "Professor Pattersons"
and "Professor Wensleys.'" There is
still plenty of time for them to learn',
the best way to make a crook is to
Itreat one as though he were a crook,
and the best way to make a man is to
treat one as a man.
Eaton Inconsistant
Throughout Mr. Eaton's entire arti-
cle many little inconstancies like this
arise, ands we are led to believe that
he wrote in haste. For instance, he
pitifully deplores the lack of confi-
dence and trust which is imposed
upon the student today by the faculty
and business men. He tells us that'
in the good old days, old Daddy Tuttle
fed them well and did a promiscuous
credit. He tells us that the old gentle-
man never kept account of these sor-
did details and immediately after-
wards has the .old benefactoT' says that
lie never lost a cent. Quite a differ-
ence, don't you think, between Dio-
genes and Daddy Tuttle?
Mr. Eaton, with a delicate touch of
irony, deplores the lack of spirit at ing football game
Michigan, and takes his already rected not to a la
wretched readers to be a cold and the more vital q
clammy Ferry field to witness a los- (Continued c
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