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Editor, The Michigan Daily:
Since the faculty has broken into
print on account of the recent article1
In Smart Set, which assumes to polish
down our shins with sandpaper, Ii
hope The Daily will find space to pub-j
lish another expression of opinion, in
order that it may be evident that those
expressed so far are not the only ones
that have an adherent among the1
"mud-heads" who, for a small sum
of coin of the realm, assume to in-
struct the youthful prodigies of this
"quasi-eucational" institution. If a
hunt is being organized to hang on
the faculty barn .door the hide of
"Mencken's jackal," I, for one, raise
my voice to protest that I do not
run with the hounds and that I have
no desire to deprive G. D. E. of life,
or of the liberty of expressing his
opinion.
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However that may be, certainly we,
ho assume to direct the intellectual
'ocesses of the young people of the
ate of Michigan, cannot adopt the
ethods of Prussia in dealing with
opular thought; we cannot attempt
ress censorship or the suppression
f free speech. If our waysare per-
ct, no criticism can do us harm, and
he more attention is directed to our
ork, the more highly shall be we ap-
reciated; if, however, we are ineffi-
ent, perverted or vicious, the public
as a right to be informed of our
ondition. In any case the strictures
d G. D. E. will cause no fear in the
eart of anyone strong in the sense of
is devotion to duty, conscious that
ay by day, he does his best for-the
tudents in his classes.
Personally, I have never found that
he use of abusive language to one
ho differs in opinion, is conducive
o a conviction of the correctness of
ny own assertions. I hardly believe
hat anyone who holds a place, on The
Daily is a jackal of anyone, and I
ancy that one who arouses such a
empest in a great university during
his undergraduate course will have
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An open letter of February 22 de- to
mands that G. D. E. produce some m
ideal, some plan of reorganization~'of t
the University of Michigan before he D
venture to utter a syllable of criti- f
cism of the institution. 'Let me callh
attention to the fact that here is em-
ployed that variant of the non sequi-
tur popularly known as ilecebrae sci-
orun. The classic example of this
form of fallacious argument is the re-
mark made to the foreigner who
piques our susceptible patriotism by
suggesting that any improvement in
Anerican institutions is possible, that
the sidewalks might be of concrete
instead of tar and mud, that the mor-
als of the movies might be improved,
or that olive stones might be omitted
from the soup: "Go back to Poland if
you don't like the country that is feed-
ing you." This is no doubt the con-
ventional form of argument in Zion
City, the Kentucky legislature and
other aggregations of flat-earth scien-
tists, but that a state university with
catholic ideals, the broad and liberal
culture that is associated with , the
educational center of a great political
division, should produce the flower of
illogical thought, is quite incompre-
hensible. -
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I dare say even the instructors of
the history department would not for-
mulate ex cathedra the general prin-
ciple that it is necessary to suggest
some more efficient or more aesthetic
form of rattlesnake before you kill
the serpent that lies in your path and
threatens to bite you. I cannot see
that the situation is different here; if
there are abuses in the University, if
there exist conditions or institutions
that are wrong or harmful, I do not
believe it is necessary for a student
to offer a better abuse, a better con-
dition or institution, before he ven-
tures to utter a protest against, the
presen one. If thereis graft, incom-
petence or ignorance here, it is the
privilege, it is the duty, of any self-
respecting and public-spirited person,
be he student or be he janitor, to ex-
press his disapproval. Do the instruc-
tors in history 'imagine that the Puri-a
tans of their admiration met in solemn
conglave to formulate a°better Stamp
Act before they opened their mouths
in criticism of the existing abuses of
the British oppressors? Did our revo-
lutionary ancestors have a better
government worked out before they
drove out the representatives of the
tyrant overseas?
As to the merits of G. D. E.'s criti-
cism, I am unable to give an opinion,
because I have only the plaintiff's
declaration, a d the plea filed by the
defendant coAsists of only vitupera-
tions and is obviously bad on demur-
rer. From G. D. E.'s writing I fancy
he is a clever young man who is more
than a superflicial observer, and from
the reaction he has secured, it might
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