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to draw his own conclusions. I only
wish to remind him that our P. T. 0.
E.'s who favor "Sleep little frog, in my
lap so soft," are going into our high.
schools to teach English poetry! I
dare not estimate what the results of'
a test to actual T. O. E.'s might be.
But if, sometime in the far future,
my little Mary comes home to me re-
citing, "Sleep little frog, in my lap so
soft," I shall burn the school building,
hang the teacher, blow up the school
board, and put the child under the
tutelage of Dinah. __
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The Grouch: Escaping it, you mean. Haberdashery,
The Professor: It is a large choru$ F t
.avery large chorus.
The Young Man: They-sure have got = r
the pep. That gang's the frog's JV*L a
eyebrows when it comes to makin' i
racket, all right, all right. -
The Student Critic: Racket indeed! - -
The chorus sang with kaleidoscopic ArthurF itarquara/
brilliance, and closed with concert
in a gorgeous burst of exaltation. 6o8 ast Liberty -
Their work is marked by . . .
The Grouch: . . . by no melody and -
much noise. That march from the
"Queen of Sheba" was horrible. illilltlllillillillllilliilillilillilllilliilllifHHululligl
They didn't sing, they yelled . .__ _
and were proud of it.f
Edgar Guest (from a little pedestal): =
Each and every one of us should take
pride in their achievements. We = !-
should gory in their song, the i
beautiful song of our own friends .---
and neighbors. The exotic Mr. Gig- c:;:4:: =
1i was wonderful indeed; but it is "~ i -
the glow of home ties that must -..r...' . .. a
forever count. -.
The Grouch: Who let you in? -
The Young Lady: Mr. Guest! How .... - .:,s
perfectly heavenly! ."._r:"- .."
The Professor: We welcome Mr. ..-.-.""--
Guest. He is a poet, a true poet .--
of rhyme and rhythm. -
The Young ,Man: Say, who's this -
Holst, anyway? You know who I I
mean-the guy with specs that led .
the orchestra for a while. -
The Professor's Wife: He is one of.
the famous musicians of England. -"
'They say his "Hymn to Jesus"- -.
caused a sensation in London. And ---.
his picture has been in all the pa- -
pers., I thought everyone knew o
him. -
The Young Man: Yes mam, but I've -,a
been busy with the o bus, 'n every-a-r=
thing. irr
The Student Critic: Mr. Holst unde- -
niably made a strong impression. I
think I must say so in my article.
The Grouch: You do, do you? Howk
generous! .t*
The Professor: I do not think Mr.
Hoist's compositions will be very
successful on \Fecords. We have
none, have we, my dear? -
The Professor's W~ife: Of course not.
There are none. s
The Grouch: And probably there will
be none. Holst is too big a man to, 2- f i 's -
take well on phonograph. records-
at least until he lands some fancy 1-
-job, with a big salary, and ir well
paid press agent. He's a real mu- , t:I., .. t ff '}
,r £a .;Ii I . _ty ::1.. :n;.:.r:. . .4 - ... . .
sician. ..that Beni Mora suite . . . -/ -
Ug! t was- hor - ,.a .". a
The Young LadyUgh!- I - air-
ble, ghastly -".f .t k .
The Grouch: It was good. To me it
seemed the best music. o-f the. even- - ...:.:. . :
ing. There were brains in i-- a
brains, and poetry, and colors,- a . .c" ....;.... --
painted by a strong man. There
are copper skies, bright sands, wi-id A NEW SHIRT FOR SPORT WEAR - THE PARKER -
dancers, scarlet horsemen scarlet
horsemen that ride like the wind a Low Neckband and the Finest of Oxford Cloth $3.5
and cut gashes of red across the
hard yellow sands.. .I SPORT BELTS NOR OLKS
The Professor: Waiter- WAITER!! LINI&N KNICFRSHTS.a
The Young Lady: He's crazy. Oh my! GOLF ,,, CAPS- -
The Student Critic: He's talking free
Verse! Put him out! e.
The Young Man: Outcha go! Beat it!
The Professor: Now we may dine in roi
peace.
Edgar Guest: True worth lies in the -
things at hand, STATE STREET
And Good is scattered throughout
the land... OVER CALKINS.
The Grouch (outside):. . . bright
skies, hard winds ... red and pur-
ple winds:. . singing purple songs 1.
toa great man. ., ,.11lillltittittillt1ti1111lilll11"liliillirl11!1i1i11,I.~1is3ltlili~11siltil6li
A Comparison of Methods
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.vnen fuoreigner comes to our un- sudent' - T
versity directly from a high school of the students' ccncern. 'I
the Old World, he usually finds him- -:is wholly free to express
self several years ahead of his Amer- home training to offer incentive to the Compare such a preparation with that furthermore he need not
ican classmates. More than this, he child at school. I may say, then, that of our high schools that thrust such definitely outlined course
finds that his cla-.mates are but poor- I European institutions gain time, be- naive students into our midst-stu- exception of the situati
ly prepared university work. The cause they are able to separate their dents ignorant of their own native ! professicnal school such
foreigner ,_,ually gets twelve years of students ; and those preparing for! language, wholly unacquainted with , ing or medicine, where r
training before entering a university college are usually from families that English literature, and having no con- tcry work is necessary)
and so .does the American, but the offer the invaluable background of ception of modern scientific ideas. And may never quite repeat
latter finds it necessary to turn his fathers and mothers who themselves yet the American boys are no less ing a lifetime of lecturin:
university into - asort of advanced are trained in the arts and sciences. brilliant than the foreigner; they what he thinks worthy
high school. Further than this, we find that the simply have never been' offered a sin- and, as he is continually
The first question that comes to instructors in these European high gle thing to think about. No wonder problems and arriving
mind is this: How do the secondary schools are all men of rich background that we lose time when we must spend conclusions, he naturall3
schc--ls of the Old World manage to tin scholarly training. In the United1 almost the whole four years of college thing different to offer ea
gain two or -more years on us in the States our high school teachers are in imbuing the student with a think- Compare this situation v
work antecedent to x that of college? paid almost as poorly as university ing urge. some of our Amei'ican co
On examination we find that a stu- instructors, and the result is, that we The foreign university is also quite the professor may be foi
dent in the foreign school may elect have inefficient, unskilled, and for the different from that of our country. .the -same subject in the s
either- to attend a "Peoples'" school most part, teachers with no kind of Here a professor is a "hired" individ- several decades. In this
and pay no tuition, or may elect thel vision at all-not to be-qualified either ual who may be dismissed without tion, either the subject
college preparatory school and pay a las narrow-minded or broad-minded warning; but there a professor is one' or the professor lose his
certain' tuition. This, of course, im- but simply as no-minded. With such who has proved his ability and his browsing continually in n
mediately separates the people into a condition we can readily understand worth, and is expected to teach things fo greater truths; in ax
two classes according to their ability how the European high school, always as he sees them; and he is appointed process is deadly both to
to pay for an education. Evidently, furnishing the best of teachers (who practically for life. He is expected to fered and to the profess
those of the poorer classes would, not by the way are better paid, compara- teach truths as they appear to be truths change can there be progr
acquire higher education. On the tively, than American teachers of like to him, and not as they please or dis- through continual evalui
other hand, those pupils entering the rank) can gair much time on us. please the administrative authorities meanings of changes can
schools demanding tuition would be Again, the European high school is cconnected with the business side of t _ted: the direction of ht
from the families having wealth, so- a true preparatory school, for a grad- the institution. An example may be and the actual proof of -p:
cial "breeding", and enough training uate may leave an .institution for the given of a certain foreign professor- Education then is the
to offer the children a proper incent- pursuit of a particular profession and a professor of economics-who wrote of European schools; wh
ive for taking. the most advantage of not be encumbered by the left-over an article in which he denied the di- ma-isn characterizes our
the educational facilities. This, of preparatory subjects that our college vinity of Jesus. This was an infringe- We have a rigid system
course, works very well in an undem- people must face. A European stu- ment of the blasphemy laws of the ion whereby throughout
ccratic country-Sweden, for instance, dent who enters an Engineering country; so the professor was jailed must. oversee everything
with its- socialistic governing body- school is already prepared by studies for several months. His return to dent-his subjects for stui
but could not apply in the United in several foreign languages (some- his chair at the university was not for reading, his ideas, his
States where we will- not permit such times as many as nine years study of questioned-in fact, no cne thought morals, sanitation, habit
differentiation according to a person's one of them); he knows: his native of getting up a movement to oust the: indeed, we have Deans
wealth. Even if such. were the case, language quite as well as his teachers prefcssor for poisoning the minds of and Deans of Women wi
tho division would not be practicable from the standpcint of rhetoric and the youth. - Students in universities salaries to look after th
n the United States, for here wealth mechanics of writing, and he has been are supposedly so developed as to or sadly ignorant studen
lnd ill-breeding often go hand in introduced to the literature of his have minds of their swn, and if they A foreigner convulses
Pand, and- there would be no special ccunty and to modern scientific ideas. are led away by some queer ideas ofi (Continued oi Page
Dostoevesky Prophet and Futurist
Just what place is Russia to dc
cupy in the new scheme of things+
international When we consider ;ito
CARL GEHRING
- VLC is~ Lmrtnin t~o he, n kitf~nfr vmluTnI vlvc Pinuo,
the times, the present insecurity of ruler in European politics. Let the
the powers that be, due 1to the ray-' rest look to their laurels and guard
ages of the ,war,. and more particular- them." Burton Holmes .,after his now
ly- the social and economic revoution historic tour through Russia in 1901,
so recently accomplished in that great makes similar observations; colored
land of the Muscovite, the question particularly by a _- personal meeting!
assumes a more than. trifling impor- with Tolstoi.
tance. We have all become so aecus- Yet this eminent lecturer. might
tomed toy consider London as the,-cen- also be linted up-on the side of some
ter of our little universe, that - to cciologists, who claim Russia is to-
some of -'our more or-ess staid con- tally unprepared to assume the role
temporaries, a substitution for the of. leader in world affairs. The ab-
English capital as the . focal poin ject raisery Holmes found in the lit-
of modern civilization seems almost, ti Russian villages hardly siggested
unthinkable. Yet, to these same cawI- the homes of world leaders, in the,
ual observers, did the recent Russian'near future at any rate. The -peoplel
revolution seem at all imminent in - are so backward -they have not eveni
the days:preceding and just following come to the- point of using -interest.
the start of the war? That was why the. Jews, who con-
The question of a Slavic power as trolled most of the country's finances,
the future leading light in world af-: and charged interest rates, were so
fairs might seem a bit fantastic, and hated. Agricultural conditions ar'e
yet uponi examination of a few funda- still on a par with those prevalent In
mental-facts is not altogether unlike England centuries ago. Such igno-
W.- Only consider the recent revolu- I rance existed that the people stillt
zo egammpe, ijoszevsxy urme aa
Punishment." There we have a novel
distinctly futuristic. It is a most ap-,
propriate successor to the work of the
same title, by the eminent Italian,
Beccaria. The difference lies in the
attitude toward crime Beccaria wrote'
in a period when the punishment of
the criminal was- a matter of strict-
redress- of society against the offender.?
,z
Dostoevsky, writing at a much later.
time and as- the possible exponent
of a new era to come, representing
a nation just coming into its own na-
tional-consciousness, just realizing its
might- inworld ' affairs, takes a cor-
responding different attitude:in his.
ideas of dealing with offenders I
I find this. Russian -novel not set
much a story of a certain criminal and
his ultimate punishment, as a ster-'
ling presentation of a social evil which
has steadily run its course unimpeded,
in spite of all preventative measures
of a harrassed society In the -face of
.this the -treatise- of Beccaria can hard
ly be considered for more than its
historic worth The -ideas expounded
have failed-obviously new ones must
be attempted. Along comes Ilostoev-
sky, representative of a different age,
nation and race, and offers entirely
fenders, with the idea of
against further transgre
personal element was n
ered. Once convicted, t
was practically lost. TI
crime might be committee
ditions justifiable in the
criminal seems never t
curred to the early autt
f In. the Dostoevsky woi
observe one Raskalnikov,
this type of person Havi
ed a most reprehensible
fiable in his own -eyes,
a fine bit of. psychologic
such as takes place in th
criminal. The man 'is a ii
type, a student, well ve
arts. Yet, could thd law
bim, it would deal with h
Ewould with the most com
er. He would probably
prison just as hard an
the worst type of crimi
This sort of thing Dost
cut against. He seeks
the fact that what is app
r~ase of one offender wil'
with-another. The ind:
each person must be a
iustice administered-:
tion. Its sponsors claim for it a dis.
tinct advance in government. Why
should we not Abe ruled from the bot-
tom up, after having the reverse con-
dition 'all these years, with such ter-
rible results? Was it not considered
a great advance,. when in 17.89 theI
French revolution crystallized the dis-
placement of the feudal lords by the-
bourgeoisie? Then why not consider'
the newest development as another,
milestone along the path of progress?
W. J. Henderson remarks most pro-
phetically, "Look out for the Musco".
gathered in-groups to heart the vil-
lage reader do their favorite authors.
Future world leaders, these! But,
then, are-they, nt'tltiinkers?' There'
is an element of leadership, after all.,
In the realm of philosophy and
thought the Slavs hold out' in ever
'increasing strength. Tolstoi, Tnr-f
7=genieff, Dostoevsky, Artsybasheff and
Andreyev have offered to the world'
things of astounding worth, thei rth
and self-acclamation of a new race.
They attack every field of thought,
and with convincing argument. Take,
is, of eourse; is-a n
an way. of looking
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new- cures for an old problem as yet
unsolved. It' is- simply the battle of"
the new against the old, and past
history seems to point to an inevitable
result; ThIe new will displace the
old, as before.
Early criminologists directed stern]
repressive measures- against all- ofdj
Another poin:
erefore wort]
it the first
iminal by pa
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