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SUNDAY MAGAZINE
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN SUNDAY, OCTQBER 22, 122
Curtailing .College Enrollment
(fy Sial Carson) T1* tion to the views of President Hop-
Tl licke awayin the hills of old The Prfessors v ew poitO " kis, of Dartmouth College, Profes-
NewHntshire,. far from the beaten sr Sauer believesthat itievery per-
civilized: manikind, self cena benefit the nation, the talk of superior- It is just on this point that. Pro- son's right to receive a college edua-
tred, self satisfed, and complacent, ity of intellect serves only to canse fessor Cart O. Sauer, of the geogrphy ion.
iscated one oNew England's aunt- misunderstandings an-to appease the department, endorsed the opinion of Recognizing that there is such n
erea eks ofleaine:.3:amed'a autpo toewho -consider them- Delbert Clark hugh believin -irm-:aitcay neec;.h ayt
soele I 'd o eari~:ofsoe thing o seile as among the intellectually su- ly tat there is .existant an aristocracy perpetuate it is to allow college en-
oter, and being thoroughly Englai pe r. Qven eq ortunities, the intell t, Pro o'r Saner eispte trance to all who qualify. And the
in chart cter;.'this: Insitason--art- serf:w H reach the same intellectual the advisability of keeping that aris only method we have atpresent.t
month ICol'ge-is sadly lacking in heights as the king. The fundamental tocracy intact through the restriction determine the t firom the unfitis
ability to "take a joke." The esut mental capacities of the two are equal. of cliege entrants. In direct oppas- through their scholastic records. The
of which is that Ittel iegent men and _ntllectual giant (postulating that
women throughout the country have' uch a species exists) need not fear
been compelled to con lude that the the contact with the pigmy of inter-
joke is entirely on Dartmouth. A1 . ior brain. On the contrary he should
It all started last June, when Presi- ,t11A alrv z Cd welcome the contrast furnished by
dent Lowell of Harvard and some of that "pigmy" that makes his giant-
his advisers began talking about ex- ship more noticeable, and more effect-
clusion of students on the grounds of ive. Purthermore, we must not forget
racial discrimination. To date, Har- that it is infinitely easier to be bright
ard has not yet bgun to o this, than to be correct. Very often, he
at least officially. But a precedent for whom we consider bright is a much
talking about committing such a crimie less useful member of society than
has been set up. And President Ernest the man who lacks cleverness but has
M. Hopkins, of artmouth College the correct kAowledge of things.
considered it his duty to follow Har- Altogether too much emphasis is
yard's lead. Incidentally, it gave placed in our colleges and universities,
artmouth some badly needed adver- .asserted Professor Sauer, on social
tisement, albeit the publicity was contacts rathr than on intellectual
mostly derogatory to its best interests contacts. Too few students are con-
That's just the thing President Hop scios of the true, high function that
ims could not see. He emulated Har-' belongs to an institution of higher
vard without understanding e boom- 1eruing,
erang nature of the joke he was per- The recent talk of restrictions at
petrating.. What concerns us more dl -, Harvard land the veiled implications
rectly, however, is that a writer on at Dartmouth) arose from just such
our own Sunday Magazine to the an overstressing of the social, rather
matter up in a recent article. than the intellectual, contacts offered
"Too many are going to college," by a college. All talk of restriction,
thundered President Hopkins in an1 based on any but scholarship grounds,
address about a month ago. "Let us 1is morally a crime against the large
have an aristocracy of men intellectu- body of men seeking admission to our
ally alert." And The Sunday Magazine colleges. It is true that,'scholarship
echoes, "Let us have an intellectual 'records may be misleading,, and that
aristocracy!" "bby depending entirely upon them for
What does our faculty think about qualifeation we may make an occa-
this talk of superior intellects, and sional mistake. But until we have a
college entrance restlictions? Esp-I better, and more (tandardized, system
cially interesting might b a t h e - wherewith we may judge more accur-
opinion of a namesake of the Dart- ately the scholarship records of the
mouth president, Professor Louis Al- high school graduate must be taken
len Hopkins, secretary of the Colleges as sufficient for admission. (This rule,
of. Engineering and Architecture. if such it is, does not do away how-
As aengiadmrin ast rhit eur he.ever with the high school principal's
anadinstat r f on of th ?'Orecommendation of the individual en-.
largest colleges in the University, Pro,-ratowmeqirtd.)
fessor Hopkins has come in contactf trant now required.)
with perhaps more students upon the If we feel that the colege man of
campus than anyone else, with the today is not as educated as he should
passible exception of Registrar Hall. be, and that is quite admissible, our
In Professor Hopkins' opinion, the i task is to set higher standards of
theory of the existence of an intellec- scholarship oside the colleges. If,
tual aristocracy is absolutely unfound- then, some fall by the wayside for
ed. During the seventeen years of 1s 51R GILBERT PARKER lack of mental power to attain those
connection 'with the University admin- standards, we shall be satisfied that
istration, he has .keown hut two men we have given them the opportunity.
istrtio, hehasKnow bu~twomenwe shall probably find, in that even
who were mentally unfit to pursue col- (By W. Bernard Bailer) a judge, or better, three judges; but W all y, frd in theen-
lege study. Any boy who has had the "I am dead against censorship," de- if guilty, I should choose the jury. jority of the "fallen," who ca ne 'to
mental stamina to go through high clared Sir Gilbert Parker the other The judge is skilled in analyzing the college without a realization of the
schooloand come out at the upper day, while talking to me of the stand- confcting evidence, and I should real oportunity that a conisge should
third of his class. (one of the Univer- ards of literary criticism. "Whether probably receive a fairer trial. The stand for. We honld find that a large
sity requirements for admission) -is one likes a book or not is a matter jury is played upon by the emotional majority ot these men had come, or
capable of taking college work. Such of individual taste. Punch 'slated' appeal of the attorneys, so that its had been sent, to college with a great-
a. boy, and every such boy, should be my most recent novel in reviewing it, judgment of conflicting evidence is not er' emphasis on the social acquire-
tion of higher learning has the right while two years ago another critic, so reliable . ments to be gotten, and with no sense
toralofhighretaong roha nterI writing in the same magazine, praised "But in the case of a book, there is whatever of the seriousness of intel-
rg except on the gr udn d of scholar- a similar work of mine. Now what no conflicting evidence. I believe 1I lectual development,
sip. nt g dwas the difference between the two am right in my judgment of a certain Let us, however, not allow our idea
One of the charges made by Del- critics? A mere matter of individual book, but a prominent London critic of intellectual aristocracy carry us off
bert Clark in his article on the aris- taste. holds the opposite opinion. Who is our balance. Just because we are quite
tocracy of the intellect (The Sunday "American and British writers are right, he or I? certain that some men may attain to
Magazine, October 8, 1922) was that fundamentally the same," he affirm- "Art belongs to the world," Sir greater intellectual heights than
lowering of standards in the Univer- ed; "they differ only in locale. The Gilbert averred. Sargent is a gret others, it does not follow that we are
sity Is attributable to the large influx essential likeness is in their imagina- American artist, Whistler is, in spirit, t judges as to who shall, or shall
of students. Again, Professor Hop- tion. Their variance lies in the dis- a .great English ,artist, but they have not, pass through the sacred portals
kins found occasion to differ. Scholar- similarity of atmosphere, culture, ed- the same basis for their art-imagina- of intellectual aristocracy's dwelling.
ship standards have not been lowered ucation and the associations in wich tion. Style in writing, too, is depend- Let us not, if we are true intellectual
to accoinmodate the mass of stdents. they have been brought up. The ent upon imagination." The difference 'oliaths, tremble in our boots-for fear
Olly physical facilities have, at tmes American, Sinclair Lewis writes in between the British and American of being swamped by the mental Lilli-
been inadequate to care for the larg' 'Main :Street' of his own field, just as styles of writing, he asserted, may be pates. A true intellectual gant, and
numbers In that case,.the remedy Is does A. S. M. Hutchinson, the Eng- traced to the reactions o1 the writers a true aristocrat knows noe.is
not to' lar, students from entering, ishman in 'If Winter Comes'. But to local environments. brotherhood is open to all who can
but to better the facilities. perhaps some day I shall write an Turning again to censorship, the reach the high standards that have
On the whole, thought Professor American novel!" author said: "I am, however, for a been set up. Let all who have the
Hopkins, this talk of superiority of Parker compared his .Idea of liter- rigid international censorship. Do courage, and the seriousness' of pur-
intellect is, in itself, about as much ary criticism with the judge and jury you remember the motion picture, pose, come and try. Such should be
of a fad as college- attendance has methods of trial. "If, being innocent, 'Passion'?" I replied that I had seen the a titude of the true aristocracy
gotten to be. Where, however, the lat- I were brought up to be tried for a Pola Negri in the leading role. "That of superior intellect, .in the opinion
ter is a fad.-that will, in the long run, crime, I should prefer to be tried by (Continued on Page Two) of Professor Saner.