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January 20, 1909. THE
Educational
THE DEVELOPMENT OF HYPOCRISY.
In the church college question as de
veiopeu Dy tne policy of the Carnegie
Tund there's one phase which Dr. Pritchett
and his associates haven't thought of
anything like as seriously as they ought
to think, and that is the hypocrisy they
are developing in many schools by their
irrational attitude toward "denominational
control." All over the country college
trustees are begging off from the
formal charter stipulations that bind
them to this or that church, always pleading
that by such loosening of the legal
bonds they can get advantage of the Carnegie
fund without in any way changing
the actual religious character, church
afllnity, spiritual tone or even administrative
policy of their schools. Laws requiring
all or a'majority of trustees to
be of a certain denominational connection
are being erased, but with the
strongest private assurances to the
churches interested that as a matter of
fact the old rule will still be rigidly ob
served and the old relation continue unaffected.
And with an inexplicable worship
of the letter of things Dr. Pritchett's
board accepts this double-faced arrangement
as satisfactory. If there is anything
really detrimental in denominational
relations for colleges, the adjustments
which content Dr. Pritchett do
not cure the detriment, for in the colleges
themselves they are expressly understood
to "involve no change." On
the other hand, if these purely nominal
changes do meet the objections of the
Carnegie board there is nothing in the
objections. In any event the totally^ artificial
criterion which that "board sets
up offers to the colleges a premium on
equivocation, making it strongly to their
interest to represent themselves as de
uuixuuaiionai in one direction and undenominational
in another. Admitting that
college trustees ought to be strong enough
to resist the temptation, we yet insist
that the primary responsibility rests with
the eminent educators who administer
this fund in a fashion to encourage cataloguing
of specimens as both fish and
fowl without the slightest real care
whether they are one or the other.?The
Interior.
WHAT AWAITS THE STUDENT.
President Angell of the University of
Michigan, congratulating the students of
today upon the propitious circumstances
that await them as they go forth to take
up the aptlvo diitioo ?? n#? ??11 ?*
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"I recall no time In the past half cen- I
tury when one going from college to
professional, official or business life could
find it so easy and helpful to himself to
set his moral standards high and hold
to them. The people at large are everywhere
in the mood to welcome men with
such standards, to employ them, to give
tuem such positions of trust and responsibility
as educated men have a right to
aspire to. They are not looking for cunning
tricksters, but for earnest, sensible,
well-equipped men who can stand foursquare
to all the winds of temptation and
honorably serve their day and generation.
They wish unselfish, ungrasplng
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men in great industries who in the spirit
of their Lord and Master shall remember
the brotherhood of man." The University
of Michigan has adopted a rule that
sixty-five years shall be the age limit to
the service of instructors and professors
in that institution. All members of the
faculty who are sixty-five years old win
be required to retire at the end of the
present college year. At least six professors
have attained that age. Such a
rule will be easy to apply where only
men are professors. But as women do
not cease to be twenty-five,? Then, too,
there are men of seventy-five, younger,
fresher, more fit for service than some
men of forty-five. 10 stop a teacher, a
real teacher, from nis work because he
is older than some men who are younger
is a crime.
Berea College, located in Kentucky,
was one of the first educational institutions
to attempt the education of whites
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the Kentucky legislature enacted a law
forbidding the attendance of blacks and
whites at the same school. It was a
severe blow to Berea College. The question
was taken to the Supreme Court
of the United States, which has just
given a decision that the law is valid.
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?Albert Lea College Bulletin.
Governor Claude A. Swanson has issued
a proclamation to the people of Virginia
directing attention to the Italian earthquake
and asking that they aid the sufferers.
He suggested that collections be
taken in the churches Sunday for this
purpose. He appointed as a committee
to receive this fund, Mr. John P. Branch
and others.
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