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AN ALARMING Nothing pertaining to educ ods that has appeared in recc lenges public interest as da number of the Cosmopolitan, and entitled, "Blasting at the with the character of teachir universities and colleges in logy, ethics and religion. As an evidence of the exi or nis investigation, the writ* scope and daring of colleg States today, I have underti rooms from Cambridge to C stitutions I have entered i others I have attended lecti viewed members of the facu ten or pointed records or v\ ways my course has include ton. the University of Penns ton University. William an Thomas Jefferson and other studied), the University of t sitv, Syracuse University am nai. W hat I came upon in the sities, with what I obtained a deans and professors of Xorl York University, the Univers of Wisconsin, the University lege. Cornell. Brown Univei University, constitutes a pro fact, of increasing surprises?; In a prefatory note, as in Bolce's article, the editor of "Out of the curricula of Ai movement is upheaving anci ising a way for revolutionar; who are now in close touch the country will be astonishe fostered by the faculties of hundreds of class-rooms it the decalogue is no more sa the home as an institution is absolute evils; that immorali travention of society's acce ocracv is a failure and the D only spectacular rhetoric; th ligion to another is like gett precepts are passing shibbo right and wrong are as unsta miut bioii art* open DfU to the climber children are ii effect of profligacy is to fill 1 can be and are holier alliat bond than within it." Of the contents of Mr. 11 Presbyterian" savs: '"It wc some visionary, if the state) by proofs." The article beai true and trustworthy?mor disgrace to the institutions \ vail." y THE PRESBYTERIAf1 r EXPOSURE. rational systems and mcthnt times so seriously chaltes an article in the May , written by Harold Rolce, ; Rock of Ages." It deals lg which prevails id many the departments of socio :cnt and the thoroughness er says: "To discover the e teaching in the United iken an itinerary of classalifornia. Some of the inis a special student. In ires as a visitor, or interlty, or consulted typewrit,-hat they teach. In these rd. Harvard, Yale. Princeivlvania, George Washingid Mary College (where founders of the republic Chicago, Columbia Univer1 the University of Califor' teachings of these univerd<litonally from presidents, :h\vestern University. New ity of Iowa, the University of Nebraska, Union Colrsity and Leland Stanford found surprise, a series, in absorbing and sensational." idicating the trend of Mr. the Cosmopolitan says: nerican colleges a dynamic ent foundations and promV thought and life Thr?c?? with the great colleges of (1 to learn the creeds being our great universities. In is being taught daily that cred than a syllabus; that doomed; that there arc no ity is simply an act in conpted standards; that demeclaration of Independence at the change from one reing a new hat; that moral leths;*that conceptions of ible as styles of dress; that ,vcen social levels.^Jnit that ricumbrances; that the sole dll.v (rra\'p? an/1 tlmt ?U/>./> j f,* ? ? vw r umi iiia L l. ices without the marriage lolcc's article, the "United mid lie like the ranting of nents were not backed up s every indication of being e's the shame, more's the vhere these conditions pre I OF THE SOUTH. In his summing of the tea tered. the author says: "The course lined with none of the The Church does not count. '1 any hierarchy is like looking grave." "Conscience cannot s it approved burning at the sta the mirage of modern nations, declamatory statesmanship; a cradle of the race, has bccon woe. ignorance, inefficiency ai even suggest and outline a si home." "They teach young that an immoral act is merely vailing conceptions of society, who defy the code do not offe arouse the venom of the ma; has not yet grasped the new i( We may quote but few of tions made by lecturers in the dents of Harvard are taught tl evils. The highest ethical lifi breaking the rules that have Professor Blackmar, of the 1 "Standards of right perpetual Professor Sumner, of Yale, tet riagc and democracy, are prod society, and both are transito age may be expected to arise tions are mere figments of that ought to be discarded Charles Zueblin, of Chicago can be and are holier allianc bond than within it." "Ever; has room for more than one p fessor Giddings, of Columbia not right to set up a technica as morally superior to spontar and woman."' Shailer Matth sity, says: "Much of our ct certain deterioration of the C ilv. Our literature is becom mizes its sanctity. We go int the samp 'sancr-frnifl' tliot mk> sor Zueblin, of the same uni tics and religion, we have tak marriage relationship is right it." The attitude of these men likewise anarchistic. Professo the view that the majority cs "Anything tolerated by the v\ Mr. Bolce says of this profes a large part of his universit there is no such thing as Got morality." "The notion that mentally correct implies the outside and above usage, and "An ethical ideal no oroun ev< n r to have one, it would Ire a hu For revealed religion a sinii The author informs us that ' Lester Frank Ward merely i I May 19, 1909. cliin^ which he encounlectures take you along a : immemorial landmarks. 'o accept the teaching of for light and life in the how the way; in one age ke. Democracy has been It is a theme for suave nd the home, once the le the breeding place of nd debt. The professors ubstitute for the modern men and- women plainly one contrary to the pre and that the daring ones nd any Deity, but simply jority?the majority that lea." many astounding asserse universities. The stulat "there are no absolute e consists at all times in become too narrow." Kansas University, says: ly change in social life." iches that both pair, niaruced by the conditions of >ry," and that "concubinagain"; that "ethical nospeculation," "unrealities altogether." Professor University, says: "There :es without the marriage y normal man or woman erson in his heart." ProUniversity, says: "It is 1 legal relationship . . . icons preference of a man ews, of Chicago Univerirrent literature shows a hristian idea of the faming anti-family ; it minio the family relation with go on a picnic." Profesversity, says: "Like polien it for granted that the ami nave not questioned on morals in general is r Sumner, of Yale, "takes in mak<* anything right." rorhl in general is right." sor that "he has devoted y career to proving that 1-givcn and unchangeable there is anything fundaexistence of a standard no such standard exists." ;r had. and if it pretended mbug." lar contempt is displayed, 'religion as explained by nvents supernatural pen