The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 4, 1927 Page: 3 of 6
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THE THRESHER
HOUSTON, TEXAS
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AliREY CALVIN OF
HOUSTON ELECTED
CLASS PRESIDENT
In one ot the stormiest meetings
ever held in the Amphitheater, Au-
brey Calvin ot Houston was elected
president of the freshman tlass yes-
terday.
Calvin is a graduate of South End
High School, where he watt president
of his class in his senior year. He is
a town student. He is a brother to
Travis Calvin, who graduated from
Rice last year.
The election was featured by an
uproar which shook the rafters of the
building, and control of voting, where
vocal means were unsuccessful, was
in a few cases effected by physical
force.
The usual dorm political machine
encountered a combination of town
students which was too powerful for
the residents of the hulls, and the
election resulted in a victory for the
day students. Their choice was, how-
ever, in some cases for dorm men.
Mary Hallie Berry of Houston was
elected vice-president of the class.
Virden Thompson of Dallas was elect-
ed secretary, and Evan F. Thomas of
Mamaronec,-New York, was elected
to fill an office, though the confusion
was so great that even Thomas him-
self was unable to state whether he
STUDENTS ARRESTED
IN STRIKE MARCH;
GET INFORMATION
(By New Student Service.)
Marching for a few minutes with
500 striking paper box makers, a few
inquiring Columbia University and
Hunter College students were quick-
ly supplied with data on strikes. A
mounted policeman charged into the
picket line bowling over women work-
ers, a police reporter and causing one
striker to be removed to the hospital
with a possible fracture of the skull.
One student, James D. Wyker of
Union Theological Seminary, received
additional Information. He was arrest-
ed, spent some time in a police cell
and then was released In $500 on the
.charge of disorderly conduct.
About a dozen college students had
come to strike headquarters to get
first-hand information on strike life.
They first attended a mass meeting
at the Church of All Nations, 9 Sec-
ond Avenue. After listening to a
harangue by the strike leaders they
filed out of the church with the strik-
ers marching along Wooster Street,
where the industries are located
On the trip up Wooster Street sev-
eral strikers shouted to the workers on
the sidewalk before the union shops.
Two policemen then charged the line
with swinging clubs, forcing the
pickets off the walks. Shortly after-
ward the mouuted policemen charged
into the crowd, without warning, jolt-
ing the students and strikers un-
I mercifully. Four of the students and
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would fill the position of treasurer or
member of the Student Council. Johni>3tl,lkers ^.ere arrested.
Mortimer of Smithville was elected
editor of the Slime Thresher.
The meeting broke up with knots
of slimes and slimesses excitedly dis-
cussing the outcome, and indications
are that a plethora of bayou parties
are in line for political recalcitrants.
About one hundred and eighty fresh-
men attended the election; a number
far greater than has been present at
a similar event in years, and near-
STUDENT SUICIDE
LIST MOUNTS TO
ELEVEN THIS YEAR
"lyjan hour was consumed in the vot-
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WRITER DISCUSSES
LIBERAL EDUCATION
IN NEW VOLUME
(By New Student Service.)
A Book Review.
Mr. Everett Dean Martin, who is
director of The People's Institute,
wants to know what knowledge is
worth knowing, and has written a
book. The Meaning of A Liberal Edu-
cation, to tell us the answer—(The
Meaning of a Liberal Education. By
Everett Dean Martin. W. W. Norton
& Co., Inc. $3.) Mr. Martin does not
seem to be impressed by a good many
institutions of education now in ex-
istence. For instance, he doesn't like
what he calls mere animal training,
that is, education which aims "to pro-
duce an individual who will react un-
der all circumstances according to a
prearranged pattern." He doesn't
think highly of propaganda, even in
labor colleges, and he says that uni-
versities fall to awaken a profound in-
tellectual passion among their stu-
dents.
Won Mr, Martin has ceased his ex-
amination of various types of edu-
cation, he sets up a series of tests
more satisfactory to himself. He talks
at length about the educational value
of doubt, and he says that a man is
known by the dilemmas he keeps, and
if he doesn't say anything startlingly
new under these heads, lie is widea-
wake and interesting, lie thinks that
education ought to produce free
spirits who will have a sound apprecia-
tion of human worth, and that there
is more connection between educa-
tion and work, morals, the classical
I tradition, humanism, and science. In
; his last chapter he tries to toll us
j what he lias found out. He thinks
: the human race has shown that It can
j not get along without knowledge, but
i that it has not shown that it can get
along With knowledge. He thinks edu-
-With the Aucide ot J. . . . .
^ f . ,, cation ought to be adventure. Edu-
r, Jr., twenty-year-old ... , , ,„
. ' . . _ cation, he savs elsewhere, is emanei-
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TO FIGHT MEN.
(By New Student Service.)
Evanston, 111.—One more body of
university women at Northwestern
University are tired of having the
minor offices thrown to them as sops.
They are going out to wrest control
of campus politics from the men.
Twenty-six of the twenty-seven uni-
versity sororities have banded togeth-
er to fight the fraternities, which, they
charge, control all elections.
(By New Student Service.)
New York
I Morgan Den, v., cation, he says elsewhere, "is emancl-
sophomore at the University ot Ro- , , , . . ,,
.' .. j . -i pation troni herd opinion, self-mas-
Chester, the total of student suicides'* .. „ * ... .
r „ , . , 4 tery, capacity for self-criticism, sus-
since January 2nd reaches eleven." J. , ' , , . . Jf- '
i _ , ... , ... . .. : pended judgment, and urbanity."
Despondency over ill health and dts- F „r _/ .7 _ _ ,
1 . . .. Mr. Martin writes very well. In fact
i satisfaction with his marks in mid- , , ,
! he writes brilliantly, so brilliantly
that I am sometimes not very certain
just what he is driving at. He seems
to be quite clear what he doesn't
want, but he doesn't leave me very
clear as to what he does want, per-
haps because he doesn't know him-
self. Or perhaps because he doesn't
want enough. For instance, people
YALE
BRANCH IN
CHINA IS CLOSED
(By New Student Service.)
Sweeping northward from Canton,
the revolutionary and nationalistic
forces have possessed themselves of
the Province of Human sending mis-
sionaries scurrying to the coast and
paralyzing, temporarily at least, Yale's
Chinese branch, Yale-in-China at
Changsha. By cablegram the an-
nouncement came that the college,
closed on December 10 by a student
strike, would not reopen for the sec-
ond term on February 15.
Morgan Derr,
his life, according to J
Sr. I
This suicide is closely linked with i
the first of the series, that of Rigby j
Wile on January 2nd. as Derr and:
Wile were fraternity brothers and j
close chums. Rigby Wile was the son 1
of Dr. Ira S. Wile, director ot' the Mt. j, ,
Sinai Hospital munUl. ollttc In "" h""
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Various reasons have been left by,
the student suicides. Wile left a uote
declaring that he had read all the
philosophies^ that he ''couldn't see
any use in life." Another killed him-
self in order to report to his fraternity
brother the phenomenon of the spirit
world. Another, a twenty-year-old
freshman at James Milliken Univers-
In detail Vsare Erasmus, Montaigne,
Socrates, and Huxley, but he has
nothing much to say about Christ or
lluddha or Michelangelo or Goethe.
There is a latent hostility to Platon-
t ism, and therefore to mysticism, in his
. volume which is, I suspect, one of the
sources of his difficulty. He wants
people to have a liberal education, but
he insists that the great task of that
ity (111.) declared to his room-mate!
the night before his death, "If I flunk
out, 1 won't care to live. I'll never
be able to go back home to face my
parents."
As In the Leopold and Loeb case,
and other instances of aberrant under-
graduate behavior, many are engaged
in adorning the moral to this student
suicide epidemic:
education is "the reassertion of the
inequalities which Hhass appeal ig-
• nores, the rediscovery for the modern
I spirit of the distinction between su-
! periority and inferiority." This is a
very popular doctrine just now. and
one which Mr. 1-1. O. Wells and Pro-
; lessor Irving Babbitt have been enun-
ciating for some time—the doctrine
I being that the, blind multitude ought,
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! The students lacked faith in liere-
1 after in "the present belief in God, in;
! the dignity of life," says President
! Daniel D. Marsh, Boston University.
It is no wonder students .commit sui-
cide," Bernard Idding Bell, President,
of St. Stephen's College, commented.'
"Knowledge and knowledge alone |
is almost certain to remove from man j
that courage which results from ig-
norance without substituting any-
j thing for it. Cowardice is the beset-
i ting sin of our modern life. To be
brave one must believe in something.
Too much education takes away be-
lief in love and hope, the ruling forces
of the universe. Those who believe
in nothing become the salves of every-
thing. If education is to be defined
as the accommodation of man to his
l environment then it is more of a curse
than a blessing."
A poor sense of balance resulting
from lack of wordly experience is the
base of most of these student suicides,
is the opinion of President Mark Pen-
ney of James Milliken University. A
crisis appears which distorts the
vision and destroys the ability to see
the relation of the present circum-
stances to the future. With a larger
experience In life, the students would
sge such a failure as a mere Incident."
More in consenance with the facts
Is the opinion of Dr. Charles A. A.
Bennett professor of Philosophy at
Yale University. "I firmly believe
each of the cases was an individual
case," he is reported to have said,
"the outcome of personal troubles or
infirmities of which persons removed
from the case cannot possibly be
aware. I certainly do not believe there
is any general attitude among young
American students that would account
for a number of deaths such as these."
; to have competent guides. In fact,
1 Bolingbroke thought the same thing
in 1738 when he published his "Idea
of a Patriot King."
These guides are to be the free
spirits. They are free because they
have had, or rather have found, a
liberal education a process which
Mr. Martin leaves a little mysterious.
The world is hopelessly given over to
mass education, and yet somehow
these guides are to help themselves,
and then the multitude are to let
themselves be guided by the free
spirits.
How this is to come about Mr.
Martin does not tell us. Neither does
Mr. Wells or Mr. Babbitt, and certain
difficulties at once occur. For ex-
ample Mr, Martin, Mr. Wells, and
Mr. Babbitt would all be candidates
for the free spirit group, and yet I
do net believe they would choose
each other, and 1 am sure the blind
multitude would not choose any one
of them.
Mr. Martin says that men are not
born equal, which is certainly a true
statement Then he argues that, recog-
nizing this inequality, the free spirits
ought to keep their liberty for "ad-
venture." This is going to be very
nice for the free spirits, but I do not
think the multitude is going to like
it. The multitude was lured into edu-
cation on the theory of equality. And
with due deference to Mr. Martin,
who has given a vast deal of thought
to the problem, I do not think i!,e
theory of main education can be given
vp so readl'y The theory of educa-
tional equality rest-: upon the theory
that every w.rr« s rn end in himself,
cud not that some men are free spir-
its, and some are not.
Mr. Martin would probably be very
slad to have everybody made iiuo a
free spirit so that all might, have ad-
ventures, but he doesn't seem to be-
lieve the idea is a practical one. It
would involve a vast change In the
spirit of our educational institutions,
and Mr. Martin has no id?a what we
should do about it. 1 can but believe
therefore that Mr. Martin's theory of
a. liberal education is a little selfish.
There is nothing in his hook about
old-fashioned conceptions as duty or
! responsibility or love. The chapterj
i on education and morality ends with
| the statement that, one ought not to
I be afraid of herd morality, and that
! the only sound method of moral edu-
cation is in teaching people to think,
but he doesn't, say very clearly what
they are to think about the herd ex-
cept. to get away from it. Somehow
this does not seem a lasting solution
of the sorrowfulest of human prob-
lem'!. Even Faust, who seems to
have been a free spirit possessed of a
, liberal education, came to a different
i conclusion at the end.
SHOPKEEPERS SCAN
SKIES FOR SIGNS OF
SPRING CELEBRATION
(By New Student Service.)
Champaign, 111.-—With the soft blue
skies of spring there comes over Uni-
versity of Illinois student au irre-
pressible urge to smash things. Hence
shopkeepers along the main thorough-
fares of Champaign are to be seen
anxiously scanning the skies for in-
dications of spring's approach.
Most vividly they remember the un-
dergraduate spree of last spring,
which has become a traditional event'
and is known as the "Spring Cele-j
bration." Then hundreds of students!
marched down on the first warm day!
and attempted to force their way into j
two theatres Doors and windows
were splintered, students were in-
jured and one lone policeman was
slightly battered.
So serious was the assault; that
Dean Thomas Arkle Clark came fly-
ing to the rescue in a taxicab. He
identified many of the crowd as they
appeared later before a discipline com-
mittee.
It was estimated that $1,000 worth
NO MORE RUSHING.
(By New Student Service.) r
Los Angeles, Cal.—Inglewood Union
High School has sent letters to the
president of every college and uni-
versity In Southern California, an-
nouncing that the institution will
tolerate no more rushing of high
school students by college agents,
tilutniil, or coaches. Cases were cited
In the letter in which students who
wished to take up forestry and lum-
bering were compelled by force of
argument alone to attend a college
which made no pretense of giving the
desired courses.
of damage was done to downtown
property and Jilt men were put on
probation a result. Of this celebra-
tion.
The Champaign Chamber of Com-
merce has drawn up a petition to the
University authorities, with eight,
ed's, asking that the celebration be
prohibited this year. If the University
acts favorably upon this request: the
shopkeepers will rejoice with the
poe.ts on the coming of spring.
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