intelligent girl can pick up, after she is married." Our boys of high school age have too many social distractions. If the boy is musically inclined, he may have one or two choir practice evenings, meeting of a young peoples' religious society, fraternity, etc. No objection can be offered to any one of these, we shall say, but in the aggregate the boy spends too much time in social affairs; it becomes a dissipation of energy. Three or four evenings a week spent "out" are too many for the good of the home or the school. Our teachers are to blame. The parents place the children in their hands because they are the experts. The parents are ignorant of the conditions of modern educational practice; they know about as much about modern educational conditions and practice as a cobbler of fifty years ago would learn of modern shoe making if he should visit a shoe factory some afternoon. If the view which we have presented be correct, its acceptance will be slow. The condition which we see is one illustration only of the leveling habit of American life. A thing is either good or bad, according to the modern American view. If tobacco is bad for boys, it is bad for men; if alcohol is bad for women, it is bad for men; if men and women should know the ways of polite society, children should learn the same. The profound change, which the elimination of men from primary and secondary education in America is producing, is beginning to show its true character. The prominence given social events in secondary education is bad, partly because of the fact noted at the begin ning of this discussion, that lust develops early in the male and love early in the female. Intimate relations between the growing boy and the growing girl are unfortunate. If the coarseness of the boy prove attractive to the girl, the result is apt to be bad; if this coarseness repels, the girl may develop a permanent aversion and dislike for boys and men, a result unfortunate and unnecessary. Better that the girl be busied with the simpler, more elementary, and more concrete things of life and then her dreaming of the coming knight will do no harm. A boy of fourteen makes a sorry figure as a knight. Let her wait till her judgment is mature, lest she get a squire in place of a knight. The boy can be led to busy himself with manly things, and to associate with men if he be given an opportunity. In the present-day school he has not that opportunity. In the high school he has girls for his companions, girls and women for teachers, and a course of study suitable to the attainments of these students and teachers, the fact that there are very few boys in our high school and practically no men teachers leading naturally to a curriculum which appeals to girls and is suitable to them. The boy would appreciate a more manly curriculum and more men teachers, for he knows, whether the parents know it or not, that in after life he will have to deal with men, and that dealing with men is a very different thing from dealing with women. If a change for the better is to take place along these lines, we must have more boys in our high schools, a different curriculum for the boys, and more men teachers. Of these three the third must come first. WE are living in an age of do-do others, do ourselves, do things. To do others Τ AROUND THE CAMPUS HE hazing season is passed, but it will come again, and so for that and for two other reasons this return is granted. First, we wish to clear up the many reports concerning the much-discussed hazing, and the suspension of the hazers, and the strike of the students at the University of Maine, and in so doing the second reason will be made clear, which is this: The faculty of any educational institution can suppress hazing by simply reaching a decision that the practice must cease, and then by putting that decision into action with plenty of backbone in it. The University of Maine exacted of every student entering in the autumn of 1909 a pledge to abstain from hazing. But in spite of this, hazing occurred and some students were suspended. The larger portion of the student body, after demanding the reinstatement of the suspended students, left work October 14 and remained out of college for six days. They returned to their work October 22, the faculty having made no concessions whatever, and apparently accepted the situation. Strong efforts were made to appeal to the trustees over the heads of the faculty. The president of the board, on the ground that "all matters of discipline belong to the faculty," refused to call a special meeting and the whole affair was settled some time before the board met. The trustees, at the annual meeting on November 23, heartily endorsed the efforts of the faculty and all measures taken. There seems to be no doubt in the minds of the students themselves that hazing is to be entirely abandoned in the future. The whole matter is merely a question, as the Lewiston Journal says, "of who is running the college, the faculty or the student body." To further quote from the Journal: "The time has come when this hazing must be stopped. The boys have been given an opportunity, have been leniently dealt with and this is the result. It is a well known fact that for some time there has been a growing sentiment throughout the country that hazing in the colleges must stop. Recent occurrences at the great national institutions of Annapolis and West Point have shown this. In common with other institutions of learning the faculty of the University of Maine, as well as the trustees, have sought to eliminate the practice from the college. "In some of the other colleges men have been seriously injured, some have been made cripples, and in one or two instances in the past five years deaths have been laid at the door of hazing." No serious results, such as death, ever have occurred at the University of Maine, but this is just what the faculty had determined to prevent. It may be a wise thing to lock the stable after the horse is gone, but it is a wiser thing to use the key before he has been spirited away. Each fall, for some years, the faculty at Maine had sought to have the students stop hazing. Each fall they appealed to the men, and the upperclassmen said, "Do not take any harsh measures; defer action and let us see if, by moral suasion (or words to that effect), we cannot stop it." The result had not been the best. This year it was determined to do something. When the fall term was about to open the students were asked to sign a pledge agreeing to abstain from hazing the freshmen. At once there arose objection. A committee went before the faculty and requested that they defer the requiring of signatures until the students could go be fore the board of trustees. This request was granted, as it was by the authority of the trustees that the pledge was presented. The students sent a committee before the trustees, with the request that a definition of hazing be given them so that they might know what the pledge meant. They were told that it was hard to define; that it was the difference between right and wrong. "We do not," said they, "wish to interfere with any of the harmless customs which have grown up in the college, but the practice of interfering with personal liberty and offering indignities to the person must be stopped." The committee went back and reported to the student board. That they gave a correct statement is agreed by all, but, so it is said, when the committee had made its statement another college man said: "You see, they don't object to hazing so long as we don't throw them into the Stillwater river or paddle them with a stick." This was a crystallizing of the sentiment which pleased the students, while it did not at all express what the trustees had stated. Accepting this as the interpretation of the matter they signed the required pledge, though many have since said that they did so with a mental reservation and this, they think, absolved them from breaking the pledge. The particular forms of hazing, which have most stirred up the University of Maine faculty, are those of ducking and paddling. It is easy to grasp the meaning of the first. That is where the poor freshman is dragged out of his warm bed and toted to the river bank and given a good sousing. Paddling means a good old spanking with a flat stick, when the victim is thinly clad. In this form they put the freshmen through what is known as the hotoven. This is a double line of boys, each armed with a paddle, or the end of a hose, and as the victim runs the length of the line he is belabored with the sticks and the water from the hose poured upon him. Soon the upperclassmen made a rush for freshmen. The first year men were dragged forth from their beds and made to run the hot-oven. Then followed the suspension of those students taking part in the hazing, the strike, and the return of the strikers. President Fellows, the faculty and the trustees have put an end to hazing at the University of Maine, just as other presidents and faculties and trustees can put an end to it at other universities. Somebody must manage a school. Who shall do it? Walter Camp, a recognized authority, prepared for the January Outing the following honor list of 1909 football heroes: Yale-Coy, full back; Kilpatrick, right end; Philbin, left half back; Andrus, left guard; Hobbs, left tackle; Cooney, center; Howe, quarter back. Harvard-Fish, right tackle; Minot, full back; Corbett, left half back; McKay, left tackle. Pennsylvania-Braddock, left end; Miller, right end; Pike, right guard; Hutchinson, quarter back. Dartmouth-Marks, full back; Tobin, left guard; Ingersoll, left half back; Bankhart, right end. Princeton-Seiglin, left tackle; Bergen, quarter back; Cunningham, right half back. Lafayette -Blaicker, left end; McCaa, full back; Irmschler, right half back. FordhamMcCaffery, right end; Barrett, center; BrownMcCarthy, right half back. Regnier, right end; Sprackling, quarter back; Ayler, left guard. MichiganBenbrook, left guard; Magidsohn, left half back; Allerdice, right half back; Casey, left tackle; Smith, center; WasMinnesota-Mcmund, quarter back. Govern, quarter back; Rosenwald, half back; Walker, tackle; Farnam, center. Chicago-Page, quarter back; Worthwine, half back. Notre Dame Miller, Dame-Miller, left half back; Vaughan, full back; Edwards, tackle. Wisconsin-Anderson, quarter back. Lewis Institute of Chicago, through the generosity of LaVerne Noyes of that city, makes an announcement of extraordinary interest. Mr. Noyes desires to aid boys who wish to take the cooperative course, which enables them to receive alternate weeks of training at school and practical apprenticeship in shops. He has volunteered to pay the tuition fee of $50 for all boys who do satisfactory work. Mr. Noyes has placed no limit on the number of these scholarships, and it is understood that he is willing to provide for as many as 200, which would make his gift an annual donation of $10,000. A number of large Chicago manufacturing concerns work in co-operation with the Institute. First year boys are paid weekly at the rate of 7 cents an hour, which is the equivalent of 14 cents an hour for the time actually spent in the shop. Second year boys are paid 9 cents an hour. Smith College furnishes some interesting statistics of marriages. In the last thirty years Smith has graduated 4,175 young women. Of these, including the large class of '09, 1,413 have married, or this number had married up to November 30 of last year. This means that approximately 34 per cent. of the total number of graduates have married. The first ten classes, from '79 through '88, total 358, and of these 160 are reported as married. The next ten classes total 1,129, with 544 married. In the last ten classes, including the 322 of '09, there are 2,688, with 709 married. Two interesting prizes have just been established at Columbia. One is of an annual value of about $50 as a memorial to the late Charles M. Rolker of the class of '06, to be awarded to the member of the graduating class who, in the judgment of his classmates, shall have proved himself worthy of special distinction either because of industry and success as a scholar, or helpful participation in student athletics, or pre-eminence in athletic sports, or any combination of these. The second is an athletic prize of the same amount, to be known as the Hudson-Fulton Prize, to be awarded in athletics under the direction of the College Alumni Association. The "undesirable" student is being sharply outlined. The Yale Alumni Weekly helps to bring him out in bold relief: "He may be the athlete et praeteria nihil, the rich student who goes to college to be in fashion, the student, rich or poor, who is a drone in the academic hive simply because he is a drone by nature and would be a drone whether at college or not. But in classifying all such groups-except, may be, the natural drones-as undesirable, is not an alternative proposition missed when we consider the effect of the college environment on the student himself? Take the common case of the rich undergraduate, for an example, who is low in scholarship. From the viewpoint of his personal development where would he have been if he hadn't passed his five years at the 'prep' school and gone to college? Would his character have expanded in the counting room, in the city club, in the Adirondack lodge, with its luxuries that rival the club, or in any of those functions of up-to-date existence bounded by the selfish money chase on the one hand and ease on the other? The general plea as to the students classed offhand as undesirable is pretty lucid and cogent, but is not altogether one-sided and has its limitations." The Wabash Railroad Company has offered eighteen scholarships one for each county in Missouri through which its main line extends-to young men who attend the agricultural school at These the University of Missouri. scholarships are worth $50 each, a sum sufficient to pay the expenses of the student during the fifty days' course in the winter term. The Carlisle Indian School has sent out 4,080 students, and investigation in the last year has reached 1,675 of them, with the following result: Four hundred and fifty-two have died, 170 are in the United States service, 12 are in the professions, 60 are following trades, 364 are farmers and ranchmen, 3 are merchants, 20 are clerks, 2 are in the army or navy, 3 are band musicians, 1 in a circus, 2 are professional baseball players, 321 are housewives, 56 are students, 141 are laborers, 5 are lumbermen, 23 are day laborers, 2 are cowboys, 2 are hotel-keepers, 34 are at home with their parents. Sororities, properly regulated, are good for girls in college, according to the deans of fourteen state universities, who met in biennial convention at Chicago in December. They held a conference with representatives of the PanHellenic Society of College Sororities and agreed to approve them if the sororities would defer pledging of students until the sophomore year and also would abolish "rushing," which was done. With the opening of the new chapter house of the Sigma Chi fraternity at the University of Illinois, this university possesses the handsomest building of the fraternity and one of the best chapter houses in the country. It is designed in the English country style and it has accommodations for thirty-two men and is one of the features of the university town. Sigma Chi began at Miami University in 1855, that old school from which also sprang Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Theta. It grew rapidly and now stands as one of the most representative of college societies, with chapters in practically all of the leading colleges and universities in the country. An excellent showing on the part of students to help themselves is made in the announcement from Yale that 50 per cent of those accepting aid from the university funds have chosen to take the money as a loan instead of as a gift. It is further said that the majority of those assisted in the lower (and larger) two classes instead have taken the goods as a gift, but a majority of those assisted in the upper two classes have made loans. This is as it ought to be, and is a sign of the useful work of the university in education. After they have been in the college a sufficient time the boys develop a higher standard; they see things of the world more clearly, and they choose wisely. This lending instead of giving outright, which has grown out of the agitation begun by the Alumni Advisory Board several years ago, has a number of merits. In the first place manifestly it gives the boy aided a better sense of the value of what he is getting. It is not thrown at him, but it must be worked for. It is a pity that all university assistance cannot be thus hedged in. There are plenty of cases where repayment would not be possible, just as there are in the world of business. But the influence of having every boy who wants help understand that the help is valuable, and must eventually be paid for if he and must eventually be paid for if he is able, would be tremendously advantageous to the boy. Incidentally, if a large part of the beneficiary funds are lent it will not take many years, as the time of universities is measured, for the available funds to assume large dimensions, and thus the field will be made vastly wider, while the advantage will be far greater in each case. Berzelius, the oldest secret body in the Yale is to have a new building for zelius hall was burned a year ago. The Sheffield Scientific School. The Bernew building is to have the elements of mystery in its architecture. "The Student's Obligations" is the title of an address recently delivered by George F. Parker, lately United States Consul at Birmingham, England, at the State University of Iowa. In this address Mr. Parker points out that mental training fails to justify its claims if it does not enable men to mark some of the known pitfalls of life, and that it is to the trained mind that we must look for leading the masses. Mr. Parker speaks with much praise of the old pioneer methods of education, in which strong individuality was developed by meeting stern responsibilities, but he does not approve the modern way through which the student is allowed to follow his own devices and to take the line of least resistance. He lays special emphasis upon thinking-a duty encumbent upon every educated American. No drifting must be tolerated, but real hard sailing against the tide. And when one has wandered from the known path in search of a shorter way only to find himself lost, the best way is to steer back |