It seems as if the public press would never cease from its attacks on college students. This time it comes from Philadelphia in a newspaper called the Times. "For several years the public has noted with dismay the gradual decay of the ancient safeguards which stringent discipline was supposed to throw about the educational pathway of the young and rising generation," moralizes the Times. "The moral of college government is greatly relaxed, and our venerable eleemosynary and other institutions of learning are fast becoming the theatres of disorder and excess." This paper then makes the rather remarkable statement that "Harvard, Yale and others of our older colleges are compelled to rely upon the police and the courts to aid in maintaining order." It goes on to state that "the list of shocking disorders might be prolonged indefinitely, and its significance lies in the fact that college authorities seem totally unable to grapple with and subdue the demon of misrule." We think that a good, wholesome college, or even high school, education would have been a splendid thing for not only the "penny-a-liner" on the Times, but also for all others of his class who attempt to keep the public informed as to the "shocking disorders" in our higher seats of learning.
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