Does a college education destroy initiative, and individuality, the something in certain men which makes them stand out as supreme geniuses, or does it cause the finished product, the college graduate to emerge from his own particular Alma Mater with the same ideas and the conventional outlook upon the problems of life as is possessed by the thousands of other youths who also are college bred? Does college kill the genius by making him conventional, and does it make the fool over, because he has been trained in the ways and thoughts of intelligent men? If so, education is a detriment to the men who are ultra brilliant, and the world is bound to lose.

What does four years here on our own college campus do to a man or woman? If they are normal they are vastly different from the individuals who first enrolled at the University as verdant yearlings. A subtle change is effected in their personalities, intellects, and moral outlook upon life. There is a sameness about most of the students who graduate from this University or any other university. For four years they have been trained to think alike, dress, and act alike. The individual who has steeled himself against convention is unusual and difficult to find. The student who dares to stand up and criticise institutions or organizations which are wrong but which are tolerated because custom has permitted to endure only invites criticism and unpopularity from the rest of his fellows. Initiative is often discouraged because new ideas have never been in vogue. Purdue Exponent.