Home Causes Disasters

"The one great cause of disaster in college life today is tension and misunderstanding at home," was the substance of President Faunce's address.

"We are told by many timorous writers that 'flaming youth' is to blame for most of the woes of the modern world: that our young people are without reverence for the past, regardless of law and order, brutally frank, destitute of reticence and modesty and humility, crass and coarse in manners and in speech," said Dr. Faunce.

Does Not Despair

"I can only say for myself that I have not found them so, and that I know too many things about the former generation to indulge in despair over the present one.

"Would any historian wish to exchange the worst traits of the Twentieth Century for the scandalous doings of the Eighteenth century? Bradford's history of the Pilgrim Fathers shows us within ten years after the Mayflower cast anchor at Plymouth such vices as are unknown to civilization today.

"Any graduate who has been out of college forty years will tell you there was far more intoxication among students in his day than now. The college comic of forty years ago was thrust under the door in the darkness of the night and burned by the janitor in the morning. The older generation was not angelic, but it rigorously suppressed or carefully concealed conditions which were not sanctioned by its code. Its goodness consisted largely in restraint and repression.

"Today, in our, honor courses, competent college students are invited to forage for themselves, and to discuss as well as to listen. In our seminaries they sit around a table in high intellectual companionship with the advanced student that we call the professor. In the laboratory the student with his own hands and eyes and brain must find out th truth or retire in defeat. Slowly we are learning that the only training that lasts is selftraining, and that unless the student educates himself, his remains forever a closed and darkened mind."