Show TOO MUCH TIME 1 FOR PLEASURES PLEASURES' I I Students of the American colleges I today are arc becoming so engrossed with the man many complications of ot college life Ufe that they are forgetting the purposes for which the American college was found founded d. d That was the statement made Friday Friday Fri Fri- day in defense of American scholarship scholarship schol schol- by Edwin Earl Sparks president president dent emeritus o of State college and ard now regent general of the Phi Kappa Phi honorary scholarship society before a special assembly at atthe atthe atthe the University of Utah It If Martha Washington could come comeback comeback I back today he continued she ahe would be astounded at the complicated social life that pervades the college atmos atmos- phere Some boys I have become ac acquainted acquainted acquainted ac- ac I with belong to as many as eleven en societies whose motto when In I i doubt about studying or pleasure Is IsLets IsLet's IsLets isLets isLet's Lets Let's go o to the dance Other things that show lack of seriousness in the American college are such signs as Never let It your studies tudie interfere with your our fun and Never Kever let scholarship in interfere In In- 1 with athletics Woodrow Wilson said in talking of American colleges that the side show is running away with the circus and what ho said Is unfortunately true The activities are engrossing too much at- at n and the danger of such a tendency tendency ten ten- i. i dency nw w will lead d to oa unfortunate eh ehr r results s s This lack of scholarship he said Is due to students being attracted to the life of men vho who have made good without college education and because I they come cone to college with no fixed idea of what they come for I spoke I to John D. D Rockefeller a few years ago and he said that he had plenty of mone money but he couldn't ever get a Phi I Beta Kappa keyThe key keyThe The college student today is putting too much time In on his work and not enough concentration He has no power over his concentration faculties and arid wastes his time Let me warn you boys and girls that ten minutes of or concentration concentration concentration con con- is better than one hour of ot dabbling Mr Sparks arrived here from Butte Thursday for br the purpose of Installing the Phi Kappa Phi honorary scholarship scholarship scholarship scholar scholar- ship on the University of Utah campus He will go direct from here hereto hereto to the University of Wyoming where he ho will install the only other Western chapter of ot that |