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Show Whit Elie Did He ExTtct? Prof. Gay A. Tawney, head of the department of psychology of Beloit college, went to the World's fair and became unhappy. In order to study the great American public as it really is he pushed a Vheel chair about the grounds. . . The cultured gentleman got the knowledge he Y?as after, but he finds fault with the people because they didn't devote themselves to storing up useful information. L "The crowds," he says, "invariably went to the Pike, where they spent their time chiefly on scenic railways, merry-go-rounds, and the commonest forms of amusement, while all around was a wonderful storehouse of education such as has never been brought together for the benefit of mankind. The wastefulness of time which the masses display impressed im-pressed me as pitiful. The world may never see as great an exposition again, an1 it seemed a sin that all its educational value should be lost on the crowds." 1 How sad. But what else did the professor expect? ex-pect? Was it. his first experience with the great . American public l People go to a World's fair or any other old fair in order to be amused and to have a good time. They don't care a continental about the state of their minds but they want to see the Pike, all right. x Of course some of them saw the exhibits and some of them studied what they saw, but the majority major-ity of the people who went to the fair when the pro- fessor was there Went to enjoy themselves. But it isn't quite so bad as be makes it appear. People are" pretty observant and we venture the assertion as-sertion that most of them benefited by their, visit to ' the exposition.-- |