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Show SUBTLE FOES RESET COLLEGE .r,mjRDAii Eminent ; Educator Says No System of Rewards or Punishments . Eer Made Men Good, Wise . VULGARITY, FOLLY ' ' LOOSED IN WORLD t ' ' waenww" ... , . J Enforced Attendance at Prayers and "Paternal Scolding , Branded - as Alike Ineffective'..; -; i AH FRANCISCO," luly I- Foe that th nnrreratty nan of today must cop with are mora subtle than those which center In Jess and bootleg. David Starr Jordan, .president .presi-dent emeritus Of Stanford university. univer-sity. California, declared In an ad-- ad-- drees today before th National Ed- ucatlon aaaoolaUsav. gpeasln-- "The University and Moral Teaoh- - Ins." hs asserted that tha university univer-sity should aid Ita men to conquer -the aheap temptations which beset youth on every side, now tenfold mora numerous than before war raleed tha lid under which society ' tried to confine vulgarity and folly." ' Tha ban of higher education. Sr. Jordan aald, la tha desire to substitute substi-tute system and drill for insplim- ' tion- -No systsa af rewards or punlah-InenU punlah-InenU ever made men good or wise.- he continued. "Enforced attendance at-tendance at prayere or chapel fall to roues ths spiritual nature, and dldactla leeching or paternal scolding scold-ing are alike Ineffective. 'The university can exert a tremendous tre-mendous Influence for moral Ufa. but only through tha unflinching devotion of Its members. And this Influence must be exerted spontaneously, sponta-neously, vn unconsciously, by men aliea to all form of vulgarity snd vice, and la thorough sympathy sympa-thy with ths bsst la mind or morals In ths Idealism af youth. To turn our youths toward righteousness, ws must show them how rlghteoue-aeae rlghteoue-aeae looks whsn it la alive.' -The university haa about four roeds to this end the contagion of personality, the Ineplratlon of la-telleot. la-telleot. the arousing of enthuelasm for Intenslvs work, snd ths dsve tlnn to h-lpfiilneea toward othore.- |