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Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS Mr. Crane 't attack oa the morals of university students ia considered. 8t. Paul Dispatch: "If it were not a good thing, if the stuileota of tha eol-legee eol-legee and universities were not proven to bo the energizing ' and elevating forceo in human aocielr which they are supposed to be, attendance at tha colleges col-leges and universities would steadily decline. The contrary ia the fact." Brooklyn Daily T'.agle: "That the surroundings at college develop tha beat rather than the worst among the great majority of their students ia shown by the increasingly large number of college graduates who achieve positions of trust and leadership." Chicago Inter-Oreaa: "Long live R. T. Crane, Sr., to prove by the narrowness nar-rowness of his viewa and the energy of his prejudieea that even though a college education may be the t awful thing be imagines, the lack of it 'is very far from qualifying a man to look at the world in a reaeonablc light and to say things that are worth listening to." Chicago Record-Herald: "Drinking, gaming and licentiousness are not evils peculiar to association with learning; thev exist everywhere, among the poor aa well aa the rich. Any profession, any elaaa. could be indicted oa the basia of a superficial 'inveatigatioa.'." Philadelphia Inquirer: "Anyone can believe who pleaaea tha statements made by Richard T. Crane about the manners man-ners and morals of college men. but whoever does believe them shews there-,ia there-,ia aa almost incredible credulity." New York World: "Tt is easy to explain Mr. Crane's facta. The explanation ex-planation is that they are not true. If he had conducted his business of making mak-ing elevators as carelessly as he cent-piles cent-piles statistics he could not have achieved success." . Louisville Courier-Journal: "S. T. Crane's attack upon the great universities univer-sities aa acenes of drinking aud debauchery de-bauchery is far from convincing. Kven if bis facts are correct, hia conclusions ara unwarrantable."..- Rochester Democrat-Chronicle: ,"Mr. Crane would have strengthened hit esse If he had been a little more conservative con-servative in tha percentage ha selected aa a starting point." |