Show Prof n cn Reiterates Snob Philosophy College Men Should Be Class Conscious Says Prof Rogers Editors Editor's note Professor Rog flog ers era erSt in an address to the senior class of the In In In- of Technology last Saturday Satur Satur- Saturday day night enunciated the doctrine doc doc- trine f snobbishness f forr r cot l- l lege men His speech drew the fire of numerous persons and precipitated a lively contro contro- versy Be a snob snob he lie told the stu stu- stu- stu dents You YOLI will find it just as easy to marry the boss' boss daughter daugh daugh- ter as the stenographer He urged them not to permit themselves themselves themselves them them- selves to become standardized but to strive to become of the ruling class clan In the following article he more fully explains h his is stand By ROBERT EMMONS ROGERS Associate Professor of English Massachusetts M Institute I of Tech Tech- CA CAMBRIDGE Mass rass June 3 a AP Al' AlI API I I appear to have started some some- thing News must have been scarce scare Saturday evening Although as a frank young oung reporter told me i it if the Old Orchard fliers filers had hopped off oft that day I should shoUd probably have hav found myself on the financial page pas if It at allI all I had thought I 1 was mal making ins ins- a little private informal talk to the technology technology technology tech tech- senior class But either cither there was tas present a reporter sent out on ona ona ona a forlorn hope because there was nowhere else to send scud hi him or else some come senior with newspaper affiliations rated his space string higher than he did the niceties of the situa situa- tion I wont won't deny that he did an excellent job To catch an Improvised improvised improvised talk on the fly with about one minutes minute's notice and to catch it ii In such a way that tile the speaker must acknowledge the essential accuracy Continued on page S 8 Prof Reiterates Snob Philosophy Continued from page 1 most 0 of even to verbal bal accuracy of the tory story Is good reporting probably probably probably ably another good newspaper man manIs manIs manis Is being boing spoiled to make malte d a so-so so en en- I doubt if the two talents arc are compatible WOULD HAVE CHANGED If It I had known he was ivas vas vas' there thero I I should probably have played up some omo of ot the time more Important parts toned down some of et the other less essential ones and been a n little tittle less forthright and than I felt I could be with my own crowd Jut But that doesn't matter now The thing timing stands My lIy topic was as the headlines played It up The Thc Necessity of Bp- Bp B Ing a Snob The reaction from the politicians evangelists and editorial writers was almost exactly what might have been prophesied 1 It is Interesting that the two persons persons persons per per- sons quoted In the Monday morning papers who seemed to agree e with w-lh They me mc were both l knew nev what I was talking about One of them in addition a n college president president president dent sensed the time use I was making of time the word snob that is the time word as ignorantly applied by people VI without without with with- hout h- h out manners or or ambition to almost anybody who is not ashamed of possessing of-possessing th them m or of ot using them hem properly BOTH MISSED MARK ARK Bo Both h the politician and the clergyman clergyman clergy clergy- man missed the mark completely To my that any any encouragement of College men as a class to become a leadership leadership leadership leader leader- self conscious group bent on ship will result in the time curtailment of ot legal or r economic rights now enJoyed enjoyed en- en Joyed by PY y the Jle majority Is mere demagoguery dema denma- To ro sa say say- that lass class leadership leadership leader leader- ship is wrong wrong is nonsense Already our social system is a resultant of or classes lases clashing as as classes Banking as s a class labor as a class politicians I clans as' as a class lawyers a as af a class all all bent on control Why not make makein an in attempt to wake up tim tho the inert and nd irresponsible class class' of college bit self self- men try to make malte a a. conscious proud of what differentiates them from the crOWd proud to Lo make uso of that power the power ower of 01 breeding brains training opportunities pp ARE THEY WORTH IT Are they worth woth It The rho poU politician clan and mad the-clergyman the seem to doubt It And nd the time college mans attitude tolate to date late gives them reason If they are not clot worth it then the greatest greatest greatest-edu eduCation edu- edu Cation l experiment any country More has ever seen has failed money time patience Jaten e. e sacrifice thought ti g t has l time go gone t the to-the i l- l making ng of our college then men than timan has ever gone gono to the making of any class in histOry his his- tory If college inen men are re content to speak think bear themselves s live and lIe die as if it none of this op opportunity OPportunity opportunity OP- OP had Imad been lavished 1 on them then the man in the street the time unimproved product is the better bet Politicians politicians' and clergymen think that nw Y Their jobs require re require require re- re quire them to think that I dont tont I believe in the tile improved product provided product provided the Improved product makes an effort to t act like one to accept accept- the responsibilities of his Imis opportunities Instead of sinking his hi Identity ity in the uns conscious lf crowd Self is a good thing class consciousness is a good thing To save others a man must first save himself The word aristocrat aris must once more come como comeback back into honorable usage Till then the will have hav to do |