| Show LOOK TO THE COLLEGES some time ago the sophomores of columbia college went out ona on a lark jack the freshmen had a banquet and the young men referred to concluded to break it up they assaulted the hall and captured some of the students and locked them up in convenient placed it was all for fun but none the lew less criminal I 1 i A at princeton some of the mentors wanted a new gymnasium and unable to carry their point in any other way they deliberately according to reports report demolished the old gymnasium in order to force the authorities to construct one more in accordance with their 0 own ideas this was not fun but tao tactics tida equally criminal the two incidents suggest a query an ab to what americas young men learn leam at our universities and coll colleas collea ertes 8 anyhow the columbia youths jeered their victims when they sought police protection against the violence of their fellow students and probably thai princeton ruf ruffians flans would be surprised were they to be called to account for their illegal acts yet one of the objects of education is to make the people revere the laws of the country and the appointed representatives and ft executors of those laws an eft education that falls fails in this important respect to la a good deal worse than what is commonly regarded as ignorance some people have an idea that acts of lawlessness and defiance of the authorities ties are found chiefly among ze the classes unfamiliar with the inside of the higher institutions of learning unfortunately this is not so if it were the antidote to crime would be in more ore general education there exe are proofs however that the spirit of lawlessness is but too well at home even in the modern modem temples of kowl edge |
