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Show ROWDYISM IN' AMERICAN v COLLEGES. The unfortunate student of Cornell university who was recently drowned was undergoing a part of the initiation ceremony peculiar to one of Cornell's Eecet societies. He was given a letter let-ter to carry to a certain destination, but, unfortunately, a canal was in the way. which he tried to swim, and wan drowned. The college authorities, of course, say it was an accident, which in reality it was. Yet it cannot bo said that the authorities of Cornell are to be held blameless. This Incident was but one of many in which the students at Cornell from time to time indulge. Nor is it at Cor nell alone that this foolish bravado and recklessness, amounting in most cases to rowdeyis.m. are tolerated. There is not an American college in which rowdyism row-dyism of the most rampant kind from time to time does not break out. Only the other day several hundred students of Columbia college in New York City paraded the streets in the most mois-trous mois-trous manner, everywhere manifesting shocking disregard of morality. Why-do Why-do the authorities of these different colleges tolerate such actions? It brings disgrace and dishonor on the . name of i American education. The Intermountain Catholic calls especial es-pecial attention to these facts and points out. to catholic parents in the ! intermountain country the dangers to which they subject their children when they send them to such institutions of learning. The students in Catholic colleges col-leges never indulge in such acts of rowdyism, row-dyism, and the reason is plain. We do not for a moment maintain that the Catholic youth would not with alacrity indulge in these escapades if the opportunity op-portunity offered. In our Catholic college, col-lege, however, the discipline is so firm, that no such. opportunity ever offers, and consequently the danger to life and morality is greatly minimized. In this intermountain country there are three splendid colleges for young men one under the care of the Marist Fathers at Salt Lake, another in charge of the Jesuit Fathers at Denver, and a third under the direction of the. Christian Chris-tian Brothers at Santa Fe. These . schools are oil of a high, order of .excellence and Catholic parents Can send their children to them without fear that the rampant license which resulted in the death of the young man at Cornell will find repetition in them. Every care that a father or mother can exercise over a child is exercised in all of these institutions, but aside from the care given to the physical well-being well-being of the student, a moral atmosphere atmo-sphere is placed around them which, is sure to prove advantageous. , |