Show A NEW COURSE AT T THE E U UIt It is deplorable when college students with their many manifest advantages supposed to st stand nd on the heights of civilization guarding the best best and richest fruits of centuries of growth are deficient in the very things which help to tomake tomake tomake make a high degree of civilization possible Yet d' d deplorable as it is it is true true true-a a great many of our students are ignorant of the common courtesies courtesies cour cour- of life In their selfish egotism they fancy that if they bend to be polite to the shabby illiterate illiterate erate man they will lose some of their hard-earned hard prestige Unless they soar above the common earth folk may mistake their pinions for vulgar wings In short the college mans man's long years of of- training instead of giving him a sense of kinship with the struggling world and of duty to lift it out of its rut confers upon him a miserable little sense of superiority that any selfish ignorant cad may may- possess Two of our college men last year were refused a position by a downtown business man who turned them away because he said they would not be courteous to his clients It is serious indeed indeed in in- deed if our University is training mens men's minds at the expense of their morals for a fault like this is far greater than a breach of mere social etiquette of the polish which enables a man to raise his hat graciously to a lady or to hold open a door for her A college student should have bred into him the courtesy which enables him to hold open a adoor door or remove his hat as readily to the poorest clad woman as to the richest to talk graciously with the commonest laborer and to manifest a real interest in his problems It may be that these college men men in question question were not so much caddish as ignorant of the little litile of life If so a course in courtesy would not be amiss in our University A boor may possess a sterling heart but a stranger like the downtown business man has no way of judging judging judg judg- ing a mans man's real character save by the outward manifestations Every day we are judged by our slightest actions It behooves us then to watch those actions well lest through misjudgment misjudgment misjudgment mis- mis judgment we be seriously handicapped in our quest for success n |