Show ACADEMIC SPIRIT I M WHITE Utah 16 and associate 3 editor of the Chronicle last year writes from rom Harvard as quoted elsewhere in this issue there is mysterious something here If It anyone had told me that a that would make me study law seven days day's a week morning afternoon and evening and really enjoy it I should have told him that that was beyond even my hopes But it is literally true and my case is only the almost universal rule Joe Quinney A. A C. C sums it all up when he lie says sas he has done more work i in five months than he did in college in four years A slight stretch perhaps unless I mistake our sister school but nevertheless indicative of a genuine sentiment Heres Here's an expression of real academic spirit which is enough to startle a good many of us In fact some of our Utah faculty members are cruel enough to affirm that academic spirit is entirely lacking on this campus that the term students is a misnomer One professor boldly asserts that he has never heard any serious academic discussion outside of the Ule classroom since ince he lie came to Utah Of or course there are extenuating circumstances l I Mr White is writing informed there is as' as much earnestness earnestness earnestness earn earn- from a graduate school If we are reliably as estness among the Utah under graduates as there is among under-classmen under in Harvard Columbia or Wisconsin Then too this is a educational co-educational in in- Even the Oasis club will probably agree that such a condition in spite of its attractions is not conducive to the highest scholarship But these difficulties are far from being Insuperable There is small excuse for the in inefficient scattering of energy by many of us May we suggest however to those finding fault-finding professors that it is not nota a very difficult matter to get a B. B A A. degree We confess for the benefit of generations to come that we are indulgently permitted to slide through many courses Our average mentality is probably just about as high as that in Harvard and if we were compelled to work hard or get bet out the Utah students students' students students' students students' stu stu- stu- stu dents' dents attitude could be tremendously changed Where more serious work Is coming to be required as In the law and medical schools the academic discussion outside of class sometimes becomes so intense that it has to be suppressed by the peace officers But before the thumb-screws thumb are applied it might be well to be sure that the courses offered are worth intensive work From the standpoint of culture and general use the various branches of student activity are probably probably probably ably as valuable as either higher mathematics or dead |