Show Need of Dormitories S S And Social Center Is IsS S Emphasized in Article Artic e HE need new of the University for T THE dormitories and social gathering places is emphasized b by Miss Lucy Van Cott dean of oC who calls attention to an article which appeared in the New ew York Times en entitled entitled entitled en- en titled What the College Really Realty lf Needs cds eds by bi Stephen Leacock k wel well known writer and at present a 0 member member mem mern- ber ot of the faculty of ot McGIll l S sityE sity E believe belle that the one thing that the University of oC Utah n needs e s now and ayd must have Is dormitories and until the time lime when dormitories are on ori our campus we ve will not have the proper spirit The men who have gone East to college from Salt Lake have been especially enthusiastic over the dormitories dorm dormi tories and social halls of ot the Eastern colleges said Miss l Van Cott Cotto Jn ln part the article in the Times Isas Isas is isas as follows S The Tho trouble Is that tho the universities ties on our continent are only just waki waking g up to to the Idea of what a a. university university university uni uni- should mean meant The They were vera very largely instituted and organized with the Idea that a university university- was a a. place where young men were sent to ab absorb absorb ab- ab orb the contents of and to listen to lectures In the classroom The student was was pictured as a a. pallid cr creature creature crea crea- l ture burning burning- what was called the midnight oil oil his wan van face bent over his desk If It you wanted to do something something some something some some- thing for him you gave him a a. book If It you want wanted d to todo do something re really llY large on his behalf you gave him a s whole basketful of ot them If It you OU wanted to go still sUll further and be a 0 areal areal real benefactor to the tho c college at large you ou endowed a comp competItive scholarship arid and set two or more pallid students working themselves s to death to get it Ve We are beginning to see that the textbOok ok and the tho classroom are but buta a n part of ot the students student's I life lite If Jt they are taken by themselves s in undiluted doses they probably do more harm than good They not only injure the st students student's dent health b but t they impair his mind True education cannot be achl achieved ed after this b by sh shoveling shoveling eling eling- in information The most that this can ever eer give ii is erudition erudition- and pedantry never capacity and am genuine acquirement t. The typical product of ot It is Js the college pedant possessed of ofa ofa a a. stomach full tun of oC tact fact but but with a mind the size of a a. peanut a and 1 the out out- outlook outlook t look took of ot a child If It a. a student is to get from his coU college g what it ought to give gie him a a. college dormitory with the life In common that It brings is his ab absolute absolute absolute ab- ab solute right 0 A university that fails io to g give X it to him Is cheating him If I I were founding foundIng- a a. university university- and I t say it with all the seriousness of which I am capable r I would found first a smoking smoking- smoking room Then when I had a a. more little more money in hand I Iw w would ld found a o dormitory Then after that or more properly with that a decent reading room and a 0 library After that if It I still had money over that I couldn't use I would hire a professor and get got some textbooks |