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Show Our Young- People Havj Certainly Emerged ! From the Age of Authority Ey DEAN HERBERT E. IIAVvKES, Columbia University. Our young people ha-c certainly emerged from the age of authority, either parental, social or divine. Each is master of his own destiny in an anarchy of individualism. It is high time that some one who possesses the vision clears the way for the ret step, which is in si'rht. So far as our stu.l.-nts are concerned, the slate is wiped clean for a consideration of re! i 'ion. Ihe most striking feature of our young people ;s not'thoir interest in religion, but their ignorance of it. With the falling -way of home training train-ing in religious matters, our students have no idea what it is all about. And they are interested to find out. The man who is ignorant of and is not interested in religion is in the same elas as the man who is not interested in science, or art, or the social sciences. We do not frame our curriculum for those exceptional or imperfect minds who have blind spots, but rather for the normal mind that is anxious to obtain a well-rounded education. |