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Show Undergraduate Today Does Better Work and Is' Wiser Than His Forbears By DEAN CLARENCE W. ME.NDELL, Yale College. The modern college student, generally considered a smart Aleck bj his elders, actually is better tkin his forbears. Disabuse your minds of the idea thai the undergraduate of today is an unworthy son or grandson of vour geceration. He docs better work. He is more intellectually and more brutally frank. He is more wise in the ways of the world. Alono with most, of you, he has changed his creed and his religion, but he believes be-lieves in justice, mercy und truth. It is time for as to realize that the post-war period of flagrant bad manners and despicable taste was a short-lived abnormality and that we are today beginning to see the ilner results of those years of painful stress and change. |