Show from the ot october 2 0 COLLEGE MORALITY the question of college morality is agitating an ot jnet now the household letb aliat liat have gone abroad to make a trial of their metal among fot faine than ever before and ahe anxious bohla in the by corners ot the nation who bare ibus for the first lime in a life been separated from t ebrown charlie or angelica are awakened to the cusp cion that all may cot be well even among the great of the earth so aery newspaper in the country is with correspondents aekins what they might think of the moral status of aliis that or the other institution of for the benefit of those of our readers who may at this time be considering this important question we will answer it upon actual knowledge there is not in all the land a high grade institution of any sort save perhaps a few ultra denominational colleges which professes to graduate the morals of its students this bianch of human training is not specified in the curriculum the authorities schools know officially nothing about the privacies of anybody connected therewith save hen ill conduct becomes flagrant aud threatens to compromise the repute of the ke is demanded al round which la determined solely popular reputation good morals are presume in the beginning and that presumption elands until the student by his flagrant disregard of personal character be a efima lie is then that his pres ene is not wanted the preliminary work of espionage and the minor re proofs and punishments belonging to the rearing of the young idea are supposed 0 o have been attended to adequately and thoroughly by the parents or guard ans to whom such duties properly belong the student that leaves bis family and friends to bhend a term of years in the pursuit of higher education among strangers in ft country is looked upon as a man aad not as a child the youth in whom correct principles of morality have not been thoroughly ingrained and fixed indelibly for a lifetime would much better stay at home until aliey are lie must be very sure that he is a man and his guardian and friends must be sure also beaura lie is or sheild permit himself to bo led into such an association it he has the true metal of a man in him and developed to the condition of manly continence the experience is likely to multiply his manhood if oa the other band he ia BO weik that of pre captors and spies is required to prevent him from bearg contaminated w ith every foal thing within bis readi if ilia moment he steps beyond alie where he las been be is liable to forget or ignore all the eaily teachings of his life and re dirae the order of his inclinations and be ruled by his imitative faculties instead of his reason he donld bettor remain where temptation cannot get so fair a chance at him for the ambition that leads him beyond the gata boht with such an individuality would not only betray him into paths he was musj desirous of avoiding but would desert him at an extremity farther away from bis wished for destiny than he vas while pursuing the tenor of guileless pursuits in alie sheltered home of hi south we can aaa to all parents who have an ambitious heir who wants to try hia fortune at college that buch institutions baie not the first principle of a reformatory the earth does not afford a more complete and expeditious discipline of deviltry if that is the sort of discipline a young man inclines to but if he has the real stuff that true men are made of right in the midst of all these villainous al lure ments he can rise BO tar above his ordinary belt that the very po lution around him makes him great in his most noble desires send your pet progeny where you vill he must sometime be taught to be a maa on his own account else will be be a coward knowing the requisites and the risks every candidate who knows himself and every parent of such candidate may take hia own alvice about making the venture the ruling forces of th s world take no cognizance of helplessness or simplicity city they will crush the soul of an angel as eoon as a demon it it is just as convenient |