Education: At the Universities

On the following campuses the following events made news:

¶ Harvard dining hall officials reported that Harvardmen are confirmed milk-guzzlers. A $900 beer license had earned only $521.55 since Jan. 1, each student diner averaging one bottle per three weeks.

¶ In 1800 Princeton men rioted three days because chapel prayers were too long, got them cut by one-third. Last week the Daily Princetonian reported that Princeton men now rudely talk, read newspapers, play tick-tack-toe and salvo during Sunday services in their new $2,000,000 chapel.Excitedly launched was a campaign against “forced, hypocritical and disinterested” chapel attendance, compulsory every other Sunday.

¶ At University of West Virginia news leaked out that a Democratic Board of Governors was about to oust the University’s President John Roscoe Turner, stanch Republican. Several hundred students walked out of classes in a noisy “one-day holiday” of protest.

¶ At Reed (Portland, Ore.) the rope snapped between Nos. 4 and 5 on the freshman tug-of-war team. Nos. 1 to 4 gamely held tight while howling sophomores dragged them through a muddy, 75-ft. slough neck-deep with icy water. As they emerged a newshawk approached spluttering Freshman No. 1, asked why he was there.

“It’s my first year here. I consider myself a freshman,” gasped Reed’s new President Dexter M. Keezer, 39, onetime associate editor of the Baltimore Sun, onetime executive director of NRA’s Consumers Division.

¶ At St. John’s (Annapolis, Md.) a rebellious freshman mob started after a tyrannical sophomore, bent on dumping him in the Severn River. Suddenly they were confronted by a grim, menacing figure. “I suggest that you act like gentlemen,” snapped St. John’s new President Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, 51, onetime Federal Prohibition Administrator. Thereupon the freshmen melted away.

¶ Dartmouth officials lifted dormitory bans on women and liquor, put the cause of decency and temperance in the hands of student committees.

¶ At Columbia, President Nicholas Murray Butler revealed that the university had this year been unable to send its usual Theodore Roosevelt professor of American History & Institutions to Germany.*Reason: Columbia’s “steadily diminishing income.”

¶ At Stanford the student Daily solemnly announced its withdrawal from NRA, declared: “What there is or was of the NRA has not been the idealistic Utopia the Daily fought for.”

¶ At Wellesley students charged the college’s cooperative bookstore with overcharging, started a boycott.

*For news of President Butler’s Brother William see p. 13.