1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL. 329There appears to be a false impression abroad that theUniversity of Chicago is a school for the rich alone. It isbelieved that the students here are all rich men's sons," saidDr. C. A. Henderson at chapel exercises there recently. Headmonished the students to do their best to destroy what hedeclared was a mistaken idea by treating the poorer studentswith respect, and he said: College students should not lookdown upon their poorer comrades. The attitude of somecollege men is to be deplored. The men of this universityshould be as democratic as those of any other college."In his recently issued annual report, President Elliott ofHarvard says that the public school-boy has the advantage inefficiency over the boy from the private school. For the pastyear President Elliott has been studying comparative statisticsof the two types of entrants to Harvard, and his conclusions,based on observations of 700 students, are: ' Both in entranceexaminations and in honors won in college the public schoolboyoutstrips the boy who has had a private tutor, or hasgone to a select school. The public school boys are not onlymore vigorous and determined to gain knowledge, but theyare also much more conscientious, a point which has oftenbeen denied."* * * *There is such a thing as some members becoming picayunishin judging new students. The hasty word of some silly girl,or a hat that was in style at home but not in the college town,or an embarrassing backwardness that will soon wear off, orsome other trivial defect will prevent the new man from receivinghis due degree of respect. If new students were alreadypolished diamonds there would be no need for them to entercollege. Look beneath the surface! If strength of charactercan be seen, an earnest effort is put forth for downright hardwork, high ideals of thought and action are aimed at, thenoverlook mere external crudities. Externals change, butcharacter remains. If you can not fraternize with, if you cannot learn to love a man who does not wear patent leathershoes or dress or talk just as you do, even though his mind ispure, his heart loving, his brain active, then you had betterretire to your room, do some real hard thinking for thenext half hour and come out of there a bigger man than whenyou entered. — The Delia of % ^.