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

THE SCROLL. 437alleged "founder." In the light of recent utterances of the president, thisclaim scarcely can be true.The Drover's Telegram, of Kansas City, inquires:Why did they fire Professor TriggsFrom Rockefeller's college?I thought he had a lead pipe cinchUpon the world of knowledge.His lamps were always burning bright,Their glim the country dazzled;His theories were so quaint they, madeThe other profs look frazzled.It cannot be that he's a prig,Nor that his light's reflected.But sure it is he's been turned out,And now the world's dejected.I wonder if his can of oilA Standard make is branded?For if it's not, they ought to sayAs much, and thus be candid.VIEWS OF COLLEGE PRESIDENTS.Speaking before the association of colleges and preparatoryschools of the middle states and Maryland, in Xew Yorkcity, November 28, President Rush Rhees, of the Universityof Rochester, took the ground that the college aim and collegeteaching, as distinguished from original research in theuniversities, were essential to the development of educatedand cultured men. He insisted that, while some men maysecure substantial benefits in three years at college, the fouryear course is not arbitrary or accidental, but is fixed bywhat experience shows to be necessary for the majority; andon this point he said:I am heretical enough to believe that if it becomes a question of reducingtime it would be vastly better to modify somewhat the extent of our entrancerequirements than to try to compress unduly the period of residence in theinstitution which crowns our course of liberal education, where the aim isthe mature development of the man or the woman.I am not indifferent lo the demand for economy of time in education, butlet us keep our young men in that atmosphere which makes for personal development,in the atmosphere of comrades who are pursuing diverse interests,of teachers intent upon the development of manhood; let us keep themthere long enough to secure that intellectual maturity whichi if I mistakenot, has given to the American college of the past its claim to distinction.The long talked of concession of Yale College to the Yalelaw school has been made. Hereafter only six years will berequired for a man to take his degree from the college andthe law school, instead of seven as is now the case. This