Judge — April 25, 1931 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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The Sterile College ome ing letter from a house-painter who attends Western convinced time ago we had an interest- evening classes university. He by experience that the teaching of col- ored by Fascist insistence of chambers ef commerce and other ita has been cconomics is community pillars.” “L find higher education,” he Ss vathetically anemic and sterile. ‘The contlicts of modern world institutions ire, for the most part, given cursory Instead of universities g the ferment to culture, they ly add so many more members to the upper groups. This is what Pro- fessor Rogers of M. 1. ‘IT. had in mind when he told his graduates to be snobs he knew that most of them wanted to become climbers, anyway. “I wouldn't say that the fault lies with the professors and instructors. Most of them are ntious and sincere. But they must always be mindful of tradition; they must avoid the sacred cows of orthodoxy. “However, what have I—a house-painter by day who a ‘radical’ (A. F. of L.) union at that]—to question the meth- ods of higher education? Sir, you have ev you have the duty, Henge the sterile college. If men like you do not demand different teachi of economics, who will? well content with Things As They Are quite honestly believe that the theories under which they themselves have prospered a notice. supplyi our conse belongs to » indeed Those who are the true gospel. ese theories, therefore, are the only omnes that should be taught, and out of the prosperity achieved under ‘them these gentlemen endow the teaching. It is all entirely natural and open and thove board. Economics controls the ching of economics—a self-per- petuating doctrine. The natural sci- ences are free of this stultifying in- fluence; because they dare to face facts, they make startling strides JUDGE daily. But the social sciences lag be- cause colleges, financed as they are, must take heed of the prejudices, the passions, the very ignoran itself. - of society Hooray for the Hunch! H' Nei-workers are not popular. Dull rivals and ploddin dinates envy the agile vaults across) the subor- mind that morass of Dats airily skirts the chasm of Error, and, crag to settles ultimate peak of “Lucky stiff,” they sneer. now the hunch has achieved Before the Amer- Chemical Society, Drs. R.A. ker and W. on Platt reported an investig nong scientists. rly 200 out of replying t questionnaire said that many a dif cult) problem has solved by hunch, The hunch was defined as “a unifying or clarifying which springs into consciousness suddenly as from gracefully on the Truth. But seient leaping standing. heen a solution to a problem in which we are intensely interested.” One researcher got his 1 while he was dodging traffic Broadway. while playing soli shaving, Some have their hunches while while listening to a great many during those mys- terious intervals just before sleep or just after awakenin The essence of aire, some some music. huneh is that it s when the conscious mind is on some other subject. The minded professor is thus Hunches are seared off by worry, ill- ness or working under and, above all, by interruptions or by the fear of inter- ruption. For wooing the hunch the favorite method is to drop the prob- lem temporarily and tackle something else. Thinking it over just before going to bed is the next best method. Idleness and complete __ relaxation help. Many resort to coffee. But heed this—faith in the hunch is not to be an excuse for shirking. All 13 gue, by pressure, by nois the scientists before can expeet a decent hunch you must have a thorough knowledge of the facts. Dr. Baker says there are four st (1) Preparation, in whieh you investigate your problem; (2) Inew bation, in which you review and study the nformation; (3) Iumination, which is the hunch, and (4) Verifies tion, in which the hunch is tested by experiment. The trouble with the amateur huncher is that he seamps the first stage, bangles the all excited in the third « neglects the fourth. idea at all. that of great theory during reverie, but confirmed it by years of patient study. He who would cultivate the hunch habit must take care clusion- jumper, a catch-word peddler. And he should never forget the ancient maxim that perspiration comes before inspiration that you second, gets id completely That's not the The example to follow is Darwin, who got his not to be a con snap-judger, a The Unhappy Virgins W: ain't done right by our Virgin Islands. President Hoover's visit showed that u We bought them from Denmark in wartime because we jermany would take them tl base. ous then, for they sed cane tilled from it excellent rum. stowed prohibition upon them. as Mr. Hoover ys, they are “an effective poorhouse.” Since there doesn’t seem to be much else that they can do, they beg us to make them an exception to our laws against the manufacture and sale of liquor. Of course we can't do that. We could, however, set them free from our pe urtyranny. Their first cost to us $25,000,000. Their upkeep now costs us $7,000,000 a ye To let them have their independence or to give them to some broader-minded power, for no cash consideration at all, would be an economical as well as a just and kindly act. They were prosper- nd dis- We be- Now, RILW, comicbooks.com