Life — June 17, 1909 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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curriculum of almost every college worthy of the WO name? What of the trips of students | KK \ courses to the very plague spots of cougenisate DW the lower East Side of New York City or the LC slums of Chicago, or of any large city, in the study of this problem, and the search for a rem. edy? What of our model tenements, originated and planned by college men; of our tenement house commissioners, largely college 1 few men cannot accomplish everything little work toward the end in view ci these men have done more than a little work, Yet education knows little of tenemen Education “ pays no attention to the hout the courses in political economy? they not teach of corporate wealth, capit But. theory is not all. How are after these wealthy criminals? records, Mr. Jones, and sce how many actually engaged in prosecuting corpor college men. graft of the New York S Department with characteristic \ dwards, a famous Princeton Iplayer. And he did more than He solved the intricacies of the system, brought to light the human para the removal of snow is done by contract, under the supervision of the Department of Street Cleaning, but this is only an instance of the educated man had done along ites lines, So, education has no time for the real p: ch? “Asa final instance, let Mr. Jones Ic the civic and political clubs of all great c and universities. Of mock president held by undergraduates, of the campaign work of the same students. Then ask him to reiterate his statements. Of course no body of people is faultless. There are many scholars whose whole lives are wrapped - ~ up in musty tomes. There are many college men who are dismal failures, But is it the fault of a awn N (Continued from page 861) 3 college educatio: 0 a Othe world, due perhaps to the inability to absorb A LLEN S FOOT-EASE \ college education, or of the man Bimself? Other what he should have during his own course in | }} than ge men might do the same work college, or his failure to withstand the elimina. | § Shake Into Your Shoes {|_| Have, mentioned as being, done. by tion which discriminating college men make of eee ee | men y ’ fe daily paper with thelp weaker’ fellowcstudents 5 } its baseball score, and an easy chair at home, is ‘in £ wh 7 i (| as far as th y man g ard worry- " Of what consequence to society, pray tell. is | | {| a8 far as the every-day man gets toward worry: mi “what the live Greck is doing in the shoe-s im ; || Saw, shout, oF working over, live, up-to-date, vit ing emporiums of our large cities” as compared | ( vine ates Sebutiieg gv | Problems. | In direct opposition to to the words of some learned Athenian, some of | { a Se ener ihe aceraisscors lor), | say shat the’ modem college education, (ar from whose utterances may be the very foundations of ‘ aching feet. We have over 3 ‘ king a man a student of dusty classics, mal iern philosophy? A hadeca Ronee || THY IT TODAY. } 1 a real, live, intelligent citizen. The college ported caaitucticd creoatpicentno feld {0 j is and Shoe, Stor ) man working on social problems is working for a railroad construction crews "’ present no field for | } any substitute, : vausesianid Got torn: menetary conasdetstiegy toe: his valuable study or research, nor do they present | { Bene omcacon| a monetary consideration, t00, | i any great social problem to be solved. { AL PACKAGE Bin " i acities?”* ; Astuerst, Mass., May 18, 1909. j How to correct conjugal irregularities?” In ie answer to that, how to abolish temper and mis- 5 Arousal Cork ian understanding? One is akin to the other, and as A ‘ im the latter is impossible it is logical that the other | said the hotel clerk, | nee is too, and hence unworthy of study, from the Ba setindh hema | ot simple fact that we know it is impractical to | . echoed the indignant guest, who had | ts attempt to do away entirely with temper. Acol- | just registered. “Don't you see my ‘signature |) 3% lege education, moreover, teaches one to control there on the register . m elf, if anything does, and if it is a ques- I do,” answered the clerk, calm mais fF] os tion of reducing conjugal irregularities, the very what aroused my curiosity a a reducing agent is found in that which Mr. Jones f - a 2 an condemns ' Education “knows but very little of the life of the cave-dwellers of modern tenements.’” What of the courses in sociology included in the from this pice. or Carved Stems. sarily ager embodies sl , irene ane exineatimties fost att ideal WE OFTEN WIN BY RIDICULE mavand eM, Revere by periec beewioe MIS WIFIE WANTS A COWN, ‘At leading Hotels, Restaurants and Cofes ‘ a ¢ vt Bunker Hill Breweries e's Twvine To Get Ur A/SMILE A. G. VAN NOSTRAND, P*"6SSidu" Msos AE TO LAPF THE PROJECT DOWN,