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THE BATTALION
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SCHOLARS—THE VANISHING AMERICANS
We agree that it is our childish nature to fight, to rebel, and to be greedy,
but are we not, as we grow older, taught the uselessness of fighting, and
do we not see that the only way for us to live as individuals in our society
A to live peacefully? The world is nothing more than a large society, and
what is the logical reason that it cannot be educated to the fact that peace
is the only condition in which a country can be prosperous.
Of course the uneducated of all countries may always want to wage
war, but is it the uneducated who are in control of the country? Certainly
not; only intelligent men can long be in power of governments that are
sound, aiid what educated man who advocates war is not in favor of it
only for some economic interest? There certainly should be no monetary
price for human bloodshed.
As Professor Gilbert Murray states, civilization and war cannot exist
longer in the same world. Science is rapidly developing, and if another in
ternational emergency should arise, it would only be a battle of the in
tellectual who will play the ignorant as robots against each other with a
view of selfish gain. Of course a large standing army and navy promotes
peace, but if peace, is so precious to all of us why isn’t it logical for the
men with the brilliant minds to devise a plan by which the world in gen
eral can live in amicable tranquility ?
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Possibly there are today, in some colleges and schools, rare students
who want to obtain knowledge and worthwhile skill they are matriculating,
at least there must be a few of these eccentrics extant in the collegiate
world,—and it is for the benefit of this vanishing species that we publish
this lament.
For students of this type, like the American bison, are gradually disap-
peaxdng from the face of the earth. With the system of teaching that is
popular at this institution and in many others of its kind, earnest students
are very few, although who try to appear earnest are legion. The students
themselves are partly to blame for this lamentable state of affairs, but
the real murderers of the desire for knowledge are the instructors. The
insistent demand of the professor is not that the student should learn—
that is incidental—but that he should make a show of what he already
know’s; that he should not weep for what he lacks, but that he should
boast of what he has. And so, with all this, the race of scholars is going
from us, and a new generation, very viporish, has come to be.
This desire to appear to know, works more woe for the student than he
realizes. How many of us have boned and crammed until the cock crew
thrice or a dozen times, preparing for a quiz wherein we were to prove
to a disinterested instructor that we could put down more or less fluently
seventy per cent of what the course consisted of? How many of us have
passed such an examination and have promptly forgotten all about the
subject? We did not learn anything—a dictophone could have done the same
work, told more about the subject, and could even have forgotten it more
completely than we. Such a practice is not particularly favorable for the
acquiring of an education, but it passes the course for one. After taking a
quiz like this, the avei’age student retires for another month’s rest, having
learned what he studied most; that is, how to get by. The little knowledge
obtained from the pex-usal of the text is usually entii'ely accidental, and
may justly be considered as a by-product. Theoretically the aim of a course
of instruction is the mastex-y of a body of material, actually neither the
professor nor the student pay the slightest attention to this goal, for both
of them devote their attentions to grades ^s determined by tests.
Thex - e is the situation. Perhaps we do not need a change—college men
get along some way, and pex-haps a thorough training in getting by will
really help the collegiate more than an education when he gets out in the
wicked world. But still—it is a terrible thing to see the tribe of scholars
laid to rest by the system that has grown up around them.
CIVILIZATION AND WAR—CAN THEY EXIST IN THE SAME WORLD
The coming Naval Conference of the greater nations of the woxdd
marks another important step in the realization of the fact that war is no
longer needed, and that mankind in his trend of progress is coming to
see that international difficulties can be best solved by other means than
gunpowder and human flesh.
The present arguments of the persons who are in favor of war can be
summarized in the statement that it is man’s inherent nature to fight.
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