"COSTLY PANTOMINE"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19784, 7 March 1927, Page 2

"COSTLY PANTOMINE"

AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES A SCATHING INDICTMENT. Columbia University, in New York City must receive an additional £12,000,000 to its capital fund of £20,000,000 if it is to carry on its work satisfactorily. This is the assertion of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of the University. Dr. Butler declared that the universities arc 11 only the present home of liberty, and apparently its only hope.’’ He said he believed that if intolerance, now prevailing in Church and State invaded the universities in the same degree it would mean a “new and dismal dark age.” The American universities, Dr. Butler stated, are accused of the teaching of doctrines destructive' of morality, religion, and public order, being hotbeds of rtidicalism and revolution. If the page is turned they are charged with being entrenched strongholds of privilege, reaction, and capitalism, managed by capitalist trustees and subservient to presidents whose minds are fixed upon cultivating all the sources of benefaction.

Mathematically the two criticisms are contradictory and self-refuting, but the psychology of the group mind and of him who would uplift all humanity in the twinkling of an eye finds no difficulty in keeping two contradictory judgment in effective operation at one and the same time. 44 The modern Philistines who are trying to reduce education to a costly pantomime,” said Dr. Butler, “are a company of active, restless, highly nervous men and women who displace discipline for indiscipline, scholarship for deftly organised opportunities for ignorance, thoroughness for superficiality, and morals for impulsive and appetitive conduct.

“YOU’LL DO ME!” “I was travelling from Wellington to Dunedin recently,” a well-known commercial man relates, 44 crossing in the ferry always upsets my stomach. Shortly after the train left Christchurch I couldn’t sit still for the pain; and I was resigning myself to a beastly journey. 4 4 Just about this time a fellow-travel-ler reached for his bag, and commenced to prepare a dose of Anti-Acido. 1 would have given a fiver for his tin. I felt so bad. Whether he read mv I thoughts or not, I can’t say, but much to my surprise, he offered me some, and, though he was a stranger, I couldn’t help saying: 4 4 You’ll do me. It’s what I want more than anything else in the world just now.’ 4 4 And what glorious relief. In r few minutes I brought up a fearful lot of wind, and in a quarter of an hour or so I felt so comfortable I could have grfne to sleep. You won’t catch me travelling without my Anti-Acido again. Once is enough.”—Advt.