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...utilize as you have not and do not utilize, your opportunities to learn in your colleges and schools; to learn how to think. You don't know how." Thus Dr. Albert Parker Fitch, educator and theologian, to several hundred young university men and women who assembled in Evanston, Ill., last week for an Interdenominational Student Conference. Dr. Fitch had been listening to a long abstract wrangle over the definition of "the Church" by undergraduate debaters...
...evidence that the youth of today intends to think for itself. At approximately the same time that the Nation's editorial was written, nine hundred students, representing twenty denominations and one hundred and seventy-six colleges in the United States and Canada, met together in an interdenominational conference at Evanston Illinois. The list of opinions expressed by the convention provides interesting confirmation of the Nation's conclusion that youth intends to think for itself as well as more exact information as to exactly what it intends to think about...
Such an array of opinions, particularly coming from a religious conference meeting in Evanston, Illinois, is as surprising as it is encouraging. In that one item on the credit side of the Nation's ledger which is thus substantiated, there may be greater significance than in all those on the debit side: and these range from "one burning alive and fourteen other lynchings" and "the Scopes prosecution and its revelation of American superstition and bigotry" to "the continued failure to enforce the prohibition law and the resultant demoralization," and "the retention of Wilbur and Kellogg in the Cabinet...
...fight firemen. Many a college tradition has been established on less comprehensible foundations. If this kind of celebration is to become a North western custom, the frenzied students ought to be guided by a fine arts professor. Under capable direction they can gradually improve the architectural average in Evanston which, as we remember can stand some intelligent pruning...
...last for 18 days, an election was held. The choice fell on the Rev. Dr. Ernest Wilmore Stires, who lately resigned as Rector of St. Thomas Church, Manhattan, and is now Bishop Coadjutor-elect of the Diocese of Long Island. The defeated candidate was Dr. George Craig Stewart of Evanston, Ill., supported by much of the conservative, high church element yet who polled only 142 of the 532 votes...