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Under the title "Treat Us Like Men," Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton College discusses, in the current Saturday Evening Post, the vagaries of the undergraduate mind, conscience, and particularly the sense of liberty. It is a wise and humorous treatment of a subject which must have driven many a dean in many college to the borders of insanity-the student who, when haled into court for over-cutting or neglect of studies, waves the banner of liberty and demands to be treated like a man; and who, when confronted later with some such item as a bill for broken furniture...
...other matters of which Dean Gauss writes, such as the resentment against any interference by the authorities in outside activities, athletic and non-athletic, such a feeling is not strong at Harvard. The fields which are left largely to the control of the authorities, those in which the authorities share the burden with undergraduate managers, and those which are managed entirely by undergraduates, have been determined by experience, and smoothly and on the whole painlessly demarked. Those who are used to breathe the air of freedom are not likely to wave the red flag of rebellion, and it is seldom...
...letter in football and baseball and a place on the All-American football eleven. Also, he won honors in his geology course. For his athletic skill the University this year appointed him assistant football coach; for his academic record the trustees last week made him assistant to Dean Christian Gauss. Mornings he helps train undergraduates not to cut classes or commit other minor offenses; afternoons he helps train the University eleven...
...sixth of the college population should be sacked. So says Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton, in Scribner's magazine for October. He further states that a good college course costs the boy's parents and the college endowment fund from $8,000 to $10,000; asks that money be saved by putting certain boys to work...
...Dean Gauss explains that many parents, not knowing their own sons, send them to college because they, unthinking, think the boys ought to have college educations. Many boys are better off without it, says Dean Gauss. "If a boy does not enjoy study at school, he is not or never will be qualified for (or happy in) college. If a boy does not care to study, a college course will not educate him and will give him nothing worth while...