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That iconoclast of the present era of university education, Mr. Upton Sinclair, must have laughed a grimly sardonic laugh when he read of the strike of five hundred students of Millikin University, at Decatur, Illinois. The contention, which he defended in "The Goose Step", that most American colleges are run under the influence and according to the malignant desires of the capitalistic classes whose representatives sit on various boards of trustees and governors, seems at least in one instance to have contained a certain measure of truth. The Board of Managers of Millikin University, which derives its income from...
...publish books and pamphlets about Marxism and our great revolution. We encourage young authors to interpret its spirit and inspire the masses. We even issue cheap editions of the Russian classics. But the public reads-what? -Tarzan." Explaining why O. Henry, H. G. Wells, Conan Doyle, Jack London and Upton Sinclair are more popular than Russian authors, the newspaper continued: "It is because old Russian literature is out of date, and the new is dry, dull or too subtle for mass com-prehension...
Alumni have shown no lack of interest in the growth of athletic and even scholastic prestige of their own colleges. What has become imperative is a less selfish viewpoint. Surveys like that made by Upton Sinclair disclose an astounding hodgepodge of educational standards and methods, and this is inevitable as long as every college urged on by its alumni, seeks to cover the whole range of learning from liberal arts to applied science, and as long as secondary schools seek to prepare both for vocations and for college. A clearer definition of functions a national educational policy and system...
...Daley, J. R. Dean, J. B. Durant, Nathaniel Hamlen, D. J. Kepner, B. L. Kilgour, A. H. Miller, Geoffrey Platt, Reginald Porter, J. N. Robinson, J. O. Rosecrans, S. S. Rudman, R. S. Savory, R. S. Scott, E. T. Sexton, A. E Smith, G. Stewart, J. B. Upton, F. W. Welch, Isadore Zarakov, to the Manager, J. R. Burke, the Assistant Manager, F. V. Field, and to W. P. Ellison, who was injured before the Yale Game...
...since steel has gone out of fashion lead is the only metal available for those who would live by their wits. The game of course has its drawbacks, some of which Mr. Vanderlip points out in his criticism of the press. A criticism not as virulent as Mr. Upton Sinclair's, but their if everyone criticized as Mr. Sinclair what would become of Mr. Sinclair...