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COLLEGE POLITICS
BAS COME TO BE A LARGE PART OF COLLEGE LIFE
It Is Not Atitogether Impure. Though It May Seem so to Those on the Outside — An Entertaining Discussion By M. P. Cannon of Ottawa.
The last issue of the Ottawa Campus contains an interesting discussion of College Politics by Mr. M. P. Cannon. Mr. Cannon is prominent in Ottawa University and is competent to tell something about student politics. His views will be found of general interest, and are here re-published in full:
In the issue of the Kansas University WEEKLY of September, a large space was devoted to what the editor was pleased to call politics, and indeed the title was no misnomer. Presidents of the different classes were to be elected, and similar officers for other numerous societies and fraternities were to be chosen. This condition has come to be a part of college life throughout the country. At some time during the year officers to administer the affairs of the different student organizations are to be elected. Candidates for these positions are not wanting. The good and bad qualities of these coming statesmen are freely discussed at clubs, in private rooms, on the streets, in the halls, in the laboratories and every place where it is possible for two students to meet and exchange half a dozen words.
In some cases the highest excitement prevails. Faction arrays itself against faction in an attack of the bitterest animosity. Leaders lay awake nights and make plans to defeat their opponents. They run across bystreets and up back stairs to hold midnight consultations with some other good fellows of their own faction to devise methods for winning the doubtful votes. The political pulse of every voter is felt the next day. The various ways of doing this are often ingenious enough to excite the envy of the great Platt himself, because the poor student, deprived of money, attains his political ends by pure scheming, while the great municipal politicians are sometimes compelled to employ the agency of the unrighteous mammon in the exercise of their patriotism.
Those who are familiar with college life have witnessed such scenes as these in greater or less degree. Yet, lest some one who has never been in college or some over-conscientious student who has renounced the flesh and withdrawn himself from the contaminating influence of his college society into the cloister of his Greek and Latin text books, should chance to see this, a short explanation of conditions might be profitable.
In all the best institutions of the country the idea of self-culture in a limited degree prevails. While the curriculum is under the immediate control of the teachers and professors, there are many organizations maintained by the students for the purpose of self-training, and the work in these is self-imposed, or at least independent of the faculty. Under these conditions a sort of perpetual community forms in the student body. And especially is this true of the colleges where a student stays for four years, or even longer, where an academic and college department are combined in one institution. The longer they stay the more they become interested, and if they have the least degree of public spirit it will not fail to manifest itself by the time their course is half over. For the time being the college and its society is their little world. The affairs of their circle magnify themselves in importance as they are excluded from others outside. It is more than an ordinary community, too; because more ambition is represented proportionally than society generally contains
Every influence that tends to awaken the impulse to public action is brought to bear upon the student. This is proven by the fact that the student very soon yields to this impulse by the development of what is called "college patriotism."
One great incentive to political activity in college life is the distinction it brings outside. We are all anxious to make a good impression upon our friends at home. The press mention which attends the appointment of a delegate to attend a state meeting of the oratorical society, or to attend some athletic meeting in which matters of interest are to be discussed, or to become a manager of the base ball or football team, or to become president of a
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society or class, is gratifying for our friends to read. It makes them think we are one of the leaders. They think it is a hopeful sign for the future.
College politics takes its place along with many other things of a common character. It is but one of the many present phenomena of democratic tendency. It is a natural growth and a necessary condition. The political life of the student is but a miniature of the great political world outside. In it is found a type of every class of politicians. There is the good, whole souled congenial fellow, who has all friends and no enemies, is a good speaker and always captivates the crowd. He always holds a good office and holds at his command the patronage of all. Such is the material out of which future officers of the government will be made, whichwill depend upon the direct vote of the people.
There is also the stiff, unbending advocate of certain measures which he believes to be the right policy. He has opinions of his own and very little charity for those who differ from him. He never hesitates to express his convictions. Such a man seldom has wide political influence, and is a type of the man in the political world who once in a while comes to the surface on his merit in the time of great crises.
Again, there is the man who is thoroughly hated by a good majority of the students because they think he is a scil ...er. He is not only hated but feared. He is the diplomat of the college. If any negotiating with another college is to be done, in which there is the least apprehension of shady dealing on the part of that college, this same gentleman is sent as a plenipotentiary on that important mission. One young man in a western college is said to have repeated the political experience of his famous father in connection with an oratorical association.
These are all intermediate types that go to make up the lesser lights and the common people. It has been remarked that every college has its Tammany, an inner circle of ambitious, designating fellows who try to shape all the policies and fill all the offices. While this is perhaps true to a large extent, it is no less deplorable than is the real Tammany. But what makes this possible? The same thing that makes it possible for a great municipality to be robbed and duped by a ring of corrupt politicians. Ambition will always assert itself. It is a natural constituent of human nature. And the only guard against the political mischief brought about by over-ambitious men is the vigilance of the people. The political corruption that we hear so much about is as much due to the inertia and complacency of the honest as to the ambitions of the designing and unscrupulous. In college politics the students unconci
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The questions of policy which come up to be settled in the various organizations give an opportunity for brilliant diplomacy and skillful management. If training of this kind will not have its effect on the life of a student after he leaves college, far less will the mere scholarship which he possibly attains influence his own life and that of others. The student who goes through a college course surrounded by all the influences that tend to cultivate a desire to mingle in affairs and yet withdraws himself from the common affairs of the student body, will belong to that class of citizens which makes it possible for corrupt political rings to rule the affairs of the country.
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RELIGIOUS CENSUS.
THE REPORT OF PROFESSOR KELSYE
OF MICHIGAN SOON TO APPEAR.
It Will Show That in the State Universities Les Less Than Twelve Per Cent of the Students Are Found Without Church Connections or Preferences.
The religious census of the state universities and 1 of the Presbyterian colleges, edited by Professor Kelsey of the University of Michigan, is about to appear in pamphlet form. Advance sheets of the work indicate much new matter, statistical and otherwise, besides that already published in the Atlantic Monthly for December, 1897, under the title, "State Universities and Church Colleges." Statistics appear in tables convenient for reference, collected officially from the sixteen state universities and thirty-six of the thirty-seven Presbyterian colleges, in which taken together more than 18,000 students were enrolled last year. In the state universities less than 12 per cent of the dents were found without church connections or preferences.
"In these sixteen state universities at least one student in every six belongs by membership or affiliation to the Methodist Episcopal church. If the Methodist students were separated out and placed by themselves, they might be divided into nine colleges, the enrollment of each which would be nearly as large, for instance, as the total enrollment of the Wesleyan university at Middletown, Connecticut."
"The statistics show, first, that a majority of all the students in the State universities are members of churches, about one-half being members of the so called evangelical churches; of those who are not members a considerable portion attend a particular church, and may be classed as adherents. In five state universities selected as representative in regard to size and geographical distribution the total enrollment, at the time the census was taken, was 5.173. Only 211 students were not reached by the census; the ecclesiastical status of 4,962 was ascertained. In the five Universities 2,851 students placed themselves on record as church members, 1,556 as church adherents, and 556 as not members or adherents."
"In the state universities of Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Washington and West Virginia, having a total enrollment of 5,173 students, the Methodist Episcopal church was credited with 1,098 members and adherents; the Presbyterian, with 854; the Congregational with 612; the Episcopal, with 484; the Baptist, with 352; the Church of Christ (or Disciples, or Christian), with 227; the Unitarian church, with 166; and the Roman Catholic with 165. In the sixteen universities, with a total attendance last year of 13,697, the Methodist Episcopal church could claim 659 members and adherents; the Presbyterian church, 2,284; the Congregational church, 1,740; the Episcopal church, 1,215; the Baptist church, 1,063; the Church of Christ, 607; the Roman Catholic church, 528; and the Unitarian church, 411."
At the University of Michigan out of a total of 2,261 men who were reached by the census, 1,185 were church members, 718 were church adherents, 298 were not adherents. Out of a total of 660 women, 461 were church members, 168 were church adherents, 31 were not adherents. That is, there were in the University at the time the census was taken, at least 2,532 students who were either church members or church adherents.
The church colleges contain relatively a greater number of men who are preparing to enter the ministry while the state universities contribute more in proportion to other professions. It is not, however, unlikely that in twenty-five years the majority of educated laymen in every religious denomination, except the Roman Catholic, will be men who have never entered the doors of denominational colleges.
The Methodists lead among the denominations represented at the University of Michigan, the Presbyterians are second, the Congregationalists are third, the Episcopalians are fourth.
Copies of the pamphlet may be obtained from Secretary Wade of the University of Michigan.
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