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ENGLISH SA VANT GIVES IDEAS ON OUR COLLEGES Makes Plea for Liberalism from Colege Students in America "LIBERALITY IS PEACE" Costends That Unless Collegiate Thought Is Changed, the Nation Will Suffet (By "New Student" Service). "If you cannot liberalize the student there is no hope for America.' This is Bertrand Russell's word to the colleges. More than that, it is a challenge to the students in these colleges, for the Brit ish philosopher placed the growth of American liberalism in the light of the world's one great hope for peace. "'Liberals in the United States need realize," he added, "that America domi nates the world. To liberalize the Unit ed States is to liberalize the world. Lib erals elsewhere feel this keenly and it explains their intense interest in the Sacco-Vansetti case." It is on such comment that liberals thrive and grow fat, and Russell under stands. "Ilhere is too much tendency in this country for liberals to sit aroun'd and talk only. It is not good for a man of 20 to sit around and think all of the world's problems are solved. That is all right at 70 when the brain is decaying. The liberals have gone too long with shibboleths. It is time for them to find out what part of their pro gram may be applied to solution of world problems. American liberals are too unrealistic and too unwilling to face the facts. America should use her wealth to keep world peace.' This the liberals should teach. It is a program that should please the nationalists. Peace, not pacifism, is the- hope of the world. I mean peace by force. The idea is ex pressed in the covenant of the League of Nations. While the covenant is not ideal, the doctrine is right." Of the dominating ideas in the Ameri can universities, the man who wrote Education and the Good Life said this: "In tfie private universities it is the wishes of the millionaires from whom they seek endowments. In the state uni versities it is the parsons. I like the millionaires better . . . The English universities are more liberal than those in America. For one thing they are self-governing, and they are so old that they no longer need be respon sive to public opinion. They need not worry about losing their respectability. Because of their age and long-estab lished position, no matter what they do they remain respectable." Bertrand Russell knows. "Respectability" has barred him more than once. from univer sities both in England and America. Russian education does not find a sup porter in Russell. While hesitating to speak without first hand information he based his opgosition on its tendency "to produce an air of orthodoxy. It is in crediby' dogmatic, and everything con tains communistic doctrines." In speaking of Russian progress in the field of mathematics, even though "it is not a popular or ).arxist subject," the Englishman,- himself an outstanding mathematician, told of meeting aboard ship a Russian professor of mathematics. 'lhis man remarked that a professorial suggestion to his Bolshevist students that mathematics might be studied, and hold an interest, apart from political or eco nomic doctrines, was met with jeers and the suggestion that the teacher's mind might be unsound. The strong present Russian bent to ward practical training is analogous to the growth of vocational training in American coileges, said Russell, adding, "there is too much emphasis in America on work. It is the leisure time that is important. Work serves no purpose. Americans do not work to eat ; they eat to work." To the suggestion that Russian voca tional training is to be preferred to.that ini the United States because the former is combined with a social outlook, he replied. "The narrow communIsm which the Russians teach has its equivalent In the patriotism taught in the AmerIcan schools." But the champion of liberal education holds no brief for culture of the sterile sort. "There Is a tendency for culture to get dead. It becomes a study of the Past. -sa tadition. Then it is worse than vocationah raining. I would rather BAPTIST CHURCH PREFERENCE OF STUDENTS HERE Methodist Church Runs Close SeFond with Presbyterians Dominating Next ELEVEN NON-AFFILIATED Sixteen Different Religions Rep. resented on University Campus With 470 students at the University of South Carolina affiliated with the Baptist church, this denomination again claims the largest number of studen'ts at the University. The Methodist church runs a close second with 424 students claiming membership. Presby terian church is preferred by 226 while 150 attend the Episcopal services. Out of the total of 1,492 students en rolled at the University, to date, only 11 of them are not affiliated with any denomination. Last year 13 students did not claim to be members of any religious group. The sixteen different sects represent ed at Carolina and the number of stu dents who profess to be affliated with them are as follows: A . R. P. .......................... 18 Baptists .......................... 470 Catholics .......................... 38 Christians .......................... 8 Christian Science .................. 4 Chrch of Christ ................... I Congregational ..................... 2 Dutch Reform ..................... I Episcopalians ..................... 150 H ebrews .......................... 51 Latter Day Saints ................. I Lutherans ........................ 85 M ethodists ....................... 424 Presbyterians .................... 226 Universalists ....................... 2 Non-affiliated .................... 11 Total .................... 1,492 dry-bone culture." The need for reali zation of the interworking of practical and cultural possibly was suggested in the remark that "currency and credit are the key to half the political prob lems of our time." It is world peace, though, that engag ed Bertrand Russell: America, he said, holds the key. 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They evidently were ex cited for the gum was being terribly punished. However, I feel sure that they used the many wiles they have been displaying on the camRus of late, and succeeded in sticking to the train. They made the game anyhow. The other co-eds looked as though they were "thrilled to death." Not one of them kept her seat for very long at a time. Someone suggested that the spirits must have been in evidence last night. The ice water did not last long. It was a hard trip for the news butch. Looked as though everyone was broke. One sweet young thing had on a very becoming costume. It consisted of a red hat, yellow jacket, green dress, pink hose and sky blue slippers. She was a Wow. Everything was quiet when we reched St. Matthews. The co-eds had resumed their seats by this time and were acting like little dears. A battle royal with paper balls as ammunition was participated in by most of the students. No serious casualties were reported. 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