YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
Novelist Declares College Men Today
Have no General Knowledge and
Submits Proof.
Owen Johnson declares that the col
lege men of today have no general
knowledge, let alone real culture.
Most of the colleges, he asserts, have
become mere social clearing houses,
whose students know7 only a few facts
hastily crammed for examinations
and promptly forgotten.
In his new novel, “Stover at Yale.” j
which takes up the whole subject of I
American colleges, Johnson makes a
character propose a list of forty gen
eral questions to a bunch of class- !
mates. But as the story is laid in
1900, the test is not hard enough for
today, says Johnson, though most of
his readers admit that they cannot an
swer the questions in “Stover.” John
son has just prepared a new list,
which, he says, every college student
or graduate ought to be able to an
swer. Any man in a French or Ger
man university could pass a creditable
examination on them. How many
American collegians can, he asks.
Johnson’s Questions for 19122.
On Music.
1. What is the difference between
the Wagnerian theory of opera and
the old Italian?
2. Who wrrote “Carmen,” and what
w7as the history of its reception?
3. What was Bach’s influence on
the development of music?
Architecture.
4. Who w7as the architect of the
Parthenon ?
5. What is the fundamental differ- j
ence between Gothic and Renaissance
architecture ?
6. Who was the architect of the
Vatican ?
Religion.
7. What was historically new in
the Christian religion?
8. What is the history of the cross
as a religious emblem?
9. Describe any two religions be
sides your own.
Literature.
10. What American author has
most profoundly influenced modern
literature ?
11. Name ten French dramatists.
12. Name six Gerban poets or
dramatists.
Politics and Economics.
13. What do you know about the !
new political experiments in New
Zealand ?
14. What about the labor pension
system in Germany?
15. What is the difference between j
socialism and anarchism?
Painting.
16. What was Rembrandt’s contri- j
bution to the history of painting ?
17. What was the medium used in j
ancient painting?
18. Who composed the Barbizon
school, and the Pre-Raphaelites ?
General.
19. What do you know about the
history of the theory of medicine, and
particularly of the germ theory of
disease?
20. Who were Franz Hals, Spinoza,
Holman Hunt, Ambrose Thomas, Zorn,
Bossuet, Schaikowsky, Jehova, Goya,
Bjornson, Strindberg, Savonarola,
Duerer, Cavour, Winslow, Homer, Sir
James Young Simpson, Mistral, Cel
lini, Garrick, Abbe Prevost, Engels?
In the original list of forty ques
tions in “Stover at Yale,” Johnson has
several other queries, such as “Who
were Leoncavallo, Verdi, Dostoefski,
Bastien Le Page, Renan? What do
you know, about the spread of so
cialism in Germany, France and Eng
land?”
The character in “Stover at Yale”
who propounds the questions com
ments on his classmates: “You have
no general knowledge, not even opin
ions, but at the end of four years of
education you will march up and be
handed a degree—Bachelor of Arts!
And we Americans have a sense of
humor! Why, our colleges are splen
didly organized institutions for the
prevention of learning. Business col
leges. The colleges have surrendered
a great deal of their power to the in
fluence of social organization, which
FRIENDLY’S ATTORNEYS
UNEARTH NEW EVIDENCE
Precendent Established in Ladd vs
Holmes Case—Important in
Rehearing Petition.
The attorneys in the Oregon refer
endum case have unearthed additional
authorities which appear to have a
strong bearing on the request for a
rehearing of the case and today the
counsel for S. H. Friendly will file a
supplemental brief on the motion foi
rehearing.
This document, drawn up by Judge
Slater and Judge Pipes, states that the
court in its opinion declares that the
startute relieves the state from the
necessity of proving injury, but does
not relieve a private citizen. The sup
plementary brief further states that
the court in so holding, is engrafting
upon the statute, a limitation not
found in the words of the act, and,
after citing a number of authorities,
goes on to say:
In connection with these cases, we
desire to call the court’s attention to
the language of this court, used in
the case of Ladd vs. Holmes, 40th Ore
gon 178 of Opinion, as to the rights of
a legal voter as against one not legit
imately entitled to vote. We have
heretofore endeavored to show that
the intent of the legislature in pass
ing the act now under consideration,
to provide for bringing into effect the
initiative and referendum powers pre
served by the people, was to protect
the rights of the qualified electors not
signing a petition, as against the
wrongful acts of those not legitimate
ly entitled to petition, or the frauds
of those making a petition, and to in
vest the qualified electors with the
right to a personal remedy against
such wrongs, to the end that he might
secure the full effect of his individual
right as a member of the public leg
islative body.
JONES SAYS HE WILL
NOT GO TO SWEDEN
The news breaks out this morning
that John Paul Jones, the world’s
champion miler from Cornell, who is
picked as a sure man for the Olym
pics, may not go to Sweden.
Jones is working his way through
school and has a chance to make sev
eral dollars as director of the Boy’s
Camp at Harrison, Me., and says that
he cannot afford to go to Sweden.
Every effort is being made, however,
to persuade Jones to change his mind
and also to fix things so he can make
the trip.
Jones is stated as McClure’s great
est competitor for the trip to Sweden,
and if the above rumor is true, Ore
gon’s great miler’s chances will
brighten materially.
BOND PLANS BOATHOUSE
AND SWIMMING RESORT
In compliance with the general de
mpnd lor more adequate canoe ac
commodations on the mill race, Paul
Bond has taken a ten year lease on
three hundred feet of land opposite
Villard Hall, where he intends to
erect a thoroughly up-to-date boat
house with racks for forty canoes.
In addition to this, lunches and re
freshments for picnicers will be sold
and a long veranda fronting the race
will furnish ample lounging room for
exhausted canoers.
Bathing suits will be supplied for
hire and Mr. Bond has planned to in
spire a general desire for swimming
by placing spring boards and a chute
at convenient points near the house.
is more and more going to turn the
colleges into social clearing houses.”
Besides attacking the college system
of shallow culture in “Stover at
Yale,” which has been appearing ser
ially in McClure’s, and which comes
out in book form on April 5th. John
son is to have a series of articles on
the “social usurpation” of Harvard,
Yale and Princeton in a leading mag
azine next month.
Whether his “test of general
knowledge” is fair or not, how many
can answer Johnson’s Twenty Ques
tions for 1912? •
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