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GIRL'S COLLEGE AND FREE LIBRARY
PERTINENT F EM ARKS ON CULTURE
verted, and let us hope, instructed.
reform agitations in ( .
"the Athens of Delaware. In ,
the People's Column, a few words ]
from one who is both an interested
and a disinterested observer mfl . v
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ii\ il Mai
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oder somewhat at the rehash
Dear Sir:
I'o.st.
The
Editor
Readers of The Post have been di
bv
recent
rind plaee.
Having once
died "—almost—in
education in Delaware Col
of that war must
;i
over CO
survivors
WO
about to be served upon us.
were the argu
( Iverwhelming
■•nts then signed and sealed why
U!
•'The Girls Must Go."
Have Delaware girls profited by
tlmir banishment, and undergone
of character?
Or.
conversion
e the town and
a
college better
prepared than heretofore to lodge is
safeguard them?
nr
socially
and
Formerly it was contended that g
there was no tit dormitory or ma
t rouage provided for them, lanien
table oeeurrenees sometimes prox- k
ing the truth of this assertion.
to
Are the present enthusiasts for .,
their recall duly considering this
girls dormi
oharge he
Will
necessity ?
torv with matrons in
a
(manced :
Are free libraries with- j,.
A gain :
out lawfully authorized censorship
Turn the average mind, ospe
chilly the undisciplined mind loose
in a library without direction or
-t'-aint. and what are tin' conse- t
Knowledge and infor
an unmixed good?
Vi
unenees ?
nation are unfortunately very far
dliiig wisdom, or useful- the
ness, as highly intellectual erimi
nn si
the
i'vrv day. How nianv ifi,.
readers are reallv ef- \
nais prove
fi'etual thinkers and doers? Ts it
not our «Moronon observation that
reading, like smoking, is a habit?
voraeions
a bad
AYe mav choose a g«
brand, but in any case we become
addicted t
brand.
it
or
i . „,.i ,i
many pseudo-cut
own pai'Ticuiar
the
Is is not trip' that the person
our
who reads much, and unadvisedly
absorbs a mass of opinions enn
which he lias no personal the
grounds for conviction? That is
why we have so
turists. as compared with the elect
minority of true eulturists, so ad
» lirahly sustained by Professor is
Conover in his scholarly address.
II free libraries are a benefit,
and we grant that they may be. let
those who work for their estab
lishment consider well the dy
namic goods they handle. A hoard
of censors, such as the Wilming
ton Library has. if I am not mis
taken. may in a measure .safeguard
inexperience, and still
cruder tastes of an inrush of read
ers without guide. Such a board
of censors has been found neces
sary for moving picture
New York, otherwise t ! esc would
ctMT.imr
the çrass
shows in
be as devastating though alluring
"free" libraries.
•«'lit editorial <d flurper's
math* brightly
• of iudis
"readitig." which in
ft power a
In a m
Weekly
aware of 1 he consequenc
eliminate
lini" takes on the nature o' down
one is
ri'dit diMionesly. as a posing for
that ehe- p and trivial thing which
removed from Professor
"The gods
up the fight
stupidity." Harper's
quote's from Schiller, and contin
ues—"and when one faces sheer
«fi stiny in all its blunt hopeless
ness. as it appears in an elemen
tary race or among people meag
erly endowed, one is half inclined
to forgive the pseudo-culture
which is so lavishly used to re
place effort in many parts of the
woi Id.
When all is said and done the
progress and comfort of living de
pends so entirely upon mentality
and clear-sightedness that one
must look gently upon even tli:' pre
tense of an -ffort 1 o gain eil her.
All jesting and jeei ii:g to t 1 - • con
trary. any honest attempt to know
anything or to exercise and expand
the mind in am way is laudable.
One naturally thinks slightly of tin*
s so tar
< 'onover 's real a idicle.
themselves
against
give
work done in women's clubs, ami
vet it is iletter than im reading and
no mental aspirations. In many
( . ;>SI>S afternoon a week win re
, V(m ,en discuss current topics or
] ()() |. „j, subjects in an encyclopedia
, V rit" abstracts, absurd as it
Anav seem to a mental worker, stnnd
, i , «H
tor real mental enlargement. " hen
a nice Southern girl was brought
p, sec Julia "Ward llowe in the last
vear of her lit<\ the old lady took
I hi 1 girl 's hand and said " My dear,
pome and start a little club for
of these little clubs may seem mi
»rnsenpic, and abortive effort is al
ways pitifi
one stups to think of it. it is much
wr.mcn where they can read a little
and think a little. I always start
l'd little clubs myself." The result
. but. after all. when
better Mian no effort, for no effort
is j w|tll am ] e ff ort j„ life,
The trouble with pseudo-culture
g t|mf it is insincere, untruthful,
dishonesty invariably breeds
ugliness. ,\n attempt to pretend to
k rmV ; what one riot's not know and
to understand what one has only
., bowing acquaintance with,
spreads a feeling of unreality over
|jf,.. There is a kind of pseudo-eul
hire, which has seized upon a good
many women, which consists wholly
j,.
,.,,d having
skimming the literary digests.
a happy faculty for
echoing in high-sounding words
very lightly-built opinions. There
standing which changed bands. Af
t
was once a newspaper of exei Hi :d
*r being managed by men of real
ability, it missed into the hands of
money-makeis.
•viewers who had served
()ne in
seme qmm»
the b«
«e< il
the paper in past tunes went to see
manager to sia* if his services
ifi,.
\
were to be retained, and
that the
told
paper eould no longer pay
revievvei-s. "You sec." said this
clever manager, "nnvbodv can re
was
view bo«
The office-br-v can do
it v,'li«'M b«' Isn't running 1 errands.
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easily judge
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that anybody did do them and
Tin* interesting part of a paper is
the part that fui nish.es men with
talk at their clubs; now if von
f'iow an.vtliing about t liât " The
resigned his office. From
the general tone of the
thereafter one might
very likely the office-hoy served
reviewer, hut the point of the storv
is this: the ladies who fed their
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I minds upon that particular paper
| continued to do so with absolute
j confidence, and to echo its opinions
with a little extra embroidery of
{long words and the same aplomb
i that had served before. The differ
i enee in the sources from which they
j were <iuotin«> went unnoticed.
.
Stupidity is a terrible evil. Die
! sight of it must bear some relation
p, |} 1( > sight of chaos before créa
|j,. n Hut pseudo-culture is a more
insidious and pernicious evil he
enuse it hides itself under a dis
guise and may he mistaken for a
real thing. Il rims about offering
ready opinions based on nothing
hetter than the office-boy's first im
pressions, or on slighter basis yet.
ft ops up the power for fimda
mental brain work, for effort and
honest thinking. A sincere, unbins
<-d opinion is valuable as data of
the stage of a person 's growth. If
may lie a far erv from any absolute
values, but il has always a relative
personal value. Hut a preteii -1
fions echo, w hich is the matte.- in
which
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pseudo-culture traffles.
has
no value, but is definitely harm
Hut the
, 1 .,f ( .| I .j,|n..
.
young ladies who echo
ises and study long words
are just wolves in sheep's clothing.
Humboldt said that the first im-'
'e was to perfect one s
means in one's power,
try and draw about one
characters and talents. Perhaps the
best warning one can give the
ness in
bv a
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and t
pseudo cult h risls is. that any form
of perfection, either in character or
mentality, presupposes hard
i.
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and since! e effort : and a
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talents ot wairtli ns a «glitter:ini pre
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need u et is more va
lai'gest heap of cheap borrowings
lie object or reading and of the
and take opinion is to conn
sooner or later at some intelligible
law of tilings, and to roach this.
and having reached it. to obev it
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in culture, ami real culture is too
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valuable a product to admit of
'iiiiuf and tawdrv counterfeits.
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