Parents and College Discipline
By Editor
A NEW YORK paper forcibly and properly rebukes parents who send undisciplined boys to college, and then expect the professors to keep the young rebels against authority out of mischief, or from positively evil conduct. Commenting upon this opinion, the Interior well says:— "It is the business of a professor to teach, not to play the double role of guardian and spy. At the government academies, at West Point and Annapolis, a peculiar relationship between the cadets and the faculty exists, and the boys can be disciplined by recognized authority; but such relationship cannot be established in an ordinary college, and ordinary students cannot be thus controlled in respect to every detail of their daily existence. If a boy, freed from the restraints of home, uses his liberty at college to make a fool, a scamp, or a loafer of himself, he ought to be dismissed from college in short order. It is an outrage on diligent and serious-minded students to have such fellows put into the same classes with them; or to have the professors' time, which ought to be given to those who are anxious to learn, taken up in efforts to coax or coerce the unruly ones."