Caption: Commencement - 1925
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privilc that other people do n have. I presume that every r evei publi in titutit it i ec to d( mands fi Q ; ople to ive them o; > leges, r thai are t » gi\ n to hei i. I presume th i y st or federal oil er ul< iveyounume illi ratio Kven the fficers of state unh rsiti< uld ive i an< lake the in ter of di -Spline. Everybody rees beforehand that the une rule should a] ly to 1 I 1 ers of the institution under similar conditi J. \\ 1. n, 1 er, s < eral tudents come up tor di ipl ne for the same offence under the same conditions and the rule is a] ; ied, immediately there >me pleadin s t r an e i : ti( I to be made for some individual. It is a fine thing o expel from the University a student who violate the law b; beingdrunk unless it happens to be my boy. I :i it is not merely a hardship, but a terrible injustice. It is necessary and fine to have proper standards of scholarship w ill shall be required to reach in order to remain in t! niversity and receive its diploma. But the standard is certainly too severe and the officers of the University apply it with great cruelty if my boy, throu h i irelessne J, or ind ;erence, or evil conduct, or inability, does not i ich the standard set for all and therefore must be eliminated f: > m the University. It is a fine alibi, if 1 ma us< the phi it the end of the first semester of each year for those who h Vi failed to stay in, to say that the standard has be< i r and that "too many are being dropped." There is, in the words of some who "say what they think without th a! what they say," a great slaughter of freshmen. The state university is a public- institution. It belon to the people. It is worth establishing and maintaining and only if, it serves the purpose which the people have in mind in establishing it. This is true of all public institutions. Unless they serve human need they have no excuse for existence. Bui like other public institutions, univei ties l n not Operate without means. The means must b( appropriated. Sometimes those charged with makin such appropriations do nol see the need as do those w h, ;< iin < mediate responsibiliiy is the m.-ina ement of the institu t '• i
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