The Creighton Chronicle . t quite so great. These and other more detailed facts here included have aconsiderable bearing on problems of college advertising andadministration, but it is possible to deduce more than a merescattering of conclusions, and to see in this material a definiterelationship of some importance both to church and school. Undoubtedly the college is no longer the purely individualinstitution of two generations ago, but it has been swept intogreat educational currents which it cannot safely ignore. Itis a part of an educational system, and in the last analysis it willstand or
The Creighton Chronicle . t quite so great. These and other more detailed facts here included have aconsiderable bearing on problems of college advertising andadministration, but it is possible to deduce more than a merescattering of conclusions, and to see in this material a definiterelationship of some importance both to church and school. Undoubtedly the college is no longer the purely individualinstitution of two generations ago, but it has been swept intogreat educational currents which it cannot safely ignore. Itis a part of an educational system, and in the last analysis it willstand or fall with the nature of its contribution and relation-ship to that system. Coeds of the University of Nebraska, belonging to Greekletter organizations, again demonstrated their superiority asstudents over the men of the institution, according to the reportof Dean Engberg, faculty representative on the scholarship com-mittee. Sorority girls were nearly one hundred points ahead offraternity men in the scholarship PHILISTINES AND OTHERS*W. T. KANE, S. J. ERHAPS I am something of an old fogy. The worldmoves swiftly: it is hard for one to keep up with within my memory, at least, certain people usedto damn the Philistine. It may be that there are nomore Philistines—nous avons change tout cela. Butit may be that we have changed only the name. Forthe benefit of younger or more up-to-the-minutereaders I might explain what a Philistine is, or expression originated, I believe, in the German uni-versities, where the students dubbed all non-students diePhilister. I suspect that Thomas Carlyle, that great Germanimporter, brought it into England. But it broadened its mean-ing. From the mere townsmen as opposed to the students, itcame to mean the stupid and crass as opposed to people of tasteand imagination. Then in its evolution, disregarding allMendelian laws, it leaped to include the vast multitude as op-posed to a select coterie with monocles and lorgnettes. An
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