. The Forester . n the air, and everyone lent a hand to everything that was going. A half-holiday was granted now and then on condition that the students help shingle the churchor grub stumps out of the streets. The boys were invited to the village tea partiesand were made to feel themselves partners in all activities, social and religious, as wellas educational. The life had all the zest as well as the hard work of that of pioneers. The effort to maintain a college failed only because the civil war absorbed all theenergy that did not go into the industrial and commercial activity of the regio
. The Forester . n the air, and everyone lent a hand to everything that was going. A half-holiday was granted now and then on condition that the students help shingle the churchor grub stumps out of the streets. The boys were invited to the village tea partiesand were made to feel themselves partners in all activities, social and religious, as wellas educational. The life had all the zest as well as the hard work of that of pioneers. The effort to maintain a college failed only because the civil war absorbed all theenergy that did not go into the industrial and commercial activity of the region. Thestudent body at Lake Forest was thrilled with the fires of patriotism, which was heightenedstill further when that dashing and fascinating leader, Col. Ellsworth, came out hereevery Saturday for a number of weeks to conduct the Zouave drill. At least three of thelittle freshman class went into the army, and the college idea was abandoned for a time,to be taken up again as soon after the war as was 16 THE- 1911 FORE-JTE-R The American College Under Fire The American college is being severely criticized at the present time. This criticismcomes not merely from men who are naturally hostile to a training whose purpose they areconstitutionally unable to understand, but also from those who are qualified by their ex-perience to speak with authority on educational matters. Doubtless it is partly due tothe higher standards of educational efficiency which now prevail and to a more intelligentpublic opinion which expects more of the college because it understands more clearly itsoffice and function. As President Butler says in a recent article, The American col-lege is under fire. No doubt well-directed intelligent firing will do it good. It is farfrom perfect, but it knows its job and is working at it with the skill born of long andsuccessful experience. But this criticism should not be entirely disregarded as due to the inevitable con-trast between actual conditions nev
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