HOLLIS DENOUNCES COLLEGES

Senator Henry French Hollis '92, in his address "From One Senator's View point," which he delivered in the Union yesterday evening, scored the existing conditions at Harvard in severe terms. He characterized the University as "hide-bound and conservative." Due to the conservatism, he said, "rich men who find thing rigged about right for their money-making operations are glad to contribute to the colleges. Every Esstern college is eating from the hand that has robbed the pockets of the people".

The politicians regard the college men as theorists, while the college professors regard men in public life as corrupt and insincere. Professors are dependent upon the Governing Board for their very means of existence, and the board in turn is dependent upon large donations for the support of the University. Is it likely, then, that the public should have much confidence in this Faculty, which is so directly under the control of the rich?

Moreover, men are only taken onto the Faculty of the University when they are too old to have that progressive spirit which is the foundation of healthy radicalism. This means that the institution becomes over-conservative," a deadweight .... around the necks of the American people." The student life also tends towards this ultra stand-patism. The sons of rich and influential families are too important in proportion to their innate worth.

Remedies for Situation.

As a remedy for existing conditions, Senator Hollis offers the following suggestions firstly, to decline all gifts to the University; secondly, to have all buildings paid for by alumni, no alumnus to subscribe more than a certain amount; third, to increase the cost of tuition, fourth, to have the living conditions of all students simple and uniform; fifth to have military drill; sixth, to make high scholarship requisite to the bolding of student officers; and seventh, to introduce more vital subjects into the curriculum.

The moto of Harvard is "Veritas." The "Truth" of Harvard should not be the past truth but the new living truth of today, the truth which works for the benefit of all instead of the good of one class.