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cation.   The   completion  of the
courses now offered in the new col-
lege will entitle the student to some-
thing over a year's credit at a regu-
lar medical school. The future of
this college is bright, indeed.
. Another, important       measure
passed by the legislature establishes
a 3,200-foot limit from the entrance
of Main    Hall within   which   no
saloons are allowed to exist. A num-
ber of saloons now within the pre-
scribed area, will be removed. The
establishment of this   district in-
dicates the growing sense of re-
s-:-.sibility felt by the state for


the proper bringing up of its sons
and daughters. Undoubtedly the
"dry" area will be extended by fu-
ture legislatures, so that the menace
of the saloon will be entirely re-
moved from the district wherein is
centered the life of the University.
  Whatever may be our political
views concerning the saloon, it is
without question an institution which
should have no place by the side of
a  great educational centre, where
young men and women are forming
habits, developing   character, and
gaining in ideals and efficiency.


True Utilitanianism.


  John Corbin, in an article on our
University lin the Saturday Evening
Post calls it the utilitarian Univer-
sity, and enthuses about the ideal
which We have at Wisconsin of be-
ing  actually  helpful.  Reasoning
from the old idea that higher edu-
cation, fuller knowledge, must differ
from and have no connection with
everyday work, he marvels at the
fact that here at Wisconsin we are
at least partially awake to the fact
that efficiency and truth (which is
culture) go ever hand in hand. That
truth  of knowledge which is es-
sential to efficiency is vital; so also
is that truth which is necessary to
understanding   of our efficiency,
vital. We would, if it were pos-
sible, have the engineer not only an
'efficient engineer but a poet and a
philosopher. In an entirely sym-
metrical development, the truths of
Shakespeare would be as vital to
him as those of Corliss and of Watt;
how shall we make him most effi-
cient and most understandinp. Will
it be by giving him four years' of
truth concerning matters enlirely
unrelated to his work. By giving
the lawyer language, by giving the
business man history? And then,


after this has been done, by giving
your lawyer, or your business man,
or your engineer, the truths which
he needs in his daily work. When
truths related to our occupation, and
truths not related and of a higher
order are studied together, then true
values assert themselves in the con-
sciousness of the student.
  That culture is best which enables
us to live our lives most understand-
ingly. Would we have the study of
the sciences, the humanities, language,
and   literature, abolished? By no
means. We would have it concomit-
ant with technical, commercial or
professional education. Then it will
have direct application to the lifework
which, willingly or unwillingly the
student must do.
  Gradually, unwittingly perhaps, the
University uf Wisconsin along with
its sister institutions, is coming to a
new kind of utilitarianism, that which
trains a man to do a specific work,
while it opens hiýs eyes to the signifi-
cance, the philosophy, and the rela-
tions of his work to the great universe
around him.
   If we will but look the matter
squarely in the face, we will see the
marvelous growth of this utilitarianism
in the University. We see a school


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