"Responsible to Truth "

In an article in the September Century, Dr. Alexander Meikeljohn, no longer of Amherst, conducts a Socratic discussion with himself on the question of the responsibility of the President and faculty of a college. It develops that the President and faculty are not responsible to the students, the parents of students, the public, the benefactors, the alumni, the Church, the trustees, the State. They cannot be responsible to themselves. To whom, then, are they responsible? " There are, I think, two relationships in which the scholar feels and acknowledges responsibility. The first and lesser of these is the relation to other teachers and scholars, to other seekers after truth. The second and greater responsibility is that which ' we' feel and acknowledge toward the truth itself."

It's a Kollege

The Klan has bought Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Ind. Valparaiso University will become a national university. It will be run as a non-sectarian institution open to all regardless of race or color. But the Klan will control it, its board of trustees being made up of Knights selected from the various Realms of the United States.

Valparaiso University is 50 years old. It was founded in 1873 by two young teachers, H. P. Brown and 0. P. Kinsey. Until 1920 it ran an un- eventful course, but in that year, on the crest of post-War prosperity, its enrollment climbed to 4,000, it sent a football team to the Harvard Stadium and it introduced fraternities. Then hard times hit the Indiana farmer, fraternity rows broke out in the University, and the enrollment fell in one year to 1,260. In 1923 the University was still in difficulties and the Klan bought it for $350,000, approximately the amount of its indebtedness. In the meantime Henry Kinsey Brown, son of the founder, himself a former President, has commenced an action to regain control of 15 buildings valued at $1,000,000. Mr. Brown is proceeding under an alleged flaw in the will of his father, who left all his property to the school.

The Klan, according to the editor of the Fiery Cross, intends to invest $500,000 in the plant and to raise a similar amount toward a permanent endowment. The curriculum will be modelled on the standard college course, arid the full quota of degrees will be given.