THE SUN, SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1912. SOCIALISM MAKES GREAT GAINS IN AMERICAN COLLEGES University Men and Women All Over Country Organized Into Chapters for Discussion and Propagation of Doctrine -P- rofessors Who Formerly Explained Principles Sneer-mgly- . Now Teach Them From Personal Conviction ' intercollegiate Society Now Seven Years Old l I OCtALlSM. according to the annual rorty-nlri- o ch inters' In the coll..,, , report of tho Intercollegiate So- - United States and C.1MM . nn.l lli.u ..I. ...... I ciallst Society, mid) putiiio lust chapters. week, is growing at u Of thesi) forty-nin- e rcmarkablo chapters seven-te- n rate in colleges. American are In tho middle Atl.intio States, So strong foothold him a the doctrine seventeen In the middle West, ten in New Rftlnod in the educational institution of Inland, thro on tin P.iclMn eo.ist. tho country that animus against its in tho S)iith and in teachings lum completely disappeared. otfi dn.id.i Instead, in many notable instances the curriculum of universities Includes a chair devoted to socialism, with tho princi- ples expounded by professor who are profound and enthusiastic disciples of Karl Marx. Among tlie latter may ho mentioned Prof. C. A. Adams mid Prof. Kuno Francke of Harvard, Prof, diaries A. Heard of Columbia, Prof George McLean Harper nnd Prof Morris V ("roll of Princeton, Prof. Alfred Hayes. Jr.. Prof, Nathaniel Schmidt nnd Prof. Vladimir Karapetoffi or tornell, I'ror. Chester Nathan Gould of tho University of Chicago, Prof. P. A. MrKonzin of tho Ohio Stato University, 1 author of several works on socialism and dirties. Tho time has passed when ' im .7 who debated tho question "Government Doan (Ohio), professor In the Meadville people of education could talkof socialism HV'fc '.HHPaBVJlBoHFHi 'IsEm f XVilMHnDniH versus Private Ownership of tho Trusts" Theological Seminary. as a movement of visionary fanatics. 'fM. KSsiHeBBflBm 'll Peoplo of education are coming, if some- -- 1 my mm ill Si :'z:v;:z bum. what tardily, to tho view that tho lot. m: KSM zs&5- WEBPr .HUB IK, rW-- .1111 audience Carnegie Hall on April 10. educated working merit morn I ' f 111 III s:;:at class far Wl In - 17 ifH Samuel A. Kliot, Jr., Harvard, grand- examples of the higher thought educa- serious and earncxt consideration than HHB-- v HH tion, to explain the causes which prevlou-l- son of Harvard's nnd son have they have received. of the president of the American Uni- induced college men and women to enlist "In other words, educated peoplo aro tarian Society. under the socialist flag and for the perceiving that the view of tho proporty-Ies- Miss Jessie Ashley (New York Uni- masons for the growth of socialism proletariat and of the wage earner versity), a practising New York lawyer. they will probably tell you that It was iu general Is destined to play a far largn daughter of O. I). Ashley, former presi- chiefly because of the radical Industrial part in the near future than has been dent of tho Waltash Railroad! Mrs1. Char-lott- o changes and the new economic problems thought possible hitherto, nnd citico this Teller (Yawsar), niece of the late which have spr ung up within tho List working class point of view is so destined United States Senator Henry M. Toller generation or nae neoome greatly In- - to have a vast influence imon social F.G.Pbelpj of Colorado; William English Wailing tensifled, so they assert, during that institutions in the near future thoughtful i (University of Chicago), author and a period. people are beginning to le.ilizo that thin grandson of William Fjiglish, who was In this they refer to tho birth nnd growth point of view is well worth becoming Prof. Charles P. Fagnan i and Prof. Thomas ( Yale) a candidate for of tho of tho trusts, with nil the vast familiar with. C. Ball of tho Union Theological Semi- President ' United States on the Democratic ticket economio social and political changes; "With nearly .lO.OoO.nno socialists of tho nary, Prof. Arthur P. Hunt of tho General i with the late Samuel J. Tilden. h Ich they Havo produced; the increased world aflihated with or supported bv tho Theological Seminary, Prof, William Intercollegiate11 Miss Jessie Wallace Hughan (Barnard), cost of living, entirely out of proportion various organized socialist panics it is Frederio Bade of the Univeristy of Cal- teacher and author of several socialist with tho corresponding increase of salaries plain that this movement should be ifornia, Prof. Vida D Scudderof Wellesley, j works; Miss Mary R. Sanford (Vassar), or wages; the growing number of un- understood and that it is foolish to rail Prof. Kendrlck P Shedd of Rochester. Society. mam a memoer oi one oi me oesi Known iani-ilic- s employed; the increasing uncertainty of ignorant ly against it. F. C. Doan of Meadvillo (Pa.) Theo-logic- urn of Troy, N. Y and who is prominent life, which is being felt not only by the "Until recently the colleges entirely Prof. School, Prof. George Ray Whit-ak- er in tho Consumers' Iaguo of New York; workers but also by tho professional ignored the Socialist movement. It was of Dartmouth, Prof. Wilbur M. Miss Helen Pliel Stokes, daughter of classes and by college graduates. perception of this fact by the founders of Urban and Prof Gustnv A. Kleeno of In addition to these there ore several Anson Phelps Stokes and sister of J. O. J. G.Phelps Stokes, speakingas president the Intercollegiate Socialist Society that deilnitoly tho Intercollegiate Socialistic Society Trinity and Prof K n Smith of Con- - other study groups not as yet i Phelps Stokes, who has for some years of led to its organization Tin- founders had necticut Agricultural College. afllliated with tho society W. boon active in social and settlement work about the growth of socialism among all been deeply impressed with the fact All those teachers havo subscribed Of the chapters in the mid II tlantio in New York city. undergraduates, said: i that throughout their college course they to tho teaching'' of socialism, while lec- States thirteen are in SW Yor' Stato, L&tdler Bouck White (Harvard), head worker Thlfl movement Is the natural result had learned nothing of the nature of thia tures theroon havo boon delivered be- of which nine are located in thi city, throe vast world movement , which was Ignoring fore students at Harvard, Yale, Brown, in Pennsylvania and one in New Jersey the colleges ns completely as tho collego Clark, Amherst, Cornell, Columbia, Con Tho Now York city chapter-- , iit Birnard, ignored it. necticut Agricultural College. Spring- - College of the City of New York lone in Acted As Judge and Jury. field Training School. Dartmouth, Bos- - the elay school and one in the evening ton University. Mount Holyoke, Trinity, division). Columbia, .New i,r,; I Diversity 'fntcrcolljtatc "The teachers of socialism in the col-leg- es Uoche-fe- r, (one on Washington Heights and one in have for tho most part acted im Woslovan, Wellesley, Barnard, judge New York University. College of the City Washington Square). Now York Medical prosecuting attorney, and Jury of New York, University of Pennsylvania, Colleges (composed of students of tho when presenting the subject of socialism Union Theological .Seminary, Meadville various medical schools of tho city, Now Joctety. to their students. It is desirable, in tho of Theological School. Princeton, Union, I York University and Bellevuo Hospital interests truth that the advocates of Adelphi, Klmira, Wisconsin, Michigan, having tho majority of members) and socialism should have us largo it hearing Chicago, Oklahoma, Marietta, Kansas Union Theological Seminary. Will lam as their opponents, nnd for this reason it S'ate Agricultural College, Lewis Insti- Cornell, Colgate, Rochester and Union, is greatly to bo wished that faclllrl als- - j Is greatly to bo wished that tute, Col . Stanford and the University outside of this city, posses chapters. facilities of Washington. In Pennsylvania there are organizations Aorrt j CU-niverj-t should lie provided whereby the student at tho University of Pennsylvania. r.h-rnor- o, body may hear the claims of socialism Motcmcnt Seten Years Old. Si miVautt the Quaker College and Meadvillo in tho fourth. Pennsylvania claims one "1 presented by men and women of intelli--j Th college movement in behalf of Theological Seminary, while in .Vew .Jer- chapter, the Meadvllle Theological School, (Hew York. gence who believe that the soclallstlo IUvnoia) movement is sound mid sane nnd group. lf tnio. socialism in this country is comparatively sey Princeton has a strong which contains at least one-ha- of the UniVerMtyy of recent origin It was born in Sep- In tho Now England Suites there are student body In Its membership. "As for the outlook, we anticipate that tember, linj, at. a meeting held in a New chapters at Yale, Wesleyan and the Tho average number of students in each treasurer r within a few years there will be few if any York retaur:int. largely through tho Connecticut Agricultural College in Con- chapter Is approximately twenty. There collegiate institutions of standing in tho lntercoUetate United in tills w ill efforts of Upton Sinclair, it being believed necticut, Harvard, Amherst, Williams, aro therefore some 1,000 students In the States wljich society not that college men and women would hiil Massachusetts Agricultural College and chapter organizations throughout the I havo a well organized chapter, serving th" movement with enthusiasm. The tho Hpringtield Y. M. C. A. Training country. In the threw New England as a means whereby the student body may fall for the organization of tho Inter- School in Massachusetts and at Brown colleges, Harvard, Yalo and Wesleyan, Joctety hear tho claims of socialism presented collegiate Socialist Society was Issued University in Rhode Island.