Monday, Nov. 23, 1931
Product: Hobo
A college student's father gloomed in Chicago last week. He was James J. Harrington, rich real estate broker. His son James J. Jr., 20, had been suspended from Northwestern University as a ringleader in a "Hobo Day" riot. Said Father Harrington: "If Jack is out of school, as he seems to be, he will have to go to work. He can stay at home if he wants to. but he'll have to pay board. I'm through supporting him." A $3000 automobile he had given his son was to be sold. Jack, said he, had been a fine boy in preparatory school. But "this modern university system is all wrong. It makes its students selfish and ungrateful." Father Harrington agreed that punishment was just. But could Northwestern not have devised something "which would not have interfered with his career?" Such as to bar Son Harrington from extracurricular activities, make him take more courses? Sadly said Father Harrington: "If he is a hobo now, the university has made him one."
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