Monday, Mar. 18, 1946
The Sparrow v. the Hawk
The veteran-on-campus was beginning to rustle the ivy. Last week the Daily Bruin, student newspaper of the University of California at Los Angeles, devoted a four-column spread to the educational opinions of 22-year-old Jay Douglas Haley, late of the A.A.F. Excerpts:
"The educational system of America is failing the youth of America! . . . It is fashioning sparrows and pushing them out to compete with hawks. . . . Why on earth should we be taught . . . this foolishness about honesty, truth and fair play? . . .
"If a student is majoring in law, he should be taught not only the laws but the most approved methods ... of finding the loopholes. . . . If he is to be a doctor, he should not only learn medicine but how to milk the largest fees. . . . If an engineer, how to construct with the cheapest of materials. . . . If a journalist, how-to slant, alter, lie. . . . In the securities field . . . the different methods of watering stocks and duping the suckers. . . .
"Let us get up petitions to remove these namby-pamby professors stumbling on their White Horse Truth, and get some good hardheaded businessmen in our colleges to teach us what we have to know to become a success."
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