MR. BERTRAND RUSSELL.
Arriving in New York last week Mr. Bertrand Russell delivered himself, through a receptive Press, of a characteristic attack upon American institutions, including the Educational System. This he finds tainted with propaganda, and the money of big business, while its products are standardized minds, whose job is to think nothing but what they are told. The complaint is echoed in various forms by a number of Americans. Thus President Glenn 'Frank, of Wisconsin University, remarks that our schools are " Centres of Con- servatism." The Chicago Daily News finds evidence of the "Tepidity of Modern Youth " on every hand, and longs for a little rebelliousness. " We shall have milksop leadership in education," says the Charleston News, " as long as the people insist upon holding the teachers in a form of chattel slavery." " To conform rather than to differ is the great undergraduate virtue," adds Dr. Angell, President of Yale. It would be a dismal condition indeed were not the critics themselves numerous, influential and persistent in their efforts to improve it. Mr. Russell's own books have a wide sale in the United States, and his lectures are invariably crowded.
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