Studying politics
Media
Part of Panorama
- Title
- Studying politics
- Creator
- Irvin, Will
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1939
- Subject
- Politics
- Rights
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- Fulltext
- drastic people, and their ambition is to handle the question diplomatically and with as little friction as possible. In preference to driving the Chinese out, they would rather absorb them racially, but in recent years the tendency toward intermarriage has become much less pronounced. This is laid at the doors of nationalistic feeling among the Chinese and their consequent unwillingness to look upon themselves as citizens of Siam. Educational restrictions imposed by the Siamese government now require all Chinese schools to devote a certain amount of time to the teaching of the Siamese language, in the belief that the Chinese cannot otherwise become an integral part of the new order of things.-William E. Fisher, condensed from Asia. * * * STUDYING POLITICS THE training in politics offered by the universities nowadays is a mixture of theory and idealism with hard-boiled actuality and practical expenence. Professors urge students to pick a party and align themselves with it. The University of Chicago uses the municipal elections as a lal:o:·atory. The state of Illinois puts into each voting place a neutral observer called a "deputy of the court," and as far back as 1924 the faculty persuaded Cook County to swear in a corps of students of political science as deputies. Distributed among the toughest wards, some students were slugged, some thrown out bodily. One, telephoning news of an irregularity to headquarters, glanced up to find a revolver pointed at his head. Chicago students still serve at every election, not only as. deputies but as watchers for their parties. In fact, these days some of the watchers are co-eds. Many of tre professors themselves have varied their studies with a whirl at politics. Dr. Guy S. Ford, president of the~University of l\.1innesota and a teacher in the Political courses, has had government administrative experience. Dean Joseph R. Hayden of Michigan served his turn as deputy governor of the Philippines under Frank Murphy. Almost all of the political-science faculty at Chicago has taken a hand in municipal politics. Columbia professors have .been making, year after year, contributions to good government.-Will Irwin, from The American Mercury. AUGUST, 1939 19
- Date Issued
- IV(8) August, 1939