The Goose-step: A Study of American EducationSinclair, Upton
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The Goose-step: A Study of American Education
Sinclair, Upton
Education -- United States; Universities and colleges -- United States
Thirty years ago there was nothing here; now there are a score of
elaborate buildings, and six thousand students. Never has there been
such a series of grand dukes and duchesses as at this university; Mr.
John D. Archbold, president of the Standard Oil Company, and Huyler, the
candy king, and Samuel Bowne, the cod liver oil king, and L. C. Smith,
the typewriter king, and Mrs. Russell Sage, the charity queen, and E. L.
French, head of Crucible Steel and the Halcombe Steel Company. At
present they have as their chief duke Horace S. Wilkinson, steel
magnate, one of the leading powers in the steamship lines of the Great
Lakes. As assistants there are half a dozen prominent business men of
the town, including the two leading merchants; a former brewer of New
York, who is head of a great asphalt company and a sugar company; Mrs.
Bowne, the widow of Samuel Bowne; Mr. Childs, the coal tar king; Mr.
Flaccus, the Pittsburgh glass magnate; the Honorable Louis Marshall,
millionaire lawyer of New York; the Honorable Edgar T. Brackett, leading
politician of Saratoga Springs, headquarters of New York state’s
gambling and political conventions; and the Reverend Ezra Squier Tipple,
D.D., Ph.D., president of Drew Theological Seminary, professor of
practical theology, and author of the “Drew Sermons, Series One and
Two,” and of the “Drew Sermons on the Golden Texts, Series One, Two and
Three.”
All this has grown out of the genius of one man, the Reverend James
Roscoe Day, D.D., Sc.D., LL.D., D.C.L., L.H.D., chancellor of the
University of Heaven. He made it, unassisted save by God.
What is Heaven—in the plutocratic sense? It is a place whose streets are
paved with gold and flowing with milk and honey. It is inhabited
exclusively by the elect, all others having been cast into outer
darkness. It is a place entirely under the control of the “right
people”; all unorthodox thoughts are barred, “chapel” is conducted every
morning, and if anybody does not like the way we run things, he can go
to hell.
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