Excerpt from The Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, Vol. 6: 1915-1916 There are thousands of students in institutions whose sole mo tive seems to be the securing of some customary information and an intellectual decoration of some kind. This aspect of human nature is so well known and the mere knowledge ideal so dominant that unscrupulous institutions have often sold titles for money. It is pitiable, the extent to which human nature may be played upon by titles, decorations, and badges, even when these are only paste diamonds. The Fathers were wise, in order to save us from our vanity, to provide that no title of nobility shall be granted, and that no person holding any office under the general government shall accept any favor or title from a foreign power without the consent of Congress. Old warriors of foreign nations, who should have experienced their true rewards in actual service to their country, are still sufficiently vain to decorate themselves, like Indian chiefs, with medals and badges of all kinds: the tinsel Show still has great at traction for the many. I often think it would be a service to real scholarship and a tribute to true worth and honesty if all degrees and titles were abolished in educational institutions, and men and women - teachers and students - were addrest by the usual titles in use in general society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.