Article January 23, 1995 Issue

Optimism among students

with contributions from Bartley

In this week's column an American newspaper editor offers hope to college students, and a high school student writes about community service.

At this time of year many college students, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, are bracing themselves for another academic year. But, after college, young people face many more challenges, said the editor of The Wall Street Journal, Robert Bartley, in an address last year to graduating students at Hillsdale College in Michigan.

He suggested that the violent epoch of the twentieth century, which included two world wars, the Great Depression, the Cold War, and numerous regional conflicts, was more than an accident of history. "I would say, indeed, that it was struggle over nothing less than the nature of man. What was at issue was whether man could be 'shaped' by some omnipotent political system, or whether he possessed an indelible spirit that in the end would prevail over his would-be slave-masters."

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