COLLEGE EDUCATION.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 349, 15 January 1903, Page 3

COLLEGE EDUCATION.

Vfetatife «w a Has «o«a»la Waaiiejln.il of Aaa'alt Aaaaac •aaaaeeaat aasea«eaae~ateaay mamam Mat «• ifaMaal Asm . '' ad Waaaaaa, The emapknas a» stflm hravght agakwt collage ashseadloa. that ft handicaps a young nan for a husteess earee? *y aonsmming fonr yeare which otherwise eottM. be dewted to getting a practice! saart la eoauaerctal life, •ormed Ift* text for some suggestive obserratioav by Mr. Whitelaw Seid, an an addreae daliverad sat long ago st the says the The ayiaioa that the bay who skips the eollegs course and .starts in life at the age oft 18 has * better chanes of success than the college graduate haa frequeatly been expressed by men conspicuous in thereomaereia] world. The president *f the steel trust has Tory recently de> elared that the. bey who goes 4irantiy from the lower tehoole Into business will leave the boy who goes to college so far behind that the latter will never be able to eateh up., Andrew Carnegie alec regards a eollege training as a liefor business.. "The gr*A'nate," he says, "has not the slightest. chance of suecees sa against the-boy who swapt the ofßes." This disparaging, view of the college isadwitted by Mr. Raid to be perfectly correct, for one whs jadgne the wortiir of education, exeloslesey f*e«i .tfce eammereial pohrt of flaw. If the .end of educating e man la ooAy "to get him ready to,keep a ehop, or run a -factory, or aa iron mill, or to go to Wall street, or ia soma way merely to make money," then it is a waste of tine to apend four, years upon a courif of study whieh can hare no immediate practical value. Heaeknowledges that is difficult to mateh from among college or university graduates such aa array of non-oollegiate names, representing, the greatest business suesess, as will readily occur to everyone. .The men who consolidated the Aetor fortufcs asms, it Is tras from Heid'elharg; hut the man.who founded it did s>at. The founders of the Vanderbiit, the Morgan, the Moses Taylor, the Goelet, the Maekey, the Gould or the Cooper fortunes esme from no college at home or abroad. Take the moat conspicuous business suceeeaeaeonfes«ed!y won and maintained hy high ability, •nawi or racsntiy at the. front in Hew York. C. P. Huntington, for example, was emaastpatcd f rom schools of say Idnd long before he was 18. Bo were John and William Rockefeller, and so, ®et t« weary you with more ennmars< tsan—so was Andrew Cevaflifie." i But those examples of saeoesefui aolf-made man do not, in Mr. Beid's opinion, furnish any argument against the desirability of a college training far young men who look forward to tasinese as a career. He rightly holds that money-making is not the chief and of existence, sad that the education of American youth should not bo planned with a view to getting then to work at the sariiest possible age. "There to bo rsssoa," declares Mr. i staid, "why the institution of higher learning should not develop along the test lines for the sake of the steadily taereaamg number in this prosperous tend who take time for the best things. Vhis is no longer a young, poor peofle on a wild, unexplored continent, otruggHng desperately with hard eiraumstaneSa to make a beginning. It is a great nation, rich with the unpreeelented progress and accumulated prosperi :,y of a hundred years. The average man no longer needs, tike the sons a* the pioneers, to sacrifice the high•o things of which he Is capable for the ssko of getting into the shopSarly, go as not to be outstripped in the mere •see *or a living. Sucoeas In America a ttfe hereafter will be massurad with faore charsetofs than merely the daltsr mark; and ths Aflßarksa sduaation ||uat be shapsd in *Jia fnture to fit the hlsfl, rather than aswly his husfi»ss«." >

' - Mia tfontafiAaama ta JiaaSists. "*% f«r ; »o«is months i Vien«s h«s been a; singular manner. .Hiring ksseS a house m a *«eluded quarter of th/sity, she •ariilshed the room* eomfoßtably, and ahen announced through nge-nts tbat.any persona v#h» desired W *ght duel* could del So .9* their esse In her rooms. Of eoursa she charged f<>r .this accommodation, but :> the amount wie hot large; sad eoneeejusnt\f not many passed before a fierce aorahst took place between two srtudests to' her most comfortable apartment. During the following week three more duels were fought in Iter house, end the place t>ee»ms« avar. so popular, until a fs.w days ago, whew the' police burst in just as two young men were preparing to fight witfe sabres. They arrested the woman. whp i* the wife of a subordinate governinent'offteial, and a few days later She wee sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. ) She admitted at her trial that more than 200 duels had been fought-in her house, and that she had earned a large sum of money in thfa way. Witnesses also testified that eha had been present during all of ths duels and had given much assistance to the surgeons ia caring far tha wounded--?-!', t. Herald.

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