Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-11-09
The Professions.
A WORD TO YOUNG MEN.

In the last lew years, that great writers,
srsat engineers, great railroad men,
treat agriculturists, great architects,
have begun to overtop and overshad ow
Ne wealth and consequence of greal law
yer8. Lawyers know better than we do,
hit the best days of the legal profession
! re over, and over forever. Simplifed
J Odes reduce fees. improved manners
Ind increasing enlightenment diminish
Gtigation. The more men know, the
! etter friends they are and the better
blends men are, the more likely they
Ire to be able to settle their disputes
Without the assistance Of a Court. -
Moreover, the great honors of the State
D nce so much coyeted--once so august
4 md overwhelming--are now of far less
eccount-6ecause the whole country I'M
derstands that those high honors cannot,
Except by accident, fall upon the deser-
sing but are merely the stock in trade
a small, disreputable class of men,
sho have made a business of politics,
snd whose jargon in the newspapers is
sven unintelligible to the public. EN-
platicalIy, the pallny days of the law
are over.
WHAT ARE wANrED.-We want ar
eh!ects who, to use TIE language of
PR. Gfeenough, can apply Greek prin-
eipleS, without initiating Greek forms.
dhis nation, in the course Of the next
fty years, is to be torn down and built
ID better. Or the two hundred and
flty churches standing this day in New
York, not twenty will exist in the year
300; but will have been replaced BY
better ones, If architects can be found
b build them. When we consider, ON
Be one hand, the rapidity with which
property is accumulated here, and GA
I e other hand, the taste universally DIFF
used for lnagnihcence, we cannot resist
b. conclusion, that the United States is
bout So furnish the largest and best
IelI for the practice of the architectu-
Fa profession, that has ever been aHor-
jed a any period, in any country. But
hose who practice that profession must
ave ideas. Copyis.s we have already,
md copies we lave already. We want
penwho will thoroughly master their art,
Rot be enslavel by il men who will
eize the great idea, that Beauty is util-
~ perfected, and make it live ia struc-
lgas that SHALL answer their purpose to
yet gladden. the eye and ex-
III the taste Of these who behold them.
There is great deal Of glory in reserve
|1r the men who shall adapt the art et
architecture t. the wants. the climate,
Ihe genius Of America and not glory
lIone.
We want engineers, too. Within the
neXt fifty years, thousand tunnels will
have to be excovated, ten thousand brid-
res Viii be built, Z million miles of rail-
cad must be laid cut, the whole Rocky
Aountain region is to be made sceessi-
lie; and things are TO be done which
We can no more anticipate nov, than
he people CT the year 1900 could have
railroads, telegrsphs and
leamships. What field for men of
cience and talent The American
mind is singuIarly adapted to enterp,i-
les Of this kind /; and il is with the ut
most confidence, that we urge young
men who can choose what they will do,
md who have no fancy for an ordinary,
'um-drum career, to give the profession
If engineering serious consideration -
/ IS a profession for a man ! 1t takes
nm cut oi-doors, up mountains, along
across prairios, through forests.
He becomes intimate with nature, while
he uses the forces of nature to subdue
nature; and there is something so hon.
astly, palpably and greatly beneficial in
what he does, that the narrowest Of IT,
S,itarians cannot refuse him his respect.
Look at Colonel Serell, who bridged the
Niagara before he was twenty-five years
Old, and did The same service for the St.
Johns on his wedding trip. There is
better in that than Supplying
he mind over "moral philosophy" and
'ther antiquated trash in the "senior
year"
KEEP OUT OF coLLEGE.-And there is
be great difficulty. We want men of
elton but the main effort of cur
chools is to produce men of talk. An
ngineer who had occasion, some time
go, for two assistants in surveying for
railroad, addressed the following ques-
ion to three professors Of mathematics
ttached to three colleges of high re-
ute :-"In the class about to graduate
rom your institution, are there any
Toung men competent to go upon The
road Immediately and make surveys,
without any assistance from me. -
There were none, and the professors
frankly said so. What a fact is this -
As preparation for the duties of mod
em life, our college course is scarcely
Of any use at all and we care not who
hears us when we say, if young man
is resolved to run great career IN an
active, manly profession, let him keep
out Of college. That young man has nc
four years to waste! His knowledge
must be real, positive, modern. He
needs trained eye, trained hand, a
broad chest and long wind not slim
GIated brain merely. He must learn
how 10 do this and that for himself. He
must be man of the world, educated
IN The world, by the world, for the
World Home Journal.
!. I57lt does not give the country 9