The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-05-10
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Knowing uel tba,. 8, tho pe-sar
tm, peclat, tbere 81 strous tnna.
enc, d hrar q Colleges lsiae btoaell
% isar upon oar community has,
le,n fresistabiy tempted Is bring iar
wand 10y ,leus au lhls subject Ihs
part q unr country bas been iar qute
awiils 50, y ssa8ggHter 81 Coileg,
advocates. who arc beginning % 6ll tbe
mind q oar Young people smith oper
sliuoas ideas that Young man canuo,
attain lis fall mental growth, cannot
reach the object 81 bis bong. unless he
takes up his line oi march f5r the sem.
inary there b. spend bis two 81 three
years ia preparing Tor thb study a
latin and Greek ia College Aud
when be shall have passed lis faur
years ia College. then they say, he viii
be prepared 70 step forth into the ac.
tive business be. from which be las
heen entirely shut ont for the last sis
years years in which young men
ought most q all, 70 be studying tht
ways Of the world and taxing lessons d
that best d all teachers. Experience
The trouble with our country IS, not
that men do not know enough. but that
they do not practice what thcy do
know. At tho present there are al tic
means a young man ought 70 ask fol
outside Of College FOR obtaining all the
knowledge he can possibly dispose Of
Il he spends his year after year in even
close, hard study, while IN College, life
viii soon begin to seem to him by iaf
too much mere bo0i-rWe; his ideas
will 10y degrees, become SO refined that
they will be unhealthy; he will ineyiia-
bly,, whether he viii own it or not, look
with disgust upon the common walks
OF lie; he Will want to set himself up,
TO btgin with, above the reach Of folks
N general and JON set Of would -bo
aristocrats who are not, however, and
mil MOI be, in spite Of all, the leaders in
a comparatively newly settled country
which requires quick, ready, practical
thought, and strong, untiring, contin-
ued labor.
The idea that our College advocates
are desiring TO indirectly instil into our
minds, is this; that a young man who
has taken a College course, can, at the
very first, commence life in high po-
sition. Well, many Of them can, and
do; but they will invariably find before
they have reached down and felt their
foundation, before they have become
firmly and securely seated; they will
invariably find, | say, that the young
man who commenced at the bottom
round and, hand over hand, Uorked his
way up, will DO ready with the fresher
and the frmer resolve to star
with them for the grand, Il
prize.
There is hardly young man but
what can perform his days labor and
yet find two or three hours at evening
or morning for self-improvcment. Al
That is needed for success in this coun-
ny, Mt least, is the will, the firm deter
united with eyer-ready effort.
md two or three hours of datig study
ire plenty enough to direct this effort.
Thus We VIII have stndy md cxper-
ence conlInusd md AIDING each otlor.
Is not this what VIZ uaty
The sum Is tbs; II yn ni4h 10
inoM .,i'at d,aaa ptri dud that
'lll neyet he - al service only Il
log mp whnt might 30 of use; if yon
wish 70 gain TINS knowledge il IN easy
playful, school-boy manner 20 10 Col
ego
But il you wish 70 become Il thor
'nghly earnest, hard working, vet