New-York tribune., 1873-04-18

Far be il from us to undertake TO instruct the I'M
dercraduate As well paint the lily or gild refined
gold And vet there things that are not ntutlve
TO the wisdom Of tho ndergraduate-things gath
cred from experience, not plucked from the tree Oh
knowledge which over his head waves leaiess
branches 1ts buds and blossoms fruit and fragrance,
pathered and possessed. We beg to say accordingly
that the average Undergraduate labors under a
delusion. A harmless delusion, arising out of his
modesty but one perhaps he will thank us for dis
pellinp. 1t is rot from any fancied superiority In
literary or scit tifo attainments that we undertake
to enlghten him only use the privilege OF age,
and offer the results Of longer experience The mis-
take of the Undergraduate is in supposing that he
will not be recognized an educated man unless,
when he arrives at a hotel he registers his college,
"Yale.D Harvard" OF what not, as his place of
residence. An educated man is always recognized
by his wearing stove-ppe hat and carrying cane.
If this does not answer to the uneducated mind 1T
is only necessary to order breakfast in dead Ian
ouaoe and accost the waiter in profane These signs
are unmistakable. But even if you should stop at
a hotel and run the risk of not being
recognized as q man of liberal education, don't
register the name Of your college. 1t does
not pay. All of us-even we who gradu-
ated Freshman year-have done it, and all OF US
are ashamed of it. Now that we have grown old.
and don't know anything like as much as we did
then we begin 10 realize that it was not necessary
70 advertise ourselves scholars. 1t might be now
it was not then. Appreciate your opportunities,
Young gentlemen. Let an ignorant and uneducated
generation 20 round you and find you out. 1t hight
ems their admiration, and may add their rever-
ence for sound learning.
II was in The Weekly Journal Of Civilization that
Mr.. George William Curtis during the campaign of
last wear set forth frequently and at great length
his entire trust in President Grant as Civil Service
peformer. 1t was then that he met the people. so
In speak, when fresh from interviews with the
President he was able TO them that there
no doubt of the soundness and sincerity of the Ad-
ministration on this question. The Journal of CIV
ilizaton was earlier and thoroughly advised on
tbis subject than any even Of tho daily newspapers
of the country and spoke always by the card upon
il. Has The Journal learned that Mr. George Will
Service Advisory Board because, as he asserts, the
Ifts.d, nj has abandoned the reformf The resigna-
tion If Mr.. Curtis has been accepted, and much
CONNECT mas been made thereon by the press OF the
country mOsti unfavorable to Mr.. Curtis, so far as
the Administration press is concerned; ; but no
mention has b0en made of the fact in The Journal OF
Civilization. 1t cannot be that the omission is IN
territorial. Some time, OF course, the journal VIII
offer an explanation perhaps say IL was mistaken
In statements it made during the campaign
that would be quite fair and manly and in keeping
with tho elevated tone and exalted sense OF the MT
ness of things which compelled 1t IN the campaign