The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-10-04
A New Professorship in Colleges.

To marry and to own home are two OBJ
jects that most young men expect and in
tend to accomplish before they are middle
aged college graduates, equally with others.
| In all our colleges, to say nothing of low
er institutions of learning, education should
be certainly so far practical as to guard it's
recipients against the chief perils of their
| future.
Marriage and property are subjects of
complex and ample legislation. But both
are largely dependent on financial success
for their happiest enjoyment, certainly in
the social life of eur cities and towns. The
financial success need not be brilliant; but
must form fair basis and firm foothold.
Marriage and parentage imply a constant
| demand for money. If the husband is q
poor financier, the wife and children must
usually be sufferers. If the money goes out
as fast as it come in, no home can be bought,
and the family must keep moving more or less
frequently, or pay heavy rent; but be in
either case practically always homeless.
The college graduates, therefore, should
be taught, as business men are compelled to
learn by practice, the laws of finance, mar
riage and property-as far as need be taught
for common basis of conduct In other
words, no graduate should be ignorant of
the very commonest and everyday terms of
law, which he must learn by due study at
the proper time, or by notifying losses af-
terward, or remain in hopeless ignorance,
the victim of any pettifogger whom no
chances to employ, and of his own fears, if
he can not employ an attorney.
What is the new professorship in our COL
leges as suggested above? A professorship
of these branches. The men are there; the
ample knowledge is there the eager stu
dents are there; the necessity of the case,
the sneers OF business men, and their reluc-
tance to send their sons to college to be
ruined for real life, the rich returns of pc
cuniary nature to the colleges that forestall
mistakes by warning, and bring experience
to anticipate the emergencies through
which their young men have to pass, should
all induce our colleges to organize this fea-
ture into their course. The young would then
profit by the wisdom of their professors
practically; the poor would learn how to
get capital, as vantage ground the sons
of the rich would be taught the best modes
of Investment; the wild visions of youth
would be changed into the sound and ra-
tlonal views of manly duty the risks and
horrors OF illassorted and poverty stricken
marriages would be reduced the Gripping
and manning Of splendid talents and deep
scholarship by acant Of books and of time
would be in some cases happily avoided,
and the symmetry of culture finally approach
ed, in mind and body, in spirit and estate
The topic is neD, as direct statement
of popular need and demand. The extremes
of scientific research and the largest attain
ments in the minutie of classical scholar
ship, the finest strains of eloquence or poet
ic taste. the supply of most benefcent en-
dowments and accommodations all are de-
fective, and fall short of common sense, if
the student is untitled by wrong habits, or
is not better fitted by direct instruction, rs
tar as it can fit him, to fill his expected
place in society with financial success-a
degree of it that is nowhere near the verge
OF pecuniary troubles.
No better economists nor fnanciers can
be found than the victims of sad experience
The poor are under the harrow and on the
hatchel. If they can find the way to wealth
they will, within college-walls or without.
" The Shady Side is very frequent. Let
US not run Palaontology, nor Archaeology
to an extreme while neglecting food and
clothing. The four hundredth variety of
Trilobte may be very fascinating; but the
addition of 5000 year to the income of
poor clergyman's family is far more accept
able in the eyes of man, if not of Cod
Christian Uai0n