, 1874-09-27

share in the results OF his father social SUCCESSES
| business reputation, OF intellectual triutnpls
| What could possibly compensate man fol
being born at all il it wero not fol
the poor privilege Of being able to lool
back at millions of ancestors who were worse OF
than hitnse1f7 Every new generation il but the
| amount brought forward in the summing-up o1
Humanity; and every individual, like figure it
demonstration, has his own place. 4 man o1
to-day, who thinks. or works. or feels, like Z
man Of yesterday, is cumberer Of the ground
No serves mis- age who lives in the past or the
future And not only is it an absurd, but it il
also an impracticable idea, that children reared
under the circumstances and influences which
surround tho present generation. should COM
meuce the world did their parents.
In the first place,
PARENTAL AMBITION
forbids it. Old Chandler began III life by Sow
ing On ehip-salls ut dollar day, and worked
h1s way uu slowly ana laboriously till bis name
stands out On ono of the biggest warehouses in
the city, in letters that can be read for blocks.
When he married, be went to housekeeping in d
little. house with four roomB, away out in the
suburbs Now be lives in Q marble-front on one
OF the avenues, aud owns dozens of tenement
houses. lie used to trudSo home with his din
ner-basket on his arm, to save the street-car
fare, and now he rides to aud from his place OF
through college, though tie boy hntcd study !;
and, alter hls graduation, the proud father sent
Mls son on a European tour. The young fellow
coueB back, and takes ct is tho only thing he IL
fit for) clsrkbhip under his father, ut $1,000 or
,43, 600 year. He is determined not to marry
t1nless he marr1ea money Tie dissatisfied
father wonders why it is that coliege-educa-
tion cannot help man along. At his sons age
ne was supporting himself, wife, and two or
three little ones; yer here Id his son,
who can only partially support himself.
lie had given his son everything for the lack OF
which he himself had suffered; aud yet, after
all, his son is not Independent as be was at
the age. Then ho falls buck GU the old
saving that the young people NOWADAYS wish to
begin life in the style and their parents
are ending it. The old man forgets that the
transition from salt pork. and cow-lide boots.
and pe3estrianisu1. to turtla-souD, and fne
clothes, and the motion Of one'e own carriage. is
one to which poor human nature easily accom-
modates itself; but, when it comes to changing
from talrtle-soup. and wine, and broadcloth
and full purse. to Goldfish, md fus-
tlan, aud q saving of pennies, it is. fearfully
hard work Yet that ia just what he expects OF
the young man. The rich man who wishes his
son to begin life in the same dauntless, rough
and-ready style in which he himself attacked the
world and battled for place in it, must school
the son as Fate schooled the father. 1t is the
over present consciousness of wel1-tlled pa
rental Pochetoook to tall oack upon that ener-
Yates young men. Moreover, nch mans son
who has been dragged through
4 CoL1EGE-cERKIcU1UN
sunftted, il nine out of ten for any business
whatever. TAcso are the reasons: LII COLLEGE. the
son Of q scholar has immense advantages
NhetneFlt IL tue atmosphere OF books and cul-
ture 81 nome, or wAetheF II ID inherited taste
aud ability, it is fact that book learning comes
easier to tho student whose father VIA a Btn-
dent before him. Now. the r7ch men OF this
country are generally. known as - sc!f-made
men" They usually boast that, notwithstanding
their SUCCESS IN ilfe. they have had but ten or
twelve months schooling. In some Cases, they
educated themselves by hard study by the light
OF the evcnluE-hre, and ~ the mental Improve
nient OF every spare hour Generally,
however, the taculty OF MAKING money.
tho Midas B1ft OF turning every
thing into gold does not exist with love for
BOOKS ihs Is Inc 1rst reason "hy many n r1ch
Old codger, who senda his son to college - along
With the best OF EN-" hnds, to his chsETin, that
tho prizes are not to tha wealthy, and that gold
cannot bur talent at ~, or ther:abouts. tho
young man n: e'raduatee: 1. He las shimneFing
vision OF his sour years course OF study. His
mind is kaleidoscope OF bits OF geology, meta
physics, logic, higher mathematics, history,
Latin, and hundred other things, and ho
knows Greek when he sees its funny. lit
tie quirlagiSs,, but, in year, or two
at the most, he could no more trans
late 1t than he could read Choctaw.
Nor would 1t do him any good II he could Nor.
IN TACT, does anything he scrambIou over IN
those last two coiiege-years 40 him any good.
10 come down boldly to the foundatlon-fact, 1t
is grave question whether the latter half Of !
:ollcge-conrse Is or any serv1ce. except to pro-
FessionaI men, foung men VINO are not gong |
% bo lawyers, doctors, msulstefs or teachers, |
forget Their ol!ego-aclu1rements much quicker |
han they learned them. suppose man Is
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