Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-06-19
College commensurate.

college, SOmmencethchsSs
Another season of college commence
ments is at hand. and soon the portals OF
all the universities Of the land will be
opened, and the country will receive It's
annual installment of college educated
men. Those who came together four
wears ago from the farm, the village and
the city as classmates will stand no more
in that relation. The days of study are over
and the world of action now awaits them
with such success as they are worth. If.
with their mental training and culture,
the graduates understand that work and a
strong will are the levers to success and
will apply them, they have powerful al
" in their education. They have an ad-
vantage that the uneducated man does
not.
As colleges have dotted the land
more numerously. and as the number who
attend such institutions has increased. the
people have begun to judge them at their
true worth, and TO understand their real
sphere. Those who judged them too
harshly. and those who judged them too
highly are approaching sensible estima-
ton.
While college gives indirect benefits,
gives intelligence, culture and higher as
pirations. the real object OF such train
ing is the discipline of the intellect. 1t
has been considered more necessary for
those who intend to enter what are called
the learned professions, but course OF
study which will make man broader and
deeper in intellect is becoming to the farm
err, the artisan or the merchant. The ma
tion is the gamer thereby. d"
Many imagine college graduate must
be exceedingly learned. He must be
posted 10 the events of history, be an as
tronomer aud geologist. He is supposed
to have acquired in four years. what
lifetime could hardly give. Such people
misunderstood the object of college ed
ucation. They take the means for the
end. A college training but teaches the
thinking student how vast the field oil
knowledge is. and how very little he
knows.
Too great weight is often attributed TO
college training. But four years OF
study do not entitle the graduate TO an
immediate lucrative position. The disci.
pline resulting from contact with actual
business is as necessary as the discipline
coming from the study OF books. The
truth il that after graduation the real
struggle begins. If learned profession
is pursued, there must be more years oil
study, and then strife for position OF
fame. II mercantile life Is chosen, the
counting room must be entered and the
details Of the business learned. Into
Whatever calling graduate or any young
man enters the first principles must be
learned as necessarily as the first princi-
Piles in the study OF science.
Generally college education is USE
full to all, and the better educated peo'
pie the more fortunate that country. tt
the author and professional man it is nee
essary, to the wealthy an adornment and
source of pleasure, but it does not follow
that every educated man will succeed in
the profession or business he enters into.
Colleges make no such professions. Sue
cess depends upon the man. A college
training gives power OF application. teach
es perseverance and places the mind un-
der complete discipline, and in proportion
as man possesses these traits Of charac-
ter naturally or by discipline, so will his
success in life depend.