Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-08-01

For a man who has raj force Of character
and is determine TO succeed, although i,
NAV make the beginning Of i business career
a little hard. and even litter, 4 university
education is great possession. There Is no
doubt it makes il easier for him 10 learn al
forwards everything he lsrcsolvei 10 learn,
and there is no successful hlsincss man who
has taken college degree wip docs not re-
card it all through lify as the hest of his pos
sessions. Nothing does m,rr TO sweetcn
business success AMI increase the enjoyment
of fortune
But those who d,cry university education
os n preparation TOR life overlook the fact
that it Is not often taken by raTsons who
mean to follow business career In other
words. a process Of selection is performed
before hoys enter college. and, as general
ruIc only those enter wLuma COLLEGE cduca-
tinu will help that is,tEosc who artabout to
take M some intellectual pursuit Zoology.
or law. or medicine, - natural Science. 1t
Is very doubtful indeed. whether for tlgse
better training could well he devised than
HAT which or lcaiiGr COLLEGES now eve
though the defects in it, which
we have pointed out above. are Oh
vious enough They arc taught L"
acquire knowledge and 10 arrange 1t IN Their
heads in such way rs 10 he able to pr"i,ice
il when called on and are made 1ainlllar
with the experience Of the race in all meas
of activity bv methods which could mol r'au-
/ /. l. ta,~ II. 1n
ily he hcttered. and under highly iaVoraoie
conditions as regards society ana SURROUND
ings. 1t may not he the hest preparation Tor
buving and selling. or manufacturing. or
farming: but those whAtak 1t rarely lhiehu
10 be traders. or manufacturers. or farmers.
They intend 10 he teachers, lawyers, iegisia-
tors, doctors. and discovcrers and all these
classes play a very prominent part-many
people think the most prominent part-ln
| carving on the work ot civilization.
There is view Of the matter, too, anu a
very important one. which was mentioned
hy senator Hear the other day in his address
at AmE,rs; COLLEGE, which most OF those
who drcry college education iii Srrgard. lhey
assume. almost invariably. that the youths
who ret no college education, but begin 10
earn their bread AT the ag'of sixteen IN trade
or manufactures. surely succeed in life. Inns
| is n most singular and mischevous delusion.
as Senator Hoar pointed out. The STATISTICS
| of trade, in 50 far as they show the percent
age of failures on the part of those who, even
in this. the most prosperous country IN the
world, try to acquire wealth, or even a
decent competency for their latter years, are
the most melancholy reading we know OF.
The great mass of the poor boys who begin
''the education of circumstances in a store
never make a fortune, or if they make one
all to keep it, and simply make poor sub
sistence for themselves and their families,
and die in obscuriiy. The number OF sue
cessful business men is. in fact, vastly small
cr in proportion to the whole number oil
those who try business as a calling, than the
number of successful professional men, A
profession is really in our time the bes
Gift a father can hcstow on his son
because it is the only thing in which a mar
succeeds by his own character and capacity
simply, and the only possession OF whicl
nothing but his own negligence or miscon
duct can deprive him. The lawyer or doc
tor or minister or professor may never he
come rich, but he need care nothing 10
panics: he never becomes ''rotten wood,
and he walks on the bottom" all the time
Even in adversely he is apt 10 have mcnta
resources and consultations which are onl,
rarely within reach of the unfortunate busl
ness MANY. !. Nation.