The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-30
what PrOfssslOn For the YOunE Man,

TeacheTs' Association adjourned 10 meet
at Pottsyille next year. a. j. M'
what Profession For the YOunE Man.
n. y. Times.
About this season the anxious parent Ia
reminded Of the necessity OF answering
certain important questions which come
up In almost every well.to.do family.
"Shall the boys go TO a college or univer.
city, or try tie scientific school, OF take up
business at onCsw In this city there Is q
strong tendency to put the lad, after a good
school training, directly into practical
affairs, He can get q technical knowledge
Of his business quite young, and seems TO
make q good start early; The fathers
have usually made their own way without
college education, aud secretly have little
faith In letters 90 fitting q man Tor trade.
They I'd wish to give their BOns
the same muscular bringing up
they had themselves. Then the
boys are eager TO make money and spec.
ulGte, and enjoy the luxuTies which money
brings, This ia true Of the great mass Of
successful business men and their sons.
But II 10 also true that a few OF our leading
merchants OF the past generation have
trained their sonB In college, and they In
their turn are educating in like manner
their children. Slill, on tho whole, 4 lib.
srGl education" Is not nearly 80 common
in New York as In New England. And
yet every Iather WIN desires to make
things pleasant In this world for bis aon,
and increase his sources OF hsppines, may
well doubt whether he can in any way
create more for him than by sending him
10 college. Az be recalls his own college
friendships OF early days, which have
uutlasted all youthful associations,
aud the uncessing plsSsura-and re.
pose he h0s drawn In a busy and
I@orried life from The snatches Of
culture he picked up there, and
the commune vtncttum even his very impSr.
fest learning has given him with 8 world
Of students, he may easily conclude that
merely as a means OF happiness he could
confer nothing letter on his Offspring
than a college or %university course. But
In this he must Of necessity be guided by
the youlhb~ capacities and adaptabilities
Some boys have no head fnr languages or
literature, and no fitness for the writing
or speaking professions. They are not
suitable subjects for the ordinary college,
and they never succeed we'll In 1t. For
snCh lads modern ingenuity has provided
especial means OF training In the ''scien.
tidc schools" such as the Sheffield, OF Yale,
and the elective courses of university like
Harvard. In both Of tlleae q youth can OBJ
tain 3 good deal o!gsDsrsl culture aud have
o portion Of the pleasures Of college lie,
and yet follow specially, whether mathe.
NAUTICAL, scientific or practical, and thus
al himself for a particular branch. Many
young men me thus preparing themselves
for those careers 10 this county which are
Offering such prizes for intelligence and
education and practical talent Among
these may be placed first the management
oil railroads, engineering Oh them, the ap.
plication Of machinery and ingenuity 10
their success; then all kinds of mining
engineering; then chemical professions
as applied to manufacture, and many 9th.
81 similar brcnches, where brains and
trAiuiUg are lnoHt wanted and command
high pay. To these must be added the
mercantile ard banking pursuits, which
are open TO young men with o certain de.
gree Of education An attempt iB also
made In these scientific schools and
classes TO III for q profession which is more
and more attractive 10 the younR-the ed.
itOTiAl or Journalistic: but we cannot say
with mitch success, thus far.
The great majority. however, Of studtons
young Q aim at one Of the learned pro.
LESSONS, and for this purpose the college
or university 10 indispensable. And yet
when one sees the immense numbers
Ctowding these professions, aud the many
10 them whose lives are failures, while
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