The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-06-29
New York Tribune.l
What TS Tho A II FIT For

Lays Dig With the tate OF the collie
gian are now upon him. Examina-
tions, commencement orations and di-
plomas are the great movements in
the universe in his eyes during these
weeks in June; he wonders compass
sionately how people outside of the
college can make such a pother con-
cerning strikes or Chinese or Irish
questions. From the large universi-
ties down to the numberless unknown
little colleges in out-of- f-the-way cor
neTs of the country the same scene is
enacted; the young fellows are bid
ding good-by to school, and beginning
| life, and they are so full Of ardor and
ambition and harmless vanity that the
Nation really feels pleasant holiday
stir Of sympathy with this so-called
crisis in their young lives.
But after all, is it a crisis? How
much do they really begin life when
they sally forth with their diploma in
hand? In every valedictory Grafton
which will he delivered the same story
is told; they have 'girded on their ar
NOR and are going into actual battle; !;
they ''have served their apprentice
ship and are ready to take up the la
Dor Of life" Now, if the battle and
labor of life mean, which they gener-
ally do, to earn ones living, these gal
liant A. BIS have hardly begun their
apprenticeship. Even if lads father
have money enough to keep him from
the necessity of work, and his busi-
ness in life be simply the gentlemanly
arts of helping to manage the estate
and to Fill place in society, he will
find long training is necessary after
he has done with Cicero and Homer
before he is fit for either employment
Neither Greek nor Latin nor the
higher mathematics have. brought
him a single idea concerning prudent
investments. the capabilities of money
in the worlds different markets, nor
yet the best or most effective part to
play in drawing-room. 1t is, how
ever, but a small minority of the
graduates Of '82 who will be called to
the responsibilities and powers of a
life of moneyed ease; the great mass
Of American youth in our colleges are
given their education as their capital.
1t is the tool wherewith they are to
carve their way at least to a compe-
tency. But how? For any part in
business life, trade or manufactures, a
college training is held to unfit a
man, whether with OR without capt.
tai. He could not, with his diploma
in hand, earned by years of hard
study, sell a pound of nails or sugar
intelligently. There is not a trade by
which the most ignorant man makes
his living in which he could now earn
a dollar a week, without at least a
short apprenticeship. lie he wishes
to become clergyman, lawyer or doc
tor, regular course Of two or three
three years study is required, >. and af-
ter that a season Of weary probation
waiting for hearers, clients and pa
tients, in which he has to learn that
new science-how to influence anG
deal with human nature. Every man
especially every young man, think:
he can edit a newspaper and manage
a farm; but let the frst-honor man ot
boasted fine literary abilities" go into
a newspaper office in search of po
sition and see what welcome he will
meet. He will find that an education
is needed which he has never had
l. even to write Personals or to report {
fire. If he follows the multitude anC
goes West, he will discover in every
cattle ranch college-bred men lik'
himself, who are going to work t.
learn the business from the beginning
: like any plough-boy before they cal
: have the slightest chance of success
= It was but last week that the Chicag
l Mter-Oceon protested against tn
= hordes of young men with an educa
ton of books, but ignorant of ranch
= ing or cattle-raising, who were rush