The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-09-30
AN EVERY DAY EVIL.
THE Practice oE DECEPTION IN
CREASING


CREASING
The Custom OF Colleges Issuing Cata-
1ogues that are Calculated Leave
Erroneous Impression.
BY J. ED. s.
IF THERE IS any one principle
that is meaner and lower than any
other, that principle is deception.
Even in a person nothing can be
more despicable or more contempti-
BILE. You can find people of all
ranks and stations in life who will
agree to anything you may say, and
declare with emphasis that every
thing you may do or say is exactly
right and couldn't have been done
or said better. A great many of
them will tell you that you have the
most brilliant intellect of any one
they ever saw, and you are authority
on everything in creation. And yet
these same people, as soon as you
have your back to them, will declare
that yon are a perfect swell-head,
Ounce, rascal, and everything else
that is mean. These people are not
exceptions; on the contrary they are
by far the largest class of our people.
/ had far rather have the most
ferocious wild brute on the face of
the globe for my close friend than
one of these real deceitful persons,
for if the brute does tear my body
in pieces, he can do no more, but the
deceitful "friend" does more.
Under the guise Of friendship he
blackens and defaces my character,
he destroys my influence, and leaves
me a miserable wreck, an object of
contempt and disdain among my
fellowman. And man had much
better be dead than to be mere
living human without any character
among his associates.
But deception is not confined to
individuals alone 1t goes out and
finds welcome home in all the diff
ferent branches of business of the
day. No business or profession is
free from it. The mercantile, the
clerical, the legal, the scientific, and
the educational professions are all
hugging, to some extent, this blight
ing curse TO mankind: But | wish
to notice more especially its effects
upon our schools and the educational
interests in general. We know that
the catalogues of nearly all our
schools are false to some extent.
How very few do really what they
profess to do. They claim that
theirs Is the best school out, and any
one can, at small cost, obtain a
good education at the school they
represent. Some seeing this, and
believing that man never stoops to
deceit, close in with the offers and
go out to seek an education They
soon return disguised at all mankind,
realizing that not all pictures are
true images Of the characters they
are intended to represent. And how
very few of our Academies and High
Schools are willing to tell and do
tell the truth concerning their pat
ronage. We know that nearly all
profess to have more students than
they really do have. And again,
we have but little idea how many
schools there are that 90 by the name
of Colleges, when the truth is they
are only ordinary Academies. We
have several of these would be Col
leges within the borders of our own
Old North State, and we know they
are not capable Of doing what they
claim. had much rather repre-
sent a first class Academy than Il
fifth g.,>,,1 lo.se9e. Ant these Col
leges are doing their part of the
evils OF the world. They cause a
young man to believe that when he
finishes their course, he is prepared
to enter upon the active duties OF
life, and thus send out many into
the broad field of action" unpre-
pared, and who will be drones and
clogs in the wheels of progress all
their days. Oh that we had more
first rate Academies and fewer fifth
grade Colleges! Then would our
real Colleges and Universities be
better patronized and our people
would be a more progressive people.
OH that mankind would learn the
real affects of deceit and we could
know IN whom to place confidence.
Liberty Echo