The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1886-07-15
Dn. BATTLES ADDRESS.
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til, IL. II ,Ieli.errti the luu5t.st Grafton III
the University Of south Carolina We have
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,...-.l .i41t II .Il. l.a.a- .a. s good points
Ia ne people III Nortl 5r9ilna ouEllt
read thaI VIC quote paragraphs.
We regret that 81 i re race t9r the
ldress Ill lis entirety. -" Baftie G Ill,
eninentiy practical way Z I>~ed tAe nd
vantagps of edGeati 3Hd enriched his
speech zrjth the fruit IF extensive re-
search and 4 We'll filled mint. Attor a
short graceful Introduce III which e
tribute wte paid II ~ distinguished
1hornweli AMI Preston l}r. Battle SAID:
Every Wan Must Make Ills Own Way in
the " orid.
Every man who Is made 1T All Is a self
| made man. The extrayagant praise given
successful men not having collegiate
training Is. especially in America, all
wrong. There may be some Slight eNtn>e
for such discrimination IN countries ike
Germany, where university degrees are
prerequisite to entering certain pru.c,-
siOns But in this free land of learning
toll and boandcss gifts, energy, pluck
tact sense character, combined with good
health, Will always lead to useful, If lot
honorable career. The best collegiate
training cid not keep back Webster, Ham
Iton, i..e auu StOnewall jackson from
great careers, nor the want Of il prevent
Washington, Andrew Jackson Iilc3!n,
Wander bit, he elder. or Jay Gould from
occupying lofty positions before the eyes
Of tile world GeIliti> and labor combine q
ALWAYS Win The most ItboriouS student
ii your college :! 'es not work 50 intensely
and umrenittmgfy rs toIed Alexander the
Great, and Cesar, Napoleon, Charlie
magne Frederick the Great, Y Washington:
or as now work Gladstone, I.trhrll and
Bismarck q am inclined 10 pnt ClcNe-
land in this list because of Ills sturdy in
dustry)
We may give a Young man tougher oars,
a more trinity shaped boat 4 better knowl
edge how to steer, Il clearer vision Of the
beacon light 1T the end Of the voyage, but
across the tempestuous waters he must
force his solitary way. His superior oars
and shapely boat and sight of the shining
goal will not save him from wreck if he
will not toll res0lutely and without ceas-
ing The shores are filled with fragments,
cast up by the waves by reason OF indo-
lence or self Indulgence. But experience,
rightly interpreted, shows that collegiate
training IS an advantage Of very great
value. 1t gives better start in life. 1t
furnishes weapons of superior temper with
derness, but they are onIy weapons. They
will rust and lose d-se With idleness, and
the more active competitor. with his bIa, k
smth-torged, home made implements Will
lew his way before You and gam the
crown OF victory.
oExceiIence Without " ors.
The chief mistakes ot Young men come
fiom not Keeping IN ,nIua AID acting on
the fact that the bodily ana neutal facul
tie, are closely Analogous. ~ physical
raining the il&l ctl ) spnt rong
Is the horse, Ict' Us { lion, ltHEe vision
for seeing as IN eagles, AealI;lst acute Is
the dcer's, smell dehca,t rs t.lt dogs. You
see how IN your gymnasium he boy who
groans at lifting a dictionary soon learns
to swing easily twenty pound dumb bell;
how one who stumbles awkWardly over Il
stone in the path soon clears gracefully q
tve-feet bar; how one convulsiyeiy kicks
like q felon on the gallows, III his first ef
fort to raise his chin over a ladders round
soon climbs hand over hand to the top
most round. The muscular powers, both
for strength and quickness Of action, are
doubled triplcd quadrupled. The trained
athlete IS twice, thrice, four times the man
he was before beginning his training.
1t is similar with animals, Maud =,
before the trainer took charge Of her. was
dred dollars When her muscles are taught
to move 50 quickly as to stride over the
mile in 2:0s4 she brings 500, ,0000. The
hunter who stumbles over a three-foot
fence has little value, but deep IS the purse
which can secure him when trained to fly
like deer over a five barred gate III q
glorious steeplechase
And 50 notice the wonderful dexterity
acquired by the body. Watch the rapid
ly flying fingers over the keyboard of the
piano by a great performer, the marvel
lous rapldity OF a practlced type-setter the
delicate cutting of the engraver. Old
men have told me that the task for cot
ton-picker was seventy years ago, sixty
pounds a day. Men in my state have IN
Il race picked out 500 pounds, While 25O
and 300 pounds are common for first rate
men.
In like manner the faculties Of the mind
are trained. The brain flores and cells be
come by exercise strong and tough. elastic,
capable Of quick and sustained action.
Memory, imagination, atteL1ion, reason,
are wonderfully Increased in power, cdpa-
bility of standing fatigue, deNterity, rapid
ity of movement The We'll educated man
can marshal all his intellectual powers,
ready to be worked like a storming party,
against the problems Of life. if need be- by
Il 1dIlh NOV tiliS III W ciIculIN tUi lItIl-
He then discussed the great advantage
training at West Point and other military
schools gave 10 soldiers III the late war.
He said Il am Of the opinion that college
bred men, and among these the students,
have the best chances for success III life. :
Gen Lee was one OF the best two scholars
at West Point; Gladstone was senior wran-
gler at oxford; and Grant, jackson and
/ Sheriden had good training at West Point
He said he had greater respect for the
/ long headed, prudent, sagacious man who,
! denied the advantages of education sue
ceeded, than for the visionary dem-
cranks who talk knowingly on many sub
| jects of literature and science and art. but
/ lack sound judgment in applying princi-
| pies Mark Twain shrewdly hits them in
ridiculing Henry Ward Beecher's farming
He takes 50. SO pig and feeds him on So
worth of corn and sells the hog for s. 90.
/ He loses on the corn. but is very proud Of
doubling his money on his pig.
The Practical and the Theoretical.
And SO the college graduate may be able
to turn at sight the stirring ode of little
Jack Horner into Greek iambics and Latin
hexameters. He may even rise to the en-
inence of pitching a base ball with para
bo!ically spiral or elliptic curves, and yet
not know the difference between wheat
and oats, or conduct to success any busi-
ness in life. The seminary Young LADY,