Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-08-22
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IL II No Longer InIniezf 40 Success III ,
BusIsess Life.
A good deal ot discussion has been
excited BY Mr.. And rev Carnegie IS decfa-
ration that, 80 far as his ol3s6rg ztiunS|
goes, college bred young men arr not
apt 20 succeed IN business. Assuming
that the purpose Of business 81 to make
money. he says that college graduate
does not fulfill 1t 50 quickly Of 10 surely
as one who goes into business itnmedi~
atclv upon leaving school There MAS
time, no doubt, when no ose ssssa Id
have disputed She assertion The offRi-
men for the church, and up ii the b.
ginning Of this century such colleges
as Harvard. Yale and Princeton ~ ~
conformed To the medieval conception
Of their functions. that majority u
their graduates were intended tor the
ministry and entered upon IT. 6t1tiea
Even those who chose the professions
Of medicine or law were 1arge1y fmpeIIed
by other than peeuniary motives. and
did not contemplate rivalry with busI-
ness men as regards the xccnmuSation
Of property.
In the days when college curric1-
lu1 was mainly confined to Greek
Latin and the higher mathelnatic Is
was generally acknowledged that lad
looking forward to business life would
Y do better to enter store or counting
i room at an early age than to spend at
college the Sc ven important years be-
tween fourteen and twenty-one. Not
only would the graduate find ii difficult
Il to make up for the long start acquired
4 BY his non-collegiate competitors. but
he would be handicapped By habits,
+ tastes, predictions and points Of view,
but i'll adapted TO success in business.
1t was, perhaps. the belief once current
In the disqualification Of highly cdu,
Gated young men for business pursuit.
that led the elder James Gordon Ben
nett to say to Mr.. George w. Chi1ds fas
the latter tells Us in his ~Recollec
tionsvj:
seChilds how unfortunate II ID for boy Il
have rich parents II you and had been bon
THAT way, perhaps we wouldn't have amountes
70 much
In this country, however, and to /
G considerable extent In England, ths
purposes and methods of college edaca
ton have undergone process of read
adjustment during the present genera
ton The results of the changes in th,
aim and the curriculum of universities
! are not yet SO ma nifest as they will b
later, but we may already predict will
confidence that the Carnegies of the fu
tnre will have comparatively Httli
ground for pronouncing college train
ing unsnited to business success 4,
make ciergymen has ceased to be tn
primary purpose OF our chief institu
, tions of learning. They are rather de
signed to qualify young men for effect
i've exertion in whatever vocation the
4 may choose to enter.
! Their present function Is twofo1d
b first to effect general stimulation an
I discipline of the mental faculties: and
: secondly, to supply instru ction throug
3 elective courses in subjects special
! adapted to secure advancement t in th
r particular vocation to which q youn
e man looks forward. The time whic
e formerly a lad must have expende
upon Greek, he can now devote to civ
! engineering or to electricity and chen
T istry, whose relations to industry al
g manifold, direct and obvious. Moreoye
u the spirit of undergraduate life, 1
e might be expected now that studies al
n adjusted to postgraduate intention
g has become less academical and MOI
z practical Instead of being, what it use
l. to be, microcosm sequestered fror
ii prosaic bread earning existence ar
having sea RELY any points of contal
with it, the college has become vest
o bule of the outdoor world. Universitie
n in fine have recognized the necessity
, such radical reco Instruction of their pr
a grammes and processes as shall mai
education not merely an intellectu
ia gymnastic but specific and substal
:, tial promoter of advancement IN 81
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