New-York tribune., 1890-05-04
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using that term in its broadest sense. men who
argued, think, that there is nothing Ike youth Of
poverty for developing IN men the qualities th'' r fa1
school does a man learn 10 place SO high valuc on
money and nowhere else does he acquire 50 eneG
lua!y the qualities of self-Icstraipt which enable
him both to save and to accumulate.
II IS not possible for me to make an inquiry con
cernins the men whom Mr. Carnegie instances srl "a,
lcdccrS III the business world who nave risen rom
poverty TO their present places of influence ana IN,
porance. but should be inclined to think that thee
Two propositions would be true 10 large majority
OF them First. that none of them had the opportunity
to go 10 college If they had wanted to- and, second.
exceptions. Certainly. If this second proposition Is
true such men do not send their SONS to college Tor
ness affairs. They do so because they want their
sons to be free from the lack which they have iet
they began TO FIJI large place in affairs me true
COMPARISON 70 institute. therefore, in order to dc dc
tcrnine whether college education units man
for business life, would appear to me to be whether
out ont q Inc We4 & VINO could have & aa t coiSe ro fu ut
business Office at fourteen have proved themsclvc,
more capable merchants than those VINO nave , h's ~
gone through college speaking OF the men tlhh %
within my own personal acquaintance do not
think that the comparison would be uniavorabe to
has an immediate bearing for the number of college
bred men who 60 into business as compafeo WITH @ to
number in business who have not Dcch throuHh CO..
lege, is an exceedingly small proporunh. lm
pears TO me to be this Ii is harder for young maI
al twenty to get start than it Is for BOY al four
teen because the college graduate al t"enN tn fan ne ne
Ginning he is without the special qualii
cations, which give him than boys vaiuc 10
his employer. The second disadvantage tat Is rely
by is that the college course, just because !.
gives "A other interests than his business to tlal
extent makes him less single minded IN the pursuit OF
a business career. These genuine dnchillcs WIN
which the college graduate who means 10 Ue q shc-
ccssful business undoubtedly must contend;
But Mr. Carnegie pcrccvcs that the Young pfacucai
man, who has his foot upon the ladder and Is be-
ginning to rise" is not without his special dangers
also. lie warns him TO beware irSt, oi drunken,
ness, second, Of speculation, and thrd oi tck Oh
concentration. III other words, 10 be SncccSsin IN
business career. man, whether ne Is a coiIeEr,
overcome whatever obstacles lie in MS way IL Is
not many weeks since prominent railroad nanagcr
was quoted Ia saying that Tor tne purposes OF
rallroadinc college bred man was Thousand var
ahead Of the man who had such training. lhc
reason he gave for this assertion was. tha 70 me
college graduate YOU could state principles and having
a trained mind he would apply them mmscu. 10
the other you Obliged TO say 20 thls or
that"-a process which involved much closer over
sght and much more explicit Instructions. ,., Ia,
To back, thcreforcs 10 the propoSl VIII VIII
which started II II he true that general cGucauo!
units man for success in business calnng. 10
rclegates business in all allied forms - position
distinctly below all other spccia!ties rs one VINO
has himself been a business man. am distinctly IN
willing to assent 10 this conclusion NY own Hu-
pres sion is that while j. harder for colcc" graduate
10 Get started business than for one VINO enters IL
as a boy. IA FIVE years from the time ne does >tdrl'
other things being equal the college graduate VII, bc
the peer in business OF his friend who began as boy
and that while equally successful In business ne viii
/ ill much larger place in the community tin me
sided man hope 10 fill. tnqncNuoiihN 'Nrlr
are innumcrahle exceptions both sides oi the rule,
but this would be nv own conclusion from observation
and a comparison Of men, limiting nc heM ~ tlo>e
WHO have opportunity for college course II they