Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-22


of new and special course OF study and
training directed to the needs of his chosen
occupation. Often, indeed, his college
training may weave into this with decided
advantage, but it is oftener an element In
the enjoyment OF worldly success ratner
than q means of attaining it.
JAMES A. WHITNEY.
A BANK OR MERCANTILE HOUSE.
''I have not had time to give your letter,
or, rather, the question you ask, very care
full consideration. but in general way L
might say that, after graduating, the young
man should go into the banking or mercan-
tile business, beginning at the loot OF the
ladder and working his way up. If there Is
anything to him he will not be at the loot OF
the ladder but very short time. :,
"IRvING A. EVANS"
| Replying to your letter, let me say,
briefly, that a college graduate ought to go
to work. He is just like anybody else, ex-
cept that the man who has acquired an edu-
cation without the opportunity of college
instruction is superior, in most cases, to one
! who has had those advantages. Either OF
them will succeed if he be honest, sober and
Industrious. As rule, 1 think too many
college graduates seek professions, so called;
as the law, medicine and the ministry. Ii
manufacturing or railroad industries, their
chances for success in life would douotless
be improved. NY own observation has
taught me that young man who Is deter
mined to win, and who preserves good
habits and high moral tone. is sure to sue
ceed, unless he meet with loss of health or
other unusual misfortune.
JAMES E. CAMPBELL, Governor Of Ohio.
'I can only answer your question by say
ing that when was a college graduate l
took advantage of the first opportunity for
honorable employment, and did my level
best to perform the work to the satisfaction
of my employer. From time to time, as
other opportunities presented themselves, 1
took advantage of them. I know of no
other rule for the guidance of the young col
lege gradute but to work diligently, tell the
truth and avoid indulgence in designations OF
any kind, and especially in the use of alco-
holic stimulants. With training, there Is
no reason why the college graduate should
not merely hold his own, but easily surpass
all competitors in the occupations of life
"ABRAM S. HEWITT"
TAKE A TURN AT SCHOOL TEACHING.
''In response to your favor. would state
my belief that a college graduate, il he con-
templates entering a business life, should
attend commercial college with the same
humble motive that the famer's boy does
who comes to the city with cnly q district
school education for the same purpose. IF
he proposes the practice of profession, let
him pass at least three months previously in
teaching school. He has such an honorable
precedent as the experience OF that other
college graduate, John Adams, second
President OF the United States.
81 believe every man who has been at
school, consecutively, for the several years
necessary TO pass from the primary school to
the commencement day, has cultivated,
willingly or lgnorantly, a state of intellect
ual conceit that is detrimental to his inter-
ests, financial, social and moral, for more or
less years, unless he is placed in actual con-
tact with an experience of the world as it
exists. If that experience is a trife un-
pleasant, the better for him.
1.-The sturdiest man 1 ever saw was Har-
ward graduate, who went Immediately to
Texas, lived two years as a cowboy, and
went home to Connecticut with perfect self
poise. have lived among books all my
life, but do not believe it is normal ex-
istence. The manual training school is
solving this problem of a proper education,
in which mental stimulus is united to mus
cular (physicaD action. Hurriedly, I offer
these crude ideas.
ALBERT P. SoUTHwIcK."
MAKES BRoAD-GAUGE MEN.
In reply to the question. "What should
college graduate of to-day do?" Thorn as
Bailey Aldrich refers to a paper bv Prot. e.
R. Sill, published in the Atlantic Monthlv
some time since, as the embodiment of his
opinions. Prof Sill writes thus:
ga college is a place where young people.
whatever their future occupation is to be.
may receive that more or less, complete de-
ualn nj rb iah
tion.' The human mind, being many sided,
the college undertakes to aid the develop.
ment on all the lines of its natural growth
The tendency of modern life, moreover. with
the extreme division of labor, being to force
one or two powers of the mind at the e1-
pense Of the rest, the aim OF the college is to
Iorestall this one-sided effect by giving the
whole man a fair chance beforehand.
"While the special or professional school,
OF the university provide that person NAV
go as far as possible on some one line Of
knowledge, which constitutes his speciality.
or of that combination of knowledge and
skill which constitutes his profession. the
college provides that he shall get a COM
plete possession OF himself in all his powers.
mind, body, and that total of Qualities
known as character as is essential to the
highest success in any specially or profession
whatever. He may get this broad prepara-
tion elsewhere than in college It NAV
come through private study. 1t may come
sometimes, but only TO men of extraordinary
endowments, from the discipline of life
itself. But to the average man it comes
most surely and most easily through a COL
lege course.
DON'T BE A COWARD
"What shall these Young men do? fear
this is vague question you put TO ME and
can lead only to a vague answer; for the
problem of life before each youth is a sepa-
rate one. If had any one of these grad
uates before me, there is single vague piece
of advice 1 would like to give, and, if possi-
bic, in a way that would make it remem-
bered. 1 would say: For Gods sake, Young
man, don't be a coward
"The young man would think, dare say.
tina: such advice was i'll bestowed on brave
boy like himself; and in less than three
wears you might find this same brave bow
morally ashamed of every noble resolution
he carried with him from the college
campus, gradually adopting the logical
reasons for adhering to ignoble standards of
professional, business or political activity;
slowly and surely abandoning the fight for
social and political betterment to men of
moral courage; becoming, in fact, the poor.
est kind of a coward, the coward in spirit.
the prosperous cynic-a dead weight upon
the progress OF the race.
''It isn't the downright scamp that
brings disgrace upon the American repub-
lie and turns our city governments into dens
of thieves, it is the lazy, COMPROMISING and