Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-11

u tuC ycuuS tutu OF Inc CLASS
let me say that If any of you have not
planned college course of study, YOU
have in my opinion made grave error.
no matter what may be your future occu
patton. beg OF you to reconsider your
determination. Il you select profes,
slonal career, a college education is alb
solutely essential to the proper mental
development, and the acquiring of
broad foundation on which to build Tour
life study, without which training you
cannot hope to be in the front rank, nor
slved from the slough of mediocrity in
which there is no honor, no satisfaction
aad no adequate reward, Believe me,
the old saying that there is room in the
front ranks" is more true now than it
ever has been in the past. The advance
ing and more general intelligence of the
present, is demanding more accurate
knowledge, more thorough qualifications
and better work of every professional
man. and that young boy who thinks "he
can get along all right" without college
training, and make perfect success of
himself will be disappointed and repent
his decision all his life long.
There may be occasional exceptions,
but you will see the probabilities of
greater success, when | reiIerate what
one of the class has said in his Grafton.
MI. Hiram Orcott, of Massachusetts, q
man high in educational work, says:
Less Ihan one per cent of the voters of
the Uuited ates are college graduates,
| yet they hold 50 per cent of the desirable
positions in the government and in the
business world He also says that q
college graduate is worth from 200 to
300 per cent more III earning capacity
than nou-graduate. 1t certainly pays
in money, and that is largely what we
wish to gain. If a professional career
be impossible for any one, let him do
whatever he engages in with all his
| might, with firm determination to do
that thing the very best it can be done
Learn it thoroughly and DO it well. Let me
| tell you for your encouragement that Mr..
| OrcOtt also says statistics show the High
| school graduate receives On average of
| 100 per cent more in W e Than the boy
who left school on his completion of tn
ninth grade.
If any of The Young women have de-
| cided to fcorIe scD"ol teachers. let ne
| say, may COD Ciess You, for u Is The no
| biest work that man "r wnman Can en-
| gage in but beg IF lom 10 Y IalIfV our
| selves to become good tencGvrs. Do not
| thiak that girls in tDeir teens
are able to teach school. You are
| Just prepared o begin to
| learn how To te ch. Teaching Is pro-
| fessiOn, and from the first grade to the
last requires q speuizt cour-e of trainiDg,
The tine is rlpiily approaching indeed
1 OH y
| ton for the position of teacher must have
! received TN, sp,c'a training 10 fit her
| properly FIR ..t work. This will soon
| be demanded # ever. teacher MS surely
| ~ a medical c,iucr.iun is required of u
| physici n or 2 legel education il of = law
yer, and while the WORK may be hard and
| Expensive, and the requirements seem
| ngly severe. Vet rs surely VIII the reward
| be cores nn1dtaLty great bon IN The
! larger rem Ier.ttua, and in the sausfac-
ZION 10 the cons cieuti1us mind # doing
ruur- p-rj-c> work. Every gtrl NJ not
/ w.Srfo rscIue & teacher she NAV u,t
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study nr r..r-ea md 'tsrn'ue. =.
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g.- L,a.a long .-g. grnsp aEl0y au.
every blessing which Is possible fol