Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-31
TALKING OF COLLEGE EDUCATION.
What President de Garmo Said at the Grad
nation Exercises Of the Friends school.

What President de Garmo Said at the Grad
uation Exercises of the Friends school.
although tie Friends Select School ia mint
years old and its students have entered
Cornell. Harvard, Yale, swarthmore and john
Hopkins" said Prof. Sidwell in addressing the
assembly Of patrons and friends gathered al
Builders Exchange to witness the presentation
of eleven candidates for graduation, 1--WE have
invited you to see for the first time class Of
eleven present themselves for graduation. In
our desire to raise our standard we have at
tached only secondary importance to grad
Mating pupils. Today we have class worthy
the honor, where before we have had only in
diyiduals.''
OF the eleven Alexander G. Bentley will en-
ter Yale; Christopher Christian Cox Dawson,
Herbert Ingalls, Gsnnett and William Reuben
Wood go to Cornell; Clarence Melville John
son. Talbot Eugene Pierce, William Francis
Msttingly Sewers and Montgomery Blair Wales
to Princeton; William Albert Kent to the Massa-
chusetts School Of Technology; Chester Wright
Gldden undecided, but perhaps to Harvard.
The salutatory delivered by Wallace Dom
aid Mclean. He spoke eloquently, and Ches-
ter Wright Glidden delivered an ingenious
speech on "A Nineteenth Century Methuselah,
in which he claimed that man of this age
really lives more in three score and ten years
than Methuselah did in all the years allotted to
him
President Charles de Gsrmo Of Swarthmore
College in an interesting address discussed the
question of The Modern Education"
THE MODERN EDUCATION.
seven the statesman of today" he said, 81 needs
widely different training from that enjoyed
by our earlier public servants. Up to 1929 all
our Presidents and most of our statesmen were
classicists. Then it was in order to quote
Greek and Latin in speeches and writings. Now
one rarely hears or sees such quotations. This
is not because Greek and Latin are not known,
but because Greece and Rome have ceased to
be our ideals Of republican government. For
the last fifty years men have been studying the
development of the modern state, of constitu-
nonal government, of democratic institutions,
30 that 10 give Greek or Roman precedent for a
proposed measure today excites only a smile.
A new spirit has taken possession of modern
higher education. that the man who now
looks at college training with the eyes of fifty
years ago, be he professor or farmer or mer-
chant, belongs III the same class with those who
cannot abide the railroad. the steamships, the
electric light, bit are only content with the
slow WAYS Of their grandfathers. In the olden
days ii was hardly worth while to educate men
for a business career If business success was the
only motive for the education. Now the college
Is the shortest road to such an end 1t is of
course possible for young man to learn to I'M
derstand the complicated forces that lead to
success in business without ever seeing a col
lege but the chances are that he will sacrifice
all the incidental blessings which such an edu-
cation is sure to bring a man. only to be bafied,
outgeneraled and defeated in the end. We are
developing business generals, colonies. captains
and lieutenants in this country. and the young
man who does not fit himself to become an off,
Ger must remain a private.
ADAPTING COLLEGES TO MODERN NEEDS.
''The point have sought to Illustrate" he
said further on .'is that social and economic
conditions have now become so complex that
the old eolleoe education il M longsr odaon.ts
even in the preparat;on Of nrofess;onaI men
but that II must ba aIteraa to meet even tbe;r
needs and extended 10 meet the mood 81 tboss
who hone TO achieve success alone the lines of
scientific and bns;ness enternr;.a Tb;s cbonoa
does not imnIv the obI;terat!on 81 the ola cni,-
ure studies. but their reformation their re-
vivification. their extension. in accordance with
the present condition of things. Besides class
les and matbenatics the modern college ednca-
ton must incIude modern noIiticaI and social
history Theoretical and annIied econom;cs in
ending finance and admin;stra,ior cnrrsnc,
banking and taxation transnorta+ion tels'
craphs tr,,sts and indnstr;es. + ,nrst ;,cInda
political science embracing sucb tonics MS con-
stitutionaI history in var;ons countries With
comparative studv Of the const;tut;ons ~ a.
leading governments Of the yrorl5 tbns ra,aaI1
ire the most fundamentaI forces ~ wort l.,
modern civilization Through genuine studv of
political and economic science e. ia made nossi-
BE for the mind 10 cain Keen norer 81 con,-
prebendinp the relations ~ no,,t;caI and &C.
I,omie society which reveal not onIv tbs has;s -
business success bnt also The law ~ c;t;1eD.
,hip and brotbeybood Tbass sc;snees lie .. AZ.
basis of practical ethics -' ~ '-''
~ 0oLIh
In the olden days our grandfathers," the
speaker said, ''went to college. but our grand
mothers STAYED at home. Now brother and
w" o,o'nei anu
women are No move .,cIn5aJ So. an. 1910.