The morning call., 1893-05-28

men and young women. II Is a plea, as strong
as know now to make IL. for higher educa-
tlou, for more thorough prepar alton for the
duties OF HE. 1 know those well 10 whom 1
wish 10 sneak. Aud to such as these. with the
life aud duties in the busy world before you. the
best advice l or any one can give Is this, "GO
TO college,"
And you may say: "Tbese four years are
among the best of my life. The good the col
lege does must be great, II 1 should spend this
time and money In securing IT, What will the
college do for me?"
1t may do many things for you If you are
made OF the right stuff. for you cannot iaSten a
$4,000 education 10 a 50-cent boy. The fool,
the dude and the sfirk come out OF college
pretty much as they go In. They dive deep in
the Pierian springs. as the duck dives In the
pond, and they COME up as dry as the duck
does. The college will not do everything for
you. It is simply one OF the helps by which
you can win your way to a noble manhood or
womanbOod. Whatever you are, you must
make of yourself, but a well-spent college life
is one Of the greatest helps TO all good things.
SO II you learn TO use 1t rightly. this The col
fege can do for you: 1t will bring you In cou-
tact with the great minds Of the past, the long
roll of those who thr ongh tie ages have borne
a mission TO young men aud young women.
from Plato TO Emerson, ftOm Homer and
Euripides to Schiller and Browning. Your
thoughts will be limited, not by the narrow
gossip of to-day. but The great men of all ages
and all climes Will uec0me your brothers. You
will learn to feel what the Greeks called the
consultations OF philosophy. 10 turn from the
petty troubles of the day 10 the thoughts of the
masters Is to go from the noise OF the street
ough The door OF a cathedral. The whole of
your life must be spent in your own company.
and only The educated man is good company
for himself.
The college can bring you face to face with
the great problems of nature. You VIII learn
frem your study OF natures laws more than the
books eau tell you OF the grandeur. the power,
the omnipotence OF God You viii learn 10
face great problems seriously. You will learn
to work patiently at their solu ion, though
many generations must each add Its mite to
your work before any answer can be reached.
Your college course will bring you iu contact
with men whose Influence strengthens aud In
spires. Tue Ideal college professor should BE-
the best man In lhe community. He should
have about hrm nothing mean, or patry, or
cheap. He should be 10 the student az David
Copper fields Agnes, always poiuting the way
upward
Moreover. The training which comes from
association with ones felow-students cannot
be overeslmated. Here and thrre 1t is true,
some young Invertcbrate, overburdeued wi II
money or spoiled by home coddIng. fails into
bad company and leaves college In worse
condition than when he entered II. These are
the windfalls of education. But they are few
among The great majority. Most of our apples
are not worm-eaien a, the core. The average
student enters college for a purpose and you
will lose nothing. but may gain much from as
ISOLATION with him. Among our college stu
dents are the besl young men OF the times.
They mold each others character and shape
each others work. In the German ur4ver-
stiles is the "fellow feeling among free Spirits"
one OF the most important elements In their
grand system of higher education.
The college intensliies the individuality OF
man. Ii takes his best abilities and raises him
% the second or third power. as We say 10
algebra.
A man is always so much more the mau
nature meant him to be when his mind is
trained. The educated man has he courage OF
his conviction because only he has any real
convictions. He knows how convictions should
be formed. What he believes he takes OH his
own evidence, not because 1t Is the creed Of MS
church, or the platform of his party. So he
counts as unit In bis community, and is never
reckoned part OF the dozen or hundred. ITO
see things as they are'' II one of the cruwning
privileges of Tie educated man, and to help
others to see them 80 is one OF the greatest seI-
Vices lie can rende: to The community.
But you may say: IAN this may be fine and
tue, but II docs not amply In my case. / am II o
gesius; shall never be scholar; l want
simply 10 Get along. Give Inc education enough
to teach district school, or o run an engine,
or to keep account books, and / am satisfied.
Any Kind OF a school VIII be GOOD enough for
tha :"
"The youth gets toeether his materials"
says Th0reau, "tO build bridge to the moun
IN N rci,a up nal nr Da N
and at leng the middle. ged man concludes
TO build a Woodsbed VITA ihem."
Now why not nlan for woodshed at first
and save this waste of time and materials?
But tn gathering of these materials will
strengthen the youth 1t may be the means OF
saving him from ldlene>s, from vice. So long
as you are at work on your bridge 10 the moon
you will shun the saloon and we shall not see
you on be dry goods box in front Of the corner
grocery
Ii does not hprt the young man 10 be ambi-
tious In some honorable direction. In the
pure-m minded youth ambition Is the sum OF ali
the virtues. Lack o. ambition means failure
from tue start. The young man who Is aiming
1T nothing and cares not 10 rise Is lready dead.
Th, re Is no hope for him. Only the sexton and
the undertaken can serve his purposes.
The old Traveller Ratuesque tells US that when
lie was boy he read the voyages OF Captain
COOK auU BaiidS ana LIE tdi4lf-nI ana MS soul
was fred with the desire to be a great traveller
like them. "And SO l became such," he adds
shortly.
II you say to yourself, will be natural
ist, Il traveller an historian, statesman, a
scholar; il you never unsay il, il you
bend all your powers in that direction aud
take advantage OF all those aids that helr
toward yGur ends and reject all that do not. yo,
will some time reach your goal. The world
turns aside to lei any man pass who sn0w.
whittier H. Is gGng.
"Why should we call ourselves men," said
Mirabeau, "unless it be 10 succeed In every
thing everywhere ?"
"But college education costs money" you
my say. 81 have 10 money, therefore / can
not 90 10 college,"
This Is nonsense. II you have health and
strength and no one derendent on you you can
not be poor. There Is in this country no greater
good luck that a young man can have than 10
be thrown on his own resources. The cards are
stacked against the rich mans son. or the
many college men WHO have risen TO promi-
Nence in my day very few ef'them did not lack
for money In college. l remember little
clearinghouse Of tie students at Cornell very
appropriately called The "Struggie for Exist
ence.' Which has graduated more bright minds