The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-02

ing the supposed decadence of the art OF
public speaking among college graduates.
Prof. Perry said:
1T is true that less attention is paid
to elocution in the colleges now than in
the past, but 1t is a mistake to suppose
thai the spirit of debate has entirely disap.
peared from among the under graduates
The decline of Evolutionary training came
about, no doubt, from the fact that it
seemed to have tendency to cultivate the
memory of fine phrases and the utterance
of sounding platitudes at the expense Of
other qualities, and to exalt the man who
possessed a fine figure and a sonorous
voice without real ability above the mar
who recently had something to say. Hers
in Columbia there are three or four socle-
ties whose members discuss current mat
ters periodically and earnestly They do
not choose such splendid topics, perhaps
as they used to, nor / believe do they in
dulge in so many glbtering generalities.
THE aim of college training a. present
is to teach students to think for them
selves. During their first year in college,
they have to be taught how to study;
after that we try to develop the capacity
for original investigation. The original
investigator will always have som ething
meaty to say, if he chose to talk, and il is
to produce graduates whose words shall
be full of meat when they open their
mouths that the colleges are striving most
earnestly"
Mr.. Henry Clews. the Wall street brok-
er, who is as well known in his line as any
OF the men above quoted in theirs, disa-
grees with them most emphatically as 10
the advantages of college education IN
business, as he explained in his own
breezy fashion.
You can judge for yourself what l think
of college training as a preparation for
business life he said lifting his hands,
when say that l will not have a college
graduate in my employ. In order to do
business on Wall street man must learn
the business from the ground up, and l
have found by experience that the neces-
sary knowledge can not be obtained un-
less the learner begins when he is boy.
take them in a Is or Whereabouts, and set
them to carrying the mail to and from the
postoffice, running errands, and DOING an
sorts of odd jobs until l can see what they
are fitted for. After a while one Of my
boys shows fitness for keeping accounts
Then he goes on the books. Or he may
show capacity in some other direction IN
which case he is assigned to the work ne
is fitted for
Now the college graduate is a man past
Il, say, ana maybe six feet tall, Wheh 10
Is ready to begin business life. DO you
think he would like to go to work running
errands alongside of a 15-year-old boy? Or
do you thik he would be fit to take a place
in advance of these 15-year-old boys, not
having had the preliminary training wnlch
they are going through? Not at all, as
l have discovered for myself. The boy
who proposes to go into business shouia
understand the English language so thd'
he can express himself clearly and unmlS'
takaby; he should know how to write
plain, legible hand rapidly;he should know
arithmetic, and lots of it. He should alsv
have the severe training in business
methods that can be got only by sorVms
his time as a subordinate in business
office. My experience has been that INC
college graduate is apt to have none .!
these things, and, therefore, as nav
said, I do not take college graduates N"
my Office" Dexter Marshal'