Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-06-18
OUR COLLEGES.

There is not reader of The LEADER
who Is not attached by personal ties
to some College. 1t may be his own
UNCONVENTIONAL school, or 1t may be
one of our State schools, but in this
our. day and time, the wide-awake, up
to-date man must have his school for
higher education. Had we time, and
had we space all the colleges of our
State would have an extended write
up. AS it is, we embrace this piping
time of yearly pilgrimage to and from
our seats of learning as a favorable
time to speak few earnest words on
college work.
The great end in view is not the pro-
duction of a gazetteer or encyclopedia.
1t is not the perfecting of an auto
maton to run machinery, to keep
books, to write letters, to parrot forth
orders in school rooms, or with peacock
pride, strut before astonished local as
semblies. The end, the one great end
of all education is the production of
all-round men and women. This can
only be accomplished by teachers in
love with humanity, rather than with
sciences. Hence the true college aims
first of all to secure teachers, who see
in Jesus Christ the perfect man, and
who bow in humble submission at
the feet of the great teacher. 1t is i'm
possible for college to develop what
is best in its pupils with any other
style of teacher. The professor must
see in the wild boy, the possible saint;
in the dulled intellect, the possibilities
of an eternal development. He must
have visions of angels lurking in the
uncarved, unframed humanity.
Such coterie of teachers create a
college atmosphere clear, pure, elevat-
ing. AS we stand in politics above all
the dictates of party lines, and stand
for principle alone, so we would have
our people to be untrammeled by de-
nominational or State lines and to Sc
lect and patronize only those institu-
tions where these characteristics are
found in the teachers. We cannot af
ford to patronize college which does
not look narrowly into the physical
condition of its pupils. The young
body, in full sympathy with the young
mind, must be developed. While his
tory shows us many notable instances
of the superiority of mind over body,
still it abides true that strong build
ing must have strong foundation.
Hence it arises that the location and
furnishing of sleeping apartments,
forms no mean part of the equipment
of true college, To make happy, Wig
orous, contented boys and girls, 1t is
just as essential to have we'll quail
fed cook, as well qualified president
No parent should be content with an
institution that looks after the mind
and pays no attention to the exercise
of the body; to the kind, quantity and
quality of food; to the ventilation and
furnishing of recitation rooms and
sleeping apartments. Again, who
would want to patronize a school
where anything was Deified? Great
mistakes have often been made here.
The perfect man, the perfect woman
has but one ideal-Christ. Growth by
grace, by faith into His image, ought
to form large part of the work of ev-
cry college. The hope of the nation,
are educated, Christian men and wo-
men.
Reader, what kind of college, what
kind of school do you patronize?
Education, is not, ought not, must
not be aquestion of money. Questions
about colleges ought not to relate to
how much it costs, but "what is the
product?" Your boy, your girl, with
great possibilities hidden in their
young minds are not all of earth
earthly. They are born to be the sa-
cred daughters of the Almighty. He
is worse than an Esau who would risk
his child's kinship to. God in order to
save.