New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-02
PART III.
PAGES II TO IA.
PROBLEMS OF THE presently
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEEPEN BEFORE THE UNI
VERSITY OF CHICAGO.

CATION TO DEAL wITH-vALCE OF COLLEGE
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AND PERlLs.
Chicago. April IA large cultivated and
greatly interested audience listened this evening
70 Chauncev NJ Depew who delivered an ad-
dress in the Auditorium at the commencement
exercises Of the University Of Chicago. Mr..
Depew was in fine voice. His subject was The
Present. Its Opportunities and Perils" His ad-
dress was as follows:
Mr. President Ladies and Gentlemen In the
career ~ a Young man are several c.imacercs.
They are well defined and intensely interesting II
ne has the advantages OF liberal education
Broadly stated, they his entering college, the
day o. his graduation. the career he adopts. and
his marriage. His graduation day and the selection
Of his career come so close together that they may
alnos. be accepted as one. His university and the
learned faculty have equipped and trained him Tor
his life work. His reliance thereafter is upon MINI
ee,f He leaves college and enters the world un1er
poet!c even romantic conditions. His situation IS
like that Of the knight in the ancient tournament
whose valo- and skill were witnessed by throngs
OF gallant gentlemen and beautiful ladies' ana "ho'
II successful. had the supreme happiness OF CROWN
ing some one the queen of love ana beauty AS
this modern knight Of the college curriculum STANDS
upon the commencement platform he is surrounded
by admring relatives. by happy and sympatheuc
friends and a joyous and app.auding multitude
The entrance of a young man into the world Is
commonl, described IN the vocabulary OF the htera-
ture of the battlefield. but that Characterization
IS Wholly inadequate Not only Is it Inadequate
b,t II IS untrue The ambitious aspirant for the
rewards and honors Of life does not expect to win
them by the defeat and destruction of his COM
petitors Blood and treasure are not poured ou'
in successful in literature. the professions
or business II is an ignoble and mean view WHICH
re,ss unon Tho yun Of an opponent In order 70
secure his place. Success in life, with all lis NOT
competitions is rather contest ike some OF a',s
e. or own times in which the swifter runner or
the more skful oarsman ma! WIN me Pc nHs M
rewards for those who fall in securing the supreS
positions. OF course We Know OF iol sO .bers and
bava beer made by the misfOrtuneS OF DINERS dIii
positions which have been won by me Ove'' h
OF others. but the man whose 1 rnnresent
ever great and glitiering they may pr' ttepnsands
+. noibng but a legaiized brigand II is the mis-
iorfunn Of our complex civilization that the lay
has comprehended and covered IN us ~ SHINING
against the persons and properties or a co''i"'''
AMBITION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
not the least OF the slores of our perlod 'a'
a liberal education has become popular anu 14e
university the ambition OK all the peop.e'
nearly 100 years the university was oh's Io' ~.
select few The plain people had no iot or par
or interes. or opportunity in its advantages. Inc
,rediaeval foundation which is the ancestor OF U'e
modern college was Only for the benent OF id0-
ton OF the population Originally II was Only .o'
the Church. II took centuries 10 embrace III d IL"
II Is only in our own time and in America ina
Journalism has been recognized as one o. the I'D
eral professors There is nothing so CONSERVATIVE
as the college II follows last in the procession OF
rroCress; Il distris:s innovations and discIeditss
theories. It's faculty by the very peculiarly OF
their existence. learn to respect the ra'Vi.s anu
line OF men eminent in every department. ot hi-
man ,housht ana aciy w inHT thg most srcsy
into he Sh tbe aEons upon D he Nil
ugon ana sl1 the hundseis OF others who have u
mined literature upon the innumeGa3ie h i1e Of
sis5eJ9 ann 4da nk The University in Erope
s ssoo SS Of the i People IS still an ns,uon
ana arc not f6 2r the e nroeons the sciences
literature and hereditary craftsmanship. II Is ne
6nr home o Ge eo %n vafd and Yale
parents of all he American COLLEGES wete ioGhdT t,
il IS a cEi5u: fac, tina, for 100 years after the
sneSS Of the rg5Ws OF IN eyey co
rnun!ty the minister was not only the pastor OF
traitor OF the church. but he also the authority
in poli;ica! matters and the Judge in neighborhood
superior training made him the leader Of the people
in all matters affecting TIER relations WIN can
colleges in the United States today and their
he Rorksh0p for highe2 for her boys
and their girls. This rapid evolution OF the uni
our country has made acute the question whether
which the student has selected as his vocation, or
whether upon ancient and tried lines 1t should de-
teaching to the fun growth and command Of all
his faculties and then let him select Get his pursuit
the ,echnoloricai Institute the scientific school ana
They are OF Infinite Importance 70 the youth VINO
has not the money. the time or the opportunity 20
liberal edqcati ton rhey are Of equal benefit
es, iS IN training him for his selected pursuit. But
the theorists. or rather the practical men who are
prociaiming on every occasion that "a liberal educa-
ton is waste of time for business man and that
hOy urbO -
one pursuit Is destined for a larger success are
doing Infinite harm 10 the ambitious youth Of this
country.
sELF-MADE MEN AND EDUCATION.
II has been my lot in the peculiar position which
have occupied for over quarter OF a century OF
counsel and adviser for great corporation and Us
creators. and of the many successful men In busi-
ness VINO have surrounded them, 10 know how men
who have been denied in their youth the opportlni-
ties for education feel when they are possessed Of
fortunes and the world seems at their feet Then
.hev painfully recognize their limitations; then ;hey
know their weakness; then they understand that
there are things which money cannot buy, and that
there are qualifications and tr!umphs which no
fortune can secure. The one lament OF all those
men has been "Oh. If had been educated wou'd
sacriace all tina; have to attain the opportunities
of The college: 10 he able to sustain not only CON
versation and discussion with ,he educated men
win whom / come in contact, but coihPe.eIt az
10 enjoy what | see IS a delight TO them oeyohu
elesa in it's four years OF discipline training,
te.ch,ng and development makes the boy tne man
His lain and his Greek. his rhetoric ana ms ioec,
his science and his philosophy. his mathematics ana
his history have Ete or nothing 70 90 WIN iTS
or medicine or theology. and Sun less 10 90 WIN
manufacturing. mining. or s.QIekt, pins, , or
stocks or grain, PROVISIONS lfut tity nave given
~ The youih hcn he has graduated me command
OF that superb intelligence with whch goo mas en-
dowed him by which for the purpose OF a H ii or
fortune he grasps his profession or ms business
a "a sneediv overiakes the boy who. abandoning
cnlccf opportunities, gave his narrow me 10 me
narrowing pursuit of the one thng, by when ne
nYnected To- earn a living The coIege-bred man
has an equal opportunity for bread ana bu,ler. Dut
beyond that he becomes ctizcn OF VILE
he settles Within his home however humble ,,oI IL
~, ha md however limited his income 10 support
T. he has enioyment among his books ana IN me
~ - o. The nueStlOns OF me nOuf,