The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-01
PULLMAN MANUAL TRAINING
SCHOOL.

In the twenty-frst provision of his
will. the late George NJ. Pullman pro-
vided:
#, ct the time of my death, shall
not have founded such school, | hereby
give and bequeath, out of said remain
der OF my estate, the sum of S1,2O0000
for the founding. erection, main
tenance. management and endowment
OF the Pullman Free School OF Manual
Training at Pullman, Ills; and | direct
that M executors shall, as soon as
practicable. cause a corporation To be
formed, either through act of the legis-
iature of the state of Illinois. or under
he laws of said state. for the purpose
OF receiving said bequest and accom-
pishing the objects thereof. And / re-
quest that my executors, Norman b.
Ream and Pobert T. Lincoln, and my
.riends, John NJ Clark, John S. Run
aeils, Frank @. Lowden. Charles e.
Perkins and John J. Mitchell, act as
the first board of directors or trustees
Of said corporation.
In the first section of the provision he
stated It to be his purpose to found
the school for the benefit of the child
rea of persons living or employed at
Pullman. This is restrictive in it's ma
rure and if strictly construed, it would
limit the usefulness of the manual
training school to the children resi-
dent at Pullman; it is quite probable
that the trustees will give a more lib
eral construction to the provision of
the Will
1t is a noble gift and for noble pur-
pose. It is a recognition of the fact
that our magnificent public school sys-
tenn needs supplementing, as it does.
! There is an abundance of colleges and
universities scattered all over the land,
and in them the youth Of the land can
receive instruction in all the arts and
sciences, but it is a notorious fact that
perhaps one-half of the college grad
yates are not fitted for any avocation
| in life. and that their education gives
! them no aid in the battle of life at all
commensurate with the cost and sacri-
! fee on the part of parents to provide
them with that education. The reason
] is that the education is in large de-
gree impartial and has had as its aim
compliance with social standards rath-
! er than to fit those who receive it fol
the hard battle of life. After all, life
and the struggles that always accom-
pany it, is a very material thing. Phil
osophy may show how reverses and
| disappointments are to be met, but il
does not show how success is to be
won: and much of modern education
does not even impart philosophy. A
fault of much of the education of the
day is that it is aiTnless, that is so fal
as fitting men and women to be active
positive factors in the life of which
they are a part. This. of course, is
owing largely to the fact that those
who receive the highest education are
without definite aims, regarding edu
cation as an end and not means. But
should not the higher education give
a man p definite aim?
By the provision of his will, Mr.. Pull
man recognized that, after all, thC
great battle of life is the struggle fol
existence and not struggle to shine
in literature, the law, or statecraft
There will always be some who vii
do that, but they are the few; the
many must be content to walk along
the humble paths of life. But he WHIT
aids those who walk there to walk il
a freer more manly and Independent
way benefits his fellow man. The pur
pose of MI Pullman's bequest is to as
sist the youth to so walk.