The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-26
MORAL EDUCATION.

enthusiastic talk OF Mr.. Salmon
cannot fail to be happily impressed
with the phase OF college and uni
versity education for which he
speaks. lie well said in his remarks
before the University Club that
comparatively few institutions OF
the present day have succeeded In
shaping their course to turn out the
''four square" man. Some eXpend
their efforts In the development Of
the purely intellectual side of
mans character, others find them
selves honored principally by their
athletic giants, still others gain
much of their distinction from So
ciaI standards and there are any
number of institutions given over
to training young men in the es-
pecial peculiarities of religious
creeds. Outside the religious insti-
tutions, however, the moral train
ing of the student has often been
forgotten.
The few years of American
higher education have proved
nothing if not that the country
needs among the men coming from
colleges and universities a more
prominent ingram of moral train
ing. The specialist has his place,
but the man who is to 90. out into
the world and take his place in the
hustle and hurry of modern bust
ness and political life falls far short
of the hoped-for standard of Amer
lean educated citizenship if the
moral standard has been neglected
during his course of study. How
many fathers and mothers have
seen the training of their boys
either upset or completely forgot
ten in consequence of the Goddess
atmosphere of the colleges.
1t is true that every young man
can find the conditions he Is look
ing for in any educational institu-
ton on earth. But no one can ever
estimate the power for good or evil
of what we may call the moral at
mosphere of the college campus.
While there are young men who
will find the acme of college life in
going off on an occasional slime"
and shining in social circles, at the
same time the majority follow the
lines laid down by the moral senti-
ment of the student body.
No one begrudges the college
man his good times with the boys.
But it is a matter of vital i'm
portance that the moral side of life
should be given sufficient promin-
ence to lead the boys to keep the
good times within the limits dictat-
ed by dignified Christian manhood
1t can only be considered disgrace
to the fair name of many institut-
ions that young men turn their jol-
lifications into carousals and that
the influence of the intellectual at
mosphere is to turn out lot OF
morally Indifferent men if not pure
agnostics at the end of each year.
That every college man should be a
religious expert is not expected,
but the people of a Christian nation
have a right to expect the young
men having the advantages of high
er education to be types of honest,
straightforward Christian man
hood. Moral development should
always 60 hand in hand with the in
tellectual, physical and social de-
velopment.
1t is indeed pleasing to hear one
coming direct from university as
sociations speak of the work that is
going on, gathering strength year
by year as young men are brought
to appreciate more fully that he
who leaves God out of his educa-
tional foundations has at the outset
married the structure of perfect,
honorable and influential manhood.