The Opelousas courier., 1898-04-09
SOME REASONS WHY
Iouthern People Should Send Their sons
to Southern Colleges.

,outhern People Should Send Their SONS
to Southern Colleges.
.Where shall my son go to College?,' is a
question which often purplexes the anxious
lather. Fifty wears ago there appeared to DC
out one answer. The great Northern univer-
titles bad no rivals. The rich planter cher-
shing the memories of his own Alma Mater,
sent his son to Yale or Harvard, gave him a
liberal allowance, and at the end OF the TERM
received the young bachelor home 8gain
armed with his sheepskin and perfumed with
The graces and learning OF New England Gull
ture.
But matters have changed very much In
the last two decades. Richly endowed col
leges have sprung up throughout the South,
we'll equipped with laboratories, libraries,
and apparatus, and. best of all, with live
teachers. men OF brains, energy and zeal:
The wonderful impetus given to teohnlcal
arts and professions throughout civilized
countries, have opened wide doors with de-
mands for skilled, scientific work. The South
has lone its full share in meeting this demand
as we'll as the other older, yet equally m
perative demand for the best scholarship IN
literary pursuits. -.
These Southern colleges are accomplishing
a great work In the preparation or young
men either for the professions OF law, medl-
cine. and literature. or for the engineering
professions in mechanical and electrical de-
partments.
In some important particulars they offer to
students superior advantages. They are ouf
home institutions and those who enter them
can get as good an education as those VINO
&c further for the same purpose. 1t IS phy-
sicaIly better that a student should spend tne
formative period Of his young manhood 10
the climate where he expects to i've, ana
among the associations which arc to be ms
permanent environment in the future. Aver
his college course has been accomplished, II
will not then be necessary for him to become
acquainted with the people among whom he
was born or undergo an accIimation by rea-
son of his long absence in a distant country.
II, as we aver, it is possible oget as good al
education in the South as in the North then
by all means let lis patrOniZe our nome IN
stitutions. The North has been doing IL fo'
many years and in that way has built up its
large universities, why should not we OF the
South profit by that experience?
Here in Louisiana we have an institution
of which we may well be proud. Paul Tulane
left the splendid fruits of his long years OF
industry and thrift to establish an institution
for the higher education of the white youth
OF Louisiana. The gift has been wisely ad.
ministered. With faculties able and Jealous.
with thorough equipment in all the appi1'
ances of instruction, including laboratories
which are among the best In the Wnole
country, with q genial climate, where during
the working months, the health conditions
aer among the best, what more can the stu
dent OF the South desire in the opportunities
for acquiring an education that shall tit him
for the duties of life? The College of Arts
and Sciences offers to its students Glass
ical, Literary and Scientific courses, while in
the College of Technology there are courses
in Mechanical, Chemical, Civil n Archi-
~tectural Engineering. Recently. also, there
has been added a new departure In Sugar
Chemistry, where the student learns practi-
cally the principles underlying the cultivation
of sugar cane.
The Administrator and Faculties of Tu-
lane are justly proud Of the results already
attained. Their graduates are filling useful
and honorable positions In society and prom.
ise distinction In the near future. The
grounds and buildings Of the University on
St. Charles Avenue, opposite Audubon Park,
are among the attractions of New Orleans.
There may be found libraries, museums and
work shops, and what some students will
prize most of all, ample athletic grounds for
college games and physical exercise.
If a young a wants to study he can find
ample opportunities at Tulane; II his object
Is simply to spend four years with the great
est amount OF idleness and the least possible
amount Of s~orious. earnest study, he will not
khriva Mt Tulane