The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07
COLLEGE TRAINING UPHELD.
PRESIDENT GEORGE II. CROMER
TELLS ITS ADVANTAGES.

A COLES inte Education Does for the
Individual Mentally. What Physi-
cal Training Does for the PuEilist
and Drill and Discipline for an
Army-It Is the Trained InteIli-
gence That Is Destined to Win the
Battle of Life-High Percentages of
College Graduates Who Have At
tanned the Greatest HOnOrs in the
GIFT of the Nation.
President George B. Cromer OF
Newberry College addressed the con-
gregation of the Lutheran Church
of the Ascension yesterday morn
ing and last night. Al both services he
spoke interestingly and well of the work
that the college is doing and of higher ed
ucation in general.
Newberry College is under the control of
the Lutheran Church and the members of
the congregation. therefore, feel an es-
pecial interest in It's welfare. There are
a number of young men from Savannah
who are in attendance there, and it is part
ly to increase this number that President
Cromer is here White this is the case
his talks were rather on the benefits of
collegiate training generally, than in praise
of his own institution.
Il am sometimes asked" said Mr.
Cromer last night. %what are the benefits
of collegiate education TO those who do moi
intend to become specialists of one kind or
another. Men want TO know what ore
who purposes to follow some ordinary bus
flor, 10 n
college course. The answer TO these ques-
tons is easy"
Us it any advantage, think you, to the
pugilst,- that his muscles are trained up
10 the highest possible deVeloped-that
every ounce of Drawn and sinew is ready
for its work? Is it any advantage to an
army that its soldiers are disciplined and
drilled, taught to fight together, instruct
ed in the use of their arms and accus-
toned through long practice to bend their
united energies toward attaining the de-
sired end? Are these things of vaiue?'
THE answer is obvious. and il is equal
ly obvious that one whose mental powers
have been trained to prompt and vigorous
action, to cose investigation and accurate
determination Of given problem, posses
SEES a vast superiority over another of equal
initial powers, who has never had course
of mental gymnastics. The college does
not prOIss-2 specialists, that we leave to
the university, but We SO train and edu-
cate the natural nouers mar one who
has hean thue taneht knows hoy to ac-
nuire what he win ana tn make of himself
anything he desires"
Pres,dcnt Conner o,ava In This connAct,on
on ,ni,i-,, cf C,bourco,, Danpv mat etril-
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