The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-28
speer Arithmetic Method.
DIR. JoRDAN's LECTURE.
Large Audience Assemblies to Hear
Him

gathered TO near III JOrudii . ArSe1io
on The Value of Higher Education" at
the Assembly hall last night. The
lower part OF the house was well filled
and many were seated in the galleries.
Miss Crissie Lawson rendered an or
gan solo delightfully."-, and willard
Christopherson sang with his usual
vigor "A Dream of Paradise" previous
to the lecture.
DR.. Jordan stated that what he would
say would be the strongest plea ne
could make for young men, to get al
college education, for the college would
do much for any boy or girl made or;
the right stuff. ::
Plea For Ambition
"a young man who cares not - rise, Z
said Dr. Jordan, sis already dsad. III
he has nothing on earth to 90, pet nm
take Mark Twain's advice and gp undeit
the earth Why do we call ourselves
men, unless we succeed in everything
Some say: A college education costs
money and therefore 1 cannot get ofie.l
1t is nonsense. IF young man has
common sense ard no one depending OF
him. ne cannot be poor. Greater LUCK
never comes to young man than 10 oJ
thrown ON his own resources 1t is ba!
for a man at college to have money ~
burn
DIR. Jordan then related the histort
of a society he knew of at Cornell, conn
posed of young men in poor 'circums.
stances. 1t was called the Struggle.
but got to be so poor that it couldnt
support SO long a name, SO 1t was
changed to "Strug-
That society,"" said DR.. Jordan, 'ha.s
graduated more bright men than any
other in the institution. believe 1t 5
a fact that the poor boy has an ao.-
vantage over the rich 1t is no ac-
vantage TO be born with a silver spoon
in your mouth when little effort VIII
give you a gold one. / do not mean
that poverty helps a man, but it is the
effort by which the yoke of poverty IS
thrown off that counts.
You sons and daughters of the wes.-
ern pioneers have the best blood in the
land BY all means awaken and gan
for yourselves the education you de-
serve.
You cannot fasten a $1,000 education
to a 5O-cent boy. 1t fails. Yet it is
not too much to spend on an experiment
of that kind. Neither can you fastttn
a 50-cent education on a $4,000 boy, amp,
l regret to say, thousands of parents IN
Utah are so trying to do. Il is miS-
chief In every struggle from football
to craftsmanship. science wins, and tie
people will pay for the man wac wins.
DR.. Jordan here injected humorous
reference to brainy men, saving ae
knew one who was. drawing $50 900 Ia
year for telling British syndicate
what parts of China are worth stealing.
Plenty to Do.
In answer to the oft-repeated quefy
of parents, What can our boys mad
to do after graduation from collegef
DIR. Jordan reminded his auditors that
there is always plenty to do and plenty
of room at the top. All professions aj'e
crowded-crowded at the bottom of the
ladder, but not at the top.
In the old days college graduates were
not trained for the ultimate duties in
life, but now the purpose of collegis.te
education is or ought to be to fit man
in personal skill to earn a living. BY
the term personal skill the lecturer
would have it understood as meaning
to do anything better than some enc
else in the same profession Such skill
enables a person to take broader view
of life and to see all things from a
standpoint of relative values 1t also
equips a man to understand human life,
to handle men and to be helpful to hlu-
manity.
Education is now democratic. con-
tinued DIR. Jordan. 1t brings out all the
latent talent lying around loose and
unused. This country would be ten
fold richer if the latent talent in il,
were educated and trained for the du-
ties in life, and Utah would be as many
fold better off if the undeveloped t7lent
of all the young men and young women
worth educating in colleges or mechan-
ical schools were trained by methods
of higher education, as they ought
to be.
By way of illustration, DR.. Jordan
related the story of how an Indiana
farmer complained Of the cost to the
state of educating young man. who.
soon after graduation at the normal
school, earned $500 a year in school
work, whereas before entering the
state university he earned only S7js
cents a day. The farmer figured that
the state lost 100 year by educating
that son. Now the trained educator
draws a salary of $1,000, DR.. JORDAN
reasoned that if in this way every
worthy young man were educated the
state would not be the loser. but rather
the gamer in the proportion of S75s
cents to IS. With this done there
would be no labor questions to solve
Men Must Have Skill.
The time is surely coming in this
country, in DIR. Jordan's opinion, when
the average young man win have only
the force of his hands to get along in
the world Cheaper labor from other
countries, together with the developed
forces of sunshine, falling water, cleo
tricity and mans inventive genius, will
make it extremely difficult for a man