Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-13

may spoil genius. but for the aver
age mind the question, why go to
college, is next in Importance to
marriage and death. To score or
more of American college presidents
and professors this question has been
addressed, and the cream of their an
swers follows:-
In order that the young man may
discover what his powers are. and
learn to use them for his own good
and the good of others.-Charles w.
Eliot President of Harvard Univer-
sity.
Because young man should have a
higher aim in life than mere money
getting. or so-called success; because a
man should try to make the most of
himsef-Francis l.. Patton. President
of Princeton University.
Such an education will act on an
average intellect like fertilizer on a
field of average fertility. 1t makes
one more of man. This is the chief
value of all ducation-Jacob Gould
Schurman. President of Cornell Uni
versity
College training will give one larg-
or and finer standard with which to
test the questions of life-personal.
political. social and ethical-which
will come to him for discussion-Aus-
tin Scott. President of Rutgers Col
lese.
1t has well been said that an edu-
Gated man has a sharp ak in his hand.
and an uneduCated man a dull one. |
should say that the purpose of COL
lese education is to sharpen the AK to
its keenest ge.-Nathanel Butler.
President of Colby College
Because the fuller and larger YOU
can make a life in these early years.
the better it must be for all the future.
james NJ. Taylor, President of Vas
Sar College
Because ii will make him more than
an average man in intellectual SYM
pathies. in mental horizon, and in
practical effectiveness.-M. W. Stryk-
er. President of Hamilton College
Such an education ought to give to
man perspective. by enabling him to
estimate the present in the light Of the
past 1t ought to strengthen his mind
by exercising and disciplning his
powers. and it ought TO broaden his
outlook, by enabling him to knew
something. at least. of many branches
| Of knowledge.-Seth Low. President of
Columbia University.
The whole of your life has been
spent in your own company. and only
| the educated man is good company To
! himself. Only the man who is trained
70 help himself can be helpful to 9TH
ers.-David Starr Jordan. President OF
| Leland Stanford, Junior University.
| Such an education is the best means
Of developing thought power in a
young man, and making him a think
| ing man of cultured mind,-Timothy
| Dwight. late President Of Yale Uni
versity.
| He will possess a better disciplined
mind for whatever work of life he may
turn his attention toll. NJ. Mac
Cracker. Chancellor of New York Uni
versity.
| would say. in one word. for Dis
cipline-Thomas ]. Conaty. Rector OF
the Catholic University of America.
1t is the duty of every man or wo-
man TO develop his or her best powers.
as far as circumstances permit.-An
drew d. White, United States Am
| bassador TO Germany.
The strongest reason urging a man
to take a college course is the conse-
quent enlargement and enrichment of
character.-Charles f. Thwing, Presi-
dent of the Western Reserve Uni
versity.
| 1t multiplies hundredfold his
| chances of success.-Henry Wade
Rodgers, President of the Northwest
ern University.
To the end that he may be safely
aggressive among educated people. and
become fitted for leadership in affairs
Andrew S. Draper, President of the
University of Illinois.
To make one more of man.-James
B. Angel, President of the University
of Michigan.
! For the same reason that crude ores
should be assayed-to discover and as
say their qualities.-W. H. Payne,
Chancellor Of the University Of Nash
vile.
For the reason that the advance OF
world knowledge is so widespread
that, in order to hold ones own, to be
the best. and to do the best, it is
necessary TO get just as much educa-
ton as possible.-William r. Harper,
President of the University of Chica-
go
1t is the only way to quality one To
climb up out of the monotonous. Dead
Sea level of mediocre humanity. Peo-
pie without a liberal education form
the great army of our industrial and
commercial slaves.-Charles w. Dab
ney, President of the University OF
Tennessee.
Because. in taking college course
one forms an acquaintance with men
karns how to deal with them. and is
for that reason, more likely to succeed
Charles Kendall Adams, University
of Wisconsin.
A college course is the most effective
means yet devised for aiding young
man to convert his best potential sell
into his actual self.-George Z. Chase
President of Bates College.
Because a college course gives 9
survey of human knowledge present
ed in the light of the unity of al
knowledge. Secondary and elementary
education gives fragmentary knowl
edge. The young man of average in
| ,roro ~ he carried away by