Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-07-14

Is In earnest can succeed In the law,
but adds the rather contradictory ad.
mission that two thirds of the lawyers
to-day could do practically all the law
business there Is to be DONE" As to
medicine. DIR. Richardson of the Har.
ward Medical School states that prac.
titiOrer Of even mediocre abilities will
succeed IL he attends to business, but
adds that he cannot 20 to football
games and sail about the harbor. Few
young doctors pay their way the first
year. DIR. Smith, dean of the Harvard
dental school. Is More optimistic and
declares that there Is plenty Of room
for dentists. The outlook for the be-
ginner Is better now than ut any previ-
Gus time. He said that the first year
was uphill work, but that a number of
men make $1,000 the first year, though
the average for the novice would be
about $500 The most golden oppor.
tunity for youth, Judged from the opin.
ions Of the secretaries of the Lawrence
Scientific School Of Harvard and of the
Massachusetts School of Technology,
IRE to be found In science. Secretary
Love Of the former school says: II
should say that there are not one-half
enough professional gradual in engi.
nering to-day. do not think there 10
the slightest fear of overcrowding. In
mining, civil, mechanical and electrical
engineering know Of no difficulty that
our graduates have had In getting
started" II there are any conclusions
to be derived from these opinions Il II
that there Is room In the professions.
not only Mt the top, but in the middle,
and In some professions Mt the begin.
ming. 1t would have been interesting
II the deans Of the different theological
schools had been asked to add their
testimony.
Is there q reaction against the spe.
clalist! For several years young men
have been told that they must not try
to know much about everything, but
instead must learn to know one thing
well. AS a result there are now special.
lists In every business and profession.
Now the voice Of protest Is heard. A
few weeks ago Judge Grosscup told the
almuni Of Chicago law school that til,
day Of the all-around lawyer was going
to return, and that the specialist would
not find persistence In the present pol.
Icy profitable. A similar idea Is ex-
pressed In the address Of DR.. George II.
Combs before the graduating class Of
Drake University. He said that the
present system Of mental culture In the
universities Is defective, and asserted
that single faculties are being educated
ut the expense Of the mind. "rhe vice
Of the age IL specialization" he de-
clared. Zone faculty Of the body or
mind Is being educated ut the expense
Of the rest. Such high specializat ton
passes into thralldom. He has master.
ed one thing ut the expense Of all else.
He Is the slave Of his own success. He
Is the tool Of his own tool" DIR. Combs
suggested that the university should
provide "multif0rm culture, rich and
varied" The memory should be cul.
tIvated less and the Imagination more.
and the university should give well.
rounded development of the mind In.
stead Of the intellectual dryness and
barrcnness" Of the average college
course. Mathematics and Greek litera.
ture should give place to more music,
art and literature, studied In way to
develop a culture more comprehensive.
more catholic. and more human. And
SO the Jack Of all trades IL to be pre-
ferred to the master Of one.