Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-02-24
TO GO OR NOT TO GO TO COLLEGE
Practical Value II such Training for tn
Young.

Practical Value " such Training for tn
Young.
The question Of education is the most
import INT subject that can possibly en-
gage the attention Of young men ana
young women Of today. Realizing the
great interest in education Prof: Wait
man Barbc. assistant t. the president OF
West Virginia University. secured the
opinions Of 50 leading college president )
ana educators. I'rof Barbe ms published
the views vi these educators IN q neat
volume entitled Going to College.
The question that Prof. Barrie put 70
the college presidents was: What. N
Your opinion. is the chief reason why q
young man Or young woman of average
ability should take college course
William T. Harris, T.; ; eomml<Sl,2in r,,,r
course gives q survey Of human knoWl-
edge presented in tine light w the unity
If an knowledge. Secondary education
in high schools ana academies does not
do this. Elementary education IN the
common schools still less does this
President Eliot of Harvard, SAYS: I'm
order that the young man may discover
what his powers are, ana learn 10 use
them for his own good and the good Of
others.
Ex-Prcs't Dwight Of Yale, says: I'm
my Judgment the fundamental reason
why a Young man should take Il college
course is this. that such an education is
the best means of developing tho thought
power in Il young man. and making him
thinking man ~ tulllN lttN UlliiH.
Pres't Austin Scott Of Rutgers College,
SAYS: IF the young man OF average in
telligence is sincere in purpose ana t3ltn-
fnl in effort the college training will fit
him in mind ana soul for greater useful
ness among his fellow men and VIII give
him 4 larger ana finer. standard with
sonal, political. social and ethical-Whlch
will come to him for discussion.
Prest Seth Low of Columbia. says;
Some Of the advantages ~ nc expected
.fI r t.t+
ed. Such an education ought to give a
man perspective by enabling him to csti-
mate the present in the light Of the past.
1t ought to strengthen his mind by cNer-
cising ana discipiining his powers. ana il
ought to broaden his outlook by enabling
him to know something ut least of many
branches of knowledge. In 4 word. II
ought to make him man capable Of MI
ing 4 larger place in the world in any
walk Of life for which his talents fit him
than he would fill without such an edu
cation
Pres't David Starr Jordan q Leland
Stanford University. says: 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 to help himself can be
helpful to himself
Pres't Gilman Of Johns Hopkins nj
vcrSity says: "A strong desire for disci-
pine and knowledge would be strong
reason for encouraging young man to
go to college
Henry ade Rogers o. the Northwest
ern University. says: MY answer is that
it enables him to make the most of him
self and multiplies his chances of success
a hundredfold."
Chancellor MacCracken Of the ITniver
sity Of New York. says: THE chief rea
son why young man, even if possessed
of but average intellect. should take
college course, if the way opens to him,
is that if he do his work faithfully he
will possess a better disciplined mind for
whatever work Of life he may turn his
attention to. whether artisan, farmer,
physician Or what not"
Pres't Kellogg of the University of
California. says: IF all conditions are
favorable, it can hardly be doubted. first.
that one should acquire knowledge and
mental growth so far as it is practicable,
and second. that this can best be done in
a community of students. under the guild
ance OF skilled teachers and with the adj
vantaSes of good libraries. laboratories,
etc"