Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-23
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~ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES +
!: LITERATURE AND LIFE.
THE GIRL GRADUATE.
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Ought She Take COLLEGE Courses
i shall try insthis letter 10 answer my
young friends query, whether the girl
graduate should go to college.
II depends: First, on the girl her
tion and ideals.
1T is possible that to any girl whose
ideals are centered on successful
business career wherein material gain
becomes the chief desire, the college
course is a waste of time and means.
Yet even this statement needs quail
flying. In View OF the eyer-increasing
and active competition in every de-
Ipar,ment CT the business world, the
chances are, even here-others things
being equal! always in favor of the col-
,lege bred girl; and as our ideals and in
tclinations are apt to change with our
growth. the young woman who has sac
iritlced hsr college privileges to enter
the sooner upon q commercial life may
live to regret her early choice.
To every school graduate with high
ideals and with the desire for a college
course ] unhesttatingly say. by all
limeans. II you can see your way to II.
unhapptly the possibility does not al
ways co-exist with the inclination.
Some OF the brightest, most promising
young people have known have been
/ Handicapped on leaving the high school
by the urgent necessity OF at once con-
ltributing to the family support.
/ There Is no doubt the problem OF
\ bread and butter or the necessity OF
earning ones living Is ind ever will be
lthechief concern with most of us. And
such necessity must ever exert great
| Influence upon our attitude toward the
question OF education.
\ Whether or not 1t pays-all the toll
and sacrifice and time and expense con-
sumed beyond the technical or profess
sional training necessary TO ones voca-
tion-is a question which every young
person must finally settle for himself.
4 So far as the practical and material
| side is concerned, would say II pays
| just in proportion as our college train
ling and information can be applied TO
/ the conquest and betterment OF our ma
terial conditions
But there Is another phase of the
question. There Is something in life
desirable besides the ability to make
4 ones living. Every man and woman of
Intelligence and ideals reaches a period
where they find this alone does not sat
4 isfy. Life Is more than meat and drink.
Some learn this early in life; others,
Halter.
This power ofgetting satisfaction out
Of life is largely an intellectual process.
1t comes only thru Well-trained and
well-furnished mind.
/ Herein lies the chief value Of a COL
4 lege education. 1t trains the mind ia
discriminate. appreciate and enjoy.
The facts and processes acquired thru
the technical or manual training nee.
essary to ones vocation will not do this.
There is no value In mere facts or In
formation which are mostly matter
OF memory and will readily escape us
unless the mind has been trained ia
use them. The ability to group and
classify. to SO use and apply facts as to
make them contribute to our material
well-belng Is the result Of our techni-
cal training schools.
Likewise the power Of discrimination
in the intellectual world, between
things good and bad, the development
OF good taste, the fine appreciation OF
things worth seeing and worth know
ing. the ability to enjoy those things III
literature. art and life productive Of the
lshighest enJ0yment--thesegsa are the re-.
suit of a prolonged college coure.
Il No one feels more keeniy thelloss Of
such culture than the man who iiavins
devoted his whole life to the amasaina
lot money In order 70 surround himseil
with bsautifut things n literature and
Hart ssu6dsaly wakes 10 tho bittss
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