The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1901-06-04

JOr June.
college student invests in. He puts
work into his studies and into all
the conditions which go to make up
his college life. But the result of
the work which his teachers and
companions also put in, he takes
out, and these results are of larger
significance than the work he him
self contributes. He is able, thus,
to enroll himself with that noble
company, existing for more than
two thousand years, which is known
as scholars. This company is repre-
sentative of the wOrthiest and great.
est which the world has known. He
is, moreover, privileged to think of
himself as a gentleman. Whatever
the conditions of his birth, he hence
forth belongs with those who seek
for the betterment of the race, and
who are not content with material
istic and commercial ideals. The
fine old English phrase, now so often
abused, ''a gentleman and scholar"
can be truthfully applied to him. If
he can wear it worthily it repre-
sents g~raciousness of character with
out severity, self respect without
arrogance, and appreciation of 9TH
ers without laudation.
"A college education also stands
for the investment of power. The
student invests power, and power
he takes out for education creates
and increases power. Two forms it
especially promotes, which modern
life demands the power to think,
and the power to will. The power
to think is the greatest intellectual
power. The power of knowledge
is the power of the granary, which
gathers up and holds the harvests
of many a field; the power of
thought is the power of the mill
which grinds these harvests into
-four for the use of man. The power
of thought is the power to see, to
fOresee, to reason, to judge, to infer.
1t is the power which every study
of the college helps to train. Ian
guage gives determination science,
observation, analysis, synthesis !;
mathematics, also, analysis and syn
thesis, the taking apart and the
putting together elements of
thought; history, comprehension
and philosophy, self-repletion and
self-discOvery. In some ways,-and
the exact way is still unknown,-the
man who pursues these and the other
studies of the college four years be-
comes a thinker. When he entered
college, he knew little, and could
think less when he leaves college,
his knowledge is still limited enough
but he has gained a distinct power
to think. The power to think is
most urgently needed in the life of
every person. Ask the heads of the
great corporations of the United
StNOOS "LoV IL GuO Hudl1by WU1Cu
they most wish to find, and which
they learn, is the hardest to find in
the men who come to them seeking
employment, and the answer will
largely be, the quality of being able
to think. The power of the will is
to be directed by the graduate, as by
all other men, to the control of him
self and - the control of others.
The men who go TO pieces usually
go to pieces on the rock which is
called appetite. The college man is
taught by his college to control APP
petite, not to control it simply, but
to transmute appetite into an ele-
ment of strength. He also becomes
experienced in the control and man.
agement of men. Through his rela-
tiOns with all the students, and es-
pecially through his interest in or
work for the various associations of
the college, athletic, social, scholas-
tlc,-he is teaching himself to be an
administrator, and executive. A