Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-28
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS
FACTS AND OPINIONS GATHERED
FROM CONTEMPORARIES
GRADUAL s.

They've gone out from their Alm
Mater-safe now in the wide, wild
world" So runs the song which jus
now they are singing in colleges ant
universities and finishing academies
where fervent goodbys are being salt
and whence thousands upon thousand
of young men and young women are pre-
pairing to move, In an unorganized mass
upon the world of affairs. There ar
among them valedlctorians, class presi
dents, editors of college publications
captains of football teams, baseball
captains, hundred.yards dash men, Tom
who were leaders of the banjo clubs ant
Jacks who sang bass in the college glees
digs. grinds, bootlicks, head debaters
college and university society leaders
Hasty Pudding men under differen
titles. together with a host of middle
stand men and tail enders, who have no
distinguished themselves and were IL
general rather relieved to find that they
were included when the diplomas were
passed around.
With them, those who go to make W
this host are bringing into the wide
wide world hopes and inspirations ano
ambitions and resolutions and determine
tons. philosophical orations (delivered)
knowledge of Greek, Latin, modern Ian
guages Gin moderation), higher mathe
mates. formal logic, rhetoric, phil
osophy, the problem of the external
world. psychology, theism, ethics,
biology. Some can spell, add, subtract
multiply, divide; many cannot All
know that George Washington was the
Father of his Country and that Abraham
Lincoln was assassinated, after bringing
about the preservation of the Union and
emancipatng the slaves; some have
heard rumors of Jefferson and Monroe,
Jackson and Clay, and Calhoun and
Webster. but few remember the eXact
substance of what they heard about
these men. All these young men and
women are about to begin the search FOR
the particular inches which they feel
fitted to occupy, or for the first rungs OF
the ladders which they believe them-
selves able to climb. Almost all who
seek il will find employment of one sort
or another. Then they will settle down
TO drtfde, consciously or unconsciously,
whether they Will cling to the inspira-
rions which they have received or be
like the man who, having intended to
build a bridge to the moon, finally used
the boards which he had accumulated for
the purpose in the construction of a
woodshed.
1t will not take even the dull ones long
to realize that the ways in the wide,
wide world are different from those to
which they have recently been ac-
customed. They will soon see that the
philosophical oratlons, which seemed so
important, If delivered now under the
new circumstances would sound like for
gotten crackers going off after the fire.
works. The recent graduates who seek
and find employment will be, generally,
placed under immediate superiors who
either did not go to college. or, if they
did, remember it more or less dimly.
Most of these will try to be patient, and
in general. they will succeed, especially
if they do not hear the forgotten crack
ers going off too frequently. There will
be much for the graduates to learn from
these men the teaching will be thorough,
although ii may lack the enthusiasm of
the professor outlining the principles of
his favorite study. The first plunge of
the recent graduate into the busy world
of affairs will be somewhat Startling
not to the world. but to the recent
graduate. There is no way of avoiding
this the world is not to blame, and it
ho ha d., 70
for it. Presently, however, the harness
will begin to fit and all will 60 well, if
the graduate is of the right sOrt.-New
York Tribune.
BoER PRISONERS ON ST. HELENA
Mrs. j. X. Green. an English woman
who spent a month at st. Helena and
often visited and talked with the Boer
prisoners, contributes TO the mine
tenth Century and After" timely study
of the eXiles. In describing them she
adopts the method of quoting foreigners
who lived with them before the war,
fought on the republican side and now
share their captivity.
Mrs. Green writes: ~ do not know
kind, if it had been men of any European
nation; but these Beers, they are sober,
quiet people, there is no harm in them.
| know the Boer very we'll, and | have
never known him treacherous. There
are fewer low and brutal men among
them than in any European nation; the
great majority in the camp were re-
spectacle, honorable men. These were
the kind of things said to me. The Boer
was not given, they said, to drinking, or
gambling or swearing, or cruelty; good
natured, easy going, like German peas
ants, anxious to make the best bargain
possible, suspicious and diplomatic,
wonderfully hosptable, and very good
material to make fine men out of. A
fastidious and critical German was
greatly struck by their remarkable in
dustry, and all the new trades they had
in camp. They do the whole of
the bakers and butchers work, take
hand at shOpmalyinu molyo avoallapt nd