Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-10
GOING TO COLLEGE.

III is presumed tnat many young peo-
pie read this newspaper but if there are
some within the range of its circulation
who do not read it we hope that their
attention will be called to one editors
words of caution as they enter upon the
present school year. A college educa-
ton now-a- days has become thing of
necessity to the same extent as was ele-
mentary instruction in the three Rs"
two generations ago. However, as the
college training has become common the
extreme Importance of its benefits and
the cost to others of it's possession are
more and more lost sight of by the
young people who attended college as a
matter of course. little thinking of the
sacrifices made for them at home or the
opportunity opened to them for i'm
provement or neglect as they them
selves may determine
A man who has seen college life and
by sharp contact with the business
world since has had time and oppor-
tunity to reflect upon what he then saw,
invariably grows indignant at the utter
thoughtlessness of many young per-
son who having all the opportunities
four years of college training afforded
deliberately threw them away in return
for more fascinating foolishness. A
young lady sent away to college by self
sacrificing parents that she may have
dressed beyond her needs by mother
who is yet compelled to do her own
house work and by father who has
seen no vacation or rest from drudgery
for twenty years, many a such lady has
been seen to idle away her time III silly
sentimentalities. Rules are adopted by
her school to force attention to the
purposes of her presence within its
class rooms only to be broken in spirit
of mischievousness and the idolzed
daughter of fond parent returns to
her home, a rented house perhaps, after
having spent from $4,000 to $4,000, the
price of comfortable home, with moth
| ing but the memory or social rules
broken and picture gallery of lank,
| long legged half grown boys to show for
her time and parents sacrifices.
| Young men from the high schools.
| boys, who at home had cheerfully
| learned the ways of thrift and industry
| by bearing their full share of the home
labor, have gone away to college, while
two old people shaved and drudged
that their son might become an illustri-
Gus man. These young men leaving
| home with little thought OF the import
ance Of the college opportunity and the
shortness of its stay before them, set
| foot in college town with heads erect
| and nostrils expanded looking for trou-
| BILE. Within week six or eight OF
| their kind have become acquainted and
the deviltry begins. Henceforth the
| time that should be devoted to grasp
1 ing all that the college can give for the
money spent to get it Is spent ordelkag
tailor made clothes and devising feats
| of pure foolishness which to an imma-
ture mind is mistaken for enterprise and
worldly wisdom.
OF course, these types are the excep-
lions. Most young men and women go
to college with sense enough to attend
to their business just the same as tho
they had been sent out by an employer
with a business commission to perform.
These young people take part in college
athletics, they go to college parties and
college dances, they find time for social
ACQUAINTANCE with other students, but
above all the work Of the college is kept
paramount in Importance. Such stu
dents get vastly more benefit from their
course than do the plodders who carry
extra work and seek no further diver
4 sions from the class room than the class
prayer meeting affords.
| The real men and women Of today are
those who are masters of themselves
Men who can enjoy the harmless pleas
ures Of gresarious life without neg
llecting to push forward the work in