The commonwealth., 1901-07-11
THE EDIToRS's LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

lcok that within three miles from the
City Hall Of New York City, making
allowance for the portion coyered by
water, there is only one city lot (25 by
100 feet) for every four families. No
wonder at the sunstrokes, prostrations
and deaths these hot days! Where
people are crowded together like that
in the limits of great city, four fam
lilies for every little lot, it is not sur
prlsing that the results in extremely
hot weather are disastrous. The aver
age family numbers five persons, and
that means that On every lot 25 by 100
feet in New York City there live twen-
| ty persons. This is the average tor
three miles from the City Hall and
in many places the actual count would
crowd them still more.
The best life IN all this country is in
this glorious Southland where there
are few cities, if any, SO large or over
crowded that life becomes burden by
reason of a congested population. In al
most any city or town in the South,
| there is such freedom of air that one
can enjoy breeze almost any time.
Then let us be more content with the
dull days that come to us in the coun-
try, remembering that we have a
! thousand advantages over all other
places G life.
"Thel gho gives up his life to
the win Tealth simply for the
sake Of I'D with no purpose
low air 4 set for him
self"
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tions against college education.
A few of the rich men of this coun-
| try have recently gained some extra
| newspaper notoriety by declaring that
| college education is worth little or
! nothing to young man in the battle
for life. AS proof of this some notable
examples are cited and the conclusion
drawn by inference, and by one or two
by direct reasoning, that college edu-
cation is hindrance to young men
in the race for money making. One
writer ON the subject makes what seems
to us the absurd statement that men
who have taken thorough college or
university training do not express
themselves with as much force in writ
ing as those who have been trained on
ly in the school of experience In busi-
ness.
No doubt there are men of great
strength and success In the business
world today who may we'll regret the
four or five years they spent at college,
as some OF them say, for doubtless they
wasted their time. We remember to
have known a few young men at col
lege who as students did nothing, but
who as business men have succeeded
splendidly. We are Eot prepared to
belieye, however, that if they had
studied hard while at college they
could now truthfully say their college
years were wasted.
And even it college education
should unfit man for success in max
ing money, as some foolishly claim, ii
would not be sound argument against
a college education for the life that
has the purpose to make money only
rests on basis entirely different from
what God would have 1t. Money Ii
good, but it is by no means the most
desirable thing in a true life.
! This ls dangerous agitation which
few rich men have set a-going, and
they are in danger of doing more harm
by it than they will ever be able te
counteract by their rich gifts and great
generosity.
A logical result from tha broad
premises which these rich men have
laid down will be deterioration in the
nations intellectually in less than a
half century.
The Atlanta Journal in an other sen
tence than the one quoted above vel
says:
"When this theory of SUCCESS in life
gains control of the youth of the
country the decay of the nation vii
be we'll on its way. No people who dt
not honor culture and place it among
the things to be most desired in life
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