Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-06-29
DEMAND FOR cOLIEGE MEN.

Graduated, Dut not present, was
the suggestive announcement made
concerning the class Of 1901 at well
known institution of higher learning
A majority of the class did not appear
at the commencement. although their
names were called and their degrees
were conferred. The case was extraor-
dinary, but the explanation was sim
pie and satisfactory, The services of
the young men had been sought and
engaged by business men so urgently
that the president of the institution
had given the students permission to
leave school and go to work in ad-
vance of actual graduation. Their
courses of study were satisfactorily
completed and their examinations pas
sed and It was thought to be not worth
while to keep them away from the in
dustries which needed them for so long
as even the few days yet remaining be-
fore the formal closing of the acade-
mic year.
The case was decidedly exceptional.
Yet it indicated state of affairs which
is common enough. Men are seldom
absent from commencement for such
reasons. Lut many of them are before
commencement, engaged for business or
industrial enterprises. Year by year
the captains of industry more and
&c 20 70 &c from
among college men. Such is oftenest
the case, of course, in the great tech
nical schools, or in universities having
important schools of applied science
Chemists, electricians, civil and min
ing engineers and others trained in the
so-called practical sciences" are pass
ing from college Immediately into the
ranks of industry and trade. But the
practice is by no means confined to
such departments. Young men are be-
ing similarly drafted from the schools
of pure science and of arts and let
ters. The world of action puts
premium upon men of thought.
There is in this fine rebuke, of the
most practical and convincing kind, to
the pretence that a college education
is handicap to young man in bus
mess. 1t is not a handicap, but it is
of course, that it be a proper educa-
ton, in which the first aim has been to
train the mind, to stock it the second.
The hardest headed business men
send their own sons to college, and
give their wealth to endow colleges
and seek college men for their lieute-
nants. The trained and disciplined
mine is recognized to be the efficient
mind, jus. as much as the trained body
is the efficient body. That is the fact,
and it is fact which is now gain
ing universal recognition.
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Quite possibly the most revered piece
of silver plate in the United States
Navy is the massive eighteen-pound
silver punch bowl of the battleship In
diana, which bears the honorable scars
vi hioIolIS DnIIlN Dul lh6 IldI lam
Gus blockade and naval battle before
Santiago De Cuba this rich piece of
tableware was struck by a fragment
of mortar shell fired from the Socapa
battery, and which burst in the ward
room passage of the battleship. A five
pound bit of the shell struck the howl
on one of the stoutest parts of the
body, just where the seal of the State
of Indiana forms the central portion
of beautiful decoration. The seal is
still there, but not as the artist de-
signed it. for it now forms a part of
large irregular indention, which, in
the estimation of the officers and men
of the battleshlp, enhances the value
of the bowl thousand times over.