The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-08

atmosphere 10 support his will. The
temptation to lie is also a temptation of
the college as OF all men. 1t is a tempta-
ton which usually arises from cowardice.
The tendency TO yield to Il is among the
hardest Of all the inclinations of the col
lege men to eliminate. The man whose
will is weak, whose heart is so craven
that he lies easily, should not go TO college.
Where should he go? perhaps some anxious
parent may ask. The answer TO the ques-
ton would carry us too far afield, even II
any answer at all could be given.
At this point one should not fail TO notice
that there are colleges and that there are
colleges. One boy may have a will so weak
that to enter him at a college in which
freedom prevails would be TO invite moral
suicide. Another boy may enter the same
college and find in it condition which
creates the strongest manhood. The first
boy may enter another college in which.
through gentle and wise ministries. he may
be nourished from characteristic weakness
into ethical worthiness. The second named
boy. entering this college, might find his
innate strength disintegrating and the
ideals of manly achievement depraved. 1t
would be trying TO grow oaks in a hot
house The question, therefore, OF wheth-
er a boy should or should not go TO college
is in no small degree a question of whether
he should go or not go TO particular col
lege. Colleges are not alike. as spades
and peas; colleges differ quite as much as,
and L sometimes think more than human
beings.
Whether one who lacks health should go
to college is a question of degree and also
a question of relation. The question of re-
lation refers TO the location of the college.
and the question of degree refers to the Sc
robustness of the i'll health from which one
suffers. But il is safe and fair to say that
men should go stronger in body as they
are supposed to grow stronger in mind
while in college. The regularity of the
daily routine. as we'll the regularity of
physical exercise, taken under proper SUI
pervsion, and the happiness of the life,
should increase strength and promote
health. 1t is also evident enough that men
may go to colleges in Colorado Florida
who could not go to college on the Atlantic
coast board. Let it be said that no man
should surrender the thought OF a college
education because of what he believed 70
be his i'll health without the corroborative
Judgment of a medical expert.
1t IS also sometimes said that the lack OF
money is sufficient to keep boy from go
ing to college. Lack Of money may keep
a boy from going to college, but 1t need
not. Colleges are made for boys of grit,
OF grace, OF gumption and of poverty, OF
full brains and of empty purses. AS a col
lege president / prepared to say that
no boy of sound health, of strong will, OF
pure heart, of good intellect, who has the
mack of helping himself. should turn away
from the college gate hopeless.
But, after all, the two things to be said
absolutely are these: The boy who lacks
intellectual interest, or the boy who lacks
strong will, should not go to college. The
attempt OF a mother or father TO send such
boy to college constitutes a grave peril
for the boy. The receiving of such boy
by the college constitutes grave peril for
the college lest its fair name a health
full, intellectual and moral force be tar
nished.
CHARLES f. THWING. Ii. D.,
President of Western Reserve University
and Adeibert College.
Cleveland, o.