The Florence daily tribune., 1902-07-09
A GENEROUS EDUCATION.

dress made by Prof. X. ii. Thurston
Of Cornell university before the Ma
tionaI Educational association, should
appeal TO the young men and women
who are attempting to fit themselves
for the higher planes Of usefulness
Characteristics of THE professional
man, snited to his vocation, may be
summarized as. first of all, good
mind. cultivated and stored with such
information as may be acquired by
the best educational practically obtain
able by the individual \ suitable
special preparation is sometimes desir-
able and obtainable Mathematics,
of tho engineer, loigc for the man of
law and physiology for the medical
man, may be taken in the liberal
course in preference to other alternate
subjects and may he carried further
than would otherwise be chosen.
Those literaturcs, sciences and liberal
arts which are particularly valuable to
the professional man may be assigned
a larger part in the general educa-
tion than would be given them by the
purely literary scholar. The charact-
eristics thus acquired, i'll brief, should
be acknowledged, culture, wisdom and
special fitness.
Thus, in summary the most FORUM
ate, the most complete and generous
education, as Milton would call it,
for the life of a man choosing any pro-
fession, would seom to be that which
in his youth secures the discovery of
this type of man, this freak of nat
ure, as Huxley calls it, the provision
of Il good general education, broaden
ing and strengthening and comforting
culture ms well as learning, yet deyot-
ing necessary care to the cultivation
sof his special talent from the moment
ahat it is discovered, throughout lat
that lie can of his chosen work in its
preparatory stage aud must secure all
those accessory knowledges and that
general culture now essential to high
est snecass-ip the profession, as well
as for satisfaction of aspiration and of
the conscience i'll later days when, IA
time for leisure having come, it is
sought to profit by the accumulations
due to business success.
''rhc ideal preparation for profess
sional life aud work thus often may
begin at the earliest moment, in child
hood, when, the parents having detect
ed the budding genius, it becomes pos
sible to combine the general culture
of the young soul with that careful
and wise promotion of the latent pow
ers in art, in science, in invention
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of the equities or in that even higher
spiritual genius for promotion of high
est moral life which constitutes in
either field professional education.
Meantime the whole structure, found
alton and all, lies upon base the fail
ure of which, or the yielding of which
in any slight degree, means failure of
the man or, proportionally, his fall
ing short of success in his profession
and in his whole scheme of life, tech
nical and other, perhaps moral and
spiritual as well as professional. The
soul of the sage has only maximum
value and fruitfulness whom inhabit-
ing the body of the athlete.
1.-THE prerequisites of success, pro-
fessionally or as soul among souls,
are thus careful preservation of the
individual, body ms well as mind, wise
training of the body and the BRAIN
discreet provision of physical, and in
tellectual and moral education, so that
the product may be made "A sage's soul
in an athletes body. the soul, wise,
just, learned, cultured, professionally
efficient. the body perfect and the
whole thus made man of noblcst
type. y
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