Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-16

CeiNed his training from the beloved alma
mater on the banks of the Charles. 1t is
the same if he be a graduate Of Yale or
Princeton. of Columbia or Cornell-of any
of the colleges or universities, great or
small, east or west. Though, OF course.
the graduate Of one of the bigger colleges
stands a chance to find more brother
alumni in his new home than the grad
uate of a smaller institution.
With the non-college man it is different.
He is alone, a stranger in the new city.
He has his own way to make in far greater
degree than the other. If he has character,
ability and address, he makes his way.
as a matter of course, but it is slower, more
difficult. Often, to be sure. he wins a
higher prize than the graduate, for his
first advantage is only temporary. when
all is said. After he has established rela-
tions with his brother alumni in his new
field of action it remains for him to make
good" if he doesn't his lead doesn't last,
and in the long run he is worse off than
if he had no lead to begin with. That he
had decidedly the best of it in the start,
though, no one can doubt.
After all, then, success depends upon
brains, character and industry. One who
has these qualifications will become an
educated man, whether he can go to school
much or not. He will begin his education
when he begins to earn his living. He will
find means for carrying it on in whatever
he does and wherever he goes. The world
will be his university, and whether con-
sciously or not, he will force every one
he meets to play the part of instructor.
And this brings up the question, "What
is Education? ?" The answer is simple
Education is training that will enable ite
possessor to use correctly the tools thai
every man possesses-his hands, his eye.
and his brains. To make your mark in any
calling you must have this, whether yoI
so to college or not.
The standard college education of othel
days took little stock in the education o
the hands, or of this workaday world
practical requirements. In the main i
amounted to the study of the Greek ant
Latin classics with a dash of mathematic!
thrown in. The college education of toda,
may or may not include, as the studen.
elects, the training of other faculties thar
those which are developed by the classics
1t is the glory of the American colleg,
and university that they now afford thei
students opportunities to secure training
of almost every possible sort. Today gu
great universities and many Of our smalle
colleges give as much attention to mechani
cal training, to instruction in practice
chemistry and electricity and dozens of lik
subjects as to Greek and Latin.
The workshop and the laboratory are a
important departments of these modcr
educational Institutions as the lectur
rooms of the professors who devote thei
attention to the topics which made up tn
old-fashiOned course. A complete locomO
tive in perfect working order is provide
by Columbia university Cor the study O
those who make mechanical engineerin
their speciality. The workshops of variou
sorts provided by Cornell are famous III
world over. This same university instruct
it's students of civil engineering and sur
veying by sending them out to max
practical surveys OF the country roun
about and in this way a large PORTO
of the state of New York has been actuall
surveyed.
Only the universities of Germany riva
those of America on the practical side