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Many writer's ard speakers in dis
cussing the intellectual and social con-
ditions of our times. find little of good
and great deal of bad.
They claim that our institutions of
learning elevate the practical at the
ex pense of the purely Intellectual tina
in the business Of world everything is
dominated by an intense desire of greed |
or gain.
II these statements were the wailings
of the disappointed or the unsuccessful
might dismiss them thought easily but
these charges against our age have
been made by men who. from their
sandpoin, have been successful and have
no greivence against the world. Many
of them belong to class which, for a
time dominated thought and controlled
the policy of nations. Their statements
should be sudied so that we may
know If ne conditions are as represent
ed and to what extent they are in evil
dence
The subject is broad one and may
treat but briefly and hope TO prove
that while it is practical 1t is not ne
cessarily degenerate but rather an
intellectual combined with the pract-
ical, making broader age.
Prior to the discovery of the great
| ru
our colleges offered mainly such mental
training as was supposed necessary.
But soon after the discoveries aud
the close of the civil war, our aac-
cumulated capital demanded the de.
velopment of this mineral wealth. The
country's material development was
rapid but not always profitable. The
iron worker often Numbered with
strange ores. The successful men were
those who had been educated in technial
schools Their success showed the line
of needed preparation and caused the
introduction into colleges of subjects
dealing with every day life and en-
phasized the demand for men broadly
educated as well as the practical APP
plication of science Formerly the
majority of students that entered col
lege had a professional life in view +;
now il IL the desire OF nearly everyone
to have college education without
regard TO ones future
IL may be true that we have no great
poets or writer's but we have people
who read carefully and thoghtfully and
think quickly Ii it better that we have
such than few bright lights ! think
so.
II perverted ambition, selfish lalck Of
principal and their indifference Of the
rights Of others be what is meant by
commercialsm we have but new
name for what il as old as the race.
, Napoleon $ question, What are the
! lives of Thousand men to me
shows the same spirit a. that Of the
/ oppressive employer lnordinate an
: xiety for wealth and the power that
, possesses 10 il not a peculiar product
ofour time A far back as history re-
cords il has always communicates
, society and politics 1t was fully a.
t strong in the golden age Of Rome
Israel felt it ere Solomon wrote pro
verbs respecting il. Ayerice corrupted
/ politics in the Elizabethan age OF
: England and the second empire OF
France as thoroughly as during Che
. most corrupt rule Of commercial New
I York
War between any two nations is al
! most impossible now because it would
: lead to the financial ruin OF both
! Peace between nations no longer de
/ ponds merely upon the army and navy
) Difference between individuals settlet
: in the olden time by physical strength
steel OF lead are now settled in oper
court Differences between labor anC