Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-05-06
BMPIRE-BUILDHRS, NorTYPE.
WRITER'S.
New York Commercial.l

New York Commercially
81 have four boys" said successful
Philadelphia business man at the Dart
mouth Club dinner here in New York
the other night, and am educating
them all to be empire-builders ! don't
want them to be typewriters. | don't
want to make a lot of struggling law
yers or cheap doctors out Of them.
want them to get out into the world
and do things-achieve something that
will extend civilization, make the in
habitable world bigger and better, and
themselves better and richer. So I'm
having them trained for electrical, min
ing and mechanical engineers"
That was significant first as coming
from a college bred man of the middle
seventies, himself a member of the bar
and addressing a company of college
men among whom was the president of
Dartmouth. II was again significant
because 1t was about the only thing
said at The dinner elicitng applause
that seemed TO be spontaneous, alto.
gether genuine and enthusiastic. And
of additional significance was the fact
that these graduates of one of the So
called classical" colleges had invited
TO make an illustrated talk" to them
on the industrial development and pos
sibilitics Of Alaska a Dartmouth grad.
uate who IS already empire building"
in that Territory. and had with him an
interesting party Of Alaskans including
mining and transportation men. the
builder of the White Pass and Yukon
Railway. and two Londoners. who have
only recently turned their attention
and their millions from South Africa
to where the aurora borealis Elints on
the gold and the copper Of Cape Mono
and the Klondike.
Ten years ago a college dining party
of that sort would have provided for
its entertainment a costume recitation
from "Antigone" in the original Greek,
an exhibition of diggings from Mycenae
or an "ode to fair Hanover" or White
River Junction or any old classical
spot that had the making Of rhyme
in II.
"Tempora mutantur." So have our
men. So have our boys-and they're
not done doing II yet! As the twentieth
century gets out of it's swaddlina
clothes and Creepers and begins TO
walk erect and rapidly. the real lead
ers in its magnificent progress are the
men who do things" and who get out
into the open somewhere and achieve
something, who build empires"-big,
little or medium, but empires. anyway.
The quest of the world today ia for
pleased to call "nber." 1T will be re-
membered." ii says, that in defining
the qualifications OF those entitled to
scholarships Cecil Rhodes laid greater
stress upon 'manliness' than upon mere
orudition. In his scheme Of a world
empire Cecil Rhodes realized that more
depended upon virility and pugnaclty
than upon learning" And we cannot
better present the new conditions and
demands that surround and confront
us than by this further excerpt from
the Post:
But the American OF today is but the
product of his environment. lie has
courage and moral fiber. the ability to
oN ercome obstacles. He has the con.
quering spirit Of his fathers. the same
Spirit that Dickens overlooked amid
the deluge of tobacco splitting. Here.
tciore this element has been kept
within the confines of the country, but
win the advent of expansion" the
world has been compelled to take cog.
nizance of 1t. 1t Is this same sturdy
fiber that Cecil Rhodes wanted to see
mingled with the old oxford conserv.
atism to enliven the sluggish temper.
ament of the Briton of today.
And oxford will get it, too. We have
all got to come to tia realization OF
the changed and changing educational
needs of the times. We needn't throw
our Greek grammars away. They're
not yet become useless. But we Amer,
leans have got to do things" nova.
, days-and while we are doing them
let us hope that "Balbus and the
army" may continue lin good health"