New-York tribune., 1902-07-27
or EDrC4TED YOrTH.
HIS VAIL OVER THE DIFFICULTIES IN THE
PATH To SUCCESS.

Almost any evening at dinner time, there may be
seen an 4 we'll known downtown restaurant group
oi young men. who occupy always the same corner
and spend long time talking over their coffee and
cigars. They are all college graduates ot a recent
date. occupied in the DAY in getting - start in life,
or. as one of them, who engaged in some sort OF
literary work. more piCtureSuely puts II, -buckInS
the metropolis with stub pen" Few have heard
| their talk for when = stranger falls among them
they decOrOusIy polite. but uncommunicative,
IN the spirit Of their leader 4 few. however have
been initiated, and describe the conversations
"a series of carefully cultivated cynicisns led by
lecture Thus do their guests become victims 10
phrase making
1t would be hard To diagnose their complaint,
said one of these victims they cheerful in
their woe Nothing al present suits them and they
all pronounce their daily tasks bore. But they
are not bothered With reform notions and don't
make a public fuss 1 suspect they All cherish
secret ambitions winning commonplace sue
ceSSeS. and swap their melancholy epISr,tmS be-
cause they have no other WAY at present tu m'ih-
tain that academic secIusiveness your college
graduate usually feels the lack Of during the hrst
years of his plunge into life However. there's
some truth and humOr ia their talk that needn't
be summarily dismissed downy faced CyuIcism-
And the speaker narrated nearly he could I
speech of the leader the subject of How to Be
Successful Though EducaJed- The young man
knocked his cigarette ash into the dreaS of his
coffee and said I've thought this all out as
Devery does his brilliants. It's not imorCmPtu L
burdered with the conception by too much
paternal advice ON how TO succeed We get 100
much Of that advice on all hands. The path from
the log cabin the White House has been ex-
plotted and explained; have been Taught how
bt happy though married and il only remains
To put the teaching into practice-a minor detail;
magazines conducted 10y underpaid editors have
told us how To get from home 10 college with a
for capital. the lives of captains Of industry
have been laid bare from their always humble be
ginnings but the really useful work i the not
done. Who Will tell how To be succ vssfuI though
edUCHtedT
The worst that may be said of college train
ing (unt the chair of founCr) Is that IL
gives young ambitions. After all. the youth
W hose capital a in instances prefers To
keep his capital and milk il; the boy in the log
cabin hopes some day to build a house with store
shingles: the worker in the steel mill thinks
ne may in time rise be a foreman. and il content
II he does But the college graduate
bitionS. Nurtured in romance fed on history llled
with the keen relish for intellectual excitement and
the power of intellectual mastery. he yearly
turned by the thousand into the hard world. with
ambitions. but no job.
There are open for him the law and medicine;
but each requires three or four years or
training. and then an additional period ot unrS-
muneratiVe waiting There II business but al
ready the high school graduate has four wears
start, which. when all is said. the classics and
French literature do not help tie
might write novels. but his taste Is too good while
a knowledge of art bars him from the drama To
be sure there is teaching: the world still puts
women viii teach cheaper, that HELD il
stricted IL Is no wonder that there many
or that SO few of US college men marry before We
are thirty.
Then some one asked this gloomy teacher OF
applause but quiet approval said the outsider.
what ne proposed TO do about il. His answer vas
CHARACTERISTIC. To-morrow play golf, hs SAID