Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-16

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nerve, determination and ambi-
- tion, the college graduate has n
INH big advantage, of course, over his
- fellow who has not enjoyed the
advantages of the schools.
But college training alone will not insure
success. Whosoever would win must be
educated, but it is one of the easiest things
in the world to spend a certain number Of
years at college, to pass the examinations
creditably and to get a document which
certifes that you have done these things
without really becoming educated. And If
you are not educated, in the true sense,
you cannot accomplish the things that are
really worth doing in this world.
The first problem for every young man,
then, is education. He should go to col
lcge If he can manage it, but there is no
reason for him to despair if the college
course is beyond his reach. America is
crowded, as everybody knows, with men
who have made their marks in business, in
high finances, in politics, in railroading
and manufacturing in journalism, art and
literature, in nearly every walk of life,
who never have seen the inside of a college
save as visitors. Most of these men are
proud Of what they have done in spite of
their handicap, but there are few among
them who do not regret the handicap; who
do not believe in their hearts that they
could have gone further and achieved more
had they been able to get the training that
the college course gives.
This could be shown in no more con-
elusive way than by the liberality displayed
toward the higher institutions of learning
by certain non-graduate princes of in
dustry, of finance and of transportation.
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money for the maintenance and endowment
of seminaries, colleges and universities as
John D. Rockefeller, whose education was
completed without the help of any school
of a grade higher than the district school.
No other man has given one 1.-THE as much
to place the means of self-education, in
the form of free libraries, within the reach
of those who cannot go to college, as An
drew Carnegie, who was graduated into
the world of affairs from the telegraph key,
and whose education included practically
no schooling at all. A long list of nom
college men who have given with munif-
cence to educational institutions might be
made, but mention of the two best known
for their liberality in helping others to
enjoy the advantages of which they were
deprived in youth is enough to illustrate
my point. Probably more than half of all
the money that has been expended in
America for the founding and the main
tenance of colleges and universities has
been contributed by men who were not col
lege graduates.
One of the important advantages enjoyed
by the college man over the non-graduate
lies in the fact that by reason Of his col
lege course the former virtually belongs
to a vast and growing club, with members
in practically every city of his own land
and many cities of the great world out
side.
A graduate of Harvard, for instance
going from an eastern city to San Fran
cisco to engage in business or professional
life has a big lead over a non-collegc
man in the same circumstances. There are
many Harvard graduates in San francisco
and every one of them will be quick to
extend such social cOurtesies as he may
to any newcomer, who, like himself, re-