The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-05-08
OLD GORGON GRAHAM
GIVES GOOD ADVICE TO HIS SON
AT HARVARD.
Views Of "self-Made Merchant" on
the Value Of Education-The
Really Important Part Of College
Training to Young Man.

Dear Pierrepont: Your Ma got
back safe this morning and she wants
me to be sure and tell you not to
overstudy, and want to tell you to
be sure not to understudy. What
we're really sending you 60 Harvard
for is to get little of the education
that's SO ID and plenty there.
When It's p sed around you don't
want to be ashful, but reach right
out and take a big helping every time,
for | want you to get your share.
You'll find that education's about the
only thing lying around loose in this
world, and that it's about the only
thing a fellow can have as much of
as he's willing to haul away. Every
thing else is screwed down tight and
the screw-driver is lost.
I'm anxious that you should be a
good scholar but I'm more anxious
that you should be good clean man.
And II you graduate with a sound
conscience, shan't care so much If
there are a few holes in your Latin.
There are two parts of college edu-
cation-the part that you get in the
schoolroom from the professors, and
the part that you get outside of it
from the boys. That's the really i'm
portant part. For the first can only
make you scholar, while the Sec
ond can make you a man.
Education is a good deal like eat
ing-a fellow can't always tell which
particular thing did him good, but
he can usually tell which one did him
harm. After square meal of roast
beef and vegetables, and mince pie
and watermelon, you cant say just
which ingredient is going into muscle,
but you don't have to be very bright
to figure out which one started the
demand for painkiller In your insides,
or to guess, next morning, which one
made you believe in a personal devil
the night before. And so, while a
fellow can't lgure out to an ounce
whether it's Latin or algebra or his
tory or what among the solids that is
building him up in this place or that
he can go right along feeding them in
and betting that they're not the
things that turn his tongue fuzzy. It's
down among the sweets, among his
amusements and recreations, that
he's going to find his stomach-ache
and it's there that he wants to &c
slow and to pick and choose, and to be
thinking.
Does a College education pay? Does
1t pay to feed in pork trimmings al
five cents n pound at the hopper ant
draw out nice, cunning, little "coun
try" sausages at twenty-five cents {
pound at the other end? Does 1t pay
to take a steer that's been running
tus and petrified wood till he's jus
a bunch of barbed wire and sole
leather, and feed him corn till he!
just solid hunk of porterhousC
steak and oleo oil?
You bet it pays. Anything extri
that trains boy to think and t
think quick pays; anything tina
teaches a boy to get the answer be
fore the other fellow gets through
biting the pencil, pays.
College doesn't make fools; 1t de
velops them. 1t doesn't make brigh
men; 1t develops them. A fool will
turn out a fool whether he goes t,
college or not, though he'll probabl,
turn out different sort Of a fool
From Letters from Self-Made Mel
chant to His Son." by George Horac
Lorimer. BY permission 0f Small
Maynard & Co.. Publishers. Boston
Mass.