The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-10

who has just inspected 1t by orders from
the war department.; but 1t is not at the
expense of time which should be given to
intellectual work. and Its discipline does
not take the place of the personal, moral
influence and training which are indis-
pensable to the right development of the
best qualities In boys nature. Prob
ably more boys are prepared for college
here than In any of the so-called mill
tary schools. There are at the present
time more than fifty Of the old boys in
nearly twenty colleges. including Har-
nesota, and several professional schools. 81
1.-THE Institutional Life"
There are advantages in boy prepar-
ing for college in such school which the
day school cannot give him. Many can
be pointed out who have been saved from
failure in their intellectual work by the
more systematic thoro application that can
be taught a boy in the school he lives in,
and by the greater personal help and di-
rection he receives from his Instructors
in consequence of the very much smaller
classes.
An institutional life, too, is OF the great
developing the manly side of a boys ma
ture. In his book. How I Was Edu-
Gated Edward Everett Hale said: Half
the benefit of college education is in the
good we get from the fellows In a good
preparatory school the boy Is affected even
more than the young man is in college. He
is at a. more impressible age; he learns
and absorbs more by the intimate rela-
ton In which he lives with his teachers;
he elbows his way with others, his equals,
and makes his place among them by his
own exertions and merit. The result is
a more rapid maturing Of his nature, a
greater independence Of character, and
1,Nff 1of 9th
He learns many lessons In getting on with
Others. and in making his own way in
competition with them; which the boy who
has been trained wholly at home and In
the day school must take time to learn
after he starts out to work for himself or
for others in business.
The result is that the boy who has had
three or four years of this training under
right direction and influence seldom "goes
to pieces in his college life, and he gets
ahead just so much faster in his vocation
in life, whether he goes to college or not.
Every man who has gone successfully
thru Shattuck not only looks back upon
it as the happiest period Of his life, but
he regards the associations he formed here
and the training received as invaluable
aids in helping him forward In his bust
ness undertakings and in his social rela-
lions.
+ Pride In Its Alumni.
The annual catalogue, a copy Of which
will be sent by the rector to any one who
will ask for 1t by mail or otherwise, con :
tains directory Of the graduates. with
their business and residence. 1t is a most
gratifying record It contains the names
Of men who have already gained eminenSe
in all the professions, and many who are
leaders and in positions of large influ
ence and responsibility in the industrial
and commercial world. The training de-
oh o,to hxyx UhfcI,
these men work up to positions Of inde
pendence and trust much more rapidly
than men of the same average ability who
have not had this training.
The dominant idea Of the founders of
Shattuck has been to establish 1t SO firm
ly and permanently that 1t shall become
one of the most influential and secure in
stitutions of learning in the northwest.
The men it has sent out have been
trained during the time when 1t was
struggling in the face of its poverty Of
means, to secure Accumulation.
&. When the present rector was placed In
charge Of the management. thirty six
years ago, it had not building Of it's
own, no prestige to convince the public
1t was worthy Of patronage. and no funds
with which to build or provide the facili-
| ties necessary for the high grade work
| that was planned for 1t has accom-
| plished these great results without dol
|
of permanent buildings. It has reached a
| point now when there can hardly be a
| question of its permanence and increasing
usefulness Each year is adding to the
number Of men in all walks Of life who
have been prepared by it for their life's
work. BY their numbers and their char
acter and ability they will play more
and more important part in moulding the
rapidly increasing mixed population of the
trans Mississippi states. With the erec-
tion of the buildings still necessary for
! the completion Of its plans, and the en-
dowment for the betterment Of its work,
/ its usefulness will be indefinitely in
creased, and its influence be felt more and
more widely.
Home and School Combined.
/ It's Importance to the state is in
4 creased by the establishment of a separ-