The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1903-06-18
Among the many readers Of this

Among the many readers OF this
paper there are doubtless bright-faced,
eager young pupils In the public schools
to whom this is a time or great mo-
ment, the fork in the road. the turn
ing point, perhaps, on which hinges
the success or failure of their future
lives. They are going to college, these
boys. In the high school or the pre-
paratory school they have proved them
selves worthy of higher education,
and they are hating now between
the different courses and wondering
which offers to them the greatest OPP
portunities. 1t is great problem.
Much depends upon 1t being answered
Alright. 1t may be that success or
failure hangs upon the answer. IL Is
for this reason, dear boy with the
great hopes for the future. that te
follUying bit of history Is related:
Two years ago-or, was 1t three?-
/ Cornell University graduated great
class Of engineers, civil, mechanical.
electrical, mining, while in the College
of Forestry there was a single candl
date for q diIiloma. OF the englneerlnN
classes. running into the hundreds,
places had been secured for nine men
out Of ten-places at salaries ranging
from SIS to $40 and S12 week. There
was a great demand for the young en-
lgineers. The great locomotive works
wanted a few, the great bridge build
ing companies, the electrical compan-
ies-the Westinghouse. the General
Electric. the Western Electric and
others-took more. They take them
every year. Why should they not,
when they can get talented and edu-
Gated young men at wages which are
paid to the statesmen and women in
a city store? For the solitary man
who had studied the science of fores
try the United States government,
New York State and several other
commonwealths, two or three institu-
lions Of learning and a number Of pri-
vate enterprises were clamoring. One
of the lowest salaries offered to him
was $1,000 year, with prospects of
rapid increase So great was the de-
mand for men who could make two
trees grow where one grew before that
President Schurman publicly announc-
ed the fact and deplored that so many
young men were consigniDg them
selves to lives of ill-paid endeavor in
the over-crowded professions when
one full of delightful possibilities was
clamoring for men. There is no need
to point out the moral of the tale.
Bows who are hesitating which road
to take should seek the guides and
ask them to what ends the different
roads Of learning promise to lead. The
universities are turning out too many
engineers and lawyers and doctors.
They are turning out altogether too
many bad preachers. Let our bright
bows seek some less crowded paths on
which life will not be constant strug-
gle toward the survival Of the fittest
and on which they may walk with
less Of jostle and sorrow and with
opportunity for more useful and more
i profitable and more satisfactory ac-
complishment.
Higher CritciSm-Eigher criticism
has no explosive. Its province is to
tunnel into the Rock of Ages that more
light may break out of the eternal
Word. If any one thinks he has dis
covered an explosive that will demol-
ish the Rock of Ages the church is
ready for the experimentation. l.. II.
Caswell, Presbyterian, Greenpoint, N.
Y.
Regeneration..-We find the doctrone
Of regeneration illustrated in the
man who is ordinarily timid and
shrinking, but who becomes courage
Gus, aggressive and advancing. ard
we shall know that as the lower life
regenerates, so the higher life will
make the man new man.--Rev. ID.
A. Goodsell, Methodist, South Norwalk
Conn