The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-06


is his relation to his students. The coll
lege exists for the students for their ind1.
vidual development and for their prepa-
ration for life work. The courses of study
are planned with these objects in view.
and the whole life of the place should tend
toward this same end. Self-government,
keynote, and each student placed upon
his own honor and personal responsibility
should be expected to deport himself ac-
cording to the best standards of conduct
that are maintained among men and wo-
men of refinement and culture in Chris
tan communities
TT is not a mark of a Christian college
to hedge in its students with an array OF
Thou shafts and Thou shalt l1ots. Ar
bitrary regulations are not Christian IN
their results. The college should reduce
it's formal rules to a minimum, and should
seek to develop the habit Of acting from
Consciousness of principle.
Work His RIrthrlaht.''
''The environment should be such that
the student will learn that work is his
birthright and that hard work Is honora-
BILE. He should be put In the way OF
gaining that mental equipment which
comes from concentration and persever-
ance, and the mastery of some subject.
Culture. it is true, comes from knowing
something Of the best that others have
thought and said. but culture blossoms
into manhood and womanhood when one
begins to think his own thoughts thru
clearly and to put them into his own
words. When want a college man., said
one Of the leading employers Of railroad
labor in the country, I want a man who
knows that it is hard work to use books
that are worth anything; and as prepa-
ration for railroad service would rather
have a. man who has learned to use one
hard book without liking it-a Greek die
tionary, If you please-than man who
| thinks he knows all the experimental sci
ence and all the shop work which any
school can give him, and has enjoyed 1t
because it is easy.
Importance of Closing Years.
! "Now, the real Transforming years OF
/ a. college course are the Junior and senior
years It is largely true that the aver
! age student during freshmen and sopho-s
4 more years has simply been doing memory
work. The quickening Of the reason and
the imagination come with the third and
fourth years. The value Of the Junior
iyear is equal to the two which have pre-
coded it, and the senior year, with its In
lte1lectual awakening, is of more value than
4 the preceding three. Every effort should.
therefo re,53 be made to persuade parents
/ OF this and to encourage students to con-
Itinue their work steadfaStly unto the end.
Z 1.-THE president will show himself the friend
Iof the students by seeing that such ideals
Ito them is summed up in that one word
friend" He will be interested in all
their interests-literary, social, athletic
and religious. He will be accessible to
: all VINO may wish to consult him ABOUT
l personal interests, and especially TO those
5 who seek his aid in the solution of those
f intellectual and spiritual difficulties which
: lat some time beset every thinking student.
President and Alumni.
'"The next relationship of the president
, is that to the alumni and former students
= who are not graduates. They compose
! lbody which may be of great service to
= the college. They know the needs Of their
+ laln1a mater and should, as her deptors'
: tuse all their influence to send to her stu
: tdents money for endowment books Tor
= the library equipment for the laborato-
! {ries and other departments, and such aid
: in erecting necessary buildings as it may
! be in their power to secure
. 1.-THE alumni, in their different pursuits,
2 are exemplifying the spirit Of the college
!, which fostered them. OF the more than
;. 600 who have graduated and of the 5000
: others who have studied here, many hold
: positions of great influence, and some
=, lhaye reached places of enlinence. To all
: Iof these as well as to those in humber
:, spheres, the college looks for loyalty and
= support and the president, as he labors
= at home or as he goes from place to place,
, looks for encoura cement and the holding
7; tup Of his hands in practical assistance.
a College and Community.
VI Another important relationship is that
IS between the college and the community
RI in which 1t exists. Carleton can never
& forget the generosity Of the people OF
Mortified when, in 1866, the Inhabitants
l. numbering about 1,5O0, there was given
- $40. 900 for the founding of the institution
"a and the record shows that at other times
# especially during the crucial period IN 1870
of
: lyotion and self sacrifice. The colleg<
"a owes the community a great debt, and y
paI can best discharge that debt by manifest
to ing interest in the welfare OF the city
he providing lectures, musical entertainment
10 and certain library facilities by patron
lf Ting home industries and by cooperating
ii, with every organization and movement
at which makes for the betterment Of tn,
rl Ipeople intellectually materially and spir
he itually. sss. y,
at IA college owes to its community tina
is it adapt itself, to a certain extent D.
he offering such courses as will serve tn
re community. In this region our interest
Cir are largely commercial, and the majorit
re of boys and girls SO from the towns Int
he thescities to engage in business pursuits
Many of them would be benefited Dy
@ commercial course such as the colleg
!, might offer in its academy, and undoubt
), edly many who came to take such Z
~ course would remain for the higher edu
= cation.
he Obligations That Are Mutual.
"But the obligations are mutual, an
vou; 4 the college has also right to expec
In something from the community. Thi
the beautiful town is largely what 1t is be
vs. cause Of the maintenance Of the educa
ned a9tiona i institutions. st. Olaf and Carleton
III ~. IAN their midst Take from Mortified II
VI cademic 5atnisphere its public spir1te
'toIl faculties It's families who have move
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