The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-05
CHOOSING THE RIGHT SCHOOL,.
HAVE YOU FOUND ONE FOR your
ROY on GRIP

school selection The pleasant holiday
.t tho seashorc or In the mountains for
them Is at an end.
Tom and Dick ard May and Jane have
got to he packed of TO school somewhere
and school begins in September. IL the
choice Of school has not been made II can
no longer be delayed. The vast annual
crop Of American schoolboydom and
schoolgirldom has got to be rounded up
and dumped into the educational mill to
become the nations vigor or tho nation
chat. as the case may be
The military school has grown much
In favor of late years for a certain type Of
boy--the type that is the better for dis-
cipinc. The business and professional
worlds here In the United States furnish
\ constant object lesson in the successes
achieved bv men who owe their character
istics Of accuracy and thoroughn"ss, their
prornptnes their attention to detail, down
even to the little things in tidiness and
neatness of person. their manly, straight
forward address and bearing to the dis
oipline of schools of which West Point
10 the highest type.
The military schools have not only in
creased even more in thoroughness. Their
courses Of study have improved and their
discipline and general tone have been
raised and brought up to broader and
Hrmer standards.
If Tom or Dick he OF the type that an
enforced orderliress OF life will particularly
benefit the military school il good place
to start him Off IL, even II he take college
or university course aiterward There
are plentv OF schools that combine the
military feature with preparation for col
lepe. The boy who takes good advantage
of them will enter tho college or university
In probably much better physical condition
and with habits OF order and punctuallt
more firmly rooted than will the boy who
Is PREPARED at home, or even who has had
the benefit OF an ordinary preparatory
school
In these last named schools, however,
the plain preparatory, there has come a
vast change as compared with the con-
ditions which reignei when men who now
are Of middle age we're schoolboys. IL Is
athletic sports which have brought about
this change-a change that almost amounts
to revolution.
The type Of schoolboy turned out to-day
bv the preparatory schools ready TO pass
his examinations for college or university
Il mdeniably OF frmer physical, II not OF
moral, fibre than the same type, Of thirty
or thirty five years ago. The chances OF
his going wrong through university or
college dissipation are mat erially lessened.
DISSIPATION, late hours, slovenly modes
of life are Incompatible with athletics.
The ambition for athletic excellence has
done more to minimize college life excesses
within the last twenty-five years than did
all the pIelchments ana punlShlheuls Oh
half a century before.
The world has not stood still m edu-
cational any more than it has in other
matters There has been great advance
in the last quarter Of century in methods
of instruction, a great getting out OF ruts
and great drifting away from lines which
long existed principally on the sole merit
of being widowed with age. 1t is safe
wager that the sohoolboy athlete Of to-day
would bowl over the pasty-faced youth Of
DAYS gone by in the class room as easily
as he would on the field Of physical con-
tention
But all boys are not going to colleges
or universities; neither are they all going
to military or preparatory schools, and
for the large group who are going to neither
there il a wide choice of schools where a
good, solid foundation OF working book
lore may be aid-a foundation on which
the schoolboy, grown TO he Il man may
erect fine structure Of reading and broad
information if he ,chooses when his BUSH
ness achievements have won him, perhaps
at an early age, the leisure TO do so.
Never were there SO many and 80 good
schools of this class as there are to-day
schools that turn out those who have taken
their courses equipped with the foundations
of an education quite az good as those
furnished in times not remote by institu-
tons bearing SOnorous names as colleges
There has been. too, great improve
ment In the standards Of business colleges
pure and simple, With the establish
ment Of technical schools in great numbers
in which special lines of training are taught,
some Of the business colleges have some
what narrowed their fields, and by more
concentrated attention have by so much
enhanced their value TO TN, student.
As for the specialized tlne Of instruction
there is hardly a branch or ramlhcation OF
business that has not its particular school,
turning out graduates every year. VINO,
OF her things being equal, are more than apt
to have the preference in opportunities
FOR employment.
When the parents problem involves the
sending of girls rs we'll rs boys to school II
naturally becomes moro complicated. The
girl feature, however, is in the main much
simpler Except In Ca.ts where the girl
has given evidences Of some exceptional
gifts, as in tine direction of Music or the
Ike he Question uarrOWS itself down to a
selection ~ ore Of the great numbers Of
girls schools and colleges which are row
fouri. a prodigiously in all the Older
States # tn" Union,
The vast Increase Of late years IN the
number Of girl students II one OF tn" stTik-
ing educa,i Dual phenomena # the day.
Pref cent j VI. Taylor Of Nasrar an ~
ti1le j. a recent number Of me NOrld 8
Work. slys Dhat this increase mas been
80 great HS 10 rrg@'.t 10 a." oren-ey"d
nothing q. man u Elaclai movement III
so iety"
In the selection Of colleges or schools