Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-06-11
HIGHER QUOTATIONS..

eH VIC nave Completed the prescribed
courses, a question is being discussed
in many household that deserves all
the careful, yea, even the prayerful.
: consideration that it is likely to re-
ceive. This question is, Should John
or Mary 60 to college, or should they
begin at once life's serious duties !?
And if college training is determined
upon, a second, and possibly more per-
picking question projects itself, What
kind of higher training should John or
Mary pursue? 1t is needless to dwell
upon the very great Importance of
these questions and the urgency of
right observation-disclosures that the I'M
known future will demonstrate to have
been correct.
The present tendency is unquestion-
ably toward college training for near
" all young men and is growing rap
idly in the direction of the same train
ing for young women. Ii is taken as
matter of course that the boy who
has mastered high school course,
without much regard as to his relative
scholarship, whose parents possess
sufficient means, should receive a gen.
eral classical or scientific training be-
fore he is asked to step into the ''arena
of lifen that we hear so much about.
Not only that, but the cases are nu-
merous where lads of mediocre men |
tality, as we'll as some to whom study I
is positively distasteful and who give /
scarcely the faintest promise of achiev-
ing success through the aid OF book
lore, are matriculated as though it
We're as necessary for them to pass
through college as to enter the primary /
department at the first stage of their
common school education The cases
are numerous. too, Of fond parents
whose means are limited and who can
III afford the expense, who sacrifice
their own comforts, even seeming ne
cessities, in order that their boys may
not be denied what has come to be re-
garded as the only fit preparation for
the lite OF today and of tomorrow.
For anyone to question the eminent
of this latter-day view is to
invite scathing criticism of his judy
nent or his motives. The father who.
having abundant means, should dis
his son OF fair scholastic abil- :
ty from taking college course after =
lie had graduated from the high school !
would be commonly regarded as dere- =
let in his paternal duty Yet there
re some parents and others, who still :
that no general rule can APP y
'ly, and that whether John or Mary II
hould go to college is a question not u
o be settled off-hand in the aflirma. 9
i've, but should only be determined u
fter most thoughtful consideration OF "
Il the facts and conditions governing q
ne particular case. "
\ college course requires four years "
me and costs several. thousand 1t
ollars. II is worth at least passing III
bought in every case whether that u
me and that money are better ex- IN
ended in that direction than they al
ould be If applied in some other, Ii
he boy OF eighteen, just out of high Oh
.hool, Is seldom so matured in mind co
body as to be fitted Tor heavy sa
sponsibilities. Whether called to co
es activities then or not until after As
has added four years to his age, tr'
ent in college, he must serve a ir'
'riod of probation in any line OF
lsiness or in any profession that he ~
tiers. If he starts at eighteen and Al
votes himself to it with the same
pacity and earnestness as his col Is
giate friend at twenty-five, he will th'
We gained material start over the arr
ter. The world gauges men &C lee
riding 10 what their services are ov'
)rth TO il and rewards them accord del
civ. The college graduate has no an,
vantage in the race unless he Use
n find some way of using what mo
has acquired so as to benefit his as
Iployer or the public. Tons OF cru art
ion, dormant, are not worth so thl'
lch as one practical suggestion tlol
action that bears fruit. If the the
II years spent in college has not =
titled the habit OF making ser
cable considerable part Of the 6
owledge acquired. it has failed of :.
object. The graduate will be NOR
ed to discover that in his chosen
{ some Lad without 1.-THE OF the
e he possesses is distancing him
'ause he has learned to make that
lie serve him wen. Nor is all the