Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-07-05
ROOSEVELT
ON The COLLEGE
TELLS OF PURPOSES AND DAN
GERS or EDUCATION.
FR0WNS ON ANY LUXURlES
LOOKS With Apprehension on Tend
ency of Students to Spend Gre 1t
Sims at uniVersity-GiVes Whole
SINE Advice on Various Things ir
Athletics.

N-eAtAbA sNesNs hetoosJ 9t~AN -" 4 ANDA
ent Roosevelt yesterday addressed
great throng on the occasion Of the
commencement exercises of Harvard
university.
"A great university like this has
two especial functions" he said. THE
! first is to produce a small number of
scholars of the highest rank, small
number Of men who, in science and
! literature, or in art, will do productive
work of the first class, Tie second
I is tc send out into the world very
large number of men who never couli
achieve, ami who ought not TO try TO
achieve, such a position in the field Of
/ scholarship but whose energies are to
1 be felt in every other form of activity;
and WHO should so out from our doors
with the BALANCED development of
( body, of mind, and above all. of char
acter. which shall fit them to do work
/ of the effort to accomplish the first
function that of developing men cop
able of productive scholarship, as dis
1 tinguished from merely initiative, an
notaEive, or pelagogic scholarship,
must come through the graduate
| school The law school AMI medical
school do admirable work in fitting
men for special professions, but they
IN no shape or way supply any short
comings in the graduate school any
more than does the college proper, tie
college of the undergradua es. The
/ ideal for the graduate school AMI for
those undergraduates who are to go in
to ii must DC the ideal of high scholar
/ ly production, which is to be distin-
/ guished in the sharpest fashion from
| the mere transmittal of ready-made
I knowledge without adding 10 it. If
/ America is to contribute its full
share. to the progress not alone OF
/ knowledge, but of wisdom, then we
must put everIucreasing emphasis on
university work done along the lines
of the graduate school. We can best
help the growth of American scholar.
ship by seeing that as a career it is
out more on level with the other
careers Cpen to our young men. The
| general opinion of the community is
bound to have very great effect even
upon it's most vigorous and indepenj-
ent minis If in the public mind the
career Of the scholar is regarded as of
insignificant value when compared
with that of a glorified pawnbroker,
then it will with difficulty he made
attractive to the most vigorous AMI
gifted of our American young men.
Good teachers, excellent institutions,
and libraries are all demanded in a
graduate school worthy of the name.
But there is an even more urgent de-
mani for the right sort of student. No
first-class science, no frst-class litera-
ture or art, can ever be built up with
second-class men. The scholarly
career, the career of the man of let
ters, TIE man of arts, the man of
science, must be made sucn as TO at,
tract those strong and virile youths
who now feel that they can only turn
to business, law, or politics. There is
no enc thing which will bring about
his desired change, but there is one
thing which will materially help in
bringing it about, and that is to secure
to scholars the chance of getting one
of a few brilliant positions as prizes
if they rise to the first rank in their
chosen career. Every such brilliant
position should have as an accom-
Daniment an added salary, which shall
help indicate how high tie position
really is; an. it must be the eTorts of
the alumni which can alone secure such
salaries for such positions
Need of Pay Recognizes.
AS a people i think we are waking
Up to the fact that there must be bet
ter pay for the average man AMI aver
age woman engaged in the work of
education. But | am not speaking
vi this now; am not speaking of the
desira0ilitv, great though that is, of
giving better payment to the average
educator, | am speaking of the de
STABILITY of giving to the exceptional
man the chance of winning an excep- !
tional prize, just rs he has ;ue chance
to do in law and business. In busi- !
ness at the present day nothing could /
be more healthy than an immense re /
duction in the money value of the |
exceptional prizes thus to be won; but
in scholarship what is needel is the I
reverse. In this country we rightly /
% upcn the theory that it is more i'm I
portant to care for the welfare of the /
average man than to put a pre- MUM .
upon the eXertions of the exceptional /
but we must nor forget that the estab !
hsament of sucl a premium for the (
exceptional. though Of less Importance.
il nevertheless Of very great import
aGce. 1t is important even to the
development of the average man, for
The average of all of us is raised by
the work Of the great masters. It is,
I trust. unnecessary to say that
appreciate to the fun the fact that the
highest work of all viii never be af-
fectel one way or the other by any (.
question Of compensation. And much
of the worl. which is really best for
the nation must from the very nature
of things be non-remuneratiss as COM
pared with the work Of the or linary
Industries and yocations. Nor would
IL ever be possible or desirable that
the rewards OF transcen lent success
in scholarship should even approx
mate. from a monetary standpoint, the
rewards in ether vOcat.Ors. But it Is
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