Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-28
WHY MEN AND
STUDENTS FAIL.
W. W. Ritter Spoke to the |. D.
S. University This
Morning
STUDENTS DEBATE TONIGHT.
County Teachers 10 Meet l.. ID. $. STU
dents ON Chinese Exclu-
sion Act.

At the students meeting OF the MEM
hers Of the Latter.day Saints Univer-
sity this morning. Mr. Clyde Lindsay
presiding, program OF unusual beauty
and interest was rendered. The school
choir, Student Noa Pratt leading,
gave very creditable rendition of the
well-known anthem Jerusalem. My
Glorious Home" Prayer was offered
by President j. H. Paul A mixed quar-
tet, sweet and Low" was sweetly CIV
en- by Misses Edith Grant and Marie
| Thomas and Messrs Clyde Lindsay and
Stanley johnson. To an enthusiastic
recall, the quartet sang Hurrah for
the Gald and Blue"
Hon. VIM. W. Ritter was then an
nounced as the speaker. After relating
| incidents OF the "trip to eastern univer-
stiles recently undertaken in the service
| OF the State OF Utah by himself and
Prest. Kingsbury, the speaker proceed
| ed to observe that exclusive reliance
| cannot be placed upon the education re.
| celyed In school. Much OF the education
necessary TO successful living must be
! obtained outside OF the schools. Thus
Nv. VIZ t'.. ivs,' neo, w. Sh"iion' o,'v "
VIC oess eIue luz i'ioli 'ne spvaNei naa
ssef nv nau teee,veu sea'VeiS ahS "
ms inaShiieent cuuva.lon ~ sehoo,s'
wv III NE uaiiy ocCupatloh. 90, ~,
,na s, ,'Vi nav avn'eteu suIs ~,
or,siae 80 ehooi ~ rtS,,an,, aia,na,ts
of education. School educated men are
so'ne..lieS a'eiso " suI''iIs eirii na ..,,'
a ad'o ,na1 % mn. so , Sai,n v ''s
rn,,c ,r,oN we c,,,p,c,rrp q
|
| IN tne last lew years; euucatloh
| throughout the worId mas neen pracll.
| caliy doupleo as 10 the NUMBERS az
! lcast, that are now receiving ~ Weai'h
also mas doubled But curious con-
dition has developed the old-tline ndel-
| NY ana honesty oil employees Is TESS usu-
| al than formerly. Ana these qualities
| OF character are what Is mostly lacking
/ IN education To-Day men are irequeht-
~ Jealous OF the wealth OF their EN-,
| ployers' but this Is folly Accumulated
| wealth. Is the properly or the cofnHiu-
| MY, AFTER all; ana thoush man may
| accumulate wealth IN the course OF
| few generations az most 1t VIII be re-
distributed, he cannot use H. Each
| man who has all he can eat. drink, or
| wear, Is az rich as Rocketeller Inc
! man working IN shlrtsleeNes creates
wealth; but his family WIN not go IN
shirtsleeves' they wear dress coats ana
| soon disslpate the wealth. But their
children viii have 20 be shirtsleeVe men
again.
Returning. to me question OF higner
| education the speaker refefred 10 tne
| Utah students whom ne hhd recently
| encountered In the east.
r,rAtr sTI,DpNTS strcrEFD
!
Utah students who go east are usually
| at the head Of their classes. Why is
| this? We do not have better bodies
| or better brains here than elsewhere.
! The human frame Is much the same
| everywhere. and young men are much
| alike In every part ~ the world and
| especially IN any one country.
An eastern professor has accounted
! for this undoubted fact by saying that
| the abstinence from tea, coffee and to-
! bacco, and from tendencies to dlssipa-
! don IN any form IL the usual condition
| Of the student from Utah. The Utah
| student usually comes from q humble
| home and Is ipured 10 work, He has,
! moreover, q purpose, and has Ideals
| aud character One Utah student
| known to the writer, however, was an
| exception to the rule. He was a