Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-09-01
next problem was where the son or

daughter should be sent.
Not only in homes, but In public
writings has the former question been
argued from both sides. Usually the
man who says that college training is
wasted time Is one who was never
there, the most he knows about 1t be-
ing the sight of bunch Of students on
the street playing the role of rowdies.
Most of the men who take the other
side Of the question are the ones who
nave had the advantage of such edu-
cation.
From mere financial standpoint,
the man who tells how he got rich
with only common school education
may be correct. One may follow the
Russell Sage idea and start to work
upon leaving the grades, save every
thing he makes and add to it if he is
shrewd IN business, and eventually be-
come millionaire.
On the other hand there is some
thing about college training and col
lege association that can not be obtain
ed In any other way in the same length
OF time. 1t is place of leyeling and
striking averages. The young fellow
who goes there with "swelled head"
soon gets it removed, if there is any
possibility of removing it. The one
who goes there with lack of conf
dence in mis- own ability in running up
against the world, 1T being, perhaps,
his first time away from home for such
long period, will there gain what he
lacks, because there are dozens just
like him there. They grow in strength
together.
Four years in college will give a
young man an acquaintance that he
would not sell for four times what it
cost him, not taking into consideration
any of the advantages Of the education.
In ten years after he leaves school he
has friends In all portions of the earth.
There may be a question in the mind
of the one who furnishes the money
for the education as to whether or
not it pays, but there is no question in
the mind OF the young man who re-
ce1ves it, providing he has made the
best of his opportunities.
The question as to what kind of a
school to attend must be left to those
who are most interested. 1t depends
upon the young man himself to great
extent. Iowa is full of good small col
leges, all sectarian schools. They are
institutions where the person with
only moderate means can get as good
an education, and all of the other
things in college life on a smaller
scale as in the larger school. He Is
closer to his instructors and his &C
quaintance circle will probably be
about as large, as there is a limit to
this even in the larger institutions
If he is only fairly well supplied with
means he will find his circumstances
probably better suited to him at a
smaller institution, for nearly all there
are in his class.
If he is young man who has the
ability and ambition to go to the top
in his favorite undertaking, and he has
the means, he will find that when he
reaches the top in one of the universi-
ties he has accomplished more than
when the same has been attained in a
smaller institution. If he has faculties
Of a leader he has a broader field in
which to work in a larger college or
university. He may apply the same
in smaller school, but his mettle
will be tried to greater extent in the
larger one.
1t ell depends upon the young man.