The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-11-10

lions of learning in the land. Every
where the thoughtless judge their
worth and their utility by their size.
Bigness from their standpoint is the
touchstone Of educational efficiency.
From carefully compiled and inter-
esting statistics we find that those
who have achieved success came not
from the big colleges. Carefully COM
piled figures reveal the fact, first
that it is the smaller colleges that
yield the nation it slargest number
Of successful men; and secondly, that
the percentage Of success among the
students of the smaller schools is
larger than it is among the students
of the flourishing universities. The
pre- eminent place, both as to the to-
tai yield Of successful men and the
percentage Of successful men and the
percentage Of success goes beyond a
doubt to your smaller schools, i'll
many eases schools erected by the
sacrifice and hallowed by the prayer
and endowed by the loyalty and the
pride Of the Christian people Of the
land. You must give the college boy
love, you must give him comradeship,
you must somehow touch his springs
Of manhood, and honor, and ambl-
ton, and the only way to do that Is
with friendship. We need to bring d
man up to his kingly stature, to give
him art, the Divine aesthetic impulse,
communion with the upward soaring
minds Of all the ages. In word, d
college worth the name must stand a
man on his own feet and say to him:
Think! sir, think! For thought is
king1y. It is God-like and divine. :"
And for this reason [ believe in clas-
sic languages. I believe in art ana
culture. I believe in the college beau
titful. I believe in attractive grounds
and buildings. I believe in the ap-
peal to every student s sense Of order
and of taste and of refinement.
believe in it because it belongs to the
ideal, the education Of the entire man.
ssBut the last third Of education is
the appeal to the distinctly spiritual.
Christian education only is ideal. J.
quote these significant words Of ont
who was no friend Of the religious Ill
education,. Prof. Huxley. He says: 4
have always been strongly in favor
of secular education, in the sense Of
education without theology, but I
must confess I have been no less SER
iously perplexed to know by what
practical measures the religious feel
ing, which is the essential basis Of
conduct, was to be kept up without
the use of the Bible
"Christian education is the cap
stone of mans development.
''In short, my friends, the aim Of
education is that golden word, char
aeter. Character is the power to SEE
surprising beauty in God and God s
world. The ideal system must also
have an eye to the development OF
the body. It goes almost without
saying that college ought to have a
well appointed gymnasium. Eduea'
ton is not the process Of putting
things into a man. It is the process
Of getting things out Of him.
''Finally, the spirit of the ideal
college is three fold. First Of all IL
is the spirit Of kindness. I would
have college where kindness was
the ruling virtue. Oh, kindness! LEI
it. crown the whole curriculum! Let it
grace each hall and class room. LIE,
it shine in every college banner. Re
ye kind, one to another
EEMore than the spirit Of kindness
ideal culture thrills with that othe.
spirit, Of optimism, Of hope. The
world is full enough Of Jeremiahs.
The business Of the college is to be the
fountain head of manly optimism,
whose living waters shall be for the
healing and redemption of the ma
tion.
''Lastly, completing the three-folo
college spirit, is that crowning spirit,
the genius Of the man Of Nazareth.
The archetypal man Of all the ages is
Jesus Christ. And the work of mali
building must go on with reference to
Him. The ideal college is the college
source Of Christian scholars, and
Christian gentlemen. And if there Is
a man who must be one and not tn,
other, either Christian scholar o.