Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-23

A few years ago the president of
Western university was interested in
comparing the college graduate with
the. rest of society, He took six vol
ures of Appleton's Cyclopeadia of
American Biography CA book contain
ing the names of no recent graduates
and counted the college graduates in
Il list of over fifteen thousand names.
A little more than onc-thrd We're dis
covered to be college men. The in
ference is that out of every ten thou
sand of the people who have not had
a college education. one has become of
sufficient note to be mentioned in a
bioGra phical dictionary, while one out
Of every forty college men finds his
place there. The chance the college
man has compared with the non-col-
lcse man is two hundred and fifty to
| one. This homcly illustration shows
that in the present day the college must
stand for the same thing that it has
i'll the past. The change must come
i'll the college man if he is to occupy
an equal or Il larger sphere. The
| graduate in the broadcloth must hold
to something of the strength and sim
| picity of his grandsire in the home
spun.
| The college in its own sphere must
| sun stand for the things of the mind
although many other activities unduly
emphasized tend to obscure this end
When the old graduate sits by the open
| fire in fraternity house or commons
and the students gather around in the
attitude of diScipleShip, the story they
gather is nothing | learned from
| books was any help to me" This
81 rings from n kind of inverted ny
procrisy prevalent in American life.
Put the college man on the platform
as an alumrus and he will tell you
the college stands and has always stood
for truth. training and culture. These
make up that indcfinable composite at
! mosphere of college life. Truth with
out training makes q mind mere gran
airy; training without truth makes the
mind mere mill without the grist to
grind. Truth ana training make the
| mind a forcibie agency both for use
| funnss and for beauty" This is the
offer of the American college to its
graduate. His burden i'm college and
| III life is to combine these qualities
| with his own inherent powers. To
couple determination with truth; rc-
sponsibility with training and loyalty
with culture.
| Truth reinforced by determination
| involves clear vision of final ends
with a will to reach them. Amid the
pcrvcrsinnS of the social and Industrial
order such an attitude is step to-
wards solution and also towards win
ming from all classes q confidence in
| the American college that is absolute.
A recent writer has brought the
charge of bloodguiltness against the
English nation because it has let pow
erty drive so many of it's greatest gen
fuses to death. That old system OF
"naturalistic ethics retains high vogue
today The college man must combine
| his talents in his genius with deter
mination or fail. Every high service
that the world receives is miserably
paid. Say that the world pays for
work inversely as the cube value rem
dercd and you have a pretty safe ap-
Proclamation. We pay the millionaire
more than his broker; the bad novelists
more than the good novelist and the
bad novelist more than the good poet
IL in business and the professions such
an attitude should keep the college man
for a lifetime with his nose to the stone
there would be no cause for complaint
We should be no worse off than the
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