The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01

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those acting bar keepers at select family
chauffeurs for trolley are present and cheer
ing, it would if there could be but
to the question But permit their judg-
ment to be swayed by excitement in times like those
and you do not get satisfactory answer
Take two doing exactly the kind OF work.
educated a college and the other without that
advantage, if you wish to call it that No tell
whether the with the college education is doing
better because of it the other would be doing
better if he had the higher education Two who
illustrate this point better than perhaps any others
are "Christy" Mathewson and Bugs" Raymond,
pitchers for the Giants.
Both are great baseball pitchers "Matty," as
he is called by his thousands of admirers is college
man with culture fairly oozing from his finger tips.
Raymond is rough that when he, rolls in the
grass he up the sod Maty" is almost the last
word in erudition; Raymond does not know whether
the nebuar hypothesis is something to or a new
kind of liniment
Is Mathewson better pitcher because of his col
lege training, and if that has helped him what kind
OF phenomenal twirler would Raymond be if he had
gone of the great universities? In other words
does a working knowledge of the binomial theorem
help pitcher in the delivery of spit ball make
snaky curve even trihe more snaky?
Would Raymond be better ball player If he had
Mathewson's college education, and would Mathew
be earning money pitcher if he had
Raymonds thirst? Answer these questions and you
settle the other about the value of college
education.
College Mans Protest
OF course when illustration of this kind used
there will be some college who will jump up and
say If is fair He will tell you that Mr. Mathew
enjoy the society of cultured men and women
and receives the pleasures of those associations which
Bugs can never know. Grant all that, admit that
"Matty" looks so we'll in evening clothes that he
could get job in window a model wearing one
of those signs Take home for $780," and can
do parlor stunt well that the women think he is
Just too lovely for anything" and the men hope he
will break both legs and have attack of smallpox
the competition will not be so keen for the rest
OF the season. But when you granting all this
do not forget that Mr.. Raymond fairly scntllates
in his own set, and for real pleasure and the JOY
of living neither Mr.. Mathewson nor any other coll
lege graduate has anything him.
Wendell Phillips said the best education in the
world is the obtained in the struggle to get
living There lot of university men in this city
who getting their first real education now and
getting it guiding those spirited steeds that draw the
old horse and in similar work There are college
presidents and others who stand up and say without
qualification mental reservation that college
training makes man better fitted for any position
than he would have been without it, From the data
that has been obtained it can be said that the man
yho spent his early days following plow makes
fully good streetcar driver the stroke on the
varsity team
One of the great manufacturers of this country was
lliterae that he could speak the simplest
sentence correctly. He was also troubled with the
inability to remember persons. When he met man
whom he had perhaps but he would say,
Your face looks similar, but don't seem to be able
to organize you. According to the theory of the
college men he would have been even more of a sue
if he had been college man. There is just as
much reason TO believe he would have gone into
medicine the law and eked out bare existence
instead of nventing of the best folding beds ever
placed on the market and making million dollars.
There is German waiter in this city with great
scar across his face. 1t is reminder of his student
days in Heidelberg, and he has his degree from the
institution of learning The scar is his proudest
possession. In another restaurant less than two
blocks away Irish waiter with the lower part
of an ear gone. He lost that in little argument on
the Barbary and he received his education on
the streets adjacent to that thoroughfare and at
time before the glory of the coast had departed
After the days work the German waiter goes to
his room and reads the German writers on socialism
and broods The Irish waiter seeks to obtain an
equitable distribution of the worlds wealth. and be-
gins to look for a crap game. He never studies
philosophy, and he smile when the things are
going against him, and the smile gets him more tips
than the Crouch brings to the German waiter If
you could only tell what the Irishman would have
done with college education, and the German would
have done without his, then you could get line on
just how valuable college education is to a man.
If Il = true, as some assert that college edl-
cation makes man better fitted for any work he
engages in there ought be lot of rejoicing that
denied the advantages of higher