The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-28
KANSAS CONTENT
THE COLLEGE MAN

THE COLLEGE MAN.
IL is as we'll to be just in criticisms,
even When SO fair and bold a target as
the college student is under considera-
ton. And in the interest of fairness,
the analysis now going the rounds in
Kansas. imputing to the college grad
uate arrogance amounting to gro
tesQueness. ought to be revised.
Tne college graduate probably has
MS faults-as who of US, it may again
De inquired, has not. But the Herald's
observation is that swagger and con-
celt are not prominent among them,
IN the case of the western graduate.
where in the transition from high
school product to college senior, taking
the college man as class.
The Herald has come into close
lege men. It has found them as q
class, exceptionally hard workers, ex-
ceptlonally- willing to sacrifice fmme-
d1ate comfort or profit for an oppor-
tunfty to work up-and exceptionally
prone to work up in any place where
energy and application will do the
business. Graduates of the leading
schools of Kansas-men who could
have taken professorships on their "a.
B.s"-have come to the Herald to do
the most elemental of newspaper work
in various departments of newspaper
making at the minimum wage for be-
ginners, and although this school of
training has included a number of stu
dents, from number of schools, and
although the grind has purposely been
made hard, no instance has yet been
found where arrogance, or pride, or
self-conceit found any task too humble
or any hour too agreeable. The Herald
knows number of college men who
this spring are applying for opportuni-
ties at work of any kind. and wages of
any sort, in the business and profess
1T
These are men who have made their
mark in school. and who carry recon-
| mendations which would start them
high in some lines of professional
work. But they are not seeking to
travel on their diplomas.
AS to whether or not the training
a college man gets best fits him for
practical work there is some question,
and the answer much depends on the
| man himself, and the general interpre-
tation of the term. practical work. -
As to whether the college student in
his progress toward his cap and gown
has been tainted with some absurdi-
ties of thought and manner there is
a suspicion which few men can afford
| to raise. But for the graduate as he
comes from the school to face his re-
sponsibilities, the Herald's hat is off.
| in recognition to the finest average of
| earnestness of purpose, strength OF
character, and concentration of ener-
| gies that any classification of young
men will show. And this is said with
| out reference to whether the college
| or the young man himself deserves
credit for this result. And it is said
with all Difference, and with some per-
sonal obligationt to the school of prac-
teal ence."-Ottawa Herald.
BRYAN'S HOPES.
Having announced his intention of
being a senatorial candidate, there
are many who believe w. J. Bryan
may become a senator two years
| hence. But there must remain in all
| minds some doubt as to any good he
may accomplish. AS an asset, the
senate is chiefly useful to Aldrich and
| the interests he serves. In these Mr..
| Bryan has no holding or standing.
The talk market is neither controlled
by trust or in need of protection, or
| free trade, or tariff for revenue only.
| The reformer in the senate has &C
complished little beyond personal ad-
vertising, and Mr.. Bryan needs none
| of this. Perhaps he is of larger
calibre than Bristow. LaFollette or
| Dolliver, but, in the final analysis, he
has but one vote, and votes count for
| more than talk in the senate, for all
| they are less common. Bryan's pros
| poets for senatorial honors seem good
but they do not materially improve
| the prospects of the country, what
| ever may be his fondest hope.-Atchi-
| son Globe.