Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-30
cultivates the taste and enables the brain
to act with greater precision and prompt

cultiyates the taste and enables the brain
to act with greater precision and prompt
ness. Such qualities are of advantage In
farming, in building, in railroading and
in business of every KIND, and they are
especially important in what are known
as the learned professions, such as jour-
nalism, law, medicine, the ministry, en-
cheering, etc. A man who is accustomed
to acqu re knowledge and to apply That
knowledge to his every day experience IN
ilfe is, apt to- be more successful than
an ignoramus who can do neither; ana IL
is not necessary to point out examples.
You meet them every day.
1t is q mistake, however. to assume that
college faculty can create alb lity or fur-
nish brains to a young man who was born
without them. If such thing as that
were possible there would be a larger at
tendance at all our schools of lea. nlns'
but the object of college education is
to develop a mans ability and increase
his value to himself and to VIII never
employs him in business. "Oid Gorson
Graham" summed 1t up in one sentence
when he said: Anything that trains boys
to think quick pays" and that is exactly
the value of a college educati n. 1t can
not give him brains, but it can + lin him
now to use the brains that G. has given
him.
l have two examples in my mind-two
young men. of excellent character ana
ability, about the same age, who went
into the same business house at the same
time and at the same salary. Both OF
them are equally smart; both were
equally promising in their school Us.
One went to college; the other staid at
home and was employed in business
houses, acquiring "a business experience,
which his father, man with6 ut educa-
ton. believed was moe vaiuaDle nan
book learning Fate decreed, however,
situations at $50 month with the same
company. and they began heir careers
together. After five years ire boy WIN
the college education was at the head Oh
his branch Of the business: AT saiaay
# 81, 800 year: and the other boy was
holding a SUBJ rdinate position at Sl.5U
And when I asked the latter why, ne re-
piled: "John knows how to % fn,ngs'
and never had chance to learn.
He Knew How.
Out in San Francisco last summer
met young college graduate VINO ianoeo
N that town a few weeks after c m
mencement day looking fer o. he MAJ
nothing to recommend him but a letter
CT introduction, which obtained MIN
situation Of rather indefinite character
with a large business house. He was told:
1--WE will give you $40 week. and see
what you are good for" He was sort or
general utility man. at the peck ana cal,
O
soon the different heads of departments
began to quarrel about him. Zach OF
them wanted him in his branch. because
he knows how to do things; ana before
he had been at work four m nths his sal
airy was SIS week. and he was holding
a responsible position.
might give innumerable illustrations
of this sort, but at the same time. the
fact that man has COLLEGE education
is no Recommendation unless he has other
qualities No set rule can be made. Men
succeed in life according TO their intelli-
gence. industry and integrity. and they
must have all Of those qualities to win:
but q young man who has the benefits of
a college education behind him Is a great
deal more likely to succeed than the man
who has not. Some time ago somebody
collected statistics from four years ex-
perience OF one hundred large employers
Of men. which showed that 80 per cent
of the employees who were college men
were successful in rising to responsible
position. as compared with % per cent Of
aon-college men.