The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1909-03-25

|. Are you thinking of sending
either or both to college next year?
Would it be the wise thing to do?
Would it be the best thing to do?
Sending your boy or your girl to COL
lege is a grave question. In settling
the question use caution, discretion,
business sense, and courage. Be not
swayed by mere sentiment, look at
the matter in a judicial way, and be
not Influenced by the seductive rea-
soning Of the college drummer,
whose business it is to get students.
2. If your boy or your girl has
the age, the maturity, the settled
habits, the preparation, and any am
bition to get college education, by
all means send him or her, If it is
possible, to do so. At the proper
time and under favorable conditions,
it is your sacred duty to send him or
her.
3. Not every student would be
benefited by sending him to college.
Unless your child has a genuine de-
sire to go there for the work it would
be mistake to send him at all. If
he wishes to go to college to have a
good time, by all means keep him at
home at work. For his future well
fare a college campus is the last place
for q student to go simply to enjoy
himself.
4. Is your boy or girl old enough,
mature enough, and settled enough
to stand alone morally, and to do
college work in the college way? II
not, by no means send either. The
average boy or girl sixteen years Of
age has no business at college. The
majority of college Toys and girls
are fine types of young manhood and
womanhood-ambitious, sincere and
of fine fibre. But among those on ev-
cry college campus are the derelicts
the idlers, the morally weak, and
the morally vicious. To withstand
the influence of such characters is a
part of the training to which every
boy and girl must sometime be SUBJ
jected, but it is courting disaster to
your son or your daughter to thrust
either in the way of temptation until
old enough and settled enough to re-
sist it. Do not bank upon the
strength of your immature child;
many another parent has drunk the
dregs of bitterness because he imag-
ined his child unlike other children.
With the same preparation and equal
native ability, the young man enter
ing college at twenty years OF age
will do as much college work in three
years as the boy of sixteen will do in
four years.
5. Is your boy or girl prepared
to enter college? Is he just through
the ninth grade of some school? II
so, he lacks about two years OF the
proper preparation. You ought not to
be in any doubt about that. You can
easily find some college anxious to
take him. Suppose it does take him;
will that student do college work
next year, or will he do high school
work-at increased expenses? The
answer to that question is simple.
The college must take the pupil
where it finds him; the student can
not jump from the middle of the
high school into the college, and if
he undertakes to do so, he is sure to
pay the penalty. To send a ninth
grade pupil to college is unjust to the
pupil, rObS your h1gh Scnool, ana
forces the college into the high
school business.
6. Has your boy or girl completed
the tenth grade in some school? If
so, do you think either is properly
prepared for college? How much has
he been taught? How well has he
been taught? What has he master
ed? How much power has he acquir-
ed for Independent thinking? Has he
barely got beyond quadratics in a
school algebra? Is he still in plane
geometry? Has he read three, or
even four, books of Caesars Gallo
war? Is his knowledge Of history
confined to a smattering gathered
from a few months study of some
general history? Is he or she able to
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