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

TIE details present. Again, but fafel!
in these days the college man bears the
ear marks of what Il certain UnlVcfSlt!
President has called 'AcademiGty-~
Such Il tyne as one who told on q GER
tain Anril morning that Fort Sumptcr
had been fired upon answered: What
do | care? | must finish my Greek
Grammar
The life OF some few in college anG
university. as in every sphere of life,
may BE seemingly without purpose. but
the great mass is eager and true. The
number IF graduates affected With th'
evils enumerated is small yet still
large enough to raise presumption
against the college man and in n GER
tain measure to bring him into discs
TEEN This tendency is we'll illus
trated IN the business world int"
which ore third OF the American
college graduates are entering. 1t Is
only natural in an age CT highly or
ganized and finely adjusted commercial
and industrial life that employers
SHOULD he eXacting and ohserVant, ana
not intrequcntly know more OF inc
selling price of stocks than of human
nature. With such men cacn Slbordl-
nate is Il pin in thnir huge machine,
Should one prove faulty the whole syS-
tenn is drranbcd until repair is made.
Such a naw existing in the man Of tn"
v GRID with n long apprentices ship is q
matter of small comment. In col
lego man it is ineXcusable. He is not
on!v discharged Us inefficient but the
whole guild Of colloga men is stigma
IL. al OF n ny,t ~
lent IN the twentieth century,
Such an attitude in one sphere or an
other. has, in Il measure brought Tn"
American college to trial. AT the pres
ont tim. fourteen OF our largest uni
versitiaS are receiving monthly criti-
ciSm n tho "Indcpcndent" ~ special
investigator. only too frequently Ct"
we see in the daily press this or that
business man Gisputing the value OF a
college training in business. cCESlhcu-
Gus among these IS Americas greatest
railroad king who has refused 10 en-
pIoy q college man and has already
established school for the proncr
training Of his thousands Of employees.
Across the water q similar tendency is
manifest Lord Crnzon Tained Ivy m"
oxford training as affecting the young
men who come into their Offices. has
set himself to make tie university
more efficient in its education for the
nation.
In face of the development Of this
modern attitude cmphemeral though
il may be- the duty of the college man
stepp..g from the commencement plat
form Ito life is definite and clear. For
two hundred and fifty years college
Ing our civilization and am glad to
I .u. uurucn IL still ours in 8.
twofold sense, deeper and more ard
unus Jnan ever before. First there is
our allegiance to the great social or
der. 1t is for the college man to fur
nsh the formulate for the solution OF
the problems of our national life. Per-
petual REIMBURSEMENT is before us.
There is an aristocracy of wealth
struggling against an aristocracy of
tagonism with some environment spir-
itual or material. These manifold
problems of magnitude give a field
where We may act our lives. Our sec
ond great duty and one which is log
ical result of our primary charge is to
hold the high standard of the Ameri-
can college because it presents the
greatest factor for good in American
life.