The Robesonian., 1909-05-31
THOUGHTS FROM SNYDER
In the Matter of Reading What
to Do With Our Graduates
Two Notable Addresses In
War Time How the Colonel
Disposed of His Whiskey.

Disposed of His Whiskey.
To the Editor of The Robesonian:
I've been writing for The Rob
esonian, off and on, now for near
ly forty years, and if | should
perchance repeat myself, and if
any of your readers have lived
that long, | beg them not to crit
icise; for even Homer is said to
have nodded, and the idea that
Shakespeare has never repeated
himself is all a farce.
| don't suppose there is a read
er through the whole of The Rob
esonian's circulation that has
ever read enough of the classics
to know whether any of them
have ever repeatei themselves or
not. We don't read the best of
literature these days, but confine
ourselves mostly to the latest
highly-advertised novels. OF the
old masters of fiction and poetry
we used to get an inkIing in our
school days, and if we don't do
1t then we never will. A man
will have to be a recluse if he
reads. anything substantial these
days. We are getting to be q
nation of newspaper readers, and
this style of reading units one
for solid and substantial litera-
ture.
The above stuff, after reading
1t over, reminds the writer of
DIR. Kingsbury's style, and al
though we all admire the Doctors
weekly letters, yet if he could
write 1t over again we think he
would cut it out.
Speaking about writing re-
minds me Of the discussion now
going on in regard to our col
leges, and the up-to-date educa-
tlon. Did you ever know a boy
who, after graduating, come
home and went to farming? Un-
less our population increases very
rapidly in the future the question
will be, what to do with our
graduates. After all the profess
sions are filled up, and school
houses provided for, and the
clerkships in the stores are filled,
what will you do with the gradu-
ate? He must live and if his fam
lily is unable to support him, and
ne refuses to ploW. and is too
proud to beg, we will have a
problem on our hands that will
even up with the race question.
After a boy learns to part his
hair in the middle and wear fine
!elothes all the week as well as
Sunday, it does seem like it is al
most too hard to ask him to step
down from among the clouds and
kiss mother earth, especially
since the institution once known
as Daddyism has disappeared
from amongst US. Something,
hope, will turn up to relieve the
situation. We have been con-
fronted with many serious prob
lens since the war and have
managed somehow to surmount
them all, and there is no doubt
in my mind but a way will be
found to successfully handle oul
future graduates.
Two Of the most notable litera
ry addresses of the season
season of orations from colleges
and church courts one de-
livered by DR.. Moore before the
Presbyterian General Assembly
= in Savannah on the proper edu
cation of the child, which every
parent should read; and the 9th
er by DR.. Alderman, of the Uni
versity of Virginia, being an eu
logy of Virginia. 1t is so differ
' ent from the usual eulogies of tn,
3 kind in style, in the manner O
handling the subject, in senti
! ment and in the general flavor o
r it's real literary excellence, tha
: it places the speaker in the from
g rank of Americas greatest ora
tors. | should think that ever
Virginian would want to read ii
d Speaking of Virginia brings t
;. the mind Of most old veteran
t the stirring days of '61-'65, whe
she was almost one continuou
!, camping ground of the contend
8 ing hosts. If every old soldie
would give his experiences of tn
war, and if those notes were use
u by an expert in history, what a
/ interesting volume could be go
ten up. Of course, private
d expected to know nothing abor
}. the movements of troops, an
orders of battle, etc., but thel
70 are a thousand things that com
~ ~ up in the ordinary movement an
IL arrangement of troops befol
and during battle, and i'll can
n life, that are interesting, instruc
III i've and amusing; and if all sue
e data could be assimilated, a
ranged and blue penciled in
~ form and shape, a readable boo
could be produced.
Just prior to the battle Of Ere
n ericksburg our Regiment w
s. supposed by the ordinary priva
ce and his conferes, the regiment
IS and company officers, to ha'
ed gone into winter quarters up
C. Madison county. Well, we h;
hardly gotten there and provid'
. ourselves with the necessary m
terials for making ourselves col
inc -
f af7 Lived 152 Years.
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