Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-23
NOW FOR THE COLLEGE.

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1 crusade?
NOW FOR THE COLLEGE,
Now is the time when our yonne
people who have completed their high
school course should seriously consider
the problem of securing a college edi-
cation.
Comparatively few, 1T Is said, Of
Those who graduate from the high
schools enter the college: and many
persons think this q fortunate circ'im-
stance. Stree they suppose that 1t pre-
vents the world from being flooded
with Impractical people n #2s
Those who cirque in this way against
the advisabllity Of taking a college
cuorse have probably the old idea Of
education in mind the Latin, Greek,
and mathematics Of the old-style col 'l-
| lege. VIII Il
These persons have probably not
even heard the already trite statistics,
often quoted, showing that more than
ST. per cent or the 10000 names OF peo-
pie included in the 1909 Who's w no in
America ~ are the names of college
graduates, and that less than five per
cent of the inmates of all the prisons
in the country are even educated per-,
sons, to say nothing Of their not be-
ing college graduates,
Opponents Of college courses prob
ably do not know that in this country
nearly all OF the college&wo aims to
give the maximum amount of real in
tellectuala culture in addition to a cer-
tain technical skill that fits. the stu
dents for special lines of practical work
inthe affairs Of mankind.
N In the words of President Jordan.
at is the business of the college to
give Its graduates the secret OF pow
er. 1t should train them to be effl-
5cient, self-reiiant, capable and to- make
the most Of their chances in life. We
have little faith in the value Of any
culture OF er1ldition which does not
have efficiency In its final aim s5s
In Utah the student. without leaving
the state. may prepare 70 civil. electri-
cal, chemical or mining engineering at
the state University; for agriculture
Irrigation engineering, or domestic
science at the Agricultural college, for
the profession of teaching at the State
Normal school or at the Brigham
Young University: and for the first
part of the medical or law, courses at
the State University: besides much
other similar work Of u technical ma
lsture At the University the student
may of course take the general or b.
A course for a broader line of work
without close specialization; vet even
I'm this course a generous range of cleo
tive subjects permits the student to
specialize to q considerable extent in
the work that he chooses, The val ue OF
the general or b. A. course has lately
been questioned without sufficient rea-
sin. AS President Wilson of Prince
ton says, "a college should produce
men and women whose gifts are not
narrowed to a particular class or call
Ing, but whose eyes have become ac-,
customed to being lifted to a general
view of the world and general COM
prehension OF their duty in it. This is
the real argument for liberal educa-
tion.s
And unless the young man or woman
already has decided preference for.
some special line of work. the general
baccalaureate course3is to be preferred.
1t is the hope of this paper that all
young people who can take Ii college
course will do SO. For the subjects
named above, and for some others, it
is now quite. unnecessary to leave the
State. The specially trained mind is
becoming more and more necessary in
all the vocations Let no young man
or woman suppose that a college edu-
cation is not q great help in the battle
of life. S.