The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-28
COLLEGES MUST
NOT FALL TO REAR.
(Contlnued from First Pa8e.)

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mt which ne Is ripe for apprenticeship,
while tho high school, unless It In a
trade school. actually in touch with
4 the conditions of employment in the
trade 1t concerns, carries the boy too
Ear In direction obllquc to that
which would lead him to the point OF
/ fitness demanded.
II the idea IL to adopt so-raIlca
profession, there Is similar gan or
misiit between the school course and
the college course which the boy must
undertake as q preliminary to enter
ing his desired profession. 1t is q
fact which cannot escape tho most cur
sorry view OF the field that the prores.
sional schools all over the country
those OF law. medicine. engineering,
what not--are tending steadily to close
their doors against all who are without
an academic degree or It's equivalent.
1nstsad of being Obliged to choose
between an education without d voca-
tion and a vocation without an cducn-
tion,' as DR. Davenport, of Illinois
University puts IT, the fact is that 1t
Is becoming more and more Impossible
70 enter any vocation without an edu-
cation which Is something more than
merely technical. For the whole ten.
dency OF modern economic administra-
fion Is to Insist on competence In the
workman whether he works with his
head or with his hands--a competencs
(which In the mechanical occupations
can be obtained only by training botn
head and hands. which In all occupu-
ltions demands that the workman shall
go through the mill" nx the saying
1H. The enBtne-room apprentice now
Adays, who intends or hopes TO be
chief engineer or manager OF plant;
the shipping cierk who intends TO be.
come the head OF the firm. not less
than the young lawyer who intends to
get to the top OF his profession. must
moro and more be able to meet on a
certain level OF culture the sort OF
people he Is more and more bound to
meet when he reaches the top. II he
cannot or does not reach that level Of
culture. II will be harder and harder
FOR him each year to get TO the top.
And this is the point at which the
smaller college, for which the writer
particularly speaks. touches the vast
general problem,-tho problem which
~. In nutshell. the fundamental
problem of modern life. The Presi-
dent of Washington and Lee Univcr-
sity, In his article in this game series,
Fcmarks--and remarks very justly
upon the great progress OF education
In the state and in the South And he
mentions especially and with deserved
encomium what has been done to in
crease the number and efficiency OF the
public high schools. larger and
larger number of these high school.
are designed 10 prepare for certain
selected vocaAons-as manual trades
or business, Yet. even In the great
Northern cities. where that sort OF
high school has firmly established It.
self, there Is widespread complaint OF
the failure of the public school au.
shorIties 10 acquaint themselves by
consultation with those practically en-.
gagged in the trades and businesses In
yoived with the actual equipment de.
rnanded OF employees.
In the one field where there ha.
necessarily been such consultation ant
affective o-operatlon---ylz., In the 70
cation OF teaching--the vocational ex
tension of the public school system
has resulted in the creation OF per
fectly definite line OF advance from th'
a, b. C class-or what corresponds 4
fin modern schools--to the teache
In his or her chair. II has created
true colleges OF teaching (after th
accepted public school modep like tn
virginia State Normal School at Farm
VILE, and has even adapted old VII