The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-06-28

ments and befoul their nests with
public lutte, and go free, it is an ad-
vertisement to the world, that deli
! cate sense of integrity has fallen into
the 'sere and yellow leaf" This base
malfeasance in office and petty thiev-
cry in all lines of business activities
is restricted to no section or State,
but is rolling like a sea of lava over
this country. Many of the early In
dians were said to have been such
rogues that, when unable to steal
with their hands they used their
feet. We will soon reach that point
again unless we hasten back to the
old paths of rectitude and civic
righteousness So long as business
reeks with shame and dishonesty and
our public men, so often caught with
the goods on their backs, Othello's
occupation will be paying asset,
and the modern muck-raker must be
borne as a necessary evil. Be it said
to the honor of Newberry college and
her high ideals, 1 know of no gradu-
ate of hers who has figured in this
orgy Of crime and long may that bril-
liant record remain unsoiled with
such polluted dirt.
The world is not expecting too
much when it demands that our in
stitutions send forth men, who set
4Ae pace of right living, as well as
scientific attainments. Their advan-
tages and opportunities naturally fit
them, as moulders Of thought, con-
duct and opinion. DR.. McCosb, the
once venerable and scholarly presi-
dent of Princeton university, said, in
a public address, that not more than
one graduate in ten is worth the time
and money spent on him. He might
have added that the two main causes
for this deplorable percentage OF
failures have been a lack Of energy
and character. DR.. Arnold, the noted
educator, once said, that from his e1-
'perience in schools, he found the diff
ference between one student and an
other was not ability, as a rule, but
energy. When Napoleon established
a military school in France, he
stipulated that the students should
shine their own boots and
shoe their own horses. He knew the
value of work and economy in max
ing good soldiers, and he knew that
the polished and dissipated cavaliers,
under Prince Rupert, went down in
defeat before the unframed and God
fearing Ironsides of Cromwell, at
Naseby and Marston Moor.
A diploma, of itself, is a small
matter. Andrew Jackson bought one
which he was unable to read, but
climbed, just the same, to the highest
eminence by his innate strength and
logged determination. The lack OF
sustained application is the rock up
on which most college graduates are
stranded. They have no resources to
fall back upon. Like the improbable
servant, they bury the lone talent
which God has given them, instead
of utilizing it, and preparing for big
ger things, by and bye. They leave
college with the notion that they are
educated while the wise old profess
sor is secretly praying over their ig-
norance and hoping for the best. The
plain truth is, man knows very lit
tie when he leaves college and the
sooner he realizes the true situation
and determines to remedy iCs' the bet
ter for him. An alumnus should be
a student. His library should grow
up with him and they should be
strong and fast friends. We are told
that the pride of science is humble
when compared with the pride Of ig-
norance The bright and snappy alum
nus who hopes to conquer by his wits,
is usually outstripped in the race by
the plodders who burn the midnight
oil and who look upon their college
training, as the foundation upon
which they must build their: own sup
erstructure, and carve out their own
future. 1t is a deplorable exhibition
to see college graduate waiting, like
Uriah Heep, for something to turn up,
or leaning, eternally, upon his alma
mater, for strength and succor.
There are too many educated loafers
in this country.
When old Edward III, perched up
on a windmill, during the battle OF
Crecy, was asked to send aid to his
son, he wished to know whether the