The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-01-26
,een the result Of his student rela-

been the result Of his student rela-
tione.
I'm the matter Of imagination, col.
lege training brings to the attention
of the student great many things
that were never known to him before
in the field of science, of art and OF
literature, and stimulates his ability
to perceive what he had not been able
to see prior to this experience. Many
examples might be cited of the truth
of this statement.
1.-THE criticism which has been made
of college training is, in word, that
OF generalization. Men say that the
college student Is over-educated, be-
cause he refuses or fails to begin at
the bottom Of an enterprise. But in
reality there is no such thing as over
education. No man can have too much
learning or too much knowledge. But
are is such thing as under-train-
of will power. The two are not
m. Sssarily associated together, how
ever. College training strengthens the
will rather than weakens 1t, although
there are examples of men who, with
all their learning, had insufficient will
power to use It advantageously.
bad habits and temptations are
made the basis Of another criticism.
But think it may be said without fear
Of contradiction that the morality of
the men in colleges Is materially high
er than 1t is in any group of the same
size and number. But college is not
the place for every boy. The boy who
has no inclination whatever for study,
who is lazy and loafer, should not
under any circumstances be sent to
college,
I'm the modern fields of business
organization the time for training is
growing less and less. The mechan-
ism that has been established for the
conduct of business is to organized
and developed that little time can be
taken to train the man who has had
no experience and who cannot quick
ly perceive the forces and the ten.
dency of the organization. At practi-
cally every point at which we touch
industry today it will he found that the
places for the inexperienced are grow
ing smaller in number. We are there
fore compelled to turn elsewhere for
men to fill these positions, and while
the college may not have done all
that 1t could in the past, it is more
awake to the needs of the business
world today than it ever was before,
and the chances of success for the
man who has completed his training
in college are greater today than they
haves been at any time in the history
Of industry.
II might cite many examples of the
value of this training. Says w. F.
Merrill, long associated with the New
York, New Haven & Hartford rail-
way: 1T has been my experience that
men with a college education make
better help than men of about the
same calibre who have not had that
advantage, when they come to the
point where their experience war;
rants putting them into advanced po-
sitSons.' Speaking again he says: {:
lsRrains are capable of development
the same as muscles, and there is
nothing that know of that will de-
velop brains any faster than syste-
matte study Hugh J. Chisholm,
president of the International Paper
company, says: Assuming that both
possess equal mental and physical
ability, In the four to siv years fol-
lowing, the college graduate ought to
excel the young man whose educa-
ton has been confined to the high
school, Powell Stackhouse of the
Cambria Steel company. declares that
a young man of proper mental and
physical balance can not be over-edu-
Gated
I'm many ways work is simpler
than it used to be and business more
difficult. so that the qualities spoken
Of at the outset-brains, accuracy and
imagination, are called upon in q
larger degree than ever before in the
field of business, and the man who has
these, especially imagination, ought to
go far, as we'll as to see far. But, in
any event, If man trained in college
does not reach the heights of business
session which make it possible for
him to spend the later years of his
life with the great thoughts Of the
an amusement"
Committees Named
Two committees were appointed by
President Mcintosh today, as follows:
Resolutions-H. Walters, Casselton,
G. w. Wolbert, Bismarck; J. A. Roell,
Minct.
Nominations-A. J. Smith. CARING
ton: J. McCallum, Hope; w. A. Med
dagh, Westhope.
Late Tuesday Afternoon.
The address by President c. F.. Lad
ner of the Minnesota association was
delivered late Tuesday afternoon. He
said: