Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-04-18
ARE UNIVERSITIES
 WORTH WHILE
By H. K. Bush Brown

AOoI VT 0u OO0SdlIO1 IS WHdL a mar
 can do. Is it fair to put a comm arciaI
 test to a University degree? Such d
 test, however, has been made by the
 Harvard Appointments Office and the
 showing while startling is certainly
 far from flattering. According to the
 statistics available the average of a man who has received a bach s;or's degree is at first about $15 per week
 Princeton reports show that it's grad uates start at an average of S6 per week. From tables made up from the salaries paid graduates in certain lines femployment the averages are as follows: Brokerage business. $3 to $S per week; manufacturing, s7 to SIP; and engineering $10 to S15. In all these lines the college gra luate does not receive more than the aver age high school graduate. It is ob-
 vious that these institutes are not measuring education in dollars and cents. Their declared purpose is to give an all round education for a gen. tleman. That they are doing this to good purpose is shown by the follow ing incident which recently occurred at Harvard. Professor w. H. Geo. field, instructor of comparative lit erature asked a class of more than | 100 when Aristotle lived. Not one could answer. When he further in- quired how many thought he born after 1S40, six men held up their hands.
 The attainment of the degree which stands for culture insures, however, respectable position in society
 Most graduates are also skilled in several of the gentle arts of idleness. and while they have not increased their earning capacities, they have quite necessarily acquired the needs and facilities for spending more than when they entered college. With the earning capacities of children and the spending capacities of men, the peri cd of dependence is prolonged and un- less the earning and spending can be made to balance the danger is that our elegantly educated gentlemen will serve no higher purpose than to dis tribute the wealth of his forbears have accumulated. And this, alas, through no particular fault of his own. Of course our average college graduate has a higher ambition, and so let us leave him to struggle with lift on his small earnings and strain our inn agination while we contemplate a diff ferent kind of a university. One that does not deal with the theory of life as set forth in text books, lectures and libraries, but is ruled by science and art in every phase of it's manifas- tations, having control over a large area of land and dedicated to show ing youth by actual contact with all kinds of productive occupations, the marvellous possibilities of the arts and sciences. Not merely talking about them and analysing them but learning how to produce by means of them.
 It would be necessarily divided into the man behind the gun does the work two great interlacing and overlapping sections, one of which would be de voted to the minor arts of expression or to these things which are devoted to the care, and development and wei fare of the body, and the other to the major arts or those things devoted to the care, development and welfare of the spirit.
 In order to comprehend this new un- iversity we must establish new fund.- amental principal that education is not a commodity that can be acquired for fee. It can only be had by living it. That only by self-reIiant, sef-sup- porting and seIf-respecting work can we attain a real knowledge of the arts and sciences. By dealing with them personally at first and not by the means of indirecton from else; a great university would deal with life in all it's conditions and be in perpetual eX- r5'rimentation with every problem fol | the uplift of mankind. An ideal. per | feet city, state in itself, wherein every | vocation would play it's part in the highest form, so that those who stud jed in these surroundings would fiTd | no contrast in stepping into the ovt- side world, except that inspired by the knowledge of his own great work | tC do in order to fulfill his part n the great struggle for better surround ings and better kind of living innate | in eevry sould That if our great re- public is to succeed it must be through | constructive cooperative work for tke up-Iift of all, and not through individ- uaIism and competing for better pIac-