The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1913-05-15

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nor did Shakespeare. Some of our
greatest lawyers read law" in the
unrefined but honest and strengthen
/ ing environment Of the old-time law
office. Lincoln vas not a cole ye man.
Neither was Washington. SO do not
excuse yourself to your family and
the world upon the ground that YOU
never had a college cdu alton. That is
/ not the reason why you fail. You can
succeed 49, | repeat IL - college c no
college; all you have TO do In the lat
ter case is to put on a little more
[ steam. And remember that some Of
the worlds sagcs of business have
closed their lifes wisdom with the
deliberate opinion that college
education was waste of time and an
I over-rcfinement VI body and Of mind
4 You see. am trying to take into
account every possible view Of this
weighty question; for know how
desperate a matter 1t is to hundreds
Of thousands Of my young country
men. | know how earnestly they are
searching for an answer; how hard
II will be for hosts OF them to obey
an affirmative answer: how intan-e
H. the desire of the great majority Of
young Americans to decide this CUES
ton wisely. For most Of them have
no time TO lose, little money to spend
and none to waste, no energy 10 spare.
and yet are inspired with high
resolve to make the most Of life.
And | know how devoutly they pray
that they may choose the better part.
Still. with all this in mind. my adj
vice is this: Go 10 college. TO to tho
best possible college for you. Patient
ly hold on through the sternest dis
cipline you can stand until the course
IL completed. 1t will not be fatal 20
your success II you do not 90. but
you will be better prepared to meet
the world IL you do go. do not mean
that your mind will be stored with
much more knowledge that will be
useful to you IL you go through col
lege than II you do not go through
college. Probably the man who keeps
at work at the business he is going
10 follow through life. during the
years when other men are studying
in college acquires more information
that will be useful to him In his
practical career. But the college man
who has not thrown away his college
life comes from the training OF his
Alma Mater with a mind as highly
disciplined as are the wrist and eye
Of the skilled swordsman.
Nobody contends that a college
adds an ounce OF brain power. But II
college opportunities are not wasted.
such mind as the student does have
is developed up to the highest pos
sible point Of efficiency. The college
man who has not scorned his work
viii understand any given situation
great deal quicker than his brother =
who, with equal ability. has not had
the training of the university. A man
who has been instructed in boxing is
more than a match for a stronger
and Drawer man unsknsed in what is
called the manly ar& kThat is your
college and non-college man over A.
gain with muscle substituted for
brain.
Four years ago | saw the soldiers
Of Japan going through the most care
full training. They were taught how
to march. how to charge, how to do
everything. ! shall never forget the
bayonet exercises which an officer
and myself CHANGED upon. They were
conducted with all the ferocity OF
real fight-no point was neglected.
With all their fatalism, and the utter
tearlessness thereof. the japanese
could not have bested the Russians II.
TO their courage and devotion, they
had not added years of painstaking
drill which an American soldier would
have refused to submit TO on the
ground that 1t was an unnecessary
hardship. A college education is pre-
cisely that kind OF a preparation for
the warfare OF life.
But mind you, these Japanese SOL
diers and their officers were in earn
est. They meant to show the world
that, small as they arc in stature and
recent as their adoption OF modern
methods has been, they. nevertheless
would try to be the highest type Of
soldier that ever marched to a battle
feid' II you go to college. young man,
you have got to be In earnest too.
You have got to say to yourself: 81
am going To make moro out of what
lie In me than any man with like abII-
ity ever did before" You cannot
dwadle - remember that. Imagine
every day and every hour OF every
DAY that you are in the real world
and In the real conflicts thereof in
stead OF In college with its prac-
tice conflicts. and handle your
self precisely nc you would IL
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