The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-02-05


agriculture may entirely fruitful subject incorporate the
college, but to hold out the suggestion that vocational oppor
unty is to be misleading The college study that
proftaby and advantageousy give 1t afford however,
eopardze its main function by offering
that invite by attractive dissipation of their energy
and lead neither training The college student
to-day stands much danger Of intellectual dyspepsia
from of ndgese offered him at random than he
of being restricted to intellectual diet that too rigid and
visits many the small colleges the country through
the Union necessarily led into fairly intimate acquaintance
with the country inns of the college towns Under such circumstances
he cannot fail be struck by analogy between the hotel card
the intellectual bill of fare the college catalogue When
inspects nneper presents patrons
he finds bewdered by long array
choice varied he would find great city hotel but the diff
Guilty that out of the whole he unable to simple
and wholesome meal He would gladly exchange the wealth of the
printed for few simple wholesome and wecooked Dishes
The college boy of to-day who college FOR his four of
study and play and development after ALL that four years d
g and assimae only limited intellectual meal He finds
task to select such usenane from the long and varied card with
which he presented
The great and serious difficulty however the country college
finding Briefly stated college
face to face with question something like this What nducement
be offered to scholarly and able that will influence him to
at salary small college, where he is large
cut off from scholarly companonhp from Libraries and other
facilities and where conditions are such that cook cannot be had
for love money?
Fortunately the actual result of the matter quite hope
less this question would to imply Material considerations
whether they be those of salary conditions of living do not wholly
govern the choices by able scholarly There
scattered through the small colleges the country serving
meagre salaries under just such difficulties rising
and reimbursement The president of Mdebuy College
himself admirable example of able serving without regard
to the rewards that he might elsewhere 1t such devotion that
colleges from medocty just the of the general
saved by the of devoted able and pad
of whom the general public hears
Nevertheless it still remains true that the conditions tend
steadily bring the mediocre professor to the college the
small that effort be better these ond
ton if these colleges fruitful the training
and Hitherto colleges have been occupied with
catch the student that little time thought has
been left for plans to catch the teacher.
Here the solution must be sought by those directly charged
the responsibility The problem difficult enough the
Plainly increased salaries form factor in the situation but
animation such colleges leaves at least the impression that
the solution rests by entirely financial grounds and
that the matter of better only factor the problem
Those who administer the college the small certain OPP
poun that they have not hitherto employed by which make
attractive the life of the teacher and to them better
Having unlimited light and air and large amount of ground teachers
houses Of inexpensive Sort built to make housekeeping
possible and rented cost that is sufficient
interest and upkeep for the country college Any
plan that will take from the shoulders of the teachers family
the difficulties the present situation would make
difference in his outlook Many scholar who would willingly live
small village himself and who could find there the poduc
tive scholarship hesiaes to impose his wife the difficulties of
the regime well be that plan simple and convenient hous
for professors might be worked out under simple but attractive