The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-02-03

thing holding suggestion engineering study
agriculture entirely fruitful subject incorporate the
college, but hold out the suggestion that is vocational
tuny be misleading The college study that
it poftaby and dvanageousy cannot afford however
opare its function of education by offering to students
that invite by attractive dissipation of their
and lead neither to culture training college
to-day stands much greater danger of intellectual dyspepsia
of indge offered him random than he
intellectual diet that rigid
meagre
many the colleges of the country through
the Union necessarily led into fairly intimate acquaintance
with country of the college Under such circumstances
fail to be struck analogy between the hotel card
bill the college catalogue When
nspe the bill fare that the nnkeeper presents to his patrons
long Dishes He offered
would find city hotel but the diff
Guilty that of the whole he unable to simple
gladly exchange the wealth the
printed for few simple wholesome and wecooked dishes
The college boy of to-day who to college for his four of
study play development that d
ge and assate only limited intellectual meal He finds
the with
which he is presented
great difficulty however country college
finding the for its work Briefly stated the college stands
face to face with question something like this What nducement
be offered to scholarly and able that will influence him to
at salary to small college, where he is large
cut off from scholarly companions from libraries and other
facilities and where conditions such that cook cannot be had
for love money?
Fortunately the actual matter quite hope
this question would imply Material considerations,
whether they be those of salary conditions of living do wholly
the choices made by able and scholarly There
colleges country
just such salaries under just such difficulties of rising
and economic reimbursement president Mddlebuy College
himself admirable example able without
the rewards that he might elsewhere 1t such devotion that
saves colleges medoy just general
by the of devoted able pad
of whom the general public hears
Nevertheless it still remains true that the present conditions tend
steadily bring the mediocre professor the college the
small and that effort be made to better these cnd
these colleges fruitful the training
Hitherto colleges been with
plans that little money thought
been left for plans to catch the teacher.
again directly charged
with the responsibility The problem difficult the best
Plainly increased factor the situation but
animation such colleges leaves least the that
the solution rests by entirely financial
that the matter of better salaries factor the problem
Those who administer the college the small certain
pores that they have hitherto employed by which make
attractive the life of the them better
Having unlimited light ground
built to make housekeeping
venen possible and rented at that sufficient
interest and upkeep for the country college, Any
plan that will take the shoulders of the teachers family
the difficulties of the situation would
difference his outlook Many scholar who would willingly live in
small village himself and who could find there the of produ
tive scholarship hesa his wife the difficulties of
the regime 1t well be that plan of simple and convenient hou
professors might worked attractive
conditions perhaps with dnngroom