Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-02-04

thing from holding out the suggestion engineering study
agriculture be entirely fruitful subject incorporate in
college, but to hold out the suggestion that vocational
tunty to be misleading The college study
can protaby and advantagousy It cannot afford howe
to jeopardze its main function Of education by offering
courses that invite by attractive to dissipation Of their
and lead neither culture training college
to-day stands much greater danger Of intellectual dysp
from indgese courses offered him at random thar
of being restricted intellectual rigid
One who visits many colleges the country
out the Union necessarily led into fairly intimate acquain
with the country OF the college towns Under such s
he cannot fail be struck analogy
and the intellectual bill of fare college catalogue
nspecs the bill of presents
he finds himself bewdered by the long array of Dishes He
choice varied he would find at great city hotel but the
Guilty is that out of the whole he is unable
and wholesome meal He would gladly exchange
printed menu for few simple wholesome and weooked dis
The college boy of to-day who college For his four
study and play and development after ALL in that four
gest and assimiate only limited intellectual meal He finds it
task select such sunane from the long
which he is presented
The great difficulty however of the country col
finding the for its work. Briefly stated the college
face to face with question something like this What nduce
be offered to scholarly and able that will Influence
at meagre salary to small college, where
cut off from scholarly companionshp libraries
facilities and where conditions such that cook be
for love money?
Fortunately result of the matter is not quite
less this question would to imply considerable
whether they be those of salary conditions living
the choices made by able scholarly
just such salaries under just such difficulties Of rising
and economic maadustment The president of Mddebuy Coll
himself admirable example of able serving without
the rewards that he might elsewhere such devotion
colleges from medocy just the service of the
saved by the devoted able and pd
Of whom the general public never hears.
Nevertheless it still that the present conditions
steadily bring the mediocre professor the college
small town. and that effort must be made to better these
ons these colleges to remain fruitful for the train
of and Hitherto most colleges have been occupied
plans to catch the student that little time money thought
been left for plans to catch the teacher.
Here the solution must be sought by those directly
with the responsibility The problem difficult enough at the b
Plainly increased salaries form factor the situation but
animation many such colleges leaves at the impression
the solution rests by entirely upon financial grounds
that the matter of better salaries only factor in the profile
Those who administer the college in the small town have certain
portunes that they have not hitherto employed by which
attractive the life of the teacher and
Having unlimited light and air and large ground
inexpensive Sort built to make housekeeping
vnent possible and rented at cost that is sufficient
interest and upkeep for the country college,
that will take from the shoulders of the teachers family
difficulties of the present situation would make
difference his outlook Many scholar who would willingly live
small village himself and who could find there the prod
tive scholarship hestate to impose his wife the difficulties
be of