Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-04

old scenes and gratitude will swell I'm
within him for lasting, benefits re-
ceived.
CULTIVATEs THE WILL,
THE REAL SOVEREIGN
out IL may be objected that such
discipiine can be had in a store or a
factory or the army. In a sense this Is
true, but with n vital difference. In
store or factory or the army. the
duties are prescribed, and the "boss'
; under whatever title enforces strict ad-
nerence thereto or discharges the re-
tractory employee. There is not much
opportunity for the display OF the
NH power In making choice between
uu.les that may be neglected and pleas
ures mat bid for indulgence. No such
| seminary for the development of the
VIII has ever been devised as the small
college. where the parental care is
showered over all, and where the
outies and pleasures involving the
wills cultivation and development are
pienteously supplied. To this benign
opportunity for strengthening the will
! through exercise the vocations Of daily
life can offer no parallel.
GIVES MAN TIE KEYS TO
| STOREHOUSE OF KNOWLEDGE
But far more valuable than tho in
culcntion of correct habits Of work and
| lese course gives with the field of
| universal knowledge and the processes
| or attacking the problems that demand
solution at our hands. II is not re-
| quired that man shall remember all
| no learns during his college days In
| order to profit by his study. lie may
forget all the Latin and Greek he ever
/ knew and not be able to demonstrate
single proposition in geometry nor
perform Il single experiment in science.
| He may not be able to recall the facts
| of history nor tho schools of philoso-
| ply, and yet have in the mastery of
| these Items of forgotten lore acquired
such insight into the methods of at
! lacking difficult problems that he is
qualified for leadership in the affairs
of life, and where other men falter and
| ultimately go down in the fierce on
slaught, he calmly and serencly and
self confidently, because of his rare in
sight into the processes of graphing
with difficult situations, goes on to
rich and satisfying achievement Let
the college man who shrinks from the
tangled maze of his daily allotment OF
Greek or Latin or higher mathematics
content himself with the sweet thought
| that In their mastery he is destined
to discover tho golden threads of the
most effective processes of work-a
discovery that shall give him tremcn-
dous lead in the race OF life And
further let him consider that his wide
acquaintance with truth rs the college
course opens 1t up to him will stand
him In good stead In coming days. and
enable him, with little effort. 10 keep
himself Informed, or 10 inform himself.
as 10 any matter involving expert skill
in investigation. The training of the
will through manifold moral decisions
the incubation of correct habits Of
work and thought the insight into the
effective processes OF graphing with
dltncult situations. and the possession
OF n wide range of knowledge con-
nccted with the ability to investigate
for himself any particular realm of it
these are priceless boons OF college,
education and happy is the man who
fortunately Is possessed of them.
". GENERAL CULTURE.
Note that did not say polish. but
culture. Polish is put on from the
outside. 1t Is veneer and its thin
ness is easily d!sccrnible by all But
culture is from within out. 1t does
not come off because X Is not put on
There are schools which essay to
tcHch culture. They really teach polish
what might perhaps he dubbed Gull
turlne-and their product is dstnste-
full to all who really know what tue
culture Is. The graduates of such
schools know the latest STYLES OF dress
and tho names of tho newest intiiges.i-
bic viands and tho tricks OF entertain
ing and are past masters in idlcness
and frivolity. They are experts at
playing bridge. but vcrcst ignoramuses
at playing bridget. If they are pos
sesscd of culture, the less we have of
ii the better.
THE REtI. CII.TURS OF
THE EDUCATED MAN
The culture for which plead Is that
which Matthew Arnold described as ac-
0uantance with the best that has been
. h@,, ~ 4 ii.
tory. such acquaintance gives dignity,
gives charm, gives worth to it's pos
SCISSOR. Such q person is refined, gen
timely refined, because his refinement
is the outcroppinC OF his soul and not
tho hnhiliment Of n groom. He is Gull
tured, genuinely cultured. because high
thinking always takes practical form
in cIltUrc that cannot fail--a culture
as high above that which comes OF
fashionable living as n real man Ia
above his pampered horse or n real
woman Is above her fondled poodle.
The man or woman Of culture is ut
home in the kitchen or the workshop,
in the parlor. in society, In educated
circles, among the unlcarned. amid
wealth or poverty. everywhere or any
where and nj any time. His culture
does not puff him up, but makes him
the servant OF all his fellows. and
wherever there is n human need to be
satisfied he has found his friend and
nclGhbor. Such culture comes uncon-
sciously, as n hy-product. 1t comes
without being sought for. but when 1t
has come. what a richness, what Joy,
what halo of glory 1t lends the life
of its possessor and OF every one with
whom he comes In contact! And moth
ing else can yield II so sweetly as the
college course.
". CHRISTIAN CHARACTER.