The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-07-04

teal economy, two in German or
French, with technical mathematics
and applied science and shop work
that was the curriculum offered as
constituting an education. with no MS
tory and philosophy and no ae-
quaintance with the great literatures
of the world and no real knowledge in
the liberalizing sense of either Eng
fish, mathematics. or natural or social
science. Those who are thus 'tedu-
Gated" may repair railroads and
operate machinery, but they win
never tunnel under the Hudson nor
construct the Panama Canal nor in
vent any continuance for the uplift of
man. Your great engineers are they
who have been thoroughly educated
before their special thraining began.
whose special training has been the
betting and shafting by which their
previously generated mental power
and acumen were applied TO the prac-
teal problems of their profession.
NARROW MEN ALWAYS
RUN IN RUTS NECESSARILY
These principles apply to the farm
er. to the business man, to the me-
chanic, to the minister, to the ply
stefan, TO the lawyer. to every type of
sarily work in grooves. He Is not
broad enough to avoid the ruts. He is
powerless to strike out along new
lines. because he Is limited in horizon,
deficient in vision, and devoid OF
ideals. What does he know of Eng
land who only England knows? What
does he know of medicine who only
medicine knows? Such narrowness
yields skill, but not power, and power
- = -
them from moving always in the same
way.
COLLEGE COURSE GENERATES
MENTAL POWER GENEROUSLY
The college course, following the
proper sort of preparatory education,
is able to develop this needful mental
power. 1t enlarges the vision, quick
ems the ideals, strengthens every men,
tai tfaeulty--and these are the MAIN
springs of power in the mental realm.
The college curriculum interprets the
past, lays bare the present, and un-
folds the future. thus laying a solid
foundation for the understanding of
life and the cultivation of the judg-
ment. In history the student sees the
passions of men at play under all cir
cumstances. He la thus enabled to
weigh the problems of life In sure
balance, and he who knows his his
tory will not be easily 1ured into
hurtful schemes of wild cat reform.
Language and literature enlarge his
life by revealing to him the aims, am
billions, and ideals OF every conceiv-
able type of man. His sympathies are
thus quickened and he Is better able
to help his fellows to the light, basing
his helpfulness on the enlarged ex-
perience In living offered all who
ramble widely in literature's paradise
or charm. Social science gives him
insight into the INSTITUTIONAL life OF
man and qualities him to understand
the Intricate problems of government
and society. Natural science will show
him nature and natures God, and
through this knowledge he will be
prepared to turn natural forces into
helpful channels OF human uplift.
Mathematics will not only teach him
painstaking exactness in thinking. but
will encourage him to expect definite
results from definite forces In COM
position. The man who knows his
higher mathematics hip calculus and
his comic sections--wiII be no easy
prey to schemers and charlatans with
Pet theories OF great delfverance to
man Through insignIacaAt social al
ferafions And Philosophy, ia which
should be included ethics and bible
study, will bring Him face ~ feca
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