Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-04-21
THE FRIDAY TALL"
SERIES COMPLETED
BY PRES. D|CK|E
PRESIDENTS AND OTHERS
GIVEN DURING YEAR

.Dr. Samuel Dickie, president OF AL
bion College, gave the lecture at the
central school building last Friday af-
ternoon. With DR.. Dickie's address
a series OF twenty very educational
and beneficial Friday Talks" was
concluded.
In finding speakers to bring new
thoughts to the students Of the high
school and patrons of the school
superintendent Osborne and Principal
Nielsen have secured men from all
of the leading colleges of the state,
and men in almost every walk of life
All of the talks have been very benet-
ciai to the school and comm unity. No
doubt many of the students have been
enthused with some things the speak
ers have said in a way that will make
better men and women of them.
In Mr. Dickie's remarks last Friday
he emphasized the fact that only
one person in ten thousand achieves
any distinction in life. The other nine
thousand nine hundred and ninety
nine are just ordinary people. But of
the students that complete a college
course one in forty achieves a success
that is worth mentioning You hear
people say a great many times that a
college course will assure an individ-
ual success in life. 1t will not Many
college students leave college and go
out in life and make great successes
for themselves. Many others go out
from college and into the penitentiary.
A college education does not assure
success, but it does place the individ-
ual in the class where one in forty
makes a success worthy of the name.
Now what then is the value of
having an education and graduating
from college? l said a minute ago
that of the uneducated one per-
son in ten thousand made a success,
and that of the college graduates one
in forty made a success. Then divid-
ing ten thousand by forty we have two
hundred and fifty. Now l will say
that a college education increases a
persons chance Of achieving success
by two hundred and fifty times. Then
isn't it worth while?
Advanced education increases the
money making power of an individ-
ual. 1t also helps in the race of life
for power. distinction, etc. All of the
wealth of all the learning of all the
ages is contained in an education. An
education gives a wealth of learning
that prepares an individual for the
big battles of life.
IF you students do not remember
anything else that j say here today
want you to remembc- this one
quotation that | am now gong to tell
you in the words of Ex-Governor
Russell OF Massachusetts when he ad-
dressed body Of students at Cam
bridge a few years ago. Mr.. Russell
said, the office of an education is not
to teach a man to make living but
to make a life, because the making of
a life is the biggest job in the world.
I'VE know of men who are willing
TO work lifetime to pile up mass
of wealth TO be adored by future
generations as well as people of their
own generation, They will build
magnificent buildings, and imposing
monuments upon which they will have
bronze tablets placed TO honor their
names. These monuments will not
last long. A few hundred years at
the most will throw them into utter
decay. Bronze and marble do not last
long. But when you build life you
build something that will last forever.
The most in life is the making OF
yourself, and not the making OF
money.
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