Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-24
STUDENTS LOOK
AHEAD TO SCHOOL
Parents Duty to Prepare Them
With Wise Counsel for
Their College Life.
NEED OF RIGHT SCHOOL

The hand on the clock of the year
has moved close to that point, where
the hour will strike for the opening
OF the schools and colleges and uni
versities throughout the land.
1t is a portentous time. And upon
the choices that are made BY parents
and children at this time very much
depends.
A wise choice backed by good
judgment, thorough analysis of the
characteristics and tastes and needs
OF the young man or yong woman will
bear its good fruits through success
full and satisfactory year. 1t is of
supreme importance that the right in
stitution be chosen for the future
springing of the young ..dea, the con-
tinued development of the mental,
moral and physical well-being of the
youth and maiden. For these are most
important years of the young mans
and young woman's life This for
several reasons.
Up to this time, in the first place,
the years of life have been prepara-
tory, as it were. and John and Julius
and Mary and Mabel seem to be LITTLE
more than the children they were
when they first started to school.
IL, II would hardly be just to say they are
niue niue more than that. In some ways they
their characters. But their lives up to this
Time have been pretty much the same. They
nave gone to school and the only definite
ehange that has marked the years has been
the breaking of the grade school ties and
the entrance into the halls of the high
schools.
An Important Step.
But now comes great change, the most
portentous step that has yet been taken
IN the life OF your budding man and
woman They are going away from home
They are breaking homo ties. They are leav-
ing the city or town or farm, where their
own people live and are going to some more
or less distant place, where they must
stay for week or months or possibly the
entire year before they see home again.
Ihey are going, moreover, to a school
where very likely they will see none but
unfamiliar faces. They are going to be
thrown into an institution filled with peo-
pie they have never seen before.
1t is situation that calls for the best
that is In the young man and woman.
will they endure It? Bravely and senslbly
and hopefully, knowing and realizing that
from such unpleasant things bravely borne
the strong character Of the best man or
woman is developed? Or weakly and wav-
eringly?
Duty Of Parents.
Parents can do much to guarantee the
brave endurance Of the first few unpleasant
weeks at the college or university. First,
they can choose a school which will be most
congenial. This they must decide for them
selves by a careful contemplation of the
tastes Of their children and a careful com
parison Of the advantages of the various
schools to which they might be sent.
Then, also, much can be done to get the
youth started right by a plain, heart to-
heart" talk before he or she starts away, a
talk expressing a parents confidence in the
manlness and womanliness and independ-
ence and sound sense Of the prospective
student.
Thus the loneliness of the first few weeks |
lie discounted beforehand and prepared for
and understood when 1t comes.
After the first month the student becomes |
adjusted to his new life. forms friendships
and is beginning to become attached to the |
school with that attachment to his alma |
mater which endpres through life.