The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-08-31
THURSDAY, AUGUST 81, 1916.
Going Off to College.


books and go away to college. 1t has
been a matter of interest that not near
ly so many Kenosha boys and girls go
to college as there should be, but In
recent years the number has been
steadily increasing and the Kenosha
colony this year will be fairly repre-
sentative of the city.
Going away to college really makes
up one of the important periods of the
life of the boy or girl. It's the time
that he is put out on his own resources.
This does not mean that he is going
out to finance for himself a college edu-
cation for the biggest part Of the col
lege education is the part that you can
not buy for dollars and cents. The
value Of an education in any institu-
tion is not to be rated by the dollars
spent on it. True the dollars spent may
represent the wealth of self sacrifice
that the mother and father at home are
making with a view of giving the boy
and girl real start in life, but that is
about as far as it goes. Lots of young
fellows go to college and spend ten
thousand dollars on dimes worth of
education. Real bargain hunters in the
educational line often get more for a
few hundred dollars than most of them
get for thousands. Education is a
thing that can't be bought. You can
buy your way into the "frat" and into
the sorority, you can make financial
arrangements which will pretty nearly
assure you a chance to play half back
on some of the football teams, but
when it comes to buying real value
along the educational lines, it IS a diff
ferent matter. The frat is all right and
it's all right to make the football team,
but somehow the strongest of the men
who fight out the fraternity battles and
who shine along athletic lines are not
the fellows whose after success in life
makes them the heroes of their college.
College, like let of other things, is
made up of just about what the indi-
vidual puts into it. That's the reason
that the going o college period is so
important in the life of the boy or the
girl.
Choosing of the college in which the
children are to be educated by lot of
people is supposed to depend on the
purse strings of the parents. Not a
bit of it. A boy or Girl can go to col
lege just as cheaply in one place as at
another if he or she sets out to do it.
Men have even been known to work
their way through Yale and Harvard
anf In some cases the education that
these fellows got brought better results
IN after life than that purchased bv
members of the "Hasty Puddinq''
club to whom the question of finances
was one for minor consideration.
The man who works his way through
college comes out of school with LOT
better idea of just how much it takes
to make dollar than the fellow who
mas someone to pay for him. This is a
line of education that has been proven
or greatest value. Of course there is
nothing to hinder the man with unlim-
tied resources getting lot out of his
college life, but he is sometimes so busy
figuring out how to spend the monthly
remittance that he is forced to bolt his
classes to work out tle problem.
There is feeling in a lot of com
munitles that college education is a
loss of time, but it will be noticed that
the men out of the colleges are not
nearly as badly handicapped in starting
IN life as the other fellows. OF course
fellows with as many degrees as there
are letters in the alphabet are working
FOR fifty dollars month, but Just stop
and think for minute what those feI.
lows might have been starving on if
they hadn It the college education.
knowledge is just as much power
now as it ever was in the history of
the world and more so. The biggest
asset that the boy can have-and II
doesn t matter what line of work he is
going into-is general knowledge that
comes with the college education. II
may be that your boy is not going to
college this year. You may think that
you can not afford to send him. Look
the boy over and possibly you will
reach the conclusion that you can not
afford to keep him away. True. he
might earn few dollars next wear,
but maybe these few dollars would not
represent anywhere near as big an in
vestment for him in after life as the
sacrifices that YOU might make to send
him to college. These sacrifices some
times bring wonderful returns. Talk il
over with the boy. See what is in him
and it's more than probable that when
you get through with the heart to heart
talk you viii both decide to scrape O
little and save little and give him
the chance. IF he is worth while with.
out the college education, he will be
eminently more worth while with it.
There is plenty of time to let your boy
have that going away to college period
yet.
And if you insist on keeping voting
machines for heaven s sake put lights