Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-24
DECIDING WHAT
SCHOOL TO ATTEND
An Important Question Which
Must Soon Be Answered
in Many Homes.
PARENTS SHOULD DECIDE

Vacation is about half gone. Many
students who intend to go on with
their education this fall have not yet
decided definitely to what school'they
will go.
So much depends on the decision OF
this question that it is given much
consideration and long study in most
families.
Parents realize that upon the wise
decision of this question the welfare
Of their children may depend.
1t is not merely a question of the
getting through" OF the young man
or young woman. 1t goes far beyond
that. 1t affects his or her whole fu-
ture we'll being and may decide
whether he or she is to be great
success or whether failure and dis
couragement is to attend throughout
all the years of life in the world.
Responsibility on Parent.
Responsibility rests upon the parent
and it is more than mere financial re-
sponsibility. A decision in financial
matter may be wise or unwise and the
only loss is financial and that is soon
forgotten.
But decision in such a question If IT
be unwise has cumulative results of evil
And, on the other hand, II 1t be wise II has
equally cumulative results of good and the
student goes on from honor to honor and
his life is a success,
Naturally and from the nature OF the at
iair 1t is utterly impossible for each parent
this were possible even 1t would not be pos
sible to form concrete Idea of each schools
qualifications as a place of education for any
given prospective student.
There are so many separate features of
the school that must be taken into the
consideration Of the subject In arriving at a
wise decision. No person could form an
idea OF any one school without remaining in
1t while 1t Is In active operation for several
weeks.
Points to Be Considered.
1t would be necessary to decide first upon
Its scholastic attachments upon the thor
oushness and conscientiousness of its teach
ing forces, upon the standard, whether It be
high or low, that Is required Of the student.
NJ hieh sne moral tone Of the Institution Is
tluence upon those who attend and who are
destined to spend four of the most formative
years. Years Of their lives in an institution of
its most important stage of development,
and when 1t will form itself with strength
and resisting power to evil II the examples
when, on the other hand. 1t will become
weak and flabby II 1t is formed In . weak
and flsbby mold.
to environment than to heredity. Heredity
both In diseases of the body and Of the
mind and soul has but small part to
play. Children Of the worst possible an
eestry. taken at an early age, before their
habits and tastes have been formed and
PLACED in good environment become our
leading men and women.
Others OF good ancestry. allowed to grow
up on the street and as corner loafers, be-
come mere weddings.
Importance Of Moral Tone. -
=. So the moral tone of the college to which
ne boy and girl are sent Is of an i'm
portance second only to the importance Of
the educational tone. Secondary, did we
say? So some would hold. But there is
ample ground for considering 1t not sec
ondary, but of primary Importance. For,
of what use is sound education II the
moral fiber is not strong? Mere book
learning is not of supreme Importance.
Neither is the great gain secured from a
college education. Some of those who come
through with flying colors and highest
marks In their studies, but who have neg
iected entirely the college life, the whole
some mingling with their fellows In classes
ana IN the activities of college life, have
degenerated later to mere ciphers and book
worms, not getting out OF life anything near
what they ought to get and would get II
they had developed a sound moral fiber
third important part of the college to
be chosen for the prospective student is
the personal element, ard this must be
carefully considered by parents.
Upon this is founded the argument of
the small colleges, Where the student body
is small there is. perhaps, more of a
tendency for the students to get into per.
sonal contact with the teachers. It is
here that teachers and students get to know