The New York herald., 1921-09-20
UNION COLLEGE MEN
TOLD TOGO TO WORK
They Should Expect No Easier
Time Than Factory Hands,
Says DR.. Richmond.
'WORLD TOO FAR BEHIND
Schenectady School Classes
Largest in History, With
625 Enrolled.

Special Despatch to TIE Nrw Yosu Herald.
SCHENECTADY, Sept. 1s.-"There IS
no reason why boy who comes TO
college should expect an easier time
than a boy who goes to work in a
factory or in an Office" declared DR..
Charles A. Richmond. president Of I'm
ton College. In his opening address to
the student body to-day.
Registration at Union Is the largest
IN history-625 thus far. The freshman
class is the largest In years. with 24o
members.
All Must Work to Recoup.
DR.. Richmond said in part:
However men may differ as to
specific remedies for, the present disor-
ders, all men of sense agree at one
point. and that is the necessity OF get
OF the var the fruits of the work of
millions OF men for many years has
been destroyed. 1t Is gone and no
amount OF economic juggling will bring
IL back. If the prosperity OF the world
is to be restored It will be because we
are all willing to work harder and to
put more Of ourselves into our work.
There may have been q time when
the word work as applied to college
would have seemed to some kind OF
academic pleasantly. II there ever
was such q time that time has past.
The picture of college where the long
hours were passed agreeably under the
shade Of the classic elms. smoking
pipes and singing college songs. has a
certain attraction to the retrospective
imagination of the graduate and to the
prospective vision of the freshman.
But to man who knows anything
about the life at Union College there
will be q nlournful realization that the
largest part of the picture has been left
out. / might as well tell you at once
that this Is a college where honest
work is not only expected but re-
quired.
No Intellectual Incubator.
There is no reason why boy who
comes to college should expect an
easier time than q boy who goes to
work in O factory or in an office. The
idea that In coming to college q boy is
postponing his life work for -four years
while he floats down the stream of
time untroubled by the hard realities
that other young men of his own age
have to face Is not at all our idea of
what a college means. Neither is q
college a kind OF intellectual incubator
where young fiedglings are hatchcd out
with no effort of their own.
"A college Is a workship. and II It
is going to maintain It's place In the
esteem Of nation that has supported
Us with such unstinted generosity we
must see that the gospel of honest
work is not only taught In the COL
leges but practised by all of US who
have anything to do with It.
This may sound little disagree
able to some easy going young aspi-
rants who have been looking forward to
a comfortable time, but let me assure
you that the only way to be happy
here, or anywhere else, Is to make q
real business of the thing you are do
ing. The most delightful thing a man
does is to exercise and develop the
powers that are in him. What we shall
try to do for you here Is to help you
70 understand and value your own
powers and to teach you how to use
them to the best advantage while you
are here and afterward when you take
your place In the field OF active life
which you shall choose"