The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1921-09-07
To College Now-Or Latcr9


The college years for young men and
women are from II to %. The excep
tions are numerous; many precociOus
youth graduates at 19 or 20 and many
another, lacking the means to enter
college early, must finish his course at
a greater age. The average is prepared
at II or is and is graduated in four
years
The young man who must postpone
the completion Of his college course
until he is "a or 20 loses A year or !!
two from his life's work..
Thus the young man or Woman who
| is to have an education and is capable |
of taking it and is kept out Of college !
one or more Of the usual college years
| is subjected to a grievous penalty. The
10th year Of the college student is, for
college purposes, worth twice as much
as the oath year. The oath year should
be devoted to reaping the harvest from
the work done in the 10Th or Goth. Be-
sides, the youth is better fitted than
the adult to perform the tasks Of col
lcge. The youth is the better learner,
as a rule If the mind Of youth Of
10 rests year, that rest is likely to in
volve degree OF mental stagnatiOn
and loss Of vigor. To these things edu-
Gators universally agree. None would
say that entrance to college can be
postponed until the student is 20 or 81
; |without entailing q severe loss to him.
The colleges Of South Carolina for
men and women, will reopen within
) the next six weeks and there is de-,
| preston over the land. There are some
+. parents who, having long cherished the
o purpose to send their son or daughter
n to college, will find it impossible to do
SO and to those one may say nothing.
. They are perhaps not a large number
. Advice can not help them.
9 Another class, not abandoning the
8 purpose to give their children a col
A ed to postpone entering them another
D year in the hope that times will be
6 better" They should not yield to the
temptation. They should have in mind
Y that they can not deprive their daugh-
= ter or son now Of college age Of a col
3 lege year at this time without, in tho
end, making the cost double to them
The parent may save by postponement
8 but there will be no saving in the lone
y run. The sacrifice, severe though il
Y be to the parent will merely be Shift.
= cd to the younger shoulders to be en-.
. dured in the after years.
\ If youth is to be sent to college
q at ALL scarcely any sacrifice may be
8 thought of that is too great to make III
y order to send him at the right time
4 at high rate OF interest or to sci
q property at low price III order tt
\ avoid deferring the boys or the girls
. cducation-it is thrift and foresight tt
utilize the year for the student that Is
most useful to him though the cost o.
that year seem excessive and OncrOuS
TO these truths The State direct!
attention, because to thousands o.
parents the question Of educating
their children will weigh seriously be
fore the new college year begins. The
a State advises and The State urge!
them that whenever they are in doub
Of what they can or Of what thes
should do, they give tie benefit Of tn.
doubt to the daughter or the son.
j Education Of the young man or wo
man is OF far greater import than ma
tcrial prosperity or property interes
Il is to any man or woman Of middle age
u The State.