The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-10-06

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which opened the one hundred
| fifty-ninth academy year gave his
views on education more from
the practical side of the ques
ton than university presidents
usually do. He says that toe
many men are not going to col.
lege but oftentimes the wrong
kind of men are going.
Among other things, he says
that an impersonal written ex-
animation given thousand miles
away by men, who have not seen
the student and don't want to
see him, affords no knowledge
whether that student will be
benefited by four years residence
in college. Certainly practical
persons will not differ from him
when he says "All young men
and women who want education
ought to have it. But the vast
majority would profit far more
by some other kind of education
than that given in the tradition
al American College," Presi-
dent Faunce says that every
large industrial enterprise main
tains schools for educating men
for it's special needs and while
every man should be educated
only "a minority are mentally or
morally benefited by seclusion
for five years within the gates OF
Oxford and Cambridge or the
American colleges which are
based on the English model"
While we may not be prepared
to follow. the president all the
way perhaps, every thinking per-
son knows that many boy who
goes to- college does not get what
he should have sought and it is
oftentimes hard to pick the col
lege man in a crowd because he
shows evidence of no better edu-
cation than the man who has
been trained in the school of ex-
perience. In fact we all know
plenty of boys who have gone to
college and come home and that
is about all that there is to it,
unless it may also be said that
they have acquired distaste for
hard work.
But we agree with the presi-
dent of Brown that "the first
great need of the average stu
dent is an enlarged horizon" and
to enlarge this horizon until 1T
covers all lands and centuries,
until it covers the great domains
of literature, science, history
philosophy and art is the first
object of college training" The
second object out ought to result
in the mastery of some one sub
iect. The President well says
Breadth of horizon is not
enough-a man may be so broad
that he is flat. To know every
thing of something, and SO &C
quire method by which to know
all else is one great result of 8
college course" College educa.
ton comes down to. the practical
application of getting the round
pegs out of the square holes. &c
to college if you feel it will fit
you for your own life better.
The country will be glad tc
verify the prediction of Assistant
Secretary J Edward Henning OF
the department of labor that
within six weeks the greatest era
of prosperity in history will be-
gin in the United States. The
country has been waiting some
little time for this era. The
! Secretary bases his statement on
I the old reliable foundation OF
supply and demand. He says re.
tailers and j6bbers' shelves are
empty all over the country anc
must be supplied and this de.
mand will speed up business.
Germany is crying wolf SC
much in connection with indem
mites that the world wouldn't
dare believe her if conditions
really did become bad with her
Most of the world believes that
there is enough capital in Ger
many to take care of her indem
nifty if she had the will to do the
honorable thing.
Peppino Magro, known al
Baron Paucci, the smallest MAI
in the world" created a sensation
when he appeared at the United
States District Court for his fina
, naturalization papers, few day