Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1922-09-29
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In a measure this same idea applies
to cost in education You may secure
II for few hundred dollars, hut it has
been made possible for you 10 secure
IT at all by great sacrifice and en-
deavors made in the past by others
Therefore, society is right in demand
ing more from the college man or
woman, and tendency is growing on
he part of the colleges 70 demand an
ever higher standard, alike Of scholar
ship and Of character.
Now there is always a certain degree
Of danger in saying things OF this kind,
for some peoples heads are turned
when they are told that they are priv
legged because they do not realize that
with privilege 60 obligation and res
possibility This is the type that it
does not pay to educate We have
already referred to the statement OF
President Hopkins that some men
should not 90 to college II d man Is
not able to find this out for himself,
the college should assist him speedily
in coming to that conclusion 1t is he
coming less and less a matter OF indi-
vidual importance and increasingly
more an affair of social importance
who goes to college and vino does not,
For the college is the creation Of So
Ciety
I had this strongly brought home 10
me some years ago by rather cele-
brated, though some would say noto-
nous, radical, who had come to New
York. He had been sent TO see me
and in conversation l asked the ques
ton, why when | had spen, years on
my education instead OF starting right
in to work, | was not entitled to eX-
peCt more from society in the way OF
living conditions and 50 forth than one
who had never studied His answer
was one | pass on to Won. ! owed
more to society, he said, because after
all, society had sent me to college, had
made college possible. and had made
possible my staying there i'll appar-
emily reproductive labor while o'he-
boys of my age had to 90 10 work
I would not subscribe to all MS po,i-
tons, hut whether or not he was -,gh,
there, leave to Your own perception.
and in the degree in which YOU can
tell whether he was right or wrong, Is
the indication Of whether or nor YOU
are worth educating
1t is well to remember this Work
Tor yourself and your work may seem
to you to have an incentive Work for
others and you will ind a higher in
Centive.
There j, an old and clearly es,ab-
hshed fact that a great many men will
do for others what they will no, DO
for themselves
at is a good thing for strength 10
know
That someone needs us to he strong
This was amply demonstrated in the
War when men achieved tasks and en-
dured hardships beyond their imagin-
ing, caught by the spirit OF great
movement.
Lawrence, the great English states
man in India records that on one &C
casion when a fire was sweeping over
little Indian village, one woman re-
fused to go out from her poor little nut
unless the sack which contained her
grain went with her. No one was
found strong enough to move II News
OF this reached Lawrence He hurried
TO the fre-threatened hove seized the
sack of grain and carried 1t out Next
day after the excitement had died
down, he recalled the incident and
went to see what he had done He
found that he could not move The sack
e. foot
hope that the meaning Of TINS is
rot obscure You can do great things
intellectually and in every other way
in college if you are being moved bv
great sense that what you do is Of
service to mankind If YOU look upon
education selfshly, merely as some
Thing to fit you to earn more money
il is being wasted upon you, and YOU
a-e unworthy of it.
In other words, the heart must be
educated with the brain. "As the mind
widens, the spirit OF the man must al
so, said Theodore Roosevelt ITO ed
ucate man in mind and not in morals
Is to educate a menace to society
1t would be easy to show how edu-
cation in the past has been inspired by
he men who believed in the spiritual
Least of all should we need reminders
Of this 1t was a minister, Timothy
Dwight whose visit to this little town
nearly 1870 years ago resulted in this
College, and our being here this Sept
ember day He was the son of a col
lege nearly(as old then as we are now,
established by group OF ministers
gathering together and contributing
books from their own Libraries And
Yale's older sister, Harvard was
founded in the same way. And these
were for the most part daughters of
those yet older colleges across the sea,
Oxford and Cambridge, where to this
day the forms and usages tell OF their
religious foundation 1t would be hard
today to point to one of the great
universities springing up in the Near
or Far East, which does not owe its in
ception however it may have devel-
oped to missionary zeal.
To forget this, to look upon educa
ton as an end in itself, is to put one