The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-04-29
NEED OF COLLEGE TRAINING.


As noted elsewhere this ISSUE period
Of the National Catholic Welfare Council as Catholic College Week
perfectly in accordance with the spirit of the times
which policy people by
devong of days the subject and thus center
campaign within fixed limits In other words method
of intensive cultivation of certain field.
Today the prime before Upon
the prevalence of mental training among people wont to
the state Of civilization to be found therein Statistics are
people and hereupon the nation set down advanced or
backward Education has to be the barometer of intellectual
standing both as regards countries and individuals.
Formerly schools and colleges aimed at mpartng this mental
polish favored few Such training looked essential
music mathematics and smatterns Of art md history were
gade in the light of necessity TOR one who would stand forth as
terms The rich always had these advantages the poor
seldom.
Today, however recognize the fact that all
equal This that human being mental
those same faculties theory merely beefng
the ndyda strives in this to assure the supremacy of the
Gated and intelligent electorate superior to an ignorant
One of the most notable this principle seen precisely
here in America 1t has become patude that if not
nearly ALL great
benefits accnng from intensive mental training acquired cose
leisure through personal sacrifice Education therefore,
considered not simply endowment of the individual the
ton of the countrys strength and power.
Of modern brought wildly before
people the vital necessity of specialized training and intelligent de-
velopment Not only the professionchuch medicine law
there efficiency
derived only from education Formerly Tor example factory was
the principle that trained the head could easily
direct the and work of all those employed therein This
man or few knew all that was necessary The workers simply
Today factory demands number of specialists spenend
ents engineers chemists bookkepcr all
must be trained Nor will the school of alone produce
that type of efficiency which the modern world seeks and have
The mechanic the farmer the salesman the manufacturers the rail
road man. eae and every one measures his ability by the amount
of his efforts with the trained intelligence which he
| puts into his work IN r.
has speciates Only who has deved
deeply into other of successfully
meet the competition that all sides decided
eventually by the who displays the grasp
| which comes undeniaby from specialized training.
With all the Boosting Catholics wont indulge in the
miserable showing higher spheres Of business or professional
life Where Catholic here and there looms above sifows
figures in the vast minority With shsne we must
admit that body but hewer of and drawers
water the nation Then we blame anti
Catholic prejudice for painful showing
demands Catholic parents prone off
of their children at the eighth grade the high
We have luminous example in the of the Jews is
said that they control of the big industries professions
1.-The country The at times ascrbed their
ness sense If we go little further easily will find that the
age jew has had college which has shapned his
natural aby to such degree that he easily vaults
riers raised by his unframed competitors :..,
for the Catholic student there but suitable school the
Catholic college Mere development acnme never will
serve to bring ont the best in he pcroce strengthen
conduct after those principles wrong that are the
Se cee will cause t. flower
our boys and girls those seeds of religion which
seonndre educated man or woman is the
most powerful asset in community Mind and will
sense to atrophy and have individual who
to wreck wreck the soul on the rocks Of inequality
Catholic college upon our peop the ster
oea ha the best preparation they can give their children for the
fierce game OF life is thorough training Catholic oese
some talented spirited was ers of the devoted Monica For
the Of Roman neec thirty weasone did He