The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-07
Minister URGES
YOUNG FOLK TO
GO TO COLLEGE
2Rev. Morris Points Out Real
Merits of Higher Edu-
cation.
r W HY go to college?

VI
|Wl That question was answered
and discussed by the Rev.
Paul Judson Morris, pastor Of the
Emerson Ave. Baptist Church,
Sunday night at g. young peoples
service.
"Ths first requirement for leader
ship In self control.p the Rev. Nor
ris said. mo one can hope to lead
others, no man can hope to direct
the activities of others, until first he
learns to control himself.
mo general can truely give orders
until first he has learned how to
obey commands:
"A student in college finds that he
no longer studies in school room
with Q teacher at hand to guide and
help. His lessons are assigned, he
learns when the classes meet, goes
to his room to prepare for recitation
and at the appointed hour meets
his professors for his recitations.
This is discipline on self con-
troll. If he wastes his hours of
study he will fail III his work. if
he improves them his recitations
will evidence it; he is passing out OF
pupilage into manhood.
THE mere wage Garner remains
in the state of pupilage. He is to be
told what to do, and how to do it,
But as man rises in the scale of
being he becomes more and more in
and the leader of nan
y Freaks his own path through snow
or hews it through the wood or
sails it over some unknown sea.
He does not require to be told, or
watched, he makes a road for all
coming days and generations.
''Paves the Way"
IA college course offers introduce
ton to all lines of study, and there
fore i reases the sources of plea
sure and gives those of mind and
heart rather than those which are
physical.
"One of the courses of our genera
ton is the craze for short cuts to
education and get-rich-quick schemes.
Jesus Of Nazareth had thirty
years of quiet preparation for three
years of pubic ministry. The tend
ency of many young Americans of
today is to reverse that order; they
would like to have three years of
preparation for thirty years of ser
vice.
ut is the fault Of young people
to think that the world is standing
still waiting for them to come to
its rescue with their service. It is
indeed a noble thing for any boy or
girl to give himself to a definite
form of Christian service. But, we
need to ask ourselves, Have any
thing to give that is really worth
receiving? The greatest thing I can
ever hope to give Is the influence
Of my own personality. Have I yet
developed such a personality that I
have anything to give?'
n II am firm believer in the value
bf classical course for all young
people, regardless Of whatever pro-
fession they may later enter. At
least two years Of college may will
be spent gaining an introduction to
learning
ut is a matter for ENCOURAGE
ment that Dartmouth College, dis
carding the superstition that the
student must decide his life work in
the second year of the high school,
has so altered her course that the
first two college years will be de-
RI Of IA oil
tier of learning and life, so that the
student may intelligently select his
life work. During the last two
years he will devote himself to some
one department of knowledge with a
view to mastery.
A Real Curse
America has been cursed with the
Prussian idea of specialization at an
early age. Even down in the grades,
In some schools, educators have
treid to induce boys and girls to
choose a vocation and begin to spe-
cialize. Such a course will cause us
to raise up a generation Of narrow
minded, rTow-gauged individuals
with one-track minds who can think
only along one line. Such would be
sure road to the worst kind of
class distinctions.
Because the college course intro
duces the student to all lines of
study, 1t, therefore, increases his
sources of pleasure and gives TO him
those pleasures Of the mind and
heart. rather than those which are
physical. A college course, therefore
.8nables one to be happy, whether he
'@be poor or whether he be rich in this
worlds goods.
A college course increases ones
Influence and therefore ones oppor-
unity for doing good
statistics show that the college
graduate has 200 chances to do a
large work for the world where the
high school man has twenty, and
who're those who stop with the
the grades have none
But the browning gift Of the col
leges consists in the development Of
personality.
"A college education enables us to
become larger, finer nobler human
beings After all, the aim Of life is
not to do but to become; not to paint
pictures, or make bricks, or build
houses, but to achieve the finest
type of manhood or womanhood.