Evening star., 1925-02-18

school years, so why not make 1t
funda mental during ther7 =
This Ideal is being approached In
some institutions. where PRACTICAL
application OF studies to that one
main aim OF earning a living is
made with the full knowledge of the
situation that man Is born to earn
his bread in the sweat of his brow
or his brains.
It is almost criminal to allow stu
dents to leave college without some
definite idea of what they want to
do, whers they are to find that work
and, a very definite idea OF how to dc
1t when they get It.
hope I make my meaning clear
that the trouble is not that much OF
what one learns In .school and COL
not taught with some definfte idea
of practical use later. There II q
world of difference there.
The conduct Of life" as I have
named the second essential we com
monty learn during the 10 or Ii
years Immediately following ouI
school days. is nothing more nor less
than our old friend practical psy-
chology." Of which we have heard sc
much recently.
One does not have to be a pro.
fessed psychologist to be a great
deal Of psychologist at bottom, Every
business man who knows how to rur
his plant Is q psychologist.
Every Newspaper reporter who goe'
out to get the news, and bring back
mighty good one, too. 1t is safe
bet, however, that he never learned
1t in college, but picked 1t up during
his years Of newspaper work.
The little trick Of knowing how tc
handle" people, how to brush III
against them, as it were, and not wear
ones self to a fragile in the rubbing
Is about all there Is to the conduc,
OF life. You have to learn how to re-
frain from talking at all times and tc
all men, you have to know how much
to say and how much to leave unsaid
You must manage, somehow, to have
topics and points Of contact with mer
30 that each ono OF them feels com.
Portable with you. A whole college
course might he devoted to this ons
subject, and still the student woult
have a lifetime of study before him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson has one
book which. though 1 have never read
1t, has been Of great beneht to me
merely through its title. That book
Is The Conduct of Life" Personally
no not OeieSe L ever Will Tedo II
preferring to keep my regard for Its
title intact.
1t is impossible to think Of that
title without being helped. 1t make.
one have a definite conception of the
supreme necessity for practical ap.
plication of knowledge to everyday
living.
Since leaving the formal educationa
system. the average uan has learn
ed all he knows about handling
money. He has found out that It IL
much easier to spend money than !,
Is to earn It; that the only way tc
really save money is not to spend
II. Such mundane considerations as
banking and real estate never sullied
his classical course. And yet he
would have benefited immensely
from good course in those two sub.
jects. He will never use "amo" oil
'amat" during his entire life, moi
once, but there will never be a day
go by that he will not handle money
Whether our American life is bull,
for, by and on the dollar is a matter
for some dispute, but there Is nc
question but that every man. and
every woman, for that matter, ough,
standing of finance. stocks and bonds
savings. banking. real estate, etc.
Money is the very basis of oul
modern life. spiritual az well as mate
rial, for II 1t only when one has the
leisure that money can secure him
that he can give his soul over to
meditation and repose.
AS for health education, a man has
to get that after he leaves college, OIL
never. Colleges spend too much time
now on athletics, you say? Bless
Won that let owe
too busy building the health OF the
healthy athletes to bother with the
sickly fellows who need tho training
mOst