Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-10

in general. College attendance has
increased much more rapidly than
population has gained. So the COL
leges have tried to meet the varying
intellectual requirements of the
young people.
If we were insisting on the same
college requirements now that we
did when l was a boy, college at
tendance would dwindle If the same
courses We're now being offered, he
said.
1t is coming to be the prevailing
opinion that the best place for a. boy
from IS to 20 years of age is college.
no matter what he plans to do IN
after life.
Referring to the changed attitude
Of big business toward college grad
yates, President Roberts told of one
large insurance company that some
years ago made 1t point not to take
in college graduates to learn the
business, but now is sending letters
each year to colleges asking for re-
cruits from the graduating class.
Athletic sports have been the
means of bringing to college great
numbers of fine fellows who other
real reason for the growth of the
colleges is the growth of the free
public high schools. The teaching in
all of the free high schools is to-
ward keeping on with the studies.
So there Is an increasing number
of boys and girls storming the doors
of the colleges.
A person is never sorry that he
went 20 college. asserted President
Roberts. The student finds an enrich
ment of life there. Farmers now
days need all the education they can
get for the successful farmer is the
book farmer" The problems of the
farm demand the application of in
telligence.
A mean way to restrict college at
tendance is to double the tuition fee.
The people who need college educa-
ton the most are usually those who
are making a great effort to get
through. The most hopeful sign of
the times is that so many young peo-
pie want to go to college.
President Roberts expressed his
opinion that the present generation
is great improvement over the
past generation and that it ought to
be because so much is done for the
boys of today. Clubs such as Ro-
tary, Kiwanis and the Lions are
greatly interested In boys work and
| there is the strengthening influence
of the Y. M. c. A. The speaker said
| that he believed that Secretary JEFF
ferson c.. Smith of the State Y. M
| c. A. is the most useful citizen in
Maine today.
The colleges owe very much to
| the free high schools which have
made great advances in numbers
and ideals of scholarship.
Principal Mallett of Pennington
| Normal
That many students come to the
| normal schools and then decide to
go on to college, was brought out
| by Principal w. G. Mallett report
I ing for Pennington Normal school
The normal schools do all that they
can to urge students with this desire
to continue their studies in college
Judge Benjamin F. Cleaves
"Insdustry has been going to
school," asserted Judge Benjamin
| F. Cleaves of Portland, executive
! secretary of the Associated Indus
tries of Maine, who spoke of the
| awakened interest that industry Is
now taking in young people who
have had the advantage of higher
| education.
One reason for this changed atti-
! tude on the part of industry is thai
industry does not want difficulty
with it's employees and it does have