The Washington times., 1927-03-21

Of life. is even a moderately educated
1--WE are parting from the man
old deluson that learning One may argue that to
phase in Life And all clear out the colleges and dis
the antiquated of perse the crowds Of spoiled
calling people bachelors and and motveleSs youth that
and doctors of arts now under petense of
and science might very well high and conclusive education
CO. with the gowns and hoods al benefit constitute the phy
that recall medieval al cal bulk of Oxford Cambridge
chemist nquisitor to limbo. Yale and Harvard to
They nothing. There is universities
presumption that the value of that argument
who has the diplomas what depends upon the meaning
they call it, Of NJ A., assign to the word university
Many failures have gone to college, and many fail
ures have NOT gone to college.
Perhaps many Of the young gentlemen that take vacation
at college, Of whom few perhaps 10 per cent really work
hard would be better off had they college
Others perhaps would have taken vacation
OUTSIDE Of college.
It is matter for you to decide However thing
certain in college young unquegtionaby spends num-
Der of years absorbing FALSE IDEALS he looks up to
football Players coaches baseball and other college
heroes" that amount to nothing he leaves college
He attaches exravaan unsound Importance to the achieve
1nents Of intellectual childhood Everything that happens
st college bOynes except the teaching Of the patient
professors
One Of the best and ables educators in this country
who devoes his life to preparing boys for college, says 81
send fine young American boys college, and when they
out takes them three four years to get the bad
effects Of the college Me.'
This was said, not by Il. G. Wells, who knew of
college @ but by college professor college graduate the
head Of great preparatory school.
Perhaps the best way to describe life in college to de-
scribe the Frenchan described travel in foreign lands
said he Travel FORMS youth, when it does not DE-
FORM youth
Paradise Lost with its magnificent English, would not
exist had Milton studied the classics the university
On the other hand the magnificent works Of Shakespeare
as far above Milton the above the EARTH would
exist had Shakespeare gone to rich boys school in his
youth and then to great university instead of being
pcacher in boyhood holding horses in the streets Of London
as young man. then drifting into writing plays for himself
This is certain. From eighteen to twenty three young
man should make his real at whatever he intends
he afford waste neglect those five precious years.
There few lines Of real effort in the modern life Of the
United States in which five years in college really prepare
young for important and successful work later
you afford it, and want it, send your boy to college
The average rich mans amounts to little anyhow. But
you can't afford it, don't weep it.
Benjamin Franklin Abraham Lincoln, Thomas A. Edison,
Henry Ford and many others sufficiently successful
went to college Do you think any college could have made
them successful Do you think any Of them could
have afforded to take out Of his independent thinking and
struggling young manhood five years for college fe2