iversity, presents this
brief for the college man:

No doubt there are many who believe a college education is a
hindrance to the necessary business wisdom of the age. There
are merchants down-town who will tell you how they started
at ten or fourteen to sweep out the office and rose, by
virtues and industry, to become members of the firm. This is
true. But you follow the career of the office-boy who began
his utilitarian studies with a broom, and the college boy
who began with his books, and you will find that when the
office-boy reaches thirty he is still an employee, whereas
the college graduate is probably at that age his employer.

Statistics show that out of ten thousand successful men in
the world, taken in all classes of life, eight thousand are
college graduates. Look at the tremendous increase of
educational effort all over the United States in the last
few years. Why, I have parents come to me with tears in
their eyes and ask me to tell them how they can get their
boys through college with only the small sum of money they
can afford to do it with. Even your self-made man isn't
satisfied unless his son can go to college.

ATHENIAN CULTURE IS AMERICA'S NEED.

President Schurman Would Like to See
Here a Little More of "The Glory
That Was Greece."

Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cornell University, has taken to heart
the contrast between American culture of to-day and the culture of the
ancient Greeks. In an address before an association of teachers last
February, he charged that while our people "knows something of
everything," its knowledge is "superficial, inaccurate, chaotic, and
ill-digested." Furthermore, he says that we are indifferent to esthetic
culture and suspicious of theory, of principles, and of reason.

These are serious, fundamental charges. But let us hear President
Schurman's fuller statement of his case:

If the American mind is to be raised to its highest potency,
a remedy must be found for these evils. The first condition
of any improvement is the perception and recognition of the
defects themselves.

I repeat, then, that while as a people we are wonderfully
energetic, industrious, inventive, and well-informed, we
are, in comparison with the ancient Athenians, little more
than half developed on the side of our highest rational and
artistic capabilities.