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Wednesday, January 19, 1910
The True Value of a College
Education
When Professor liowe said in As
sembly last week that college was play
at life, he was correct, But when he
said that this play did the student no
good, when he insisted that the real
good in college was the dry specilic
knowledge found in text books, infer
ring thereby that the student at col
lege learns a rule and formula for do
ing everything that confronts him in
after life, he was mistaken.
No one but a college professor values
the specilic instruction given at college.
No business man will give credit for
text book knowledge and no true stu
dent needs the services of an antiquat
ed, outworn professor in mastering
such knowledge. Almost every man
that has amounted to anything, studied
things out for himself and his motive
was simply curiosity—the desire to ex
plore nature’s secrets; it was not to
get a "summa cum laude" or a worth
less degree at some seat of “outworn
creeds and ancient prejudices” as Pro
fessor llowe would have us do.
I'lie function of college is not to pump
a man full of knowledge. Neither is
it to make him a thorough business
man, a linished lawyer, or a newspaper
mail. Professor llowe is right when
he says these things can be learned with
out college.
The true value of a college education
is to broaden a man’s ideas, to give
him a wider grasp of the life before
him; that he may be able, not to look
upon every problem as something known
to him through past experience, but to
grapple with the new problems that will
confront him every day. To get this
ability, it is true, he must be a student—
not necessarily a student of text books,
but a student. He ntay get "A” grades
or he may get “D” grades, depending
upon his temperament—whether he
seeks exact details or deals in general
ities. But he must be a student and his
observations must be weighed, not in
the narrow atmosphere of the home,
but in the tolerant intellectual environ
ment of the club, fraternity, dormitory,
or lecture room.
That is what gives to college its pe
culiar value. This is what makes the
college graduate the master of men.
This is why few students get much
out of a college course taken in their
pwn little home town.
A student can “grind” at home with
out college just as well as he can do
the other things Professor Howe men
tions at home. In a future issue we
may say something concerning the rel
ative merits of these two incidentals in
college education, but space will not
permit it now. We have simply pointed
out that neither “side show” (as both
really are) is the important and essen
tial element.
We do not mean these remarks in
a personal way. We know that Pro
fessor Howe does not follow the idea
lie has set forth. He does not en
BROWN TELLS OF GREAT
MOVEMENT LAUNCHED
AT ROCHESTER
(By E. M. Brown, General 'Secretary
of the Yniversity Y. M. C. A.)
The greatest student gathering in the
world was The International Students’
Volunteer Convention that was held at
Rochester, New York, during the
Christmas holidays.
On Wednesday, the opening day of
the Convention, special trains from all
parts of the country began to pour stu
dents into the city. From Iowa and
lilinots came a “special” of thirteen
Pullman coaches, every one full to the
last berth. Western Canada, Minnesota
and the Dakotas filled another “spec
ial,” the Southwestern states, another,
and every section of North America had
its representatives in large numbers,
helping to swell the great crowd that
swarmed the streets.
In spite of the cold weather, the
Convention hall—arranged to seat over
four thousand—was jammed full at ev
ery session; and, for the evening ses
sions, as many as seven hundred peo
ple were turned away to attend the
overflow meeting that wa£ held in the
largest church of the city. There were
in all 2678 registered student delegates,
329 faculty representatives, 78 provin
cial secretaries, 95 secretaries of Mis
sion Boards, 105 Y. M. C. A. secretar
ies, 165 missionaries, besides more than
half a hundred leaders and speakers
for this occasion. John R. Mott, said
by Roosevelt to be one of the two
greatest executives in the world, and
the man who is at the head of the
Volunteer movement, presided at the
meetings. Robert E. Speer, of the
Presbyterian Mission Board, Bishop
McDowell, of the Methodist Church,
Bishop Hartzell, who has spent thirty
years in Africa, Dr. S. M. Zwemer,
said to be the best American authority
on Arabia, and Hon. James A. Bryce,
the English ambassador to the United
States, were among the speakers.
Above the great platform, stretched
a banner, one hundred feet long, bear
ing the slogan of the Convention, “The
Evangelization of the World in this
Generation.” This motto was the theme
of every address and furnished the
basis for some of the most mighty ap
peals that have ever been dung out
to the Christian world.
On Sunday afternoon, the men dele
gates met in the First Presbyterian
church, and were addressed by a num
ber of young men who are scheduled
to sail for the Orient in the next few
months. When it is understood that
there were fourteen hundred young
men gathered together on this occasion
and that each one represented at least
live more who are in thorough sympa
thy with the movement, the gigantic
task of reaching all the races and tribes
of the earth, did not seem so itnpos- j
sible. At the last meeting, ninty-two i
students spoke a word from the plat
form, expressing their intertions to de
vote their lives to it.
In one of the sessions, in less than:
fifteen minutes, $85000.00 was subscribed
to back this work; hut the most en
couraging feature was the address of
Mr. Morlev, a New York business man.
president of the Layman’s Missionary
I movement, in which he estimated that
$27,000,000,000.00 is controlled by those
in America who are in sympathy with
courage "grinding" and he does en
courage thinking and originality. If
all professors did likewise, the "circus"
might he worth more than the “side
show.’’ Rut we cannot accept the idea
from anyone that studying is the es
sentially part of college.
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three hundred and seventy five miles
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seven days, to Eugene.
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