Part 6 (1/2)

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Then the student's personal and social habits play an ie roos, expensive athletic sports, and costly fraternity life is es The students are prone to follow the standards of home expenses, and fall in with the spirit of the wealthy social class, and indulge in elaborate living Parents should discourage any display of wealth or extravagance in college if they wish their sons not to spend their ti clubs, theaters, and questionable places of a true scholarshi+p

The student'sto location and circues the students reside e campus, or in fraternity chapter houses, and secure their board outside in clubs or restaurants These rooms rent from 50 to 300 a year, and the price of board varies from 3 to 7 per week The dor Western colleges Students rent roo from 50 cents to 2 per week, and find board in families or clubs at a cost of 2 to 3 per week The students boarding in clubs are comparatively free from restraints, and often fail to cultivate the social amenities and table entle in private fanity to social life at the table, is better for the student The college student cannot afford, for the sake of cheapness in club life, to becoe-trained ood taste and refined manners Success and usefulness in life often depend upon these ses are not es sustain de costly luxury, and encouraging si life bare of all that is elevating and refining

They believe that ”plain living and high thinking” is the way to call out the talent hedged about by financial difficulties, as well as to spur those gifted with fortune to higher aims and nobler efforts The student who has the proe inheritance has intimate social relations with those whose only capital is brain and heart The true college test is thus expressed by President Thwing: ”Brain is the only symbol of aristocracy, and the examination room the only field of honor; the intellectual, ethical, spiritual powers the only test of hty individuality the only deement of a noble personality the only ideal” This is a healthful condition in college life, and tends to develop in the student self-respect and independence as an essential element in true citizenshi+p

Students of li man of ability and perseverance, who coe coee There areives away annually to students nearly 100,000 in prizes, scholarshi+ps, and fellowshi+ps Cornell has six hundred free scholarshi+ps, and other colleges deal generously with earnest and worthy students The hesitating young man who desires an education would do well to follow Franklin's advice, ”Young man, empty your purse in your head” If necessity requires that the student should go through college poorly dressed and with plain living, he can afford to face these apparent disadvantages when he is confident that within a few years, by force of application, he can win a position of honor and independence as the reward of true nificant fact that the es come from ho their way through college

VI

THE PERSONAL FACTORS IN A COLLEGE EDUCATION

One of the personal elee education is the choice of a college to attend This decision is a problenorance or caprice, but ought to be carefully considered, inasely involves the future type of character a student will have after the for staely shapes their tastes, deterreatly influences the serious work of their lives There are a few principles by which we e e where the standard of scholarshi+p is high The nue curriculum is not so important as the quality and tone of instruction The world has cohness in instruction What little a student knows he ought to know thoroughly, and then he can speak and act with assurance A low intellectual tone or lack of critical work on the part of a college has a debilitating influence on the student The professors should have a ripe scholarshi+p, and be earnest and strong in their work, as well as inspire scholarly aentlemanly, in order that the students may come to possess more manly and womanly qualities of character as well as scholarshi+p Such teachers, in close personal contact with students, will awaken neers, and help to discipline the , and impart noble iain, the college buildings, libraries, apparatus, and general equip force

President Gates says: ”Harvard ranked as a se, and had no cabinets illustrative of science, when she trained Eifted sons still her triple crown of glory Bowdoin had no expensive buildings upon her fellow there drank at the celestial fount A her purple hills, boasted no wealth of appliances or endowraduates rendered forever illustrious by the names of Richard S Storrs, Henry Ward Beecher, and Roswell D Hitchcock Presidents Woolsey and Wayland, and Mark Hopkins and Martin B Anderson, were trained for their noble and ennobling work in colleges which lacked rich appliances and thronging nurowth of the sciences and advance, that in our modern schools for superior instruction the well-equipped college has a decided advantage over those with e where the life and _esprit de corps_ is the very best The college is not an exercising ground for the intellect alone, but a place for inspiring ideas and aie life They are s, endowious principle should have the ascendancy in the choice of a college, because religion deious character is by no e, and he needs to come into a pure Christian atmosphere, where the heart, as well as theequal, the student should favor a college of his own denomination, or the one that he thinks best represents the spirit and forthened In advising this, we do so not frootry The probabilities are that if the student attends a college of another denomination, the impressions made may tend to produce indifference to the church of his fathers, or weaken his own Christian efficiency in it The young should maintain personal loyalty to the church that has helped to build up their Christian character and to inspire in them a thirst for a broader culture

It is clai in the West to select a college in his own state, where he will form his friendshi+ps and associations, which afterward may be of value to hiht advisable to take graduate work in the East, in some university which is pre-eminent for its special courses, libraries, laboratories, and appliances On the other hand, it would often be an advantage for the Eastern student to take work in the best universities of the West

We come now to speak of so an education Student life has its hindrances All have not the same capacity to assimilate culture It requires e course than for others A thorough college training costs arduous labor Many are not willing to pay the price, and to practice the self-denial necessary to acquire the power to think and reat subjects of study It de conviction and an earnest resolution to go through college and win a place a the thinkers of the world

One reason why so e and drop out before they complete their course of study, arises from the fact that they have not acquired the power of application Their feeble wills and intellectual lethargy succuht or ten hours of hard, earnest work a day They should be encouraged with the words of Lord Bacon, who says: ”There is no co and not succeeding, since by not trying we throay the chance of an i we only incur the loss of a little huain, there are those who are led to look for soe education This is a serious mistake ”Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap,” is as true in an intellectual career as in any other work of life The laws of rowth must be observed to make the most of ourselves, and to do thee education ”If I am asked,” says President J W

Bashford, ”why Methodisn as one reason of this failure the fact that none of us observe the laws of mental developrohich John Wesley gladly gave I turn to Arminius, and find that he spent between twelve and thirteen years at the universities of Europe before he began to preach Arminius died at fifty-nine Yet he left behind him a work on divinity which ranks hiustine and Spinoza, as one of the world's e, and later was able to devote three years ustine devoted thirteen years to study after his father sent hie before he accepted the professorshi+p at Milan It was eleven years after Luther left hoe before he left the scholar's bench for the professor's chair Four years later, Luther took another scholastic degree, showing that he was still pursuing his studies

Five years more were required for Luther to reach clear convictions on religion and theology Paul was a student in the most celebrated schools in Jerusalem for fifteen years If, therefore, you do not seem to have that mastery of truth, if you do not find yourself the intellectual giant which you once thought you ht become, do not blame the Lord, do not depreciate your talent, until you have devoted as e studies as did Arustine, and Wesley, and Luther, and Paul If you would do a great work in the world, fulfill the conditions by whichto begin at the bottom of the ladder and work upward It will takereal satisfaction

Again, if the college life is to be profitable and pleasant, the student should refuse to enter an advanced class when his general culture or discipline is so deficient as to render it difficult to ress in his studies It is true that the entrance examination is not always a fair test of the student's capacity or promise The difficulty cannot be corrected, and study be made a pleasure, unless a student hiin where every step forward is thoroughly understood

Ae education is the fact that it helps to _emancipate the individual_ The studies pursued take the student out of his narrow self and his present environes and conditions, where he finds his larger self The personality becoe of the great and good hts of the past and the present are at the student's coes and peoples and feel that he is conteone before Truth thus gathered and stored up in life and character has a wonderful eateway of truth is always thrown open to those who earnestly knock and search for her hidden treasures The individual in this age,power of truth to act intelligently and effectively in the drae education likewise _tends to liberalize the individual_ by first eli any self-conceit, or inclination to rashness or falsity, and to build up fire is to enable the student to know hiht conception of self, because he must everywhere live and act with self He owes it to himself, and to the race, and to God, to iven faculties God had a purpose in creating each person, and the aiin, by finding out what God wants of hi his faculties and aptitudes on the line of this purpose He who lives in willful ignorance lives beneath the privileges and possibilities of a huht to be satisfied with anything short of the noblest and best possibilities for himself

The majority of men and women have rich capacities, and their natures are full of resources, but these are not always called out Their incipient powers often need soestion to open the chambers of the soul and lead them to discover their unconscious capacities, natural aptitudes, and untried powers