Show THE GRADUATES I It is all an over four over four years of it it- Two and fifty University graduates arc are ready to go ou out into the un c lay world and arid shatter their ther f long treasured ideals upon their first contact contact contact con con- tact with worldly competition It is a freezing t step lop from the professor to the city merchant or oroli oli engineer I noer Some have connections through whom progress is assured Others have taken tho the opportunity opportunity h nil of providing open during vacation J periods into which they may step and establish t themselves Of or some som twenty prospective graduates asked one had definite plans for himself with h he was was satisfied On One other had provisions foi for continued study under the tho supervision of a n national manufacturing concern One had secured himself continuance at school school- Of or the remainder three had made arrangements to go to work ugh thc with companies with which they dd d d l not noI satisfied to stay because of limited opportunities ties and the balance intended to find some thing as soon oon as the examinations were over over- Of f course college students have long got goter over er ho hot id idea a. a that high salaried positions were ti Sv them upon graduation Educations of college grade have o be become ome so general as to eliminate elim elim- in t this possibility The advantage of at the college education is that it is like t to enable the individual indi vl vi vidual ual to adjust himself more more ore favorably to con- con and to take lake more active actio advantage of such opportunities as are offered him On the other b hand nd he has a four to a year ecar handicap to overcome in competition with the tho lay Jay individual Th The question is are S-are are his average chances of ad advantageously ad- ad over overcoming this handicap worth tho the additional effort effort- General national averages seem to pro c prove that they are financially it is ver very lIke lIke- lo b ly also that the gr graduates graduate's capacity for enjoyment enjoyment enjoy enjoy- ment is increased over that of oC the layman laman l Further urther however will he ho bo be able abla to 0 decently s satisfy his propensities for enjoyment It may rhay be hat aL he is s able to take taka fuller enjoyment from such things thinS's as are normally provided but buL his tastes will be bemore more cultured and consequently more ex- ex I p pensive nsf e He tIe will naturally his place In Inthe inthe I t. t the the- commonwealth com to necessitate a somewhat J h standard of living living- Are his chances of being l a IDo to to maintain this standard of the best It Il wc uld be difficult to estimate an answer to La this c It it IL is n not t the pleasure of graduating students in immediately upon dismissal to take advantage of at their r lc leaving ing tho University to resound their complaints complaints com com- plaints upon general scholastic matters But BUL four foure years e r as recipients of the best training possible in the tho should give these graduates justification cation for fore for e. e expressing pressing their ther opinions as to what whal is good and what is otherwise in methods of v lion tion It is often heard remarked ed by upperclassmen men that he tho the instructor drills through the tho book hook like a pi of Tho The simple grammar grammar- loss moaning is that hat the instructor is so closely I bound to the text in his instruction that he ho offers offers' no new material to the student who is is thus faced each da day with tho the prospect of a n close review of what he has road read the night before in preparation preparation- D By this means th the instructor offers tho the student nothing of his own advanced nd training in fact blinds tho ho student to cover to cover coyer knowledge knowledge- It is within II th the IQ t power of at any instructor to ex expand expand ox- ox the inform contained in the tex lex and give the student a bro broader der view Texts ar ate i ordin- ordin airily the product of oC one mind Surel Surely an addition of another trained mind to its Us discussion will b be beneficial There is an opportunity for much improvement im improvement improvement im- im provement in in several instructors at the sity Again there thero is th the instructor whose class methods have become static through to cl close se a ad adherence adherence ad- ad to formal notes There is a a slight im improvement improvement improvement im- im provement in this type t over the in that ho supplements the tho text with notes which do not necessarily follow the text Notes as a guide to the lecture to prevent unprofitable diversions are valuable As boundary to intellectual expansion expansion expansion sion they are infinitely harmful The ideal ideal- instructor might be he who could combine decent idealism with sound practicality to provide the most rapid progression and tho the sincerest learning As with all ideals he keeps company with the stars But there is possible a nearer approach to this ideal i ideal eal than is by br some instructors on the tho campus For the advantage advantage advantage tage of succeeding classes of students these might look Jook to their failings III Though this is the largest class to be graduated graduated graduated from lom the University it is likely that it iL willbe will willbe willbo be bo I the he most closely united in spirit aims The paramount rea reason on is that they are arc doing something something something some some- thing in un unison son with the rest of the school and will be the first to leave with this feeling of a definite service ser due the tho University t It U is a little thing thins this giving ing of a R pledge of fifty dollars is likely to La result in n most favorable conse conse- It is tiring to be continually worried with conceptions o of ideals and idealism Yet th there re should ho he something higher in life lire than the pay pay- roll To most individuals the years spent in coll college ge and college assoc association are arc the he outstandingly outstandingly most pleasant of all What hat more excellent move moye could bo be made then than th-an to carry some of ot this this' same spirit of at life enjoyment into lay lay- times limes We Ve will interest ourselves in what whaL we support sup sup- port and where le lie our interests there lie our as as- socia Lions |