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Show QUIT COLLEGE AT AT TWENTY FIVE President Harper Says It Is Mistake to Get In Habit of Going to School. Special to Tho Tribune. CHICAGO, April 30. President Harper says ho has no patlonce with tho student who docs not plan his life work whilo ho puraues hla undergraduate under-graduate course. "Get out and huatlo," Is hlB advice to tho eonlors. "At tho aG;o of 25 a young man should bo thinking abont getting Into hlB life work. Undor tho present educational advantages a studont should bo ablo to finish his col-lego col-lego studies when ho Is around 20. Ho then can spend a year In business, whero ho will gain much by coming In contact with tho business world, and later can tako up and finish his professional work or graduate gradu-ate work by tho tlmo ho Is 2o years old. . "I havo advised twenty men during the last year to quit tho university and to go to work, Somo students got Into tho habit of going to Bchool and continue going, go-ing, waiting for a Job to be given them. Collego is not a buslnoss, but a place to prepare for business " |