Show does modern educate one of the greatest disadvantages ol 01 an exclusively college education is that it is apt to foster what macaulay calls a chinese cast of mind that stupid contempt of everything beyond the wall of the college mans celestial empire tha defenders of a college education baim daim aa their own every man of distinction who has attended college whereas thesa men became eminent authors lawyers statesmen etc in spite of the fact that they spent several of the most valuable years of their lives at college and wera only saved from the of the majority of college bred men by systematically mati cally neglecting the dull routine of prescribed studies and spending theu time in desultory reading bacon dryden sheridan byron scott wellington and many other allua arious men went to college but dis bained to subject their intellects to the antiquated cobrae of studies prescribed who were the senior wranglers at college when the men just mentioned were cutting the classics and reading history poetry and fiction the vey names of the successful scholars are unknown but the idle young men vrho refused to be tied to the mental corpse of a dead made their names immortal ko name magazine |