| Show A linguistic one of the most valuable kinds 0 training which the college can give is the linguistic if to think is important linguistic training ia important for we think in words therefore thinking becomes clear orderly profound as language is adequate language represents those methods and results 0 thought without which thought itself is feeble and inefficient therefore training in language is bithe highest to be able to think in or adequately use the english 0 any other language one should know guage he can only know this language as he knows those languages which have made the richest contributions to its structure every new science and every new application of any old science goes to the greek for its very name hence a training in latin and greek is of the greatest worth the college is not filling the mind with useless knowledge in requiring students to learn these not dead but living languages second the scientific school is a professional fess ional school its graduate goes from its commencement as goes the graduate of the school of law theology or medicine directly to his lifes work it is not a school of liberal culture or of general training it is to be said and said with the utmost clearness that the governors of our best technical and scientific schools are beginning to recognize tha advantages which the man desiring to enter these schools possesses if he has previously received a general training through the college forum |
