Show COLLEGES GROWING POPULAR There are differences of opinion as to the value of college education as that term has been too often considered Taken in the restricted sense of mere intellectual training in preparation for fOl a literary finish or 01 for entrance into certain walks walk's of gional life college training not calculated to benefit everyone But viewed from the standpoint of an education of the whole man mental moral and physical fitting him for any walk of life giving some the culture required for the mechanical agricultural agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural and engineering professions generally and others the preparation demanded by law medicine divinity journalism or literature college training is is of incalculable value Its highest purpose as aswell well v ll as its modes to achievement is the development develop develop- m ment nt of the man Edward Everett Hale says on this j 1 point One hears a great deal in our time of better education of the hand and eye All right But I I I. wish ish we could always manage in this mere sharpening the tile edge of the tool tool for for it is nothing more to more to give the boy or 01 girl a deeper sense of who it is who is to use the tool how great how unmeasured un uno measured is the power of the boy or the girl irl If we could lead along boy or girl from day to day jn this thi this'S S 'S sense nse of possible mastery if we could really make them believe that in the temptations which arc are likely to befall them they can really tread on serpents serpents ser ser- and scorpions and that nothing shall by any any means hurt them we shall not so much mind if the ed edge e of the tool were not of the very sharpest In n the training and turning out of a well equipped self e f reliant e manhood ian our ouI colleges are certainly suc sue They Ther are now more generally patronized mId and heartily endorsed than ever More ore than students at present attend the ten leading universities universities of M the Republic Harvard Columbia Michigan Chicago California Minnesota Cornell Wisconsin 2312 2 12 Yale 2680 Pennsylvania 2520 Th The attendance attendance attend attend- ance luce at the other great schools and colleges of the theland theland theland land is also alo increasing ng The American people want the best for their sons and daughters We Ye have haTe havethe havethe t the e best schools and colleges in the world The proof is their result the best est developed manhood rind and nd womanhood the highest type of citizenship on op earth There were wel in 1850 eight graduate students in all the American colleges three at Harvard I three at Yale one at University of Virginia and andone andone andone one at Trinity There were in 1875 no fewer than in i 1900 OO in l 1902 02 and more Hundreds Hundreds Hun HUll of American youths besides studying abroad There were four American students at German universities un- un uni in 1835 77 in 1860 and 3 7 in 1898 8 Large numbers of American girls pursue their studies in foreign ll countries many in Germany others in France Trance others again in England and a larger num num- her bel er than is generally supposed in the neighboring Dominion of Canada |