Show GET THEIR MONES MONE'S WORTH OF EDUCATION It Is er very curious that so few CeVo care or dare to get their moneys money's worth from Crom the American college The poor Joor man gets sets the best returns He Ie must ask the college college col col- lege ege first of ot all to make malie his bo boy bov self supporting supporting-If If p possible more efficient than his father Clither and he gets as a rule what he pays paya for Cor But the poor Joor man Is not the tho typical college parent The typical typical cal par parent nt of or our undergraduates has stored storell up more or less les ca capital he ho has hIlS a position waiting for Cor his son his bo boy Willbe will willbe willbe be able to live comfortably no matter what may be the efficiency of or his mind I The Thc ability to support himself the power to make mone money Is hI certainly not the most Important quality for Cor this boy 00 to possess Ver Very commonly especially In the endowed en endowed endowed en- en dowed Institutions or of tho cast east mone money moneymaking moneymaking I making In his hla family has reached the saturation point It Is Unnecessary ry It ma may be or oren oven even wrong rong for Cor him to enter gainful pu pursuits What the son of or parents In comfortable circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances requires Is not so much a narrow training In the support of ot lire life as ns a broader broad- broad er one In how to utilize living His In In- In s quite as much as his mental powers powers pow pow- ers need development and discipline discipline dis dis- I know kno that In stating the situation so 80 flatly I run head on Into an American tradition or tradition or prejudice The American democracy even democracy even when In no other way democratic democratic believes believes that the American boy though millions may hang over his head must work for his its living must make money With a righteous fear tear lest his his moral fiber degenerate In useless studies the well to do father grudgingly grudging allows his son to enter college reminds him constantly that the tho nonsense will be I out of ot him aa as SOon coon as aa he graduates graduates ates utes and hurries him into business oa as quickly as the faculty allows breathing relief reller when ho he Is safe sate In an atmosphere whore labor Jabor Is measured by returns in cash If It there were wore danger of at starvation ahead ho he could not bo be more anxious to fix his sons son's mind on tho the duty of at earnIng earning earn earn- ing 10 a week I do not blame the the- fa- fa fa fathers oven even oven In the Instances to which I limit myself the myself the well to do parents of or Intellectually able sons They are arc applying applying ap ap- ap plying the American tradition as It was applied to them But what Is the effect on the boys boys Prof Henr Henry E. E E. E Canby In Harpers Harper's Magazine for December |