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Show ffc'E sALitfA THE S ALINA UN, sALina, UTAH WHAT IS THE REAL PURPOSE OF COLLEGE? SUN We in America have reached the point where we need not the place of the college and the university in the Issued Every Friday at Salina, Utah. scheme of education, but likewise and more important, we must determine what function the institution of higher learning is permail matter under the forming in our society, Entered at the postoffice at Salina, as second-clas- s says Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the 1879. March the of of in 3, current issue of the National Republic. act Interior, Congress Is it the purpose of our colleges and universities to provide adornment for the intellects of persons of leisure; to enable the ' SUBSCRIPTION': RATES masses to secure the means of livelihood and enter avenues leading One Year ..$2.00 into the higher professions; to furnish a few years of irresponsible, .... .....I...... . 1.00 Six Months.....! but happy, social environment; or to create the possibility of fjune In Advance and renown through athletic prowess or literary achievement? Are Payable the purposes of higher learning to be found in one or all of these new. old the or similar directions? These questions are easily asked, but it canas as In making change of address, give address well not be said that there are one or two important services for the college or university to perform and that coincident results may be reAdvertising Rates Given on Application. garded in the light of H. W. CHERRY " Editor and Publisher I think we can. agree that the primary objects of going to col.worth-whil- e information that will enable be should secure to lege men and women to succeed in after life; mold sterling character, AND NOW ON THE OX. create worthy citizenship and perpetuate all that civilization implies. A Boston paper carries a dispatch from Barrington, N. H., If so, the curriculum of studies should provide, for the most part, which reads as follows: The. last yoke of oxen in the town of Bar- the means of attaining these ends.- Doubtless, the extra curriculum y activities contribute in a measure to the desired results, but it should rington have been sold by A. B. Locke of Waldrons Hill. A and of remembered a without oxen farm be that the athletic life, the fraternal, dramatic and a was not yoke ago complete for years it was customary for ox teams of ten yoke each to be sent other social organizations are but subsidiary and incidental to the to the Rochester Fair from this town. Road breaking was always main purposes of the curriculum, and "that students w.ho majored in done by oxen." them are likely to be .troubled in the world. It was, and so was the work of breaking a bit of wold land un.Athletics were introduced in our educational philosophy, on der cultivation, for the horse was, to quote- the Psalmist regarding the theory that strong minds develop in strong bodies and that the anmal, "a vain thing for safety when .unseen boulders or tough through the medium .of wholesome games, bodily strength is generto ated and maintained. But should athletics occupy as important a roots lay concealed beneath the soil to catch the plow-poinbreak the beam of the plow, the; point, or the harness.' The oxen, place, in the minds of students and alumni as the serious work of the always in low gear, would increase their pull up to a. certain point, institutions, suggesting to the students that we consider athletics a beyond which they would not go unless urged by the driver. If more significant phase of college life than the acquisition of sound aught happened it was up to him. The horses became too nervous, learning or the training for good citizenship - mistaking pastime as did their driver. Roads blocked by. a snowfall are broken out for lifes highest aim? I do not wish to be understobd as decrying these activities by tractors now, we suppose. If they were not they would remain closed until nature released them, for there are now no oxen to do in toto. Athletics have a legitimate place in the school and the colthe work and the efforts of hired men with shovels are expensive lege. They provide a wholesome safety .valve for the energy and and inadequate as well. The oxen, we always felt sure, enjoyed the enthusiasm of youth and are a medium for creating institutional task of dragging a farm sled through a. snow drift, partly because Jgpjrit an(j l0yaty. Fraternal organizations, also have an important fix their for allowed were not own to were .hurried, being they gate, place in providing an opportunity for the development of the not their owners working for the town? . and social instincts, but all of these are subject to limitae It was a sad day for the farmer when the ox left the tion and by their excesses create pobliems on the campus. It was deliberate, reflective farm, though the animal had to go. and, in a way, dignified. It had far more intelligence at maturity than the average farmer admitted, nd it fitted admirably into the CIVILIZATIONS NEEDED. general scheme of things unhurried. Hartford Courant. Someone suggests that civilization is jvQrLing step by step toward the selfopening can. By the increasing prevalence of cans BEN FRANKLINS WISDOM. it and patently sealed jars that defy even the stoutest from is cans be said civilization that steadily working away An eastern newspaper celebrated the anniversary of "Poor might of but there can be no doubt that the coucapable being opened, Richard by quoting some of the philosopher' terse sayings particit .needs a 'good five-ceneeds than a can worse ntry ' ularly applicable to business. One is: Providence Journal. , cigar. "Drive thy business, let not. thy business drive" thee. A man is either the master of his business 6r it is his master. .J. aaaaaa aa a a .p . One may easily recognize the master of a business. : : He is cool,- col- : ; : His bills are dis- lected, unhurried. He knows "where he is at. counted. He does not overdraw his bank, account. His employes are working, not loafing on the" job. He comes to his business fit .j..;. for it, not a victim of late hours or loo many highballs. His thinking is straight, and he wastes no time while there is anything on his desk that needs attention. Another maxim is: . . .j..;. "Get what you can, and what you get, hol'd. Get honestly, of course. Franklin had no sympathy for sharp practices in business. Honest profits are to be held, not squander-ed- ; either in unnecessary personal gratification nor in increased family erpenses. It is not a good thing for a mans family to know he is rich until he is abundantly able to spend freely. . Even then he must be prudent, for too much money given to a rich mans children is a bad influence on them, and has ruined thousands of youths who otherwise might have honored their parents', Heres a third ' truth: "God helps them who helps them selves. , Such men are not praying to Deity to make them successful in business. They work out their own economic salvation. We did a ALL COPPER TUB lot of wishing, not praying, in our careless years. We never had the nerve to try to persuade the Almighty to do for us what' ' should have done for ourself. But when we began to do it, things began to come our way." It is always that way. When a man helps himself things just naturally come ti him. Its a principle of NO MOVING PARTS human life for them to do so. V. G. Sibley in the Chicago Journal of Commerce. only to define Jfirsttateank SALINA F O SALINA-U- Federal Reserve System Member JAMES FARRELL, Pres. : AH T H. S GATES, V.-Pre- s. H. B. CRANDALL, Cashier . C. E. PETERSON, E. V. 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