Show student’ ’"life most cases lie would still he “not too old to learn” Dr Engle once said that the specialist who lacks the broad foundation of a general college training is like a pyramid balanced on its apex He can not stand He must be bolstered up alone on ever' side by artificial means or he will fall (I will not use quotation marks here for it is “highly probable” that I have not made a verbatim quotation) It is equally absurd for students to leave their home school as soon as they can satisfv the entrance requirements of an Eastern University In the big school at five times the cost they drill through the same courses they could have taken in their own state with equally competent instructors It is necessary to leave our state for advanced work in any department but it is not necessary to go elsewhere to learn the letters of the alphabet although many students including graduates have done so Avoid then the errors that have brought to some of us deep regrets Don’t begin to specialize before you know what you want Complete your college course before you quit and see to it that you get a sound training in English mathematics physics chemistry biology history and modem languages You will then find yourself better able to choose a special line of work and mentally equipped to gain distinction in it — C IT Porter ’05 |