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Show IZZZZmZZIZH Of all the erroneous and harmful ideas that young men and young women have, Colli!! wor8 18 pernicious belief that col- lego is simply tho stage which precedes Old Work ronl beginning of life, and that the real rk . -W i life and the real tasks are still to come. DUt jrUTt University life is not an introduction to q Jje a l'01" nn( a lnos'' imPrtant t part of it. More and more, as tho years . go hy, in tho business as in the professional By FBOF. W00DB0W WILSON world' tho 8tres3 is bcinS ,ail1 uPon thc trained mind, ablo to grapple witli the complicated problems of industrial nnd urban ur-ban life. Those whoso minds aro not trained will be servants, who will not only have to obey somo ono oIbo, but will have to bear the added indignity of being told how to do the work. And the training of tho mind, which will make a man a master and not a servant; is to bo had only through hard work, intellectual work, and by a utilization to the full of thc great opportunities which rt university uni-versity trainingepreads out before one. To give that training, to help that mastery of on'a. incntal powers, in which lies tho .secrpt of Midas and of Socrates, is the purpose and tho aim of a university. |