Show IN this is intensely practical age it is is' 1 tire the fashion to scoff at university education and to call it narrow and un- un J practical The scoffers are generally J Ji F j i 1 those who value life for the dollars r which may be accumulated during its period and who forget that the amassing 1 of wealth is not the chief end and aim v of existence Wealth in itself is valuable valuable valuable able only as it aids its possessor to live a higher and fuller life than he would do without it t. t It is a common human failing to forget the end in in the t of the means and the class referred referred referred re re- to above simply fall into into this 1 common error But are these persons 2 i Y competent to judge the merits of our J higher education The uninformed mind 0 finds no difficulty in deciding upon the most abstruse problems to the ignorant there is no mystery in the universe It Itis is a deplorable fact that our business businessmen men of to-day to to be eminently successful successful successful success success- ful must shut out almost completely all other considerations than those immediately immediately immediately tely connected with business affairs Broadly speaking this renders them j ignorant and narrow wholly incapable of i 1 it a 4 F r J t judging in so important a question as that of the comparative worth of systems f. f of education We admit the greatest danger now menacing our civilization is the narrowness of mind the lack of a abroad abroad broad and practical education prevalent among large and distinctive classes but our institutions of higher learning certainly certainly certainly possess the only available means f for the disseminating of the needed A broader education After all is said that so-called so practical practical heal men can say from any point of I view against university education it must be obvious to the intelligent and unprejudiced mind that it is not only the broadest but the most practical at Nr f present available or that ever has been available and business education is calculated calculated calculated cal cal- a to enable a student to make his y way in the world to make a living A But of what USE use is life to one who knows f nothing of its larger duties of its y dangers its pleasures of the true happiness happiness happiness hap hap- to be obtained through a perfect knowledge of self and of the relations human beings bear to each other and andY Y to other forms of life It is a well- well known principle of mental science that 4 life is not measured by years but by sensations thoughts One man may live livemore livemore livemore more in a year than another in a life life- time Is not then that education the most practical which increases to the greatest possible degree the capacities of the mind forethought ht It could be said without danger of exaggeration that the poet Shelley lived more in thirty years than one of our modern millionaires with all his wealth of material advantages advantages advantages does in sixty Which then is x the more practical life Evidently that of the II unpractical visionary We advise our practical business businessmen men who think that all intellectual excellence excellence excellence ex ex- should be capable of producing a material equivalent to think of this question a little longer before being so ready to give opinions and pass Unprejudiced thought will surely bring one to the conclusion that this very education at which so many scoff is the only means of escape from the spirit of narrow irrational materialism that in these days exercise so blighting an influence upon the human min mind |