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Show WHAT THE BOY SHOULD LEARN. What a young man should learn at college is a question that has agitated many a boy and most parents. It Is interesting to note that one writer presumes to answer the question very specifically and both his answer and argument argu-ment Bound good to us. Prof. William James, writing In the February "McClure's," says a boy should learn, and that the aim or education educa-tion should be to teach, "how to know a good man when wo see him." That'l'rofessor James is right will be, readily conceded after one has once asked himself the question: "Unless I know the good and excellent In men how can I acquire a standard that Is durable?" To quote the learned professor: "To have spent one's outh at college, In contact with the choice and rare and precious, and yet still to be a blind prig or vulgarian, unable to scent out human excellence or to divine It amid Its accidents, to know It only when ticketed and labeled and forced on us by others, this Indeed should be accounted tho very calamity and shipwreck or a higher education. educa-tion. "Our colleges ought to havo lit up In us a lasting relish Tor the better kind or man, a loss or appctlto for mediocrities, and a disgust for cheapjacks. Wo ought to smell, as It were, the differenco of quality In men and their proposals when wo enter the world of affairs about us. Expertness In this might well atone for some of our awkwardness at accounts, for some of our Ignorance of dynamos. The best claim we can make for tho higher education, the best single phrase in which we can tell what It ought to do for us, is, then, exactly what I said: It should enable us to know a good man when we see him." |