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the first few years that the hardest thing will be to keep the wolf from 

 the door, while those who go to teach need only witness the struggles 

 of the school teachers of this city. This school board is besieged with 

 howls and wails for increase of salary. This is the address to the grad- 

 uates. Mr. Kerrick at the dedication of this university said: "Do any 

 of you think that Pres. Draper will ever say to our classes graduating 

 from our Agricultural College, "you have done your work well in the 

 college, you are going out to the farms and you are well equipped for 

 your business. We, however, fell obliged to tell you that poverty will 

 be the strongest opponent you will have to overcome; the average farm- 

 er is not earning his salt; the only company you will have for some years 

 is the wolf at the door.' I would as soon expect to see myself tomorrow 

 sitting on some distant star reading that the cables of gravitation had 

 parted and the whole planitary outfit had gone to everlasting smashup." 

 Dean Davenport read a list of sixteen applications for men as can 

 be turned out from this institution before they can get them ready. 

 There is an old education and a new one. By and by we shall find that 

 the difference between the old and the new is not much, but includes 

 them both. The new education at least is educating toward useful 

 activity, and the great educators are coming to see that the way to educate 

 is to educate for a purpose. 



Now the commercial education is coming. The commercial high 

 school is a certainty. It is not far away when we shall have it. The 

 pupils will be able to stand — I mean our common schools — able to stand 

 and look out of the windows that shall give them view of the avenues 

 that lead to professional activity; look out into the avenues that lead 

 to mechanical work, and still another to commercial activity, and a fourth 

 to agricultural activity. 



The young man starting and standing in that position will be invit- 

 ed to discover for himself which he is adapted to. I had not thought to 

 tell this story, but I will tell it to illsutrate the fact that young men under 

 the old system of education did not discover themselves, they did not have 

 the opportunity to find which they were adapted to. In the city of 

 Waukegan lived a lady of wealth who a great many years ago adopted 

 a boy 12 or 13 years of age. She thought to educate him. She put 

 him in the Waukegan schools, but he found great difficulty in keeping 



