THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
89 
THE 
Young Scientist. 
A Practical Journal for Amateurs. 
(With which is incorporated "The Technolo- 
gist," "The Industrial Monthly." 
and " Home Aets.") 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT $1.00 PER YEAH. 
EDITORS. 
PEED. T. HODGSON. JOHN PHIN. 
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subscribers are as a general rule, of the haying 
class. It therefore offers special inducements to 
those who have anything good to offer. 
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THE INDUSTRIAL PUBLICATION CO., 
49 Maiden Lane. New York. 
Will those of our subscribers who re- 
ceive two copies of the Young Scientist, 
kindly hand the duplicate to some friend 
interested in such matters, and thus per- 
haps aid us in securing a new subscriber ? 
Kemember that every additional name 
enables us to improve the Journal, so 
that all have an interest in adding to the 
number of our subscribers. 
Contributors to tlie Young Scientist 
will help us along very materially by 
sending in their communications on or 
before the tenth of the month preceding 
the date of issue, as we go to i>ress about 
that time. Wherever drawings or en- 
gravings accompany the communication, 
they should be sent in at least ten days 
earlier than the time mentioned above, as 
it takes from ten days to two weeks to get 
the cuts made from the drawings. We 
hope our young friends Avill make a note 
of this, and send in their always welcome 
contributions early enough to insure their 
publication on time. We have found it 
necessary to make the foregoing remarks 
from the fact that several excellent com- 
munications and drawings came in for 
this issue, but were too late, and they are 
of such a character as to be of no service 
next month. 
Although we do not i)lace much faith in 
the sayings of Wendell Phillips, when 
giving utterance to opinions of his own or 
propounding theories from his inner con- 
sciousness ; but when he makes an asser- 
tion, and states it as a fact, he commands 
our attention at once ; and when he states 
definitely, and without qualification, that 
ninety-nine per cent, of the graduates of 
our colleges are never heard from as suc- 
cessful business men, and backs his as- 
sertion with apparent facts and figures, 
we are astounded, and wonder if some 
mistake has not been made. Can it be 
possible thai- this assertion is true ? If it 
is, what becomes of this ninety-nine per 
cent. ? Are the hundreds of M.D.'s, 
A.B.'s, A.M.'s, LL.D.'s, etc., that are 
yearly turned out by the great colleges of 
this country, useless appendages or worse 
to society ? If not, where do they all go 
to, and what do they do ? These q aeries 
are worthy of consideration, i)articularly 
so to parents who have boys api)roaching 
man's estate; for if it is true— and there 
are some reasons for thinking it is— that 
only one boy out of every hundred sent to 
college becomes a successful business 
man, fathers should hesitate before send- 
ing their boys to colleges. If parents 
have plenty of means, and their children 
are likely to inherit them, then it may be 
well to give the young people the highest 
educalion attainable, and this, we think, 
can best be done through our colleges. 
We have no hesitation in saying that 
our technical schools and institutes offer 
better facilities for acquiring knowledge 
of a practical kind, and which will prove 
of greater pecuniary value to tlie aspiring- 
youth, than can be obtained from a purely 
classical training. Tliis is a matter of 
considerable import to boys who will have 
to make their own way in the world. We 
do not wish it understood that we under- 
value a college training ; on the contrary, 
we wish it were possible fo^- every boy in 
the country to obtain such training, but 
we must say that we are of the opinion 
that a thorough technical training in 
some school where the boy is brought 
face to face with the stern realities of life, 
will be of immeasurably greater value to 
