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Vol. I. No. 16 
BEVERLY, MASS., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1904 
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COLLEGE EDUCATION. 
BY PRES. GEORGE COLBY CHASE OF BATES COLLEGE. 
f ‘O-DAY, as never before, the eager and aspiring youth 
of our country are looking toward the college. The 
numbers and the enthusiasm of those seeking our higher 
institutions of learning remind us of Padua, of Paris, and of 
Oxford in the days when thousands were thronging “to 
attack those citadels of learning.” 
Through centuries 
* there have been gather- 
ing about college life, 
college associationsand 
traditions a_ peculiar 
charm, a_ fascinating 
mystery, and the effect 
_ of these upon the ingen- 
uous, the high-minded, 
and the adventurous 
spirits of our timeis like 
that of the romantic and 
stirring experiences of 
knighthoodin the Mid- 
dle Ages. Indeed, the 
college has its field of 
honor, where bold and 
dashing youth contend 
with an ardor, courage, 
and abandon that would 
have done credit to 
knight-hood in its palm- 
lest days. We have 
still our tournaments, 
though the contestants 
are no longer riders in 
armor, but plain foot men with balls and racquets; while 
properly to portray the clash of our contending “ elevens”’ 
on the ‘*‘ gridiron,’’ or the reckless sprint of our batsman 
*‘ stealing his-base”’ would require a genius as brilliant and 
sympatheticas Walter Scott’s. It is doubtful whether any 
combat of tilting knights that ever engaged the great novel- 
ist’s pen was witnessed by as many thousands of specta- 
tors as cheered on the champions of the Blue and the 
Crimson in their last fierce struggle for the “ pigskin.” 
Nor is there wanting the most interesting accompaniment 
of the knightly contests of old. 
“With store of ladies, whose bright eyes 
Rain influence, and judge the prize,” 
would mildly characterize the ardor with which the Sbbped 
sex of our time urge on their champions. 
Not less exciting and absorbing are those contests with 
tongue and pen by. which the intellectual youth of our day 
test their power in oratory, composition, and debate. In- 
GEORGE C. CHASE, D.D., LL.D. 
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tercollegiate debates in particular evoke an enthusiastic 
loyalty that attests the honor instinctively paid to clear 
and convincing argument lit up by wit, repartee, and spon- 
taneous eloquence. From Maine to Calitornia in the most 
progressive institutions these forensic encounters are as- 
suming a rapidly growing importance that must soon make 
them even more distinctive of college life than feats of 
bodily strength and skill. 
But the wonderful increase of college patronage in our day 
_ has more substantial reasons than the glowing ardor and 
generous rivalry of eagerly contending youths. ‘The value 
of the college in both national and individual development 
has been amply demonstrated in the nearly two hundred 
and eighty years since the founding of the oldest and most 
renowned of our institutions of learning. That the State 
of Massachusetts is the richest commonwealth in our coun- 
try and that it exceeds in wealth per capita almost any 
other equal area upon our globe are results admitted to be 
due more than to any other single cause to the quickening 
influence of Harvard. 
The conditions of material welfare at once ample and 
widely distributed are best met in that community which 
has the largest number of trained and cultured intellects. 
When in the last decade of the seventh century the Mas- 
sachusetts Bay Colony numbered ninety college graduates 
for every one ‘thousand inhabitants she had already en- 
sured that growth in wealth which has issued in her re- 
markable aggregate of capital and in the highest average 
wages for working men in our entire world. 
The relation of the college to statesmanship, literature,. 
science and the arts, no less than to character and morals, 
is almost axiomatic. That all the new England States 
have put the crowning emphasis upon the school and the 
college — upon mind “and character —is the only admis- 
sible explanation of their leadership alike in thought, 
invention, reform, and in business enterprise 
The conditions that favor the welfare of the community 
contribute equally to individual success. It has been 
shown by comprehensive and accurate statistics that a 
college course faithfully used multiplies a man’s prospects 
for eminence in his chosen calling two hundred and fifty 
times. This has been found to be truein Law, Medicine, 
Theology, Teaching, Engineering, Authorship, and every 
branch of the great Commercial and Industrial enterprises 
of ourtime. The most successful heads of banks, railroad 
companies, publishing houses, mercantile establishments, 
and the other great monetary organizations of to-day are, 
with rare exceptions, collegemen. Andrew Carnegie and 
John D. Rockefeller are notable exceptions. But the 
former has made Carnegie Institute for scientific research 
the chief of his great philanthropies, and the latter is the 
founder of Chicago University. Both, while men of mar- 
velous genius, rely constantly upon the organized products 
(Cont. on p. 11, 2d col.] 
