Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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thing of “having learned how to learn.” And it is precisely in this respect that the classical course differs from the modern practical courses. The latter seek to cram into the students a multitude of facts, that may, perhaps, be of use to him some day; the former system seeks rather to lay a solid foundation, upon which the student may later on build up a real educa- tional structure. For the college training, indeed, is but an introductory course in the great school of life. The editor of the Iron Age magazine, an authority of the first water in the business world, puts the matter briefly, but well. He says : “Our great corporations and manufacturing concerns se ek the college trained man, but in no sense do they desire him because of the smattering of knowledge he may be able to devote to their interests. They take him solely for the training of intellect he has gone through.” And this edi- tor goes on to say that records of the business world prove the superiority of the college man at 30 years of age to the man of the same age who entered business by the apprentice’s door. “The graduate may have been twenty-five before he donned a jumper,” he says, “but in the five years he learned more, with the college training he had as a foundation, than did the regu- lar journeyman in his fifteen years of actual work in the shops.” Supplementing this testimony is the experience of the Inter- Ocean, a well-known daily paper of Chicago, which instituted a thorough survey of the business district of that city, with a view to ascertaining the true business value of the classics. Speaking of the undertaking, the Inter-Ocean says: “When we began our quest dozens of wise men sneered at the colleges, and declared that the classics would avail a man nothing in business. Yet, as a matter of fact, we found that the number of college-trained men employed in the best positions was 34 times their proportion of the population.” Thus we see that even from a purely commercial standpoint the classics have decided claims for recognition. But they have also other advantages, which appeal not only to the business man, but to all classes and professions. Not only do they, from the very nature of their study, impart a training and balance to the mind that is invaluable to men in every walk of life, but they are indispensable to scholars and

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CLARENCE G. OWINGS. Valedictorian. Thespian. Secretary of the Sodality and the Secchi Society. The only man who has succeeded in accomplishing the hitherto impossible feat of carrying away the medals and never declining invitations. Editor-in-Chief of the Annual.

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J. AMBROSE QUINN. Our authority on horticulture. Class Historian and Poet. ‘ Brose’’ and ‘‘Ed” Graham have made their way together from First High.