Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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T H E 1 9 I 0 F O R E S T E R The College Man in a Professorship. The College aims to reproduce itself and its atmosphere. When one of its loyal alumni becomes himself a teacher in another College he carries with him his Alma Mater's ideals. When he has charge of a class-room, his mem- ories go back to classrooms in his Alma Mater and he seeks to inspire his students as he was there inspired. When he asks students to his home, he thinks of the inspiration he received from close fellowship with some of the Profes- sors of olden days and he tries to make his per- sonal touch count for as much. When he watches the students in their athletic contests, he gives them all the encouragement he can, for he thinks of the time when he tried to uphold the good name of his Alma Mater. Again, when he is called upon as Dean to discipline some student for a College prank, he is helped to con- sider the question from the student's standpoint as well as the professor's, for he remembers some of those old pranks in which he had a part, of which the Faculty perhaps never heard. ' Then let a healthy, loyal, Christian spirit live in every College and let the College walls resound with the cheers of her true sons. Be assured that this spirit will go out to reproduce itself on many another College campus. A Wooster University MILTON VANCE, '96. Wooster, O. The College Man in Business. There has been a feeling that the successful business man, the so-called self made man, is one who started in as office boy at the age of twelve and worked day and night steadily for years, until, his youth and young manhood gone, he had in middle age estab- lished a business that enabled him to take things easy and enjoy life. There are many successful business men of this kind and a college career might not have improved them: might possibly, by giving them a taste for other things, have rendered them failures in the business world. On the other hand, I contend that the average man with a college education and training will outstrip the average man who has not enjoyed such advantages, in practically every business from real estate to groceries. A college man with determination and perseverence can learn more quickly because of a trained mind, will take more responsibility, and consequently can rise higher than the poorly educated man. He is usually a quicker thinker, has a better address and more originality. I6

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' i T H li 1 9 1 0 F o R E s T E R Btntruhuntiun It would be well for every undergraduate to read and ponder the ten brief contri- butions which follow. They are written by alumni who are in the midst of the day's work, who have won a measure of real success, who bear among their friends the name of gentlemen, who are loyal to Lake Forest and eager that its students should conceive and maintain high ideals. The advice which they convey is, happily, implied rather than direct, but none the less emphatic. Whilst they are serious in tone, they also convey the note of the high joy of labor: there is not a pessimistic syllable in them all. They show that while a college course cannot give brains or habits of industry, it can give method and the power of judgment. Cpportunity comes not once, as John Ingalls has it in his brilliant sonnet, but many timesg but a college course is one of the greater and rarer opportunities. . Q Qt. lla 41' 9 Q ?g2gs'w?'c3P'i V D 7 A i' A se ' ' f ei 1 ' - il t ' P ' A , it t. i ..'i 5 ' I if ,-i. . I. 4 ' ,- f I5

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T H E I 9 I 0 F O R E S T E R 4' 5 But I want to drive the thought home that I am speaking of college men who have taken advantage of their opportunities and trained their minds to lhinlf,-not the college man who has Hsquirmedu through, got a diploma, and looks to the world to provide him a living. This is an age of strenuous competition, and the man out of college at twenty-one or two must begin again in the college of business and learn some particular branch before he becomes of value to his employer, competing at the same time with young men who have already worked, say, ten years in his line before he has started. But the training will count if there is grit and pluck to back it up and the college man will in a short time forge ahead of the other and rise more quickly and more surely. In our University Club of 300 members, fifty per cent are business men, most of them under forty years of age. The President and Directors are all business men. There are members in insurance, dry goods, groceries, jewelry, meat packing, real estate, paint and oils, railroading, boots and shoes, drugs, fuel, banking, hotel business, and I know not what. They are all more or less successfuhior they couldn't pay thei' dues. There is a fine chance for the earnest college man in business and I believe a better one than in the over-crowded professions. Kansas City, Mo. FREDERIC C. SHARON, '93. Much has been written and said in regard to the value of a college training for a man in business life. It is impossible to measure this value accurately, for no one can say what success a college man might have attained without his collegiate training cr what a non-college man might have accomplished with such a training: but that it has tangible value is undoubted. Possibly its most important function is in developing a capacity for detail. The successful man in modern business is the one that has not only a broad grasp of the general situation, but a knowledge and application of the infinite detail of his business. The importance of this will impress itself more and more upon one as he advances in business experience. Even though a successful business man may place an actual tangible value upon his college education in the advancement of his material interests, its principal value will always be the higher ideals, the better tastes which his college life has created for him and which afford a means of enjoying the fruits of his success. MAURICE K. BAKER, '97- I7