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

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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

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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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' 'fri 'T'T'fV f Z '21'W3Lr3 m'3'?'F TQ ifiiffg -.5791 S71 T H E I 9 I 0 F O R E 5 T E N 5 The College Man in the Ministry. The primary reason for a college training is that a man may make the most of life by the scientific development of his inherent powers. Having obtained this scientific development of his inherent powers-education-the problem is: How shall he most advantageously use it? Believing that true success in life is doing the greatest good to the greatest number, I should say that no field is so inviting to the college man as the Christian ministry. The business of the Church is to lead into the likeness of the Divine Master. This is to make them unselfish, com- panionable, altruistic. It is to remove the causes of present-day discontent, substituting therefore the spirit of mutual burden bearing: it is to dis- pel doubt and confirm faith: it is to minimize temporal disappointments and magnify the larger l . hope git is to reveal his real self, and God, to man. The Christian minister being the appointed leader of the Church, the college man can find no larger scope for his trained powers, nor no more profitable investment for his life, than in the Christian ministry. NEWMAN I-IAL1. BURDICK, '93. Helena, Montana. The College Man in High School Circles. Two facts are especially significant in regard to the place of the college man in High School education. The first is that the schools are looking to the colleges as the principal source of supply for the trained teachers which are necessary to carry on modern school work. The present change in the ideals of education has necessitated the pres- ence of trained men and women to meet the needs of progress. Whether or not the college includes preparation for teaching as one of its definite ideals, the fact remains that the college is the principal source of supply for high school teachers, so that in the contest between traditionalism and progressiveness in education the influence of the college is being felt on the side of the latter. IB