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

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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

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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 I 9 1 0 F O R E S T E R 1 1 - The second point of significance is that college men are not as numerous in secondary education as they should be. There is a great need today of more men teachers in the high school. The fact should be emphasized, however, that it is not merely men which are needed, but efficient men-men of high quality of ability and character. No one thing means so much to the education of the American youth today as the possibility of securing the devoted service of young men of ability. The field should be .an attractive one as its possibilities compare very favorably with those of other professional fields. If its compensations are not as profitable as those of commercial pursuits, at least it offers possibilities of service second to none. It is not possible to devote one's life to a better cause than the training of the coming generation. Modern education means more than the mere keeping of a school or the inculcation of a little learning. It implies the development of all the powers of mind and body to such an extent that the individual shall be rendered socially efficient. The work of the teacher is truly social service and is the surest way in which a man can contribute his greatest infiuence to his day and generation. Omaha, Nebraska. E.. W. GRAFF, '97. The College Man in Newspaper Work. My experience and observations have been that the best fruits in the newspaper profession do not necessarily fall to the college man, but, as in other callings, his way is made smoother and his opportunities more numerous as a result of his collegiate training. The young college man with no newspaper experience but with a diploma in his hand and the consciousness of being an embryo Dana or Brisbane, if persistent enough, usually settles to his place in a short time as a plain newspaper reporter at ten dollars a week, if indeed he does not begin his career as a cub Each Saturday night his pay is handed him by a business manager whose Alma Mater probably was a business college. But let him persist and he usually will find that his college training plus the same energy displayed by his associates without it will win him the better prizes. If he secures charge of a paper, large or small his college experience should help him still more. The com- mon weakness of editors, on smaller papers particularly. consists in taking themselves too seriously and viewing things out of their proper proportion. This, the training that the college man has received, helps him to escape. He is usually an optimist, under criticism and even in debt. Without discussing the achievements of The College Man in my Calling, his place in history, his influence today is shaping national events and in bringing about reforms, I will only say that his position is one that should give him satisfactory returns even while he meets its severest responsibilities. Little Rock, Ark. G. L. MALLORY, '02, I9