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From cover to cover (for the advance copy is without advertisements) the October number of the Illustrated Magazine is interesting. Designed to give the incoming Freshman a survey of the opportunities that the College and College life provide for the development of oneself through service to others, it points its moral clearly,--the necessity, if a man's college life is to be successful in the highest sense of that word, of self-control, careful thought, wise choice, and firm decision. In a single page, full of the rare spirit that for thirty years has been one of the greatest...
...this country, consists not in the absolute independence of those elements, but in the best possible adjustment of them to one another. It is a false conception of liberty which looks upon it as a system of disconnected parts, free from co-operation. Freedom is the chance to relate oneself to the force and activity of the mass without destroying oneself, and does not exist in factories where the operatives beg reformers to let things be for fear that reforms will simply cause more suffering and hardship for them, rather than a comparatively slight sacrifice on the part...
...outside world. And yet so many men persist in disregarding the one requisite which is the most beneficial in every-day life--the ability to talk. Think of a profession, a trade, an occupation in which the power to think on one's feet and the ability to express oneself are not of the utmost advantage. But the power of addressing an audience is only a side-issue. When a man is tossed into the rough-and-tumble of ordinary life, he finds his university polish of little avail, if he cannot make his stock of learning show...
...what field effort is most wisely applied is one of the great opportunities offered here. The privileges of the elective system should be used by every student to the utmost, that in life there may be no misapplication of energy through failure to learn how one can best serve oneself and mankind...
...fulfill those duties effectively and satisfactorily for the purposes that the individual is properly to be credited with in the conduct of life. Vocation, in its primitive form, is the duty of life to others, whereby living is made happier for them; and culture is duty of life to oneself, whereby life is made happier for the individual. Professor Kennelly then enlarged upon these points laid down and reached the conclusion that ordinarily vocational training should come last and the higher and final training, the broader and deeper, should be its foundations. But this should not prevent the pupil...