At our colleges, as commonly conducted, a young man gets only a general training. He is fitted for no specific work, and oftentimes his energies are rather scattered than concentrated there. When he leaves he is ready for no practical employment-perhaps is not so well fitted for useful and profitable labor as he was when he began his college course. After he is graduated he must set himself to learning how to make a living-something he has not studied in college. [New York Sun.] According to the Sun it would be better for young men to devote themselves from early childhood to learning the art of making money. The Sun thinks that a special education is necessary for a man who intends to devote his life to selling calicoes and pins. We venture to say that a Harvard graduate can sell calico and pins as well as any man who has not attended college.
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