It is Thomas A. Edison's view that college graduates are too finicky--they want white-collar jobs and don't care for the sweat and the muck that are not dissociable with some kinds of hard work. Clerical employment appears congenial to them; the grind and the grief of mechanical engineering does not. At the bottom of Mr. Edison's gravamen against the collegian is his disinclination to work. He says a man is set for life at twenty-one, and if he is a dullard then, a dullard he will remain to the end of his days..

It is not the theory of college training which this great theorist decries. But he expects colleges to work out their theories in practice, as he has had to work out his own ideas with inexhaustible patience and indefatigable toil in the laboratory. None of his results that have made history and given a bias to civilization was handed him on a tray. He had to go after what he got, and go after it hard, and keep it up after other men got cold feet and cried quits and lay down on the job. A word of wisdom from Edison comes with the full weight of his immense achievement behind it. Edison evolved and devised not by his incandescent intellectual brilliancy merely. He labored prodigiously; he "delivered the goods": he has served pre-eminently his race; he is entitled to talk and to be heard. --Philadelphia Ledger.