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Excerpt from College Education Gentlemen of the Literary Societies: - I congratulate you on the significant fact that the questions which most vitally concern your personal work, are, at this time, rapidly becoming, indeed have already become, questions of first importance to the whole nation. In ordinary times, we could scarcely find two subjects wider apart than the meditations of a school-boy, when he asks what he shall do with himself, and how he shall do it - and the forecastings of a great nation, when it studies the laws of its own life and endeavors to solve the problem of its destiny. But now, there is more than a resemblance between the nation's work and yours. If the two are not identical, they at least bear the relation of the whole to a part. The nation, having passed through the childhood of its history, and being about to enter upon a new life, based on a fuller recognition of the rights of manhood, has discovered that liberty can he safe, only when the suffrage is illuminated by education. It is now perceived that the life and light of a nation are inseparable. Hence, the Federal Government has established a National Department of Education, for the purpose of teaching young men and women how to be good citizens. You, young gentlemen, having passed the limits of childhood, and being about to enter the larger world of manhood, with its manifold struggles and aspirations, are now confronted with the question, "What must I do to fit myself most completely, not for being a citizen merely, but for being 'all that doth become a man,' living in the full light of the Christian civilization of America?" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repair