"According  to  my  own  observation,  almost  \
the  only  advantage  that  the  man  who  has  not
gone  to  college  has  over  the  college  man  is
that  the  former  does  not  know  about  so
many  things  that  cannot  be  done  as  the  latter,  /
and  frequently,  therefore,  he  goes  ahead  and
does  them.  Science  teaches  us  the  futility
of  striving  for  perpetual  motion  and  other
impossibilities  but  it  seems  as  though  too
many  of  the  college  trained  men  become  im-
bued with  the  spirit  of  assuming  that  there

*  This  letter  from  William  H.  Ingersoll,  of  the  IngersoU
Watch  Co.,  is  quoted  in  full.
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are   too   many    things   in   the   category   of
perpetual  motion.
"You  ask  also  about  the  ways  in  which  a
college  education  now  fails  to  give  students
the  training  that  it  ought  to  give.  I  have
not  much  to  say  about  this,  but  in  the
business  world,  we  are  discovering  that  there
is  a  new  science  known  as  'management.*
The  capacity  to  take  the  materials  and  the
conditions  at  hand  and  utilize  them  for  the  at-
tainment of  a  purpose  is  something  that  the
college  could  well  give  attention  to  instead  of
stopping  with  giving  many  important  sciences
in  detached  form  but  without  showing  the
student  how  to  utilize  his  own  powers  in  order
to  get  the  most  out  of  what  he  has  learned.'*

^"It  is  apparent  that  many  young  men
applying  for  situations  object  to  places
where  regular  and  constant  service  is  required
and  where  no  ball  games  or  athletic  sports
interfere  with  regular  hours.
"The  boys  should  be  taught  that  improve-
ment of  the  mind  should  not  have  second
place  to  improvement  of  legs  and  arms.
