North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . en years should be concentrated. Toconsolidate all the forces in the Statefor this purpose and to utilize themso that the largest and most benefi-cent results may follow is a proposalthat should command the heart andhope of all enlightened men and wo-men. I believe that every college shouldgive itself to the doing of the hardtasks of society, and that every edu-cated man should do his full stint ofwork. Attention ought also to be paidto the gentler side of southern civili-zation. It was the graciousness, thehospitality, the beauty and purity ofthe s
North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . en years should be concentrated. Toconsolidate all the forces in the Statefor this purpose and to utilize themso that the largest and most benefi-cent results may follow is a proposalthat should command the heart andhope of all enlightened men and wo-men. I believe that every college shouldgive itself to the doing of the hardtasks of society, and that every edu-cated man should do his full stint ofwork. Attention ought also to be paidto the gentler side of southern civili-zation. It was the graciousness, thehospitality, the beauty and purity ofthe social life that was the best char-acteristic of the old order. The graceand charm of our elders in their bestestate have gone, and have been suc-ceeded by much that is crude andraw in our life. But the right kindof ^ucation will nourish the poiseand fineness of temper that form anessential part of every cultivated man. These are some of the ways inwhich a college may promote the in-society, if it is controlled byand a spirit of constructive. DR. WILLIAM PRESTON FEW. PRESIDENT OF TRINITY COLLEGE In solving the problems of the new industrialismeducation has a part to play; and I am not nowthinking of industrial education While every in-dividual ought to be trained with some referenceto the kind of life he is going to live, yet I for onedo not wish to see money-making set at the heartof the education of any considerable portion ofsouthern people. Greed is already perhaps ourcharacteristic national vice, and it does not heedthe fostering of education. While southern peo-ple are poor and ought to be encouraged by everyright method to get their share of the wealth andphysical well-being that have been more wide-spread in other parts of America, yet to educatea race of mere money-makers would hurry in anera of sordid materialism that would be a moredeadening blight to right and worthy living thanignorance and poverty have been. Let us havewealth and the training of wealth producers; b
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