ITEMS OF INTEREST March 9, 1907 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

President Roosevelt, in his address to college men at the Harvard Union, last week, said:—

"Like most other things of value, education is a good thing in so far as it is used aright; but if it is misused, or if it causes the owner to be so puffed up with pride as to make him mis-estimate the relative values of things, it becomes a harm and not a benefit. There are few things less desirable than the arid cultivation, the learning and refinement which lead merely to that intellectual conceit which makes a man in a democratic community like ours hold himself aloof from his fellows and pride himself upon the weakness which he mistakes for supercilious strength. Small is the use of those educated men who in after life meet no one but themselves, and gather in parlors to discuss wrong conditions which they do not understand, and to advocate remedies which have the prime defect of being unworkable. ...

"The educated man who seeks to console himself for his own lack of the robust qualities necessary to bring success in American politics by moaning over the degeneracy of the times instead of trying to better them, by railing at the men who do the actual work of political life instead of trying himself to do the work, is a poor creature, and, so far as his feeble powers avail, is a damage and not a help to the country."

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