Author: Lewis Institute

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-16

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9780332980805

Excerpt from Lewis Institute Bulletin: Alumni Number; July, 1907 The annual reunion of old students in May was largely a social occasion, and the various addresses were mostly reminiscent. There was chiefly a spirit of humor in these speeches, mingled with pride in each other's achievements. But there was also an occasional note of sober reflection, and now and then a touch of something we might call pathos if there were not also a certain pleasure in it. We have only one youth to live, and when it is past we appreciate that the friends and the studies of our youth count for considerably more than we thought. This fact came out especially in the address of Dr. Herrick. Years in the world inevitably bring us moments of reflection as to how far our education was what we needed. In the long run, probably few men, whatever their educational advantages, feel satisfied either with those advantages or with the use that they made of them. But experience in affairs enables a man to judge more impartially of the merits and defects of his schooling. The man in college has not the data by which to form an opinion on this matter, and his interest in it is theoretical and languid. Among the old students there was one who spoke to the present writer with a slight tone of regret that his first two years of college work were taken in a technical school instead of in a literary college. His surroundings, he thought, were a little too practical for one who did not intend to become an engineer. On the other hand, another student, now working in an Eastern college for his doctorate in one of the humanities, expressed an opposite opinion, and it is his point of View which lends occasion to the present article. Broadly speaking, Lewis Institute is committed to the ideal of prae tical education. But the word practical is one of the vaguest, and may be defined in a very narrow or a very broad sense. A paragraph or two may be in order concerning the sense in which it is used at Lewis, and may explain why the Institute offers a four-year college curriculum leading to the degree in mechanical engineering. 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 repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.