Note 590 — Chapter XII · Classical Studies.

The Forum, Jan. 1901, p. 584. However, in the Report delivered at the Commencement of Yale 1902, President Hadley could quote the following words of a leading employer of railroad labor: “When I want a college man, I want a man who knows that it is hard work to use books that are worth anything; and, as a preparation for railroad service, I would rather have a man who has used one hard book without liking it—a Greek dictionary if you please—than a man who thinks he knows all the experimental science and all the shop work which any school can give him, and has enjoyed it because it is easy.” The Yale Alumni Weekly, July 31, 1902, p. 433.—And the Electrical World said recently (October 25) in the article “The College and Business”: “In our profession such doubts are settled once for all by the great electrical companies in demanding a college education in those who cast their lot with them for technical training.”