Good Advice to Graduates.
The young men now leaving college who think that it would be beneath their dignity to engage in mechanical pursuits, and that the education which they have received is only intended to fit them for some one of the learned professions, ought to study the baccalaureate discourse delivered by Dr. Peabody, on Sunday last, before the graduates of Harvard. "We need," said he, "able and educated men in agriculture and manufacture, and there is not a department under those titles that may not be elevated, not alone in name, but in its permanent value as a factor in its well being by such recruits as our college might furnish." Students fresh from the university are too apt to forget that there is something practical in life to which their education is only an introduction, and that if it helps them in law, in medicine and in theology, it will also be an aid to them, in those other pursuits which are equally associated with national progress and prosperity. A few matter-of-fact sermons like Dr. Peabody delivered, just at the time when young men's minds and feelings are the most receptive, might lead them to indulge less in thoughts of being carried through life on flowery beds of ease, and more of following avocations which will in the end yield not only pleasure but profit.—Baltimore American.