STUDENTS HEAR ADVICE FROM PRESIDENT LOWELL

In an address Saturday night in the dining hall of Lowell House before headmasters and 150 delegate students who were attending, the annual Preparatory Schools Conference held Friday, Saturday, and yesterday at Harvard, President Lowell spoke on the subject of preparation. Other speakers at the gathering were Professor J. L. Coolidge '95 and K. F. Mather.

"Preparation is one of the most important things in life," the President stated, and illustrated this by pointing out that the most important part of Lindberg's flight across the Atlantic was his careful supervision of the construction of his airplane.

Stresses Self-Education

"In our lives, the most important thing we can do is to cultivate the tool that we must work with, that is, out minds," President Lowell went on to say. "To be successful in life, we must have an excellent tool, our brain; and to perfect this brain we must educate it. And by education I do not mean coming to college for four years, for the college cannot educate us. A man must self educate himself. A school or college may drill facts into a student's mind, but what good will that do? All education is self education, and a man must come to college prepared to earn this education. It cannot be given him."

In speaking about education after college President Lowell stated, "No man's education ends with college. He should keep on striving to better himself, not so much for his own good as for the good of all. We should be worthwhile not alone to ourselves, but to all mankind," he said. "And that is the object of college, tutors, Houses, and all--to help a man to become a worthwhile individual in the world. All the college facilities can do is to help a man gain this end; his future lies in his own hands."

In his address on the House Plan. Professor Coolidge said. "In the old days, students at Harvard knew all the men in their class by name, and the rest of the college by sight at least. Today the only time you see the whole college together is at a game.

"The House Plan is trying to improve this situation. Just as the United States is divided into city, state, and country, so we have the club, the House and the college at Harvard."