Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-08-19

AuO SP~' o 1OWD5 ~ WITTY W w."
6lled.snd the audisnce apparently delight
ed with PROT Eastmsn's entertainment He
annou' aced that the band. consisting of
twep .ty-five members, were in undress
uni form, and the musical portion OF the
en- tertainment would be secondary to the
lecture; but at the entertainment to be
given tonight the band would appear in
full uniform, and he thought they would
give such musical treat as was seldom
enjoyed in Rutland. The band then ap-
peared and gave the audience an overture
entitled, Der Normandie Auber.
Prof. Eastman prefaced his lecture by
saying that he had been solicited to
change his lecture, but proposed to speak
on business matters. And he wished to
say that the object of his tour through,
New England was not to advertise, but it
was a vacation at his college, and the
students came here to Vermont, as hum
dreds and thousands of others do,to inhale
the pure mountain air and gain the
strength necessary for them to resume
and continue their studies, rather than
90 to Long Branch or Saratoga. He was
disappointed with New England. He
had not visited it before, and supposed
it was old fogy, and lacked energy,
but he knew no place on this
continent where there was more life
and energy than he had witnessed on his
trip thus far through New England, in
North Adams, Springfield, and Rutland,
and the browning glory of the whole was
the civivility and hospitality of the
people.
He paid a high compliment to Mr.. Or
Wis, the proprietor of the Equinox House
at Manchester, and spoke in high
terms of that hotel and the Bardwell
House, where he. is now stopping. he
alluded to Rutland boy who had at
tended his College, and said he wanted
no better one than he was. The
speaker said he he'd hundreds of
times been asked from what state the
most enterprising, honest and reli.ble
boys came from to his college, and his an
swer always was from Vermont. He on
all occasions had made Vermont the ban
ner State from his experience with the
Young men that had been under his in
struction. He said he knew less of the
girls of Vermont, but in travelling through
the West he had, in the best society and
in the most select company, found that
very large proportion of the women that
ranked the highest were from Vermont.
He said he wished to say a word about
education. He had years ago stepped out
of the path of old educators and taken a
new one He did not do it for want OF
respect for his old schoolmasters, bu'
thought the necessities of the age reqnir-
ed il, also that the colleges taught too
much of distractions and 10 little OF busi-
ness, and he therefore established Bust
ness College. the first in the United States
He did not claim that it maintained a
3 high literary character, but it had bu-i'
ness in il, and taught business, and IN
-tructed young men To be workers. Also
E that brain work was of more value than
hand work, and said that there was to-
I little Of the former and quite enough o
the latter in this country.
He illustrated this point by saying tina
Z il he were To advertise for one hundred
9 men to sweep the streets OF Rutland, tw'
! hundred would apply for the place; bu
!. were he 10 advertise for one hundred mel
G to fill the most responsible positions
where cultivated brain was necessary
not one hundred could be found. Bran
labor paid better than hand labor, an
I illustrated it by supposing that TELEGRAPH
> line were to BIO established. First, tb
I man who dug the holes would get but tw
dollars a day the man who set the post
y would get four dollars; the one VIII
strings the wire would get ten dollars, th
: Superintendent would get his thousand
; Of dollars per year for his salary. am
: above him Prof. Morse, whose brain origi
/ mated telegraphing, got still higher pay
n And the same is true of other business
/ even farming The speaker alluded t
: one farm, the model farm of the county il
!. which it was located, where brain wor
:. Welded an income of one hundred dol
d lars per day, but just over the fence han
o work alone was used, and yielded only on
= dollar aud half day.
But brain work needed 10 be active
!, the boys workers and not idlers, to be q
work all the time and idle none. III
wanted fast young men, and not thos
who had too much of humility, VIII
would always take the back seat for flea
of doing wrong, and remarked that tha
:. was the greatest fault he ever had to fin
with boys sent TO him from Vernon
70 They were too modest, too retiring, an
y not anxious to take the lead and get upo
~ the front seats.
- He thought it necessary for men to pus
< along in the world, and, if possible, g
in ahead, where there is always plenty {
$ room for every man.
d. A picture was drawn Of the fast ma
NJ and the humility man." While the 70
ne mer, if travelling, would get into the c.
!. = and get the best seat, and at the stoppin
r. place for dinner get into the dining ha
u and get a good dinner, and feel kind
er towards the railroad and the hotel, II
u latter would be the last in the car an
possibly would have to stand up, an
when the train stopped for dinner h
humility" would make him wait till otl
10 ers had passed him and eaten up all II
IN good things, leaving only the crumbs #
ia him, and he would find fault with DO,
" hotel and railroad.
"a. He would teach that success is the be
b. word in the dictionary, and failure Il
Mt meanest. In business, as in. war, we r
Id joice at success and deplore a failur