The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-27
SENATOR INGALLS, OR ALTON.
A Searching and Eloquent Review Of
the Old and New Educational Sys-
TENS.

Inc address, OIL senator lhSdllS
delivered at the State University
at Lawrence, on the llth instant
was "a most scholarly and logical
exposition of it's subject title
'sThe higher education: it's rela-
ton to the politics and economy
of the State" We regret not be
ing able to spare room for more
than the closing portion, which
related directly to the proper
methods and objects of the educa-
tional system Of this age and local
ity:
/ place the University at til e
foundation of our system, regard
ing it not as an institution for the
specific instruction and discipline
of individuals alone, but rather as
the source from which are to en-
anate those ideas, purposes and
faiths which are to elevate the
tone and career of the State, the
fountain head from which all these
benificent streams are to flow; the
cause from which shall proceed the
effects which education can ac-
complish through the medium of
the college, the academy and the
school. We do not design the
University as a mental granary, an
intellectual gristmill to which an
tiquity is to bring its musty grists
to be ground into food for the
youth of Kansas; but rather as 4
broadcast sower OF seed, which
shall terminate in the receptive
mind of generations that are to
come bringing forth first the blade,
then the ear, and then the full corn
in the ear, and yielding perpetual
harvests of good deeds, better
lives and purer manhood to the
end of time.
To you, Mr.. Chancellor, gentle
men of the board of regents and
members of the faculty, is confid-
ed the unreasonable trust of car
rying into effect the intentions,
purposes and objects OF those who
conceived and founded this broad
system of education. Upon you
is imposed the duty of giving di-
rection to these great forces which
are to give character to the insti-
tutions, and to largely aid in
moulding the political and social
destiny of the State of Kansas. If
YOU design the establishment of a
wholesale commission here for the
importation of foreign methods,
acquisitions, which are to be ped
died out through the various de-
partmcnts to Juvenile consumers
it would be better for lis 10 co OPP.
crate and obtain our supplies al
first hands, and thus avoid the eX-
pense of brokerage and the danger
of adulteration.
But / believe you have no snch
purpose; that you are fully in ac-
cord with the most advanced sen
timent of the age; that you have
no sympathy with that mental de.
formity produced by the exercise
of one faculty or class of facutie:
to the exclusion or neglect of the
rest-that condition by which :
man becomes 4 mere merchant
mere preacher, mere lawyer, ;
mere mechanic, and nothing more
as if the capabilities of every oc
cupation, the possibility of the
peculiar enjOyments md advanta
ges of every ayocation, were no
conferred in every man.
| This is al age of specialities
We have doctors of the teeth, til,
eye and the ear; lawyers who de
vote themselves to real estate, t
criminal practice, to obtaining di
vorces without publicity; mer
chants who buy and sell single ar
ticles by the sample; clergymeI
who make speciality of gettin:
up revivals; statesmen who have
patent nostrum for curing all tn
ills to which the nation is heir
; There has been u tendency, arts
ing, perhaps, from the systemati
division of labor, to believe tina
variety of attainment is not con
, sistent with success; 4 dispositio
To assail the man of large all,
e widely distributed acquisition wit
the sneering proverb of slack c
, ali trades. good at none" rs
nature had constituted man
). Wholesale depot of force and ell
ergy, given him brain, muscle.
will, appetites, tastes, passions
which he is to retail through lii
by the petty exercise of a sing
junction of mind or body, benin
counter, a pulpit or a pillow,
: is as unnatural as if q person, b
the continuous employment of
single muscle, should dilate an
expand leg or an arm into sue
gigantic disproportion that all I'll
rest of his body should be su
. pended from it, IS the lean an
uneXercised ear depends from I'll
head.
This conventional notion of
literary man is q cadaverou
> STOPPING, shabbily dressed m
impractical person, with hard
= body enough to prevent an ind
J, cent exposure of his soul, ar
scarcely vitality enough to keC
his body from decomposition du
ing sleep, and save the expense
@. salt; and the idea of 4 laborer
that of a robust. brawny anims
Al