The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-03-22
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sAruRD4r. March L..


SATURDAY, March H.
The societies were so crowded last
night, that II was with difficulty that
the audience was seated. The exercises
were perhaps little above tie average,
yet there Is too much work done with
out the necessary preparation.
In the Litcrsti after music by the or
chestra. recitation BE- Miss Barcalow.
an extemporaneous speech by Mr.. Leh-
man, q recitation by Jessie 10y aud an
essay By Miss Davidson; the audience
listened to the address, @Lherati"
DR.. CordIey being called forward, de-
livered an address, without notes, in his
well known terse. earnest manner. The
following is brief synopsis:
II am surprised at your large at
tendance. l had expected few stu.
dents, gathered for the purpose of lite
rary culture, but instead / find large
audience of students and citizens, which
speaks well for the character OF The
work you are doing. l was glad TO get
the Invitation from your committee,
more thai / might look into your fsces
and read there your inclinations than that
l might be able to tell you anything
that knew.
sometimes think that the lyeeum
to which l belonged while at college
did me more good than the regular
course. 1t gave US culture We could
get nowhere else. Besides our practice
in speaking and essay writing we got
criticisms, which, though often severe,
were usually just. 1t makes me tremble
yet to think Of some of them, but they
built Us up.
Lawyers, teachers, editors and most
all other professions get criticisms
without reserve, but we ministers usu-
ally get nothing but praise; nothing
bat fiattery. never got, but once. what
considered just criticism-that was
by newspaper in Lawrence. II SAID
some things which my friends told me
were too severe; things which were not
complimentary, but believed them to
be true and / cut out the article and
saved it, Your criticisms given here
ought to help you as much as your
study and recitations.
When your committee mentioned the
name of your society to me it struck me
as being significant. The literati are
the men of letters; the broad, well-cul-
tured, scholarly men. Your name may
seem too high, but you must aim high.
The man who aims at the sun may not
hit it, but he will shoot higher than if
he shot at the earth.
Literati! The scholars of the country f!
1t is the rank teachers ought 10 occupy,
and you ought TO have the same name
early that you VIII get later. George
Washington had the same name when
he made the mistake with his little
hatchet as when he was the successful
general; Abraham Lincoln had The
same name when he worked down the
river on flatboat as when he was presi-
dent. Scholarship is broader than any
professor. There are men who are
maryels i'll their way, who do wonders
In their special line of business but they
are almost worthless in anywhere else.
OF Rufus Choate, it was said, thieves
inquired after his health before they
stole, for if he was i'll they would be
deprived of his ripe scholarship in their
defense" He not only knew law but he
was conyersant with all lines ofthought.
%a6. a.
man, yet be has edited translation of
Homer which is acknowledged to be of
rare excellence.
We had professor at college who
could tell US anything about chemistry,
was we'll verssd in law, a scholar in
medicine, yet his special branch
was mental science. We learned more
from him than all the rest.
You are going TO be teachers. You
have come here to learn how to teach.
Many think that is all you ought to do ;
that you are wasting your time when
writing essays or studying classics. But
you will have great responsibility put
upon you. Your influence will be in
calculable. You will be considered
almost lnfallible by your pupils. You
must. therefore, be broad. Be literati.
Be broad In work Be broad in aim.
Be broad in culture.
After recess there was music, an ad-
dress by Eli Snyder and the debate
While the paper was being read by Miss
Dolphin and Mr.. ]. D. Culver the din
ner bell was rung, which was signal to
adjourn in fifteen minutes, We ad-
joIrned.
Your correspondent did not visit the
Lyceum, but is told they had very il
teresting program. Rev. Macl:ay gave
them an excellent address on "Thor
oughness" We are sorry that we missed
il, as 1t was undoabtedly good.
PIE. DAGoGUE.