The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-06-12
TaE ANNUAL Address.
Wednesdays DAILY.

Last evening the large assembly room
of the Normal was filed at an early
hour to hear the annual address by DIR.
Edwards, late president of the Illinois
Normal University.
Miss McMichael began the evenings
entertainment by an artistIcally rendered
selection on the piano entitled Golden
Youth"
Judge Kellogg, in introducing the
speaker, said that sixteen years ago he
had had the pleasure of listening to the
first annual address OF the Kansas State
Normal delivered by him whom he had
the honor of presenting now a second
time to deliver the annual address OF the
State Normal.
Mr.. Edwards, a man somewhat above
the average height, with q face
evidently stamped by both
hard work and culture, a head
indicative of great brain power and COM
prehensiveness, coming forward, spoke
in substance As follows:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: never
come TO one of these western states but
what get my head turned, and especi-
ally 10 this true of Kansas. The growth
here is so rapid and the changes 30
sweeping a. TO surpass the imaginatIons
of the tales of the east"
Sixteen years ago l had the honor of
addressing an EmporIa audience on an
occasion like this. You had q Normal
building and town then but where are
they now? Your progress IL astonIsh-
A. ma mi s,kr "a
mortar, but also in the higher walks,
and let me preface my address by say
ing with the utmost goodwill and sim
cerlty-God bless this Normal school
and this city. ! will invite your atten-
ton 70 the subject
CHARACTER As RESULTING FkOM Gull
TURE''
This is the theme OF the hoar. As
both the words character and culture
are ordinarily used with considerable
latitude, We had best begin with def
nitions Of them. Character IS the sum
OF the qualities which distinguish one
man from another. It includes every
element that enters into ones make
I'D. The second word will be limited to
school training, the process Of acquiring
knowledge.
Educational machinery abounds
among us, school houses dot the land,
and schools have become the hobby Of
our age. What 10 to be the result of all
Ekass When view mans 8chieVem0ata
with steam, electricity and the magEi-
flying glass, am overwhelmed e. the
thought Of ms possibilities, But after
eli they are only instTuments-gOOd If
they do goOd-if they add TO the psrma-
nenf happiness or the moral sturdineas
Of man. This then must be the true test
Of Al school culfuFe
II You teach fact 10 CHILD you have
not enly added TO his knoWlpdge bat you
have thrilled him with your own
self, and this II by far the
most lasting and important OF the teach-
er's work. Culture is of itself most
energetic producer Of character. The
h0y Who 6nishes the work of . school
| from the primary to the college has &C
quired habits Of Industry. perseverance,
and sslE.control. The habits Of mind
demanded By study are eli ennoblipg,
hey foster manly resolution and sturdy
strength. They release the soul from the
slavery 81 .delusIous thss % readily take
hold On ignorant minds.
Co0sIder. for q moment, the qualities
which are developed by sustained habits
Of study. When Q young child begins
the study Of language the work % be
done comes upoo him In WhelmIog decd !;
the forms Of the letters, their arrange
ment into words, and their entirely ar
bgtary connection with idea present 3
great undertaking. The study compeis
high degree Of concentration. Each