Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-10-30

for man? Language should be taught in
living power, the best that its literature con-
talns. Make our business men, not SO much
expert grammarians perhaps, as men with
some degree of sound literary taste. The
sincere workers and scholars and artists
ought not to, be strangers to each other Their
one possible common ground is English liter
allure.
have made almost vain inquiry for an
old school book which forty-fve years ago
was in extensive use, Colburn's mental arith-
metic. Its problems, solved without slate or
pencil, "done in the head,'' covered nearly
all the field of arithmetic in numbers of the
first power and fractions The speaker here
impressively spoke of the thorough work re-
quired in these examples" and added: 1.-THE
written arithmetic, Greenleafs National, and
why have you abandoned it, was dealt with
after the same general manner" The old
country school house method of analysis left
an impress which the toll and MOL of after
years could not efface. The principles in
volved were at stake, not mere drudgery in
committing rules to memory. Large growth
is a question of good roots and thorough
The character and method of the
child's early drill is highly important.
Not SO much is wide range required, but a
| deep grounding and grasp of what is &C.
| quired. The speaker now devoted some
| space to the duties of teachers as guardians
| tegrity, truth, honor and justice, or their op-
| posites, inhere in all you teach and in the
methods you create" Great and important
is character and the moulding of character
| The speaker now gave some very wholesome
admonitions against the undue elevation Of
money getting and the thirst for gold, which
precipitates headlong race for wealth re-
| gardless too often of honor of God. He i'm
pressed the fact that patient industry and
| slow, honest gains laid the foundation OF
| wealth that brought no sting, no reproach,
| no remorse. In concluding the speaker ut
| tered these words of wisdom and good coun-
| sci.
| And the second is that separating move
| ment going on everywhere throughout socie-
| ty by which men ranging themselves in
classes according to their material interests
| in offensive and defensive atti-
| tudes. Society is being cloven into many
| fragments. It is fast becoming, in a much
more than superficial sense, an agglomera-
ton of hostile camps, each representing
some great interest and seeking its develop
ment at the expense of al lothers, each highly
organized with great. display of power, each
demanding and able to enforce abject obedl-
ence from its followers, each seeking to
dominate and even to reconstruct the body
polite and social upon its own narrow lines.
Capitalists seek to appropriate and control
that which can be appropriated and control
=
lators and judges; and they are cursed as
monopolists and corrupt by the men who,
not having money, set themselves to appro-
pirate and control that which does not re-
quire money for its appropriation and con-
troll; who form union and capture an in
dustry and exclude apprentices to keep down
the numbers who divide the wages fund, and
decree starvation to the 'sscab" who will not
join their ranks against the employers of la
Dor and skill, and give up the advantage of
to the unbenefcial use of idle, ignorant NAL
contents; who buy legislators and judges by
their votes instead of by money, corrupting
themselves as well by selling their own fran
chise.
distresses Woe and death will be the por-
His habitatien must perforce be a desert.
Personal virtues he may possess, but not the
cohesiveness that makes a nation. He must
dwell in tents and apart.
In your present care and training are the
coming men who must enter upon this situa-
ton to do the worlds increasing work and
face it's mighty and pressing problems,
either to solve them or to
be crushed by them. Who
do more than you to give them that single
ness Of heart and sober mindedness, that rev.
erent obedience to truth, that simplicity and
sincerity of thought and of purpose, that
right judgment, without which their failure
is foredoomed? And who does not see that
more than ever before they need to be men
of the clearest intelligence aud the soundest
integrity; men of unfawed mental power and
of r,a5o