The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-07-11

mn. You say that hundreds of those
h,@hly educated turn out nerveless and
US less. Yes, hut how much more their
deficit had no opportunities been afforded
them! The work will 60 on until thor
ough education will come within the
reach OF all the people, and ignorance
will be forever banished from the earth.
What is now called liberal education will
come 20 help labor in all departments
until chemistry and geology shall be har-
messed TO every pillow, and science will
prune and trim and enrich and redeem
every orchard; and mathematics and
natural philosophy will help in the con-
struction and management OF all machin-
cry, and those things that are considered
the luxuries of education will be the
common and universal possession of all
the people. So much has the standard OF
collegiate education been advanced that
those who used TO graduate with honors
from universities would not now be quail
fed TO enter some OF our modern colleges.
The speeches now made by the young men
at commandments are far superior to
those of our boyhood. The cold hum
drum about Greece and Homer has been
exchanged for harangues about the things
OF here and to-day. The sylphs, the
dryads, the naiads, the gods have gone
out OF business. LOngfellow turns out 10
be better poet than Homer and Bancroft
q better historian than Herodotus, and we
have fifty orators who can beat Demos
themes. The absurd halo has melted
fran the brow OF the ancients,
and the old philosophers could not
keep up with n class in our polytechnic or
Packer. / have more respect for the mod
erns than the ancients. Washington got
angry and pitched n negro servant out of
the window at Mt. Vernon, and in the
biography of Thomas jefferson we find
that the signing of the declaration of in
dependence was FASTENED by the fact
that next TO Independence hall. Philadel-
phia, was a livery stable, and that the
horse-siies left their perch ane day and
attacked the American congress, and bit
and stung the members so that those who
could not before get their courage up to
sign the tremendous document at the
intolerable annoyance of the flies
hastily penned their names so as TO
get out and away from the cutaneous
irritation. Collegiate education has been
TevolutioniZed, and the mind of the
student is not so stuffed with the baggage
OF Latin and Greek that he has no room
for practical everyday information. Look
at the graduate of this season and YOU will
find vast improvement. BY regatta and
base ball club, and gymnasium and military
drill, classes of healthy men are launched
from the dry-docks instead of those crazy
crafts that were loaded to the waters edge
with physical intirmities enough TO sink
them before they got out as far as quaran-
tine. In many OF the institutions a great
achievement has been made in the fact that
male and female education 90 side by side
Just as God intended it. He put the two
sexes beside each other in Eden He puts
them beside each other in the family
Why not side by side in colleges? This
land will not be what it ought to be until
woman has equal opportunity for thor
ough education with man. She has greater
responsibilities. Certainly she should not
have less opportunity. The mothers de-
eide the destiny Of nations. Men mean
and small-sOuled and inefficient had
mean and small-souled and inefficient
mothers; but good and grand and useful
men had mothers OF good heart and
stout sense. Mother wit or lack of
it decides almost everything. Gumption
Is an indispensable characteristic. Now,
gumption is inherited from the mother.
Higher style of education Tor women
means more gumptiOn. Is it possible that
anyone wants to know what gumption is
Then / will define it. Gumption is that
quality OF mind and heart by which
well, II you DO NOS know what 1t IS II Is
because your are lacking in gumptionl
Bring woman's education to the perfec-
ton OF mans and there will be more
ecuipoise of character and stronger equip
menJ Tor the generations following. Co
education is now proposed at Columbia
college. Co-education is going to be the
rallying cry for the universities through
out Christendom. We want more
female doctors. Naturally qualified by
the Lord with higher qualities
for the attendance upon the sick,
why should woman not have all possible
advantages of improving her especial fac
ulty iu that direction? Many OF us would
have been dead long ago had it not been
for maternal OF sisterly or wifely nursing.
II is time that the world stop deriding the
female medical colleges as every spring
they hand out the diplomas 10 their grad