The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-07-08
MODERN EDUCATION.


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From Rerent Sermcn.I
| Our Institutions OF learning are In .
biaxe Of annual celebration Sir
baceaisufeaf sermons In one day and
%ixty Eve commencement speeches 10
another. and hardrcis Of yos:ax doc
tors coming forth from our Medical
coiieges. and hundreds Of young ztso-
Gates graduating from our Law inssitn-
tons. and hundreds Of yocng ministers
launched FROM our theological semi
nsries arouse the question: What are
va gofne 70 do with 30 uanyf The
question IL easily answered They
viii dccide for themselves upon their
iife-work. scores Of those educated
for physieians viii never stay doctors.
Scores OF those educated for lawyers
VIII not stay advocates. Scores Of
those educated for ministers sfIi not
stay eleryymen- Many OF them
launched BY their parents OF T'srfi.slzr
surroundings 20 do one thing, sfii do
another. They Will naturally drop
into that for which they are best
qualified.
But il not the supply greater than
demand7 No. The world. popuia-
Itssn il nightly increasing and we
want in all departments more hands
and hearts and heads The world can
never have surplus of eslacatss! men,
You say that hundreds Of those highly
| educated turn out nerveiess and use
fe~.. Yes, bat how much more their
deficit, had no opportunities been at
forded them, The wefk will go on
until thorough education will come
within the reach Of ali the people, and
ignorance win he forever banizhed
from the earth What IL now called
liberal education will come TO help
labor in all departments, until ehemis-
| try and geology shall he harnessei to
every pillow and science viii prliEe and
trim and enrich and redeem every
orchard, and mathematics and
natural philosophy win help in the
construction and management Of all
machinery. and those things that are
considered the Injuries Of education
will be the common and universal pos
session 81 all the people. so much has
the standard OF collegiate education
been advanced that those who used 70
graduate with honors from universities
would not now be qualified to enter
some of our modern colleges. The
speeches now made by the young men
nj commandments are far superior to
those OF our boyhood. The cold hum
drum about Greece and Homer has
been exchanged for harrangues about
the things Of here and to-day.
AscIrsrz AID xopEHys
The sylphs, the dryads, the naiad-,
the gods, have gone out OF business.
Longfellow turns ont to be better
poet than Homer, and Bancroft bet
ter historian than Herodotus, and we
have fifty orators who can beat De-
mosthenes. The absurd halo has
melted from the brow OF the ancients,
and the old philosophers could not
keep up with class In our Poiytcch-
ME or Packer. | have more respect
for the moderns than the ancients
Washington got angry and pitched
negro servant out of the window
at Mount Vernon, and In the
biography of Thomas Jefferson
we find that the signing OF the Deciar-
alton of Independence was fastened by
the fact that next TO Independence
Hall. Philadelphia, was livery stable,
and that the horse-iies left their perch
one day and attacked the American
Congress, and bit and stung the mem
bers so that those who could not before
get their courage up TO sign the
tremendous document, at the int0iera-
bic annoyance OF the flies hastily
penned their names so as to get out
and away from the cutaneous iFrita-
ton.
Collegiate education has been reyo-
lutionized. and the mind OF the stu
dent Il not 50 stuffed with the baggage
OF Latin and Greek that he has no
room for practical everyday informa-
ton. Look at the graduate of this
season and YOU will find vast improve
ment in physique. BY regatta and
baseball club and gymnasium aud mil
itary drill. classes Of healthy men are
launched from the drydocks instead
Of those crazy crafts that were loaded
10 the waters edge with physical
inlirmities enough to sink them
before they got out rs far
a. quarantine. In many OF the in
stitutions great achievement has
been made In the fact that male and
female education go side hy side
jnst as God intended il. He pat
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 II ought to he until woman has
equal opportunity for thorough educa-
tiou with man. She has greater re-
sponsibiiities. Certainly she should
not have less opportunity.
The mothers decide the destiny OF
nations. Men mean and small-souled
and inefficient had mean and small
soulcd 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.
waArS IN THE PROFESSIONS.
Naturally qualified hy the Lord with
higher qualities for attendance upon
the sick. why should woman not have
ali rosSible advantages OF improving
her special faculty in that direction
Many of us would have been dead
long ago had 1t not been for maternal
or sisterivpr wifcly nursing. Its time
that the world stop deriding the
female medical colleges, n every
snring they hand out their diplomas
10 their graduates. We want more
wonanly lawyers added to the eaia-
iorue ofthose who are already plead
| ing in the courts of this country. No
one surely could plead for woman
| life like woman. Our laws about
aowers, about divorce, about defense
arainst husbandly squandering oil
estates. about the holding OF property,
will never be what they ought 10 be
untll there are great nainher OF
womcn with seyerest legal acumen-
| able 90 shape statutes and confront
| courts on these questions.
| Yea. VIC want female preachers.
surely she who was last at the cross
| and first al the scpulchre ought to De
| sl,e Ia tell the gospel story with sur
| pris;ng effectiveness ne puilAs ne
| sireas!y had its Miss Smiley and IS
\ T4,crefia Mott, and the law IN the
| PRESBYTERIAN church which arrsigned
| a rlrrgyman a. criminal II he al
I.,urd \ woman TO preseh. has been
,,,,,iitira 10 let every Presbyterian do
a. ne thinks hest. The doors OF our
rolleers. now set ajsr TO let women
sroNd in. must be swung Wide open.
hail the improved condition OF fnsilsy
s.furstion a. revealed in the annual
,,au,mencent, and tbs improved pros
49,, for venanlv achievement, not.
/ -, .-afs. nj a celebrated