The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-05-26
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President g. Stanley Hall of Johns
Hopkins university has only one fault in
the world, but that is a very bad one.
He does not know how to write English.
That is to say, perhaps he knows how,
but scorns to do it. In a paper in The
Forum on the training of young people
he meanders into the by paths of many
languages Greek, Latin, French and
German-occasionally forgetting himself
and dipping into English, as Mr.. Wegg
dropped into poetry. If President q.
Stanley Hall were writing for Sanskrit,
Greek or Latin magazine, it would be
quite proper for him to write in these
tongues, but he processes to be instruct
ing plain American people on how to
deal with their children in the perilous
years from Is to 25, whep the youth are
passing through what Mr.. Hall calls
their "ephcbic" stage.
His essay is a plea for the slow and
careful development of the young at this
age. They should be trained to active
athletic exercise and outdoor life, above
all not letting them be hurried, but en-
couraging them to unfold naturally, in
nocently and healthfully, as flower un-
folds. Even religious experiences of the
violent sort should be avoided. "To pre-
scribe strong set Of feelings at this age
may introvert attention on physical
states, increase passional activities, issue
In sort of self Irritation or abnormal
self consciousness or lapse to the supreme
selfshness of incipient and often unsus-
pected hysteria."
Then President Hall quotes something
from the Aristotelian katharsis. We are
sure the katharsis Ia all right. Mr.. Hall
does not believe in making tabula rase
of all settled consensus; neither does he
want young men led toward paranoias,
and he says they should not be made So
lipsistic. With all our heart, Mr.. Hall.
It's the worst thing in the world to make
young man solipsistic and lead him to-
ward paranoias. There is only one thing
worse than that, and it is to pretend to
write paper for popular magazine
that is intended to instruct the people
and then insult the people by filling the
paper with obscure and foreign words,
some of which not even Websters Die
tionary gives the meaning of. You
ought to be ashamed of yourself, G.
Stanley Hall. You ought for fact. If
you cannot write English, 1t were better
not to write at all.
Coaching Parties.
The Suburban Coaching club of New
York city has revived delightful remi-
niscences of one kind Of really good old
time-the time of stage coaching. If one
wants to go to another city, so to 100
miles away, on business, he jumps upon
flying train and is at his destination
quickly. He transacts his business and
is at home In time for dinner. But when
people are not in hurry, when they
want days rest and would scent the
odor of orchards and meadows and
breathe ozone untainted with dust and
coal smoke, then they would enjoy above
all things the ride In the stagecoach.
There is the stop for relays of horses, the
few minutes rest to look at objects of in
terest-historic and otherwise grand
halt for dinner at q country inn, with
fresh milk, eggs, poultry, berries and
vegetables.
Recreation of this kind the inhabitants
of cities need. Life to most of them Is
one prolonged hustle, and when they go
away for little recreation it is still
hustle and nothing else to catch trains, to
be on time. at meals and to secure rooms
at hotels. But the old fashioned stage
coach, with its horn and spanking horses,
gliding gently through green lanes under
skies unobscured by coal smoke, stop
ping when its occupants will and never
hurrying-above all, never hurrying;
There are sweet rest and health in the
thought. The Suburban Coaching club
of New York has established regular
stage line to Philadelphia for just such
recreation. The distance is 80 miles, and
it is covered in 12 hours. Let us have
excursion stage lines in all our cities.