The Portland daily press., 1895-07-10

less worth. 1 should like every boy and
girl to come to college and have the cost
at it's lowest and to have the rich boys
and girls that come to college pay all that
it does cost.
Another method, through which the
college can help American life, is through
more vital teachings and teachers.
Scholarship is very precious thing but
scholarship is not the most precious thing
Scholarship has too often been used as a
single test as to the worth of a teacher
Scholarship should always be demanded
of teacher but there is a thing more
precious than scholarship and that is. life !;
character And the college should de-
mand character of the highest tyne and
life of the most vital force to be had from
each one who attempts to lead the youth
into paths of love, and light and life.
One OF the great Americans of our time
is great mistake to make technical
scholarship the chief test or rather the
only test in the appointment of professors
and teachers. We need in our college
more men and women of vigorous and
pronounced Christian haracter. There
ought to be far more influence exercised
by instructors over the lives of students.
| Young men and women often have their
minds poisoned by scepticism and in
| diHerentiSm, at a period when a director
and more powerful Christian influence
in college might have drawn their lives
| Christward. -
l think also that the college should en-
phaslze alertness to present things, a
sense of vital consciousness of relationship
of the present. These are conditions that
should inhere in the college The word
academic should not mean academic. 1t
ought to mean vital, forcible, personal.
Let the college have or not have noble
buildings, but let it be vital. Let the
students adopt or refuse adopting some
academic customs or costumes, but let
the college be vital Let the college be
in the city with all the magnificent and
manifold life of the metropolis beating
about it and beating into it, or let the
college be in the country with all the
benedictions and benefcences of nature
speaking silently unto the receptive mind
and quiet heart, but let the college be
vital. Let the college be splendid and
magnificent in equipment and it's labra
tories commensurate with all the life of
nature, let its libraries be the accumu a.
tion of the wisdom of man, but let the
college be vital itself in teacher and stu
dent. Let the college have a glorious
past, past of great movements like Ok
ford, past of great men like Cambridge,
| or let the college be unknown; but let
the college now be vital in every part of
it's being. Life, Life, Life. That let the
college stand for that let the college be.
PRESIDENT B. L. WHITMAN
| followed, receiving a most cordial well
come. He said that he was not present
in his own right and until he arrived at
the hall he did not know in whose shoes
he was expected to rattle about.
| President Whitman said that there was
o6r TIo old
going out. The pedagogical error of the
past was limitation. Not life, but
phase of life was studied.
Three features should be considered in
education The end the teachers task !;
and the ways and means for accomplish
ment
The education of today aims to give to
| the man command of himself and his
resources. A great part of learning is un-
learning. The real foundation of life is
laid on broken beliefs not on broken
faiths, however
| The ancients made care of the body
great feature of their life Modern edu-
cation must to a certain extent follow
| the ancient plan in order to make the
body the efficient and obedient servant
of the soul. True education means also
the destruction of the old standards and
| the contraction of new and advanced
ones. 1t must mean also the correction
of spiritual disorders. No system of ed
ucation should attempt to proselyte to
any particular creed; but all education
should build up the spiritual nature.
| The well rounded, educated man is for
SERVICE and he should be free, self di-
recting man, competent to deal intelli-
gently with the affairs of life.
| The teachers task in building up this
well rounded character, is in opening
the world of fact, and the building of
it over into the world of truth; in the
caring for the..discipline of the pupil, the
cultivation of order and industry in him !;
in the imparting of inspiration to the
student, that he may have power as we'll
as knowledge The true teacher is a
scientific shepherd of souls. (Applause }
Passing to the topic of ways and means
President Whitman said that the proper
maximum of college teaching was 80
hours a week. The remaining time
should be used in advancement for the
benefit of the pupils, for the shepherding
of their souls. A text book 10 years
old is out of date. A lecture is old that
is not rewritten every year. The true
teacher not only points the way, but leads
the way. The moulding power of the
teacher on the character of the pupils is
is incalculable. The great teacher is the
great-souled man.
| President Whitman closed with an
eloquent panegyric of the teachers high
office
The evenings exercises closed with the
singing by the Temple quartette, ga
Summer Night" by Dudley Buck.
Prof. Scripture of Yale, who lectures
this evening is one of the leading autho-
rites of the country in child study, and
with perhaps one exception, has done more
in experiment psychology than any
American educator. His lecture will be
profusely illustrated.
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