The herald., 1895-02-09
MORNING ADDRESSES.

\ ,Lf-ht and visfoB, aud Character and
Ethics In the Sch ool
No less interesting than the addresses
which hsvs preceded them during the
institute were those given by Professor
Dickinson aud Principal E. E. Gates at
the morning session of yesterday.
Professor Dickinson had for q subject
Light and Vision, and into the learned
description OF the science of light he
wove some grand thoughts for the
teacher of the light OF knowledge, while
running through his explanation of the
phenomena of human vision were
threads OF truth concerning the mental
vision.
"We wact to learn to apply the pEin-
ciples of ethics t' the problem of the
science OF finance, OF political economy,
and we want to learn to conform ethi VI
relations to the question OF making a
livir,," the speaker said. The good
old way Of making q living is gone for-
ever.
81 am amazed be, ond measure as go
up and down this state to see how many
persons are dependent upon their neigh
bors for o living; the young men who
are barely earning "a living; the young
women who are living from hand to
! mouth, saving no energies and no time
for the nobler things of life. Wealth
multiplied and accumulated, and the
problem with che multitude has deep
enen,
"Thr, fourthr of the best hand wor k
is done by imported laborers from
France and Italy and the countries OF
Europe. And the trades unions have
abolished the apprentice. so that now
We must now have the school. where
men and women are made competent to
earn living.
"There isn's half the women in San
Franciscor or Oakland, or Philadelphia,
nv native city, who can make a good
I cap of coffee. The arts OF house ping,
the simple details of the home. are de-
spised by seven-eighths of the females.
They study the whyness of the thus and
the whstness OF the how, but when it
comes down to the home and the ap.
plication OF these principles TO tn Q
home life they are lost.
II believe that in our schools the boy
and girl shall be thought the use of
the saw and the hammer, the girl shall
be taught the way to bake potato and
boil piece of meat.
! II do think that the proper study OF
science W our students develops a fasa
s.diouspess that will not rest short OK
accuracy. The use OF the instruments
of precinion mean fidelity, mean truth.
It cu,eivstes a habit of mind of saying
Whist you mean and meaning what YOU
eay.
"Lient has been defined ss a certain
energy in nature by means of which we
proceed. We have later learned that
light is a subjective phenomenon. Ger.
tain motions OF to-and-froness in it,
certain forms of energy in the original
motion, establish the forms OF life. The
universe is q silent universe. and sound
has no existence except in the expert
ence. 1t is a subjective phenomenon.
Light goes sEraighter than an arrow
e. ito mark and teaches us lesson of
reCtitude. And yet it can be diverted.
"John Ruskin has said that the
grsndest thing in human life is to see
truth and to help others to sea it.
Teachers. wish that we could rise
TO profound sense of the worth of our
calling. The teacher may say concern
ing his or her work-no man taketh
THIS upon him except he is called of
God. And il you haven't some MEASURE
of that sense verify believe that you
will be happier if you will vscate and
20 10 blacksmithing or cooking and let
others who have the light take your
places.
I "Light is not friend to pessimism
light 10 sown for the righteous, the hope.