The age-herald., 1897-08-15

Modern psychology divides the miad into thfes great powers. intellect. sensi- bilities and will: that is. the power to think and feel and do.
 Now, it is business of education to develop these powers into harmonious character of intellectual aud m5raf strength.
 The first power to be considered is the
 intellect It's faculties have their tine and order fo-' development, which cannot be :, ignored without impairng their strength.
 The first fanultysin the order of vel5p- ment is ssnse-perception which re- ceives it's knowledge of the outer world through the sehses of sight, hearing. etc.
 The next faculty in order is that of reproduction, or the power of the mind to hold and reproduce tlrs' knowledge which it has received through sense-percep- tion. Now, if ,sense- perception does it's work well that is, if ons observes exactly, the knowledga'held and reproduced will be correct and reliable On the other hand if. observation errs, the reproduce tion must be equally erroneous, fir memory can only reproduce the pictures it has t,receiyed., Most misreprssenta- tions are not intentional falsehoods. J tt fauits of ,caEelass, observation. Hence the importance of forming habitshof ,ob- serving exactly. ~sfl eE
 Imagination sits in her bower of fancy weaving faetsiof Knowledge into various combinations as a woman combines flow CTS in "a. boquet, while the faculty of judgment looks on and approves or dis approves of5thess, related combinations. If relation of facts is sanctioned by the judgment that rela tion becomes theory, to be exploded or.estahlished into a truth by futur5 investigation
 All the, intellectual faculties may be quickened and strengthened by proper exercises at the proper. time, but they are too often hopelessly ,dwarfed by would-be tea chers who know not the first principles of the philosophy of education, whose highest ideal is to cram the memory with a mass of heterogeneous knowledge. What wonder that such teaching sho i'd prove repulsive to the mind hungering for harmonious activity. It is like de- ve1oping the muscles of one arm to an abnormal degree, while .am the rest of the body is dwindling awdy for want of ex- ercise. G ..,..s.r>@,..5s
 Nor is intellectual development alone sufficient The growth of intellect is the growth of power, but unless counter poised by an equal growth of right m oral sentiment, it may as aptly become power for evil as for good.
 The student must not only be led 10 think right, but to feel right. also. If he thinks right and feels right, right actions will follow as natural result.
 Action often repeated becoms habits, and nine-tenths of mans nduct is due to habit. The importance of forming right habits is. therefore, apparent
 The argument that collegiate eluca- tion is undesirable is about as sens b e as the argument that one blowing will make as much corn as three.
 The student enters college just at that period when his character is most im- questionable, but is as yet without per- , manent form. Some of his habits are right and some wrong. The college takes this crude combination encourages the right habits and suppfesses the wrong ones, molds his mental and moral nature into a strong, true characterfi puts its own stamp-upon that character and gives him back to the world prepared for use- fulness -s-nd happiness
 F. M ROOF. .-.is -is,a.- Howard College.