El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-16
PRESIDENT WINSTON.
He Delivers all Interesting Address in
the Court Room Last Night.

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He Delivers all Interesting Address in
| the Court Room Last Night.
President George 7. Winston, of
| the Univ ersity of Texas, who is visit
| ing in town, called at the Central
| school building yesterday, and was
gratitied to find the high standard of
| work sbeing obtained there. He spoke
| to the pupils cOngratulaling ,them on
| their progress.
At night, the district court room was
| crowded with school children and
| teachers and the local friends of educa-
ton to hear the visitor speak on the
subject of higher educa' ion. The ad-
dress'was nearly one ard half hours
long fbut The subject matter was SO iu-
teresting and instructive that but few
Withdrew ere the evening was over.
President Winston began by COM
plimenting e. Paso on the high stan
dard of her schools, and stating how
many cities there we e of the same size
that did not b. gin to have equal edu-
| cational facilities. He said, there is
| out one thing, possibly two, needed to
| make the Ell Paso High school equal to
anything ia Texas. If another grade
could be added, making the number of
CRATES twelve Instead of eie even, and an
additional teacher provided, thus al
lowing Others to rest and gather
strength for further work, this High
schOOl would rank as high as any in
the country. This is the only city in
Texas that ma ntains a Kindergarte N
as it does. Educ alton can not begin
too soon. Many of Us do not consider
what true education is. Education is
to train, strepgt then and d. velOps the
mental faculties. 1t makes strong
every faculty God has give n man. The
memory Is trained in the schools.
There never was a succe: sful business
man WHO had rot a good memory.
There wee grea Athenians who knew
tue names of thirty thousand of their
fellow citizsrs. I. Ba bbingtOn Macau-
ley, the great iiterateur, could repeat
every word in the Bible aud the En-
glieh took of common prayec. A U niOn
Pacific contractor could rem ember the
price he paid for every one of the
Thousand AID one articles he bought
for use in construction: and also the
price he got for them in disposing of
them after wards at second hand.
Crack, Latin, Spanish, the languages
| generally, train the memory, and when
| it is made strong, it can be proftably
used in many directions. You may
forget your Latin, but the benefit of
the training remains. Athletics ,raiu a
| man to have a cool head, and give him
courage, which stand instead any
where, and do for the ply sica what in
tellectual drill does for the mental
faculties.
Education has also technical, q
professional value. Education is the
languages and mathematics do cot by
any means unfit a man for anything, as
some imagine The spo aker here cit
ed the case of an educated man and
| an ignorant man landing at the same
tune on foreign shore, and demon
strated how the educated man would
find proftab' e work and advance quick
er than the ignorant man. There was
Alexander T. Stewart who graduated
from Dublin unworthy, and on Ia ndiug
in this county started school, for at
that time he had not discovered that
God had given him u commercial sense
q commercial instinct. Now Stewart
never had the early business training
so many consider as absolute inc is
Pc 1sable to commercial success, and
yet after he discovered that he had a
sterling business sense, and went into
business, he became the most success
full business man on the face of the
globe during his time. All of Stewart
faculties were better trained than
those of any other man who had been
in commercial .life up to that time.
If boy has strong m chanical in
Ii
ne may possibly fit himself By his gen.
eral powers of observation to earn 81 to
So per day. But, give that same boy
IN education. make an architect of
him, Tor instance, and in one day he
with his brain will create more wealth
than same person could create during
his lifetime wit out educational ad-
var tages. There is no great success
today without thorough and complete
training. There will be greater de-
mands on the next generation than on
the present one, and the condit ons of
life will be harder to meet.
A boy may gain an education behind
the plOw handles, and this same boy
boys similarly placed will learn no.
thing. What grit will accomplish in
securing sn education, was illustrated
in the case of the young man who
graduated at the head of his class at
the HOus: on high school last summer,
and who was also chosen president of
his class. This young man had
paid his way through the
school by acting as janitor and doing
hard work, and row at the age Of 23 he
was studyi"g in the university prepare
tory to taking a law course afterwards !
The young man Is working his way
through college as he did through the |!
high school, for he has got the charac.
ter. the energy and the brains TO &C.
complish anything. Some people inn
aglne there is more or less moral
danger in going to college. But in an
institution like the Texas university .
where there are forty or fifty young
men with sufficient moral stamina to
work their way through college, there
ia not much dapOer Of m orol cop q mi ~