The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-29
SECONDARY EOUCA non.

semhled in Raleigh call their work IN
the Academies of the State. IL seems
"a rs that the word secondary Is uh-
fortunate as well for that matter as the
word .primary." as education conceived
IN The conscientious and enlightened
sense. should doubtless be of equai re-
alive dignity at whatever point IL hiee'
the suhiect from childhood to ploma.
But of this no matter. Our purpose
here is rather to call attention to the
,ssociation Of Academies, an account
If whose proceedings is recorded III
another column.
Ar the opening session yesterday after
noon not the least impressive utterahce
WINS from the opening address of Presl-
dent Hugh Morson laying stress upon
the fact that education consisted. not OF
adding to one, but of bringing out Oh
one. This stimulating thought, it seems
TO ms. should be we'll driven home in the
schools.
President Morson in his interesting
and just remarks, touched geherahs
mon the place Of the Private Schools IN
the State. but the subject was treated
n detail and acutely by Professor M. A..
Holt, in the paper which he had pre-
pared in obedience to his assignment ON
the programme of proceedings.
His address Was broad and polished,
of large spirit anu at times eloquent.
His location Of the private schools be-
tween the public school and the college
was followed by the outlining of the
work as related to Colleges, to Business
and to life.
One could not reasonably have listen
ed to these addresses without catching
the spirit of heroism that must be inl
the life of teacher worthy to be OF theI
class now represented here. Professor
Holt dwelt with force upon the power
of these schools and the colleges TO help
one another and higher education, i'll
only the work Of preparation were tax, II
y
should be otherwise preoccupied, and
were left more to the Academy, whose
life mission was only such preparatory
work.
We need not praise the work Of the
men at the head of North Carolina 8
private schools. They have passed the,
point of praise Their, modest but thor
ough scholarship and their daily walk
are enough to refer to. To
know that they have their dis
tinct place in the growing of
good and strong men, one need Only to
go back from manhood to boyhood, when
he sat under a teacher who left HIN
colored with a co,oE. that does not fade
from heart or mind. That a distinct
personal care and intellectual interest
peryades the claSs-rComs of a scholar
principal, for scholarships sake-who
takes teaching as a life work and not
as a shift, how many recall.
In this connection, an editor, con-
spicuous for splendid force and style
once said to the writer that he would
be able to do his work more rapidly, il
it were not for the s.confounded injunc
tons" as to correct English form that
had been so lasfingly impressed upon
him by his careful master during his
academy days. lie had 10 pause and
obey while he wrote. 1t may be, more
over, only the minute distinctions which
the pupil is made to wrestle with in a
simple line Of Shakespeare, a thing
small in itself, but Of broad results that
find blossom in the treatment of what
ever task thereafter. Not small re-
suit OF small beginning. 1t is but what
Professor Morson spoke of as the
bringing out"
In that transition stage, from public
school to college, the lad in the academy
may find poise and accuracy, power to-
put the mind with love to mental work,
and with analysis and generalization
to mental problems. This may be
wrought out best, no doubt, by these
men who are heroically satisfied, if
without great increase, they may have
left the young spirit bound in the right
direction with unassuming feeling Of
strength with exalted certainty of the
royalty of knowledge.
We give the good men now assembled
a hearty welcome, and wish them Il hap
py and prosperous new year.
The protests by organized labor against
the appointment of Paxson as chairman
of the Interstate Commerce Commits /
sion will do no good. The men who
bought the election want an agent on
that commission. Mckinley will do
their bidding in this as in the appoint
ment Of McKenna to the Supreme court
bench, and everything else. AS a mat