The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-13

the preparatory school on the evidences
| Of careful training the pupils now in
his department had received in their
earlier courses. As an instance. he
stated that ninety-two per cent. of the
pupils now studying classics in the
high school are good spoilers.
TALK ON THE CLASSICS.
The subject itself Beauty and It'll
| ity Of the Classics" was an indication
of the utility part of the question, each
OF the three principal words being de-
| rived from the Latin. HI asked the
| question What will become of the
| world when all its people are educat-
| ed2' The answer he said was this:
| The more men thrown out of employ
ment the more avenues Of employment
in new directions will be opened up"
As proof self-evident of the beauty
and utility of the classics the speaker
! cited the fact that Homer has more
! readers now than when he wrote. It
| Is hardly possible to understand thor
oughly our own English grammar, he
! said, without a comparison with the
grammar of some foreign language.
| That so many English words are taken
! from foreign models, principally given
as an example of the advantage of the
| classics. and then again. it was pointed
out, in Latin and Greek are to be found
| the best illustrations of figures of
| speech, the most powerful features Of
| spoken and unwritten language, and
| the particular great force i'm oratory.
1t is not for the mere knowledge of
Latin and Greek that the classics are
| pursued. a. r. Stewart read page of
| the llliad every day as a mental drill
Latin and Greek are the fountainhead
Of elegance in literature Modern lit
! erature could not be what it is but for
the masters of Greece and Rome.
Teachers We're urged to make the
fullest use of the classics paying par
ticular attention to the presentation Of
models for emulation selected from the
great store with which the classics
abound.
quartette composed Of Professors
stone, Hughes Edwards and Owens,
gave an entertaining. If not edifying,
imitation OF a quartette singing songs,
concluding an encore number with an
original anti-Spanish stanza which
touched off a big mine Of patriotic en-
thusiasm.
The good impression DIR. Sprague
made at the morning session was at
tested in an emphatic way by the
ovation which marked his reappear-
ance for the closing address of the
afternoon. His subject was Early In
struction in English Literature" The
lecture was a pleasant variance from
the average institute didactic for it was
as much entertainment as it was in
structiOn.
Choice maXims. he said, should also
be given the pupil to learn and dis
played on the walls of the school room.
In referring to the Battle Hymn of
the Republic" being conspicuouslv
printed in yesterdays Tribuna Dr.
Sprague commended the idea and said
that the inspiring poem should be men,
orlzed by every American.
The most largely attended session Of
the institute thus far was that of last
evening, when the popular DR.. Brum-
paugh gave an account of his obser-
va'ions in the Teche country. the dis
tlnctly Creole portion of Louisiana.
surrounding Bayou Teche. DR.. Brum-
baugh spent a number of years in the
employ of the state Of Louisiana. as
institute conductor, and devoted a
large part of his time to the studv of
THIS truly novel and interesting nor
tInn OF the unions most peculiar state,
IT any Of his hearers had accented
George w. Cables description of the
Creole, DR.. Rrumbaugh bade fhat il be
cast away 1t was not true. If was
egregiously wrong. There is no Color
ed or Indian blood in the Creo,o's
VEINS. He is the cleanest, most nura
sweetest, noblest man of the Soutb
he is fusion of Spanish and French
put the process OF fusion was so long
ago that the race is now a distinct
one as Is attested by its peculiarities.
BEAUTIFUL GIRLS.
Next to the Scranton girl. as the
SvHial uoctoi put 1t. the Creole plant
ei uauEhter is the most beautiful
t,ea'ure on earth. Her training is of
'"e SlFlctest character. She will not
CoiIN'rSe win man except in the pres
vn'e Oh her mother or some other
Pi"Per chaperone, and before she will
slNe het consent in marriage the suitor
Tor her hand must first needs interpiew
Nv, w., ohlN her parents but her priest.
men an engagement of marN.ge is
maui II Is puplcly announced from the !
aI'ar on the next succeeding Sunday |
anu woe petlde the man who breaks !
~" pHShteu troth. 1t means not only |
'na' SocletS VIII ostraciZe him and his !
OWN Iamlly disown him, but his church |
VIII eNcommunicate him, which rigid |
CuS'oHi' the lecturer emphatically de- |
'iared' should obtain everywhere.
TO the Creole girls life, however, at |
acnes grim tragedy More than half
d them die of consumption before they |
are tWenty-one, and as they marry
usually at thirteen there is the sad !
consequence OF many very young or
phaned children.
speaking OF the poor school facilities
u the state Of Louisiana, DR.. Brum-
I'd ush stated that with One-fOurth the
population of Pennsylvania. Louisiana
spends 100000 annually in school an
Droprlatlons as against $4,000, 600 eX
pended by Pennsylvania. The school
erm in many places is six weeks. ana
Is only more extended where private
permit. Up to a few years
lso Shreveport the second largest cltv
u the state, did not own cents worth
II public school property "and could
lot raise enough, from state taxation
o build sidewalk in front of a dog
,ennel."
The lecturers description Of the slow
'oing south, as ne expressed it in his
Ourney thither from his home in bust
Ing Pennsylvania, was indeed an en-
ertainlng bit Of lecturing if the poor
esolated south did suffer from the |
octor's penchant for amplfcation.
II was altogether a treat in the lec-