Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-03-06

preted in accordance with the spirit of
the age. And in that unfailing light,
we interpret it. Education does not
mean today what it did yesterday. Once
education was a word of small meaning.
1t referred to the furnishing of the
mind with a multitude of facts and for
mulas.' Today it is the a~lmightiest word
the human tongue can utter. Volumes
and libraries do not suffice to tell what
it means.
First of all, education means freedom.
that dearest dream of every human soul.
lowered with the priceless inheritance
of the past and its boundless possibili-
ties of the future, man comes into the
world. But the glorious spirit that il
here imprisoned knows nanght of the
glorious universe without until educa-
ton
"OPENS the way
Whence the imprisoned srlendOr
may escape
A mind emancipated, a mind made
truly free, to seize the beauty of Gods
universe and make it all it's own; to
know the truth, which of itself. makes
free; to contemplate understandingly
the infinite wisdom, is the noblest work
of the educator. Education means
loyalty, the essence of patriotism. Loyal
ty to self; loyalty to humanity. The
life breath of q democracy like ours is
the intelligent loyalty of its citizens.
We must attain to that or surrender
the principle on which our government
rests. Education prepares for intelli-
gent and loyal citizenship. 1t should
prepare the mind to repel falsehood and
judge without prejudice. Such an edn-
cation will correct the criminal yilliiica-
ton of our best public men, so pre-
valent in this age; that national GRIM
inal tendency which vitiates our whole
system of practical politics and throws
into disrepute that most noble and
honorable of science.
Education means power. Ignorance
is helplessness. The hand trained to
skill, the tongue trained to speech, the
mind trained to logical reasoning, this
is power and this is education. Without
it the best born man may well shrink
from responsibility may not aspire to
eminence and honor.
Education means purity. 1t means
the training of the will. In every living
soul is an inheritent appreciation of the
good. If vice prevails, it is because the
will is weak. 1t is because the indivi-
to impulse. The school holds the stu
dent to the difficult and even unpleasant
task until it is completed and well done,
not for the sake of the immediate end,
but to reveal to him the supremacy of
his will to form the unyielding habit.
Vice is al Inheritance. All true men
believe in overcoming it. Education
trains the will to overcome and builds
the ideal life within the soul. Itmakes
the home the shrine of purity. The
father who creates it and preserves it
with his life; the mother who g~lorities it
with her love; the child who transfigures
it with Joy, makes up the cultured home.
Education has revealed the child's place
in nature. 1t has crowned w%omanhood
and established her throne.
Education means finally, the perfec-
ton of the nature of man. He who
believes that he has attained to it, is in
deed of narrow vision. Only in mans
supremest moments is it given to him to
catch %glimpses of a glorified self. Only
when TRANSPORTED by the emotion that
rises from the unknown, and sweeps the
soul into the infinite, can he comprehend
the possibilities of men. 1t is the SUBJ
FINEST generalization of modern science
that through the %uncounted ons the
creative power has wrought to evolve a
being of infinite possibilities and that
education is the final effort of the
creative wisdom to finish and perfect
his word.
There is no grander subject for human
effort than the work of the schoolmaster.
He deals with human nature; with that
which the creative energy has wrought
inetfably beautiful and marvellous. The
perfection of humanity is his work. 1t
is ''the dream of the poet, the lesson of
priest and prophet, the inspiration of
the artist" Then for his guidance . he
but look to the Infinite Power, the
Infinite Wisdom, and the Infinite Love.
In the evening, between the hours of
and $3.50 o'clock, a reception was held
in the university and all the friends Of
were invited.
The banquet rendered the governor
and members of the Legislature in the
evening at the Hotel Casteneda was at
tended by nearly 100 guests. Following
are the toasts and names Of the gentle
men responding: 1.-THE Governor of
New Mexico" Hon. E. l.. Bartlett;
The Legislature" Hon. John r. Guyer;
Mexico. and the Patriotism of Her
Major Maximiliano Luna;
Higher Education in New Mexico"
Professor c. l.. Herrick; The Common
Schools" Hon. r. P. Barnes; LAS We
gas as an Educational Center" Hon. O.
A. Larrazolo; woman" Colonel r. E.
rwitchell; extemporaneous education
speech, Hon. Manuel c. de Baca.
The Las Vegas Oratorio Society cre-
lted a genuine sensation and gave the
the impression that it is one Of
The most worthy institutions of the
Meadow City and the voices of excep-
.ional quality. The society is under the
of Professor J. Graham Nc
Nary, and the high degree Of proficien-
~ attained by the institution demon
,trates that he is a musician of rare
ability. The chorus was organized in
November, 1899, for the immediate pur-
pose of providing music for the educa-
ional association, which was to meet
n Las Vegas during the holidays. The
people of the city heartily re-
ponded to the effort and a chorus of so
,oices was formed. After a few weeks
f practice, the wish was manifested to
make the chorus a permanent matter,
nd in December last was organized as
Las Vegas Oratorio Society" Off
cred as follows: President, j. w. FOL
ars; vice president, T. B. McNair; Sec
etary, Miss Blanche Rothgeb; treas