The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-01-24

beautiful character and reallZe UnaC Suc
simply gave the rules of her own sue
cessful experience.
The general discussion that followed
was participated in by Mrs. z. I. Dun
ham and Mrs. M. Talcott.
After these had finished no amount
of coaxing or persuading could induce
the other women to open their mouths.
We mention this simply as refutation
of the old time SANDER, that woman
was never known to keep her mouth
shut. The prize essays on ''How Corn
Grows, y were read at this session. Miss
Jenny Rae received first and Tom and
John Walters second and third respect
| lively The essays were we'll written and
in every way worthy. 1t is peculiar,
however. the way which the girls have
of carrying off all the first prizes.
The afternoon session was opened
by defamation by Miss Lou Crandall
s'Thems my Sentiments Tew.'' 1t was
splendidly rendered and deserved the
hearty encore it received.
Prof w. C. VanNess was next on the
program with talk on the subject,
''Does a College Education Pay for
Farmers Girls and Boys" AS might
have been expected the professor took
the g.ouad that it did and he presented
a very able argument in support OF his
side of the case. He spoke of the
knowledge required for practical farm
| ing saying that it required higher de-
gree of intellectual development than
did the so called skilled labor of the
cities. The farmer needs to be some
thing of a physician SO that he may
care not only for his own family but
Tor his stock. He needs to be some
thing of an architect that his buildings
he located and built advantageously.
He must be something of a machinist,
an entomologist and botanist. He
must know little of everything The
college course meets its most decided
drawbacks in two cases, where people
consider that a college course should
make man know it all and where the
|graduate himself thinks he knows il
all. The chief value in a college course
is not so much in the information
gained as in the training given the
mind, first to observe accurately an(
second to reason correctly. Hasty ant
inaccurate observation and incorrec
reasoning are two great sources of los
to the farmer. Greek and Latin ar
not impracticable as many suppose
they are even better studies thai
mathematics to develope the prac.ica
reasoning faculties. Prof. Van Mes
: then gave numerous statistics to shoy
: 1.-THE comparative success of college AM
( lnon- college men. There is anothe
! benefit derived from college educa
g ton and that is the added enjoymen
' given to life by wider knowledge. &c
ucation is the key which opens up d.
lights unknown to the uninitiatet
His remarks were followed by heart
:, applause and then feature was adde
!. to the program by the reading of OF
of his inimitable poems by Mr.. J.
h Ainsworth. John is certainly the pc,
j laureate of Crawford county and n
4 apt verse in homeIy yankee dialect h;
conveyed many truths which ar
10 amount of oratory would have failed
y effect. The following is his poem:
Does A Education Pay?
IS have Listened with great p easure to our lear
(. ed friend today,
Cuz allies take an interest in whut he has
say;
a And know'd instid o. givin us sumthi
" mostly noise
II He would tell US we he'd ort tew edicate o
gals m boys.
- He's been talkin' on the question, Does edic
~ ton pay.
~ When we git it at kollej in proper kind
T. way?
And altho' never putt big diplomy in MY b
am reddy now to stand up hyer, m seco
whut he sed.
= We've got school at Denison-(there's othe
in our state)
IS Built up. III well equipped with ev'ry thing
lO edicate.
w 1t came a little late fer me, N am sorry, VIII
l thiak of whut rely am, m whut I'D ort
ben,
I'm heartily in favor Of the kollej of today
. It's a CROWN institution, m its hyer m go
to stay.
lie You kin fight it if you want to. it'll never
IA denied,
"a That the friends to edication is upon the 9th
side.
And myself is Numbered with 'em while I'm al
yit to see
n All the good they air dom in this land frc
1t sea to sea
n Becuz realize as how there's very many wa
=, In which the fact is emphasized that edicati
pays.
j, Don't miss opportunity to give the boys
chance
n An don't fergit m slight the gals; but let e
is all advance.
If Then, when you've done your dooty, and the
y comes restin' spell
. You may hyer the childerns verdict-.Fathe
mother,-all is well.'
HIM. p r.. G.. lallv lad IN fha III;