The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1899-07-06
SALEM SUMMER SCHOOLS
Prof. KrspS and Co. Supt. Jones Open
on Their Second Week.
Importance Of :he Study Of English Ian.
guage and Literature Prot Gar
lands School.

The second week Of Prof. Kraps and
Co. Supt. Jones's Summer school opened
Wednesday with fair attendance. The
first Of the series of lectures on Language
and literature-the Anglo-Saxon period
was presented with following
PLEA FOR ENGLISH.
/ would inspire you TO become life
students Of our glorious literature and
language--the vehicle for carrying for.
ward the mighty conquests Of civiliza.
tion, material, intellectual and spiritual
upon which the English speaking race
has entered. The world needs the truth
expressed by good writer's. There is
such thing as science Of expression, ac.
QUESTION Of culture, development of all
the faculties God has given us--it is the
ultimate duty we owe ourselves and
society.
Without broad, well-grounded
knowledge Of the masterpieces OF litera-
ture-without literary culture, there is
no we'll balanced intellectual or
spiritual development possible.
Without an enthusiasm for culture
founded upon an acquaintance with
some great literature--and English is
now the worlds greatest--there is no
arousng Of the imaginative faculties,
the creative instinct,--no writer's, poets,
orators, musicians, or artists in the true
sense
The study Of English Literature takes
us more deeply into the history of the
race than the study Of history itself, be-
cause literature includes the thought.
the morality, the spiritual power Of the
race itself Literature is the survival of
the enduring products OF the best brain
power of the race-that has been sifted
by the ages, that has been subjected TO
the tests of time, the critical faculty of
cultivated minds. In literature the
chaffshas been blown away, the trash de-
stroycd, we have only the genuine metal
remaining and being constantly refined.
BY culture we become citizens not of
one state or nation, but OF the whole
world. We feel at home in any com.
pany. The individual assumes a har-
monious relation 10 all society, becomes
independent Of tho accidents of birth,
fortune and environment. The purpose
OF culture must be ITO form judicious
readers, intelligent writer's, we'll
equipped speakers; TO minister 10
breadth OF thought and benefcence of
feeling; to strengthen faith and kindle
hope 10 multiply our sense of the true.
the pure and the beautiful"
Without study of the fundamental
facts OF English Literature, without ap-
prcciating our connection through lit.
erature with English history, ancient
and modern, Ia nations literature is
the outcome of its whole life"- no man
can understand the American mind, or
estimate rightly the tendencies of the
race. Strictly speaking we have no
American language, no American litera-
ture. A century of progress and de-
velopment has not perceptibly dis
turbed or even influenced the wonderful
amalgamation OF race and speech we
may call the English speaking world.
No one can study our literature with
out having a higher conception of the
destiny Of the English speaking race.
II has been maintained in series of
articles in the Atlantic Monthly the past
year that the study Of English aud Eng
lish literature, II properly pursued, will
yield, at n far less cost OF time and effort.
greater culture than can be got from
Greek and Latin. II is proven in these
articles by able scholars that the more
thorough study OF English will give us
iuster perception Of the life we lead in
the world "here" and "now."
The unusual richness of the English
peculiarly fits II TO be an instrument for
the most thorough culture and that the
study OF the English language and liter
ature must be more closely identified is
the thought OF the best educators. The
study Of our language and literature has
peeh held 10 De the exclusive privilege
OF literary persons, whereas Mark II.
liddell says in the July Atlantic that
most men and women who can read and |
think are capable of literary apprecia-
uon," meaning from the rootwori-to |
set proper value ON, 10 esteem rightly. |
Our knowledge of language is only inn.
proved and perfected, as il was first ac-
qulred, by putting ourselves in the
position of learners, by following the
example of those who speak better than
We do. five are really in earnest 10
complete the mastery Of any language
We should begin with our mother
tongue. While the encyclopedia Eng
llsh language contains upwards Of