Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-11-10
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION COURSES
FROM BLACK HILLS COLLEGE, /.

papers that the pastors or some other
leading men in the Black Hills, under
standing that good lecturers did not
seek the Hills, being SO much out of
the way, had joined efforts in raising
money enough to secure the services
of some lecturers for a short series Of
lectures OIL do not know what mat
tiers. Then / was rather surprised to
hear that the golden interests did not
absorb all the mental forces of man
here in the Hills and 1 should have
liked to congratulate the Hills on it's
advance in intellectual and moral cul-
ture. l saw the time coming when the
Hills, being no longer dependent upon
the brains and training of the eastern
states, would rightly be proud of lee
turers who have gained their edpoa-
ton in the institutions within their
boundaries. And l have found out by
researches and travels through Europe
, and America that the qualities of a
people are almost entirely originated
by the surroundings, especially by thu
| climate. / even made bold to infer
that the mountainous states of the
west with their more equal climate
will reach even u higher standard of
mankind in the future than the east
ern and central states, which on ac-
count of the firing extremes of their
climate, will have spent all the nervous
energy of their population before at
tanning the standard dreamed of and
longed for by their best politicians,
poets and preachers.
Now Mr.. Editor, as to the Hills.
Since my arrival l have not heard any
thing about those lectures that we're
intended to keep the Hills in touch
with the different branches of science
with the aid of their representatives
in the United States. However, be it
so or otherwise, depend upon the word
of a German pedagogue, the Hills has
today an institution that is able to
cope with the colleges of the eastern
plains Or v the old universities of
New England. But that is not the
question; ana it is not my way, like a
circus manager, to blow the trumpet.
What l want to say in these lines is
that the professors of Black Hills col
lege are able and willing to help keep
the Hills posted on the new and best
achievements of the various sciences
represented by them. If you will per-
NIT me to speak a word for myself, 1
studied from 1887 to 1880, theology,
philosophy, ~philology in Berlin, and
Halle Universities, have taught for ID
years the ancient and modern Ian
guages, have spoken the Italian, Span
ish, French languages, travelling in
their respective countries and teach
ing in South America. 1 have trav-
eled much during the past years to see
with my own eyes and to study politi-
cal, moral and religious phenomena
right from life. Now 1 come to the
States to study and to teach, and as 1
have some oratorical ability and q lik-
ing for the public platform, | should
be very glad to come in contact with
circles interested in the matters 9
toned below. and l consider lectures
on those matters given in the towns of
the Hills, as ii kind of University En-
tension Course, such as, for instance,
Mr.. Dewey, head professor of the phil
osophical department in the University
of Chicago, has held for the past year
in Hawaii. Thus churches aud lodges
may pick their choice from this incom-
plete list of matters:
A. Education:
4. History; n. Rousseau: b. Herbart;
C. P%estalozzi.
,. Self education: intellectual and
moral.
3. The ends of public education.
4. The school master and the rise of
the German nation.
8. Psychological foundations of edu.
cation.
b. Psychology:
l. The five senses.
y. The nature of soul.
3. Interruptions of consciousness
sleep, hallucinations, dreams, trance.
4. Free will.
G. History of Civilization:
l. South America and its foreigners
a prophesy to Cuban self-government
.. Decline of the Roman Empire, {
physiological question of reproduction
ID. Religion:
l. History of religion; "a. Buddha
b. Christ: C. Mohammed; d. Luther;
e. Bunyan and others.
, L. Philosophy:
, 1. History of philosophy.
,. Representatives of modernthough,
albanian Modern Thought; b.Schleier
macher and Modern Theology (Highel
Criticism); c. Tolstoi and Asceticism
= d. Darwin and Evolution; e. Lombrost
, and Modern CriminOlooy: {. Lasall