Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-20
|NACLEANS ADDRESS
Lectures Upon Our Uncommon Com.
mon School system-A Strong
Address.
University as Much q Part Of Com.
mon School system as a. High
School.
Reception by the Twentieth Cen.
fury Club Given at the Home
Of Miss WATSON.

The Presbyterian church was COM
fortably filled last night by an atten-
tive audience assembled to hear and
see President MacI.ean, the new execu-
tive OF the State University, the center
section of seats rserved for members of
the Twertieth Century Club only being
partially filled. The lecture upon Our
Uncommon Common school system
proved an intellectual treat. 1t was
greatly enjoyed by all present. Presi-
dent MacLean made decided hit
and VIII leave Marshalltown with many
more friends for his university. A tall
powerful man, of Very gentle and pol
ished as we'll as commanding appear
ance, an intense speaker, he held the
undivided attention of his audience and
when he had finished he had not only
given the people OF Marshalltown many
new IDEAS as TO the American common
school system, but he had convinced
them tnat the regents of the. State Uni
verslty had selected the right man for
the place. Perhaps not of so purely an
intellectual type as some college fpresi-
dents. he presents charming person
ality and commands Others in such a
graceful manner and exhibits capaci-
ty for such ali-around good sense that
it is little wonder that in a few months
he has become the idol of some eleven
hundred young men at the State Uni
versity of Iowa.
In behalf Of the Twentieth Century
Club. which had invited the speaker to
Marshailtown. Mrs. F. b. Garyin as
president introduced him, saying:
Fellow Citizens of Marshalltown,
and We Members os the Twentieth Gem
fury Club: am conscious of the honor
and esteem it a privilege to present to
You tonight as tho speaker OF the even
| ing one upon whom are turned the eyes
and hopes of this great commonwealth.
The citizens of Iowa. recognizing few
peers and no superiors in intellectual
attachments, have long been proud Of
their common school system have
gloried in its accomplishments. but
have long realized their neglect of that
integral part, that capstone of our edu-
cational pyramid, the State University.
and realizing this neglect they have de-
ttermined to suffer it to exist no more.
Looking around they have searched the
nations quarries of intellectual and
| managerial ability for a man to lead
them. They have found him. He is
| here tonight to talk upon the subject to
| which he has consecrated his life.
4 take great pleasure introducing Pres-
! dent MacLean. of the State Universi-
1 ty of Iowa Mrs. Garvin did not say
! this exactly for she suffered a slight
lapse of memory and like the noted
4 Chauncey Depew on a similar occasion
was compelled to excuse herself by say
/ ing it would be all right in tomorrow
papers. What she did say was a few
Well chosen words 20 the effect that
President MacIean would now address
the meeting However, we have donf
our best for her-Edl
/ President MacI.ean took UP his sub
i ject in a systematic, methodical man
ner, erecting before his audience q
rhetorical structure much as an artisan
would erect building. He compared
our educational system to house with
the basement story down next to thf
4 laundry and Kitchen, the Fundamental
and commonplace affairs of life, as this
grammar departments; the ground
floor from which so many walk right
| out into life. as the high school; the
/ second floor or sleeping apartments
! where one is wont TO stop for a period
4 of rest amid the mad struggle fol
4 existence and reyel in pleasant dreams
4 from which he must emerge vastly ben
Gifted, as the college. and designating
the graduate departments as the cupola
| of the house, comparatively few in
number. but from which the conse-
Grated ones are looking out, discover
ing and searching after truth. He con-
4 sidered the common school system as
\ incomplete without any one depart
! ment and characterized the state coli
illsge and university just as much a par
1 of the common school system as the
thigh school or district school. Tht
4 state supports it and it is open to ths
common people.
i The speaker began his address by
dwelling briefly upon the uncommon
4 ness of our common school system
: that it was as Il dream of the milleni
1 am 70 learned men of Europe ard wa:
an institution purely American. the Xix,
4 of which had never been known before
He spoke of the attempt the state wa.
4 making to educate every young man
d and woman within its borders and how
4 1t was even abou: to stretch forth it!
I strong arm OF Law to snatch many chill
4 dren from the clutches of oyer-indul
/ gent or Indifferent parents and compe
4 them to attend school.
4 Commenting briefly on the great ad
a vance that had been made in the meth
DDS of instruction in the lower branche.
J. of our common school system MIR. Mac
4 Lean showed how important and far
reaching had been the influence of mel
and women trained in the SECOND
stories and cupolas of our educationa
house. How directly the benefits o
these upper departments We're brough
4 home to the general public. He looked
upon the high school as only a training
and university, and urged the peop
not to let their children stop at higl
s school education. He said that tn
world had So advanced in the matter o
learning that 1t had become almost
necessity for a young man or woma,
to have q college education to have
fair start in a life of competition wit
others. Having grown to recognize tn
|Iprincipie Of the living wage, that ever
man is entitled to wage sufficient /
support life. he said that the living ed
ucation was just as important and jus
|. as much a right
! He spoke of the great religious infiu