The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-11

Gated with view to their development
ever that may be.
Education for Farmer.
What can be done for our producers
tnat they may live on higher levels of
comfort and happiness, that they may
ed head and have more time to devote
to intellectual, moral and spiritual life
is the previous question which the edu-
GATORS OF the great producing states of
our country are called upon to answer
Inc four-year college course does not
pegln soon enough, nor continue long
enough to meet the requirements of our
day in this regard Teachers are wanted
IN primary and secondary schools and
IN postgraduate work in the university.
Ihey are wanted to do work that has
not been done in all the ages, the discov-
cry of truths underlying production and
their application to the farm
The most. useful and valuable educa-
tlonaI work IN all the world appealing to
the educator is that of the farmers of
the country. Pioneer work along this
flne Is waiting. The organization of
faculties to do the work; apparatus, lab
oratories, text books, illustrative ma
terlal from primary to post graduate and
beyond, where studies of specialties
pc broadened and where specialists must
be grouped to reach desired end and
meet the pressing demands of producers
great field of applied science, where the
grower seeks the help of the scholar. of
me The e4R2eiE dns 1T and of the observer
help in these directions"
Problems of Philippines.
President Schurman, of Cornell univer-
sity, spoke about Education in the
Philippines" He said I'm part:
".On the side of intellect and scholar
rival the Japanese, as well as in ma
terial civilization and the application Of
the sciences to industrial life, where
IN Japan already presents very Amer
The modern education will undoubt-
edly lead to an intellectual emancipation
scientific and material elements of
American civilization that are destined
to reproduce themselves In the Philip
PmGes Te1ppgn these VIII greatly modify
methods of production, transportation
and exchange. While economically and
industrially, the archipelago will take
on a new and much improved coun.
tenance, there is one other phase of
Philippine life, a deeper and more vital
phase-that is destined to be still more
tional work in the archipelago. If Amer
lean civilization differs from European,
not by the greater excellence of it's liter
airy and scientific productions, but by
the superior skill and inVentiVeneSs with
which is embodies laws and principles in
increasing mans economic efficiency, 1t
in another respect which cannot but
have momentous consequences when
transplanted to the Philippines. I re-
Ter f TO to :onr political political philosophy. which
european people, past or present We
glory, In our applied mechanics which
are destined to develop the physical re-
more glorious Is our political philosophy
which, is full of hope and promise for
the Phii1ppine nation and for every peo-
pie and race on the globe.
Filipino Republic assured.
''The kind Of people we are, the way
we govern ourselves, the history We
have made, and the political philosophy
we have given to the world, all conse-
and preachers Of liberty, democ aacSca and
national independence. And / believe
that an Independent Philippine republic
the most glorious contamination of our
pines.'
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait spoke ON
Higher Education and the Home" She
said, in part:
Within few days there have been
graduated from our colleges and univer-
sites four or five thousand young wom-
en-; Inc fact represents the fruit of a
half century of earnest and intelligent
agitation In behalf of the right of women
10 receive the higher education and the
duty of the public to provide means
whereby that education may be ACQUIRED
college women are now far too numerous
to be regarded as an innovation, and their
achievements have been too important to
consider them longer as an experiment:
yet there Is evidence in plenty that the
college woman, her present sphere and
her future destiny furnish a problem
which vexes the spirit Of man skeptfc.
The subtle ridicule which attended the
advance Of the college woman has given
way to. cordial approval. The conversion
OF intolerance into tolerance, of ridicuie
into applause is due to the fact that
these doubts have been forever quieted
by the indisputable demonstration of the
fallacy of the four chief claims of the
opposition:
1. Women are mentally capable of
grasping college education and a great