The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-31
SUMMER SCHOOL ENDED
SUCCESSFUL SESSION IN ST,
PAUL is CLOSED
Prof. J. G. Monaghan Delivers Last
Lecture Urging Needs of CONNER
eial Education, Not As Substitute
for, but As Supplemental to, CLASH
cal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
America,


With lecture by Prof J. c, Mon
aghan on the subject of Commercial
Education" the course of the Column
bian Catholic summer school was com
pleted last evening.
Before the lecture F. w. Foote,
chairman of the local executive com
m1ttee, briefly addressed those present.
expressing the satisfaction of the peo-
pie of st. Paul in the large attend
anee from outside the city, and the
nope that the next gathering of the
school would be at this city
Prof. Monaghan's address Of last
evening, like those which he had de-
iivered on the two evenings preceding,
was broadly instructive
He deprecated what he termed the
stupid prejudice in this country and in
England against the Latin races, who,
ne said, We're believed to be effete and
gone to pieces beyond hope of rescue
in matters of national Improvement
In REPUTATION of that charge he read
extensively from the essays of Ma
caulay to show the greatness of Italy
as an industrial and commercial pow
er In the fourteenth century, That
greatness, he said, would still have re-
manned to italy had it not been for
the lack of coal in that country, and
farther he declared that the present
supremacy of England among the ma
lions of Europe was due to her great
resources in the way of coal and iron.
IF you had coal in Minnesota" he
said, 'you would dominate the Union,
for you have the iron and the other
natural resources to make you the
greatest of all the states. but your ore
must be taken to other places to be
manufactured
Commercial Education Naadad
He did not wish, on behalf of the
commercial education, to make war
upon the classical accomplishments
he declared in a most convincing man
ner. He would give every boy and girl
IN this country classical education if
possible; but there were $4,000. 900
children who could not get such adj
vantageS, and for those he advocated
the commercial education. 1--WE must
give them education he said, cor
they will breed socialism or anarchy"
In general way he commended the
commercial educational systems of
Germany and France. In those coun-
triess he said, there was a militarism
and severity in the schools which
should not be adopted in this country,
but eliminating those features the sys-
TENS employed were admirable and
worthy of emulation.
Prof. Monaghan quoted Bismarck as
having said: 1.-THE nation with the
schools has the future" but that he
would like to amend so as to read:
'"The nation with the schools and the
resources has the future" America,
with her vast resources, should GER
tainly have unlimited possibilities in
the future, and what she now wanted
was the schools.
Endorses Scientific Method.
He briefly outlined the commercial
and industrial education as practiced
in Germany, calling attention to the
fact that drawing was, as he express
ed it. at the top, bottom, both sides
and in the middle of all education in
Germany. He strongly advocated the
scientific method whereby the black
smith was taught all about the
anatomy of the horses hoof, and the
farmer was taught thoroughly how the
grains and all of the other products
are grown from the seed.
When Prof. Monaghan had COM
pleted his lecture, Father Danehy,
president of the summer school, made
a few closing remarks thanking the
people of st. Paul for their interest in
the school and commencing the lee
turers for their able effort Thanks
were extended to Gov. Want SAINT, to
the st. Paul press and others for cour-
faSiaS shown.