The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-07-08
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF SCHOOL TEACHERS
A Busy Day With a Bewildering
Mass Of Complex Essays

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John Henry Barrows, president Of OBJ
erlin College.
Much interest centers in the open
meeting to be held this evening when
Archbishop Ireland will address the
delegates on the subject Of the infiu-
ence and responsibility of the teacher
Characteristics Of the Professional
Man.
Address OF r,of. Thurston, of Cor
nell, before department of higher edu-
cation,
characteristics of the professional
man, suited to his vocation, may he
summarized as. first Of all, a good
mind, cultivated and stored with such
information as may be acquired by the
best education practically obtainable
Mathematics for the engineer, logic
for the man OF law and physiology for
the medical man, may be taken in the
literal course in preference to other
subjects and may be carried further
than would otherwise be chosen. Those
literatures, sciences and liberal arts
which are particularly valuable to the
professional man may be assigned a
larger part in the general education
than would be given them by the pure
ly literary scnolar The characterist-
les thus acquired, in brief, should be
htowledge, culture. wisdom and spec
ial fitness.
Thus, in summary, the most suit
able and fortunate, tse most complete
ana generous education, as Milton
would call It, for the life of a man
choosing any profession, would seem
to be that which in his youth secures
the discovery of this type of man, this
freak of nature, as Huxley calls it,
the provision of a good general edu-
cation, broadening and strengthening
and conferrlng culture as well ss
learning, yet devoting necessary care
t. the cultivation of his special talent
from the moment that il is discovered,
throughout later life He must be ready
70 learn all that he can of his chosen
work in its preparatory stage and must
secure all those accessory knowledge
and that general culture now essential
70 highest success in the profession,
as well as for satisfaction of aspiration
Gnd e the ccncience in later .'ay
when, a time for leisure having come,
it is sought to profit by the accumula-
tions due to business success
The ideal preparation for profes-
sional life AMI work thus often may
begin at the earliest moment, in child
hood, when, the parents having detect
ed the budding genius, it becomes pos
sible to combine the general culture
of the young soul with that careful and
wise promotion OF the latent powers in
art, in science, in invention and con
struction, in fine recognition of the
equities or in that even higher spir-
itual genius for promotion of highest
moral life which constitutes in either
field a professional education Mean
time the whole structure. foundation
and all lies upon base the failure cr
which, or the yielding of which in any
slightest degree, means failure of the
man or proportionally, his falling
short Of success in his profession and
in his whole scheme of life, technical
and other perhaps moral and spiritual
as well as professional The soul OF
the sage has only maximum value and
fIuitfulness when rnhabitating the
body Of the athlete
The preQuisites OF success. pro
fes ssionally or as a soul among souls,
are thus careful preservation Of the in.
diyidual body as well as mind, wise
training Of the body and the brain.
discreet provision OF physical. and in
tellectual and moral education. 20 that
the product may be made a sage's soul
in an athlete body the soul, wise.
just, learned cultured professionally
efficient the body perfect and the
whole thus made man Of noblest
type"
Prof DeSter's Address.
Address OF Prof Dexter, of Univers.
ity Of Illinois, before department OF
higher education
The problem for discussion is the
relative merits OF admitting candidates
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