The Topeka state journal., 1902-07-10

the university. They are wanted to do
work that has not been done in all the
ages, the discovery of truths underlying
and their application to the
farm.
1.-The most useful and valuable educa-
tional work in all the world appealing
to the educator is that of the farmers
of the country. Pioneer work along this
line is waiting. The organization o?
faculties to do the work; apparatus,
laboratories. text books, illustrative
material from primary to post graduate
and beyond, where studies of specialties
must be combined, where research must
beA broadened and where specialties
INST be grouped to reach desired end
and meet the pressing demands of pro
ducers-an these are waiting. This is
the great field of applied science, where
the grower seeks the help of the schol-
ar, of the experimenter and of the OBJ
server. The millions of farmers look to
you for help in these directions"
EDUCATION IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Dr.Jacob Schurman, president of Cor
nell university, and former member of
the Philippine commission, then made a
most interesting address on .Educatio
in the Philippines" in which he said in
part:
"On the side of intelligent scholarship,
the Filipinos may be expected to rival
the Japanese, as well as in
material civilization and the ap-
plication of the sciences to in
OuSCrldl lie, wherein Japan du0duy pre-
SentS a very American appearance.
''The modern education will undoubt-
edly lead to an intellectual emancipa-
ton Of the Filipinos. But 1t is not only
the scientific and material elements of
American civilization that are destined
to reproduce themselves in the Philip
pines, though these will greatly modify
and perhaps transform the existing
methods of production. transportation
and exchange While econon ical1y and
ri "a a will fa1r
a new and much improved countenance
there is one other phase of Philippine
life, deeper and more vital phase
that is destined to be still more pro-
found1y Influenced by all our educa-
tional work in the archipelago. II
American civilization differs from Euro
pean, not by the greater excellence OF
its literary and scientific productions,
but by the superior skill and inventive
ness with which it embodies laws and
principles in machinery that nature
operates, thus increasing mans eco
nomic efficiency, it also differs from
that older civilization in another re-
spect which cannot but have momentous
consequences when Tansplanted to the
Philippines. I refer to our political
philosophy, which is radically different
from that of any European people, past
or present. We glory in our applied
mechanics, which are destined to de-
velop the physical resources of the
Philippine islands, but far more serious
is our political philosophy which is full
of hope and promise for the Philippine
nation and for every people and race
ON the globe.
1.-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-
crate us Americans as the advocates
and preachers of liberty, Democracy
and national independence. And / be-
lieve that an independent Philippine re-
- \ Ill.,
be the most glorious consummation of
our great educational work in the Phil
ippines."
The last speaker was Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait of New York. She said
in part:
MRS. GAIT SPEAKS.
within few days there have been
graduated from our colleges and uni
verSities four or five thousand. young
women. The fact represents the fruit
of half century of earnest and intel
hgent agitation in behalf of the right of
women to receive the higher educa ton,
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 in
novation and their achievements have
been too important to consider them
longer as an experiment; yet there is
evidence in plenty that the college wo-
man, her present sphere and her future
destiny furnishes a problem which vex-
es the spirit of many a skeptic- The
subtle ridicule which attended the ad-
vent of the college woman has given
away to cordial approval The coz
version of Intolerance into tolerance. OF
ridicule into applause is due to the fact
that these doubts have been forever
quieted by the indisputable demonstra-
tion of the fallacy of the four CHIEF
claims of the opposition.
"1. Women are mentally capable OF
grasping college education, and 4
great any women are more capable
of doing SO than great many men.
g. Women are physically able tt
bear the continued strain of college
course, and many are far better able
to bear it than many men.
"3. The college woman has no more
lost the eternal womanly'' than ths
college man has lost the "etarna
manly" in the struggle for education
"A. College women, like college men
have not lost their ability and desire
ingness to obey the second law of ma
ture "the preservation of the species.
For fifty years the extension of ed
ucational privileges to women has beer
a concession to the plea for individual
rights of women; the new question was
been raised in defense of the rights OF
men. An impetus was undoubtedly
| given to the new line of thought when
| in 1898, Charles w. T. Harris, commits
sioner of education, made the prediction
that if women students at colleges
| should continue to increase as rapidly
in proportion to men students as they
had done in the past, it would not be
many years before there would be more
women than men in our colleges. This
fact evidently has frightened the con-
servative and aroused a gentle but firm
opposition to co-education. The fact
that girl graduates from our grammar
and high schools are considerably great
er in number than boys, and the even
more significant fact that men in ou1
nation now carry larger percent Of
illiteracy than women, may have added
to the general alarm of conservatives
ITO my mind coeducation will suffer
little from the present furry of opposi
ton. The system is founded on claims
too broad, sound and progressive.
Invite the college woman to share il
the work of the world according to hel
inclinations and her abilities, recogniz
ing her as a positive factor of society
as in the character of her endowment
we may safely conclude nature intended
her to be. Then endow her with tfli
ballot that she may have authority Il
force her opinions and to do the worl
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