The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-02
A Week in Education.

and paper high. The Hon. JAMES CAMP
BELL of Harrisburg, Chief Factory In
spector for Pennsylvania, told the Penn
sylvania Congress of Mothers that many
a good woman has been spoiled by a
school education and that the edu-
Gated girl often comes home ashamed
of her father and mother and believing
that no man is good enough to be her
husband" Thus the sage CAMPBELL.
Now girl who is ashamed of her father
and mother is not educated. Many a
good woman has been spoiled, we dare
say. by want of a school education. As
for the young miss who losses her head
at men folks, give her little time Not
all misses can be as wise as the Chief
will not endure. Is not the world full
| Of doting mothers, educated, uneducated
and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is worse
who think nobody is half good enough
| for" their daughters? Still, marrying
and giving in marriage go on and there
is always Congress of Mothers in session
somewhere. Most of the talking in those
bodies seems to be done by men, Men
ought to be kept out. They are not eli
gible and their chatter, whether pseudo-
scientific or not, about children and child
! study and so on profiteth not. May the
LORD pity the child that is brought up
according to the Visdom of men!
Agent ERWIN, in Charge Of the Oakland,
Otto and Ponca reservations. frowns at
all the little Indian boys educated at nom
reservation schools. He says that the
non-reservationists won't work. Why
should they work, if they can help it?
Something must be allowed for the in
fluence of heredity. An Indian who
works degrades himself. Work is for
squaws. Hunting, fishing and gambling
are for men, high-minded men, the no.
bles Of the tepee. Agent ERWIN weeps
because many Of the [lndianl people
are addicted to drink" Fortunately no
white people are so addicted. We sus-
pect the reservation boarding schools
are jealous of the better-known Indian
schools outside and their pupils. The
'leven little Indians from Carlisle, for
example. They will be able to make
living. Agent ERWIN says the gradu-
ates Of the non-reservaton schools
manage to live on their annuities and
lease money and buy horses, buggies,
&C., on credit and borrow money from
the banks with very little prospect of
| ever being able to pay their debts.
Well, there's no need to borrow trouble
about young men who are smarter than
the banks.
Note and approve a speech made in
the Middlesex County Teachers conven-
ton, Boston, by Mr. A. X. WHITCoMB,
Superintendent of Schools in Lowell.
He defended the old-time teacher
Look back In your own experience and see II you
canno, recall brave, strong men. and earnest faith
full, loving women, who'helped make you VIVA, you
are. 1t Is hardly modest to stand up here and say
we made ourselves. In spite OF our parents and the
bad teachers we had Is It not true that we may
have inherited a little and learned the rest from
| some teacher OF the old SCHOOL,, Will no, deny
that there are better teachers to-day than in the
past; / believe that We are growing all the time:
but is not a little the result of our predecessors
work. Just as we hope that better teachers In the
future will be results OF our work."
Shake hands, Mr.. WHITCoMB! Person-
ally we prefer the old-school teachers to
the new. They didn't pretend to teach as
many things as this enlightened age re-
quires. They were devoid of many
sciences and sciolisms. Pity their ig-
norance, but remember they had the
root of the matter in them. The children
they taught learned the three RS. so
justly despised by the accomplished
instructors of to-day.
Last week we had to record the tri-
umph of " segregation at DR.. HARPER s
University of Chicago. The sexes are
segregated but the girls continue to
show that intellectual superiority so
offensive to the boys. Miss MARION
TALBOT, Dean of Women offered a
prize of $40 for" the best musical cheer. y
The prize has been won by Miss AMY
ELIZABETH FLOYD. a young woman of
distinguished beauty as her portrait in
the Chicago Tribune shows, but hence
forth and forever to be famous as the
inventor of the first segregated college
yell" That magical dark mystery fol-
lows here, but without the glory of its
musical setting;
Rah, Rah. Rah. Rah Rah. Rah. Chica go, Chi.
ca.goi
Hur.rah for the Varsity of Chi ca. got"
This is supplementary to, and not
substitute for, the grand old hymn,
"chi-ca got Chl-ca got Chi cat go gol
Go-Chi-ca Goch.cai
| Go.Chi-ca. goN"
Cheered by beauty's YELL how can DR..
HARPER's athletes fail to score, segrega-
ton or no segregation?
One more word from the field of cdu-
cation. DR.. ELISHA BENJAMIN ANDREWS,
Chancellor of the University of Nebraska,
has had moment of dependency. His
team beat the University of Minnesota
team at football. In the joy Of victory
DR.. ANDREws's young men seized and
smashed a street car. That waS the
devils work. said the Chancellor: Il
fear football enthusiasm and the devil
sometimes go hand in hand" Is this the
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