The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-05-30

The chemical and physical
labOraties were also opened for in.
spector. In the former Il mum Der
of students conducted expert.
ments during the hours of the ex-
hibition; different gases were on
hand, and their properties were
shown to the visitors and modes
of preparation explained. Other
experiments of special interest
were made. The chemical lab
OratOry is a large room, with
four improved tables, having
over sixty lockers and provided
! with water and basins.
The experiments in the physi-
Cal laboratory were also of a
highly interesting nature, cover
ing some features of every part
OF the subject. Illustrations of
important principles in magnet
ism and electricity were given
by the instructor, and some of
the students, and variety of
pieces of apparatus made at the
institute were exhibited, among
them small electric motor.
The physical la boratory is equip
ped with six tables for students
use, designed especially for the
experiments in physics, and an
instructors table provided with
water and electricity. The sup
ply OF apparatus is adequate to
the requirements of the course.
V. l.. Roy Of Avoyelles parish,
graduate of the Louisiana
State University, and special
student of Tulane University
and of the University of Chicago,
directs the work in chemistry
and physics.
The remaining work of the
Industrial Institute is academic,
consisting of the regular second
airy school subjects. 1t is con-
Quoted by Miss Edith Garland
Dupre of Opelousas, graduate of
NewcOmb College: l.. w. Mayer
of OpelOusas, graduate of the
Cincinnati School of Phonogra-
ply, who also has charge of the
stenOgraphy course: Edmund
B. Smith of Nova Scotia, gra-
iuate of Harvard University,
md Miss Hugh D. McLaurin Of
graduate of the
louisiana State Normal School.
Miss McLaurin also has charge
II the gymnasium for girls, Civ
ng them a thorough course of 1
during the year-fol-
owing the Swedish system as .
aught by Miss Clara G.. Baer in ,
<ewcomb College, and in the I
honteagle Summer School. :
Mss b. f. Montgomery of Crow !
ay, graduate of the Louisiana |
state Normal School, and Of the
Conservatory, has the
york in music, which is making !
II excellent showing in all of the
ON mencement programmes.
1t i: impossible to give any adequate ac-
punt OF Dr. Aldermln's masterful address d
Eehalf OF the education of all the people: y
spoke without manuscript and with the b
oSt ready i1uency, eloquence, and magnet =,
N OF speech and voice. But the caus. for
hch he pleaded 50 strongly is too great {
I'd important for such an address t., 90 un- "
ported, at least in part ,r
lie began by expressing pleasure upon | RI
wing the opportunity to visit I.afave,te -
',ing that he ID great respect for com az
lnty and parish that would tax itself as b
IS one has in behalf of education and one ii
at would act so promptly and effectively o.
getting such able and trained suDerin. =,
'lent of schools as Mr. Alleman-whon y
regarded as one of the best parish superin- u
,dens in the State. He stated that he v,
'uld not argue that education is good h,
ng-everyone admits that it is good -
ny for his child; ana if it is good for one ~
MS child, 1t is good for his nciuhbor's X
I'd also. He purposed only to Join in
n those VINO were urging for still more
i better education than we already have; &c
1 the respect that he already felt towards
progressive educational spirit of this I'll
ton would be still futher enhanced when
proposed threemill parish tax for
oo!S Is carried next month. But Demo- DI
cles have to so0Iz/ some thing before it 81
nes to thenl-they have to be persuaded: -
| cannot compel a people to be educated
desPotis:n one can imagi millions of
pie set to school through the mere
ing of an order by some Gar: not so in p.
United States-the public. education
has to grow, slowly, surely, triumphant
l'ne was when the public school was
>ed upon as charity concern--onlyf for
pers--''free schools for the DOOR, which Juo
hit better have been cb,r,c,.r;,.I - cou
'or schools for the frec.' But now shat H.
on is almost entirely Loci. 30 .l | last
It OF Democracy is gradually expressing MO
+. The whole problem Of the ed ucation pet
ne people has been waiting upon the
Ids recognition of childhood The the
has just begun to take the prominent G
IN the worlds attention; those great
IT and literature in the past centuries
led never to have seen the little child -
Shakespeare saw none. But now it is
HOOD that is in the center of the stage:
men are seeing the Importance of the
ense possibilities lying dormant in the
ignorant, helpless babe-transforma- MOI
~ few years of right training into the "'''
norance, the speaker most powerfully
n