Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-22

implanting of this taste for good read
ing-however un~systematic or eccentric
that schooling may have been-nas
achieved q main end of elementary ed
ucation, and that schooling which does
not succeed in implanting his per-
manent taste for good reading, has
failed"
He also made a reference to the eX-
tremes to which child study, or peda-
gogic psychology has been carried, anu
the satires that have been written upon
the SUBJECT. He quoted from Life a lit
tie sketch about 100 children, each
of whom was handed a red-hot iron.
Twenty-Five boys and eighteen girls
said "ouch,' and d certain number said
"ooch." OF the girls who said ouch
seven had pug noses and n "toed in,
and of the boys who said ''ooch" thir-
teen were corn of foreign ~parentage.
The results of these Investigations are
to be put into a book and published LII
a practical science series.
In connection with the cooperation
of the library with the school Mr..
Crunden quoted Professor Munster
berg, and took sides with him in hold
ing that the essentials of good teach
ing are sound scholarship, broad culture
and personal enthusiasm: further, that
the greatest aid to the teacher is the
power Of good literature. Then. in a
lighter vein, he made a reference to
Sir Anthony Absolute's statement that
a circulating library was an ever
green tree of diabolical knowledge
He drew q distinction between the kind
Sir Anthony referred to and the pub
lie library of today, and said that ne
had u%nconsciously paid a high tribute
to the constant influence of the public
library, which is, truly, an ever green
tree and, like the orange, blossoms and
bears fruit turnout the entire year.
In his words about the public library
as n source OF inspiration Professor
Crunden said that this was true not
only to the child. but t. grown people
as well. He spoke of the inspiring pow
err OF the great book, saying that moth
ing in the world has such in%spirational
value. He quoted from r. r. Bowker's
The Uses of Life" saying: "The di-
~rection Of an g often comes to IT
from the closets OF It's students. or
from the graves, which seem to have
sealed their speech. Thence the book,
the still small voice which speaks from
silence unto silence, carries thought
into the wills of men. This is the real
use OF the book, that it kindles a flame
that, from its light other lights may be
lighted forever
In his peroration, in rhetorical terms,
Professor Crunden paid a tribute to the
lasting qualities of the book. He spoke
OF the city of Troy, as being gone, but
the Had remains: the ark of the cove-
|nant was lost, but the sacred writings
of the Jews we have today. .'The book
will never fail. 1t is the most lasting
thing man has ever made. His build
;ngs will crumble into dust, but the
book will live forever"
Then. IN a few words, he closed by
|dedicating the Marshalltown Public
Library to the highest uses of man,
in the name of the board of trustees.
the city of Marshalltown, and Andrew
Carnegie, giving 1t to the people OF
Marshalltown, and their heirs, for all
time to nm
Mr.. Crunden held the closest atten-
ton of his audience thruout his adj
dress. His familiarity with both edu-
cational work and the practical library.
made his subject III on which he
could speak with knowledge OF long
"America,'' suns by the audience, led