Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-04-02
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
(F'rom the Barre Tele gram

Professor Dewey OF the Boston lnsU
tute of Technology in speaking before
the convention of educators and business
rhen at Ann Arhor, Mich, deplored tie
lack of fitness shown by college grad
yates for the hard realities of life. Pro-
fessor Ripley of Harvard University
urged the enforcement of business meth
DDS of exacting attention to study all
through n university students course 1t
is very plain that the college of to-day
does not keep pace with the progress of
the age. Professor Dewey has discovered
the effect Of n college education of to-day.
1t is for someone else TO discover the
cause. The passing of che older genera
ton of instructors will probably be fol-
lowed by a radical change in college Sys-
tens for the Improvement of the practi-
cal side of the students education.
SCARCITY OF FARM lABORERS.
CFrom the Barre Times)
Here is a farmer some where in Vermont
who asks if the famine stricken people of
Sweden and Finland cannot be brought to
his section to help him in his farm work.
The farmer says, though owning a dairy
| farm of only a hundred acres haze been
| obliged to work a hundred hours week
| for Il year past" What a reVelatiO that
| Vermont farmer would he to Julian
| Ralph were the latter in a position to
comprehend the situation. The farmer
saws there is work enough for thousands
OF Swedes and Firms near him with pos
sibility of owning their own homes soon.
| What the farmer says is in part true.
! There Is big scarcity of farm laborers
| in the state. caused by Il drifting, In the
past few years. towards the larger CEN
| tiers of population
EXPERT OPINION CALLED FOR.
(From the st. Johnsbury Caledonan)
The constituents OF Congressman Has
| lSins have received their annual quota OF
seeds and in the collection is a new va
rioty called corn salad Some of the re-
cipients Of the collection are at loss tc
know whether this is for external applica-
ton or "A peculiar product of the soil that
only grows in license States. Perhaps
Vermont's agricultural expert, Brother
Tinkham of Pomfret will enlighten us
YOU NEED TO KNOW.
O'rom the Morrsvillo News and Citizen.)
While eating your Uneeda biscuit. it
| would be pleasant to remember that
Everybody else is eating them too, for the
company that makes them sold $4,000, T
of their products last year, which is -,
10000 more than the previous year They
are now building two steel factories, one
in New York city and one in Chicago. il
but Uneeda biscuits. The two factories
will cost them a million and quarter
dollars.
TRIBUTE TO THE LATE GEN. CIRCUIT
(From the lIardwick Gazettc)
Some of our exchanges show symptoms
of genuine ecstacy over the fact that tn,
estate of the late Gen. W, w. Grout il
likely to pay not to exceed 10 cents OF
the dollar. Under the screen of admon
ishing the dear public to be careful OF
stock speculation these papers take a jail
at a dead man that is uncallcd for ant
that anybody with as much blood in his
body as a turnip ought to be ashamed of
General Grout was guilty of no crime
other than guessing wrong on the stocl
market. Speaking for itself the Gazett,
can truthfully say that its denial of IN,
rumor that he died insolvent which fol
lowed close ON the heels of his demise
was made on what we thought unqucs
tionable authority. The Gazette has NJ
regrets over its mistake, but does regret
and most sincerely, that General Grout
whom we counted as "A friend and es
tecmed as IA man. should be overtaken II
his declining years by financial disaster.
NERMONTS GUIDE BOARDS LAW.
The late Edward r. Clark, editor o
the New York Evening Post, was thu
man who pushed through the Legislature
with the help of the late Hiram Huse
the bill providing guide-boards on thu
highways in Vermont. Mr.. Clark wa
travelling through the state at the tim
on carriage drive, and, seeing the neces
sity for having such boards, had the bill
put through