The Greeley tribune., 1904-06-30
Practical Value of John L. Stod-
dard's Lectures.

Are you going TO tne ST. LOUIS
Worlds Fair? Have you been: Or
is it impossible for you to AFFORD TO
spend the time and none' to 90: If
your answer is yes TO ahove questions,
read what follows:
The Worlds Fair idea in a nut
shell may be summed up as a su5sti-
tute fox travel. 1t is an attempt to
bring the world to rs: it practically
takes up the four corners Of our globe
and puts them down in one OF the
parks in St Louis and we convsn-
iently make tour of the world at
little expense and without sea sick
ness. 1t Is the twentieth century
method OF going abroad. The fact
tnat our government has appro-
pIiated millions Of dollars for carry
ins on Worlds Fairs Is excellent evil
dence Of the educational benefit OF
travel. But the benefit of the st.
Louis Fair TO the man. woman and
child is only in proportion 10 their
preparation foi it. 1t Is estimated
by eminent educators in the United
States that more than two-thirds OF
the time, money and energy ex-
pended at the Chicago Worlds Fair
was wasted because OF lack of home
preparation before going. Only in
so far as we are actually acquainted
with the habits, manners, customs,
arts. religions, superstitionS. intel
lectual achievements and general
progress, and with the different ma
tional features will the st. Louis
FAIR have any vital meaning for
those who attend? Without this ac-,
Quaintance we can hope to do little
more than merely crafty our child
ish curiosity. while with the ac-
quaintance such as we get in ''Stod-
dards' Travels Of the World" we
shall be able to crafty healthy de-
sire and irrepressible desire to visit
the Old World, either in person or
through the medium OF these won
derfully instructive books.
An investment in the 'Stoddard
Entertainment is the one opportun-
ity to prepare ones self for the St.
Louis Fair. The world will not ouly
be an ideal preparation but after the
great exhibition has passed away, 1T
will be souvenir OF the fair that
will prove never-dying stimulus to
memory, as we'll as a reference, a
guide and spur to those who may
have had revealed to them by visit
to the fair the educational benefits
Of travel.
President Eliot OF Harvard uni
versity says: "lt is question
whether a four-year college course or
a four-year tour OF the world possesses
the greatest educational value. -
1.-THE people as a rule are stay-at-
homes, and In bringing the educa-
tional scenes and sights Of the world
to them, Mr.. Stoddard does guod
thing"
The Stoddard Tour OF the World
costs less than the price OF storage
ticket to Liverpool. You do not pay
cash for this tour, hut can pay for
same by sending a check or money
order for 81 each month to the
publishers for a few months. Prof.
John Fiske Of Harvard university
expresses the unanimous conviction
OF prominent instructors In all parts
Of the country when he says that
"the Stoddard Lectures have high
educational value" for, as President
Cecil Bancroft writes. "Mr. Stod-
dard has an almost instructive appre-
hension of what is interesting, of
what is educative, Of what is histor-
ically of most worth" 1.-The lee
lures are source of knowledge to our
people on the manners, customs,
life, climate, politics and organiza-
tion Of the rest OF the world" " as
Hon. E. b. Hay of Washington, d.
c., states, and DR.. John Clark Rid
path. the historian, adds that "they
make the world acquainted with
what the world knew not of its own
treasures, for ''the people, as a
rule, are necessarily stay-at-homes,
and Stoddard brings the world
to them" says President Eliot Of
Harvard university. "These lec-
lures are one of the broadly educa-
tiona! influences Of the times,
writes Stanley Waterloo, the novel
ist: written so as 10 be Of absorb
ing interest to old and young alike, "
asserts Bishop John 2. Newman; for,
as Rev. +. L. Goodspeed adds, ''they
make real the most wonderful works
OF nature and art,' and must be, "
as Mrs. Alice freeman Palmer
attirms, "a sourct of pleasure and
profit to all intelligent people and to