The news & observer., 1905-12-31

not do it-and their name is legion
can no longer pass men into the Holy
of Holes of college life. Nor will it
do for any college which expects rec
ognition among the best in the future
to resort to the flimsy subterfuge of
conditions to get a man in because
of influential connections. where he
ought to be in grammar school or
high grade kindergarten. The college
of the future that does this will be a
self-confeSSed partner OF the agencies
that StreW the shore of time with the
pitiable intellectual wrecks, which are
the result of this we'll nigh criminal
mental malpractice.
added to all the other advantages
of a carefully selected, Well-equipped
training school, there is this additional
democratic advantage, which you will
find in all real schools in this coun-
try, that a young man is rated by
his own assets, and not by what Brad
street and Dunn and the neighborhood
say about his father. These advan-
tages, every we'll regulated boarding
school for boys possesses. And when
boy realizes that he is away from the
boasting aid of home, and that what
he is in books and character depends
upon himself, he becomes man, and
puts away childish things. Men so
trained become leaders in college life
when they go to college, and leaders
in human society when they go out
into it, thinkers wonders. men.
"Verily our craft is in no danger.
Let US go steadily forward, doing our
work carefully, patiently. and in the
fear of God. Where educational facil-
tiles are the best i'm public school and
colleges, schools like ours flourish
most. If we ought to live we will live.
If we ought to die God give us Chris
tian resignation
Enforcing Discipline.
Prof John Graham made a spleE-
did address on the best means of en-
forcing discipline. 1t was spirited
and frequently elected applause. He
said in part:
This subject / have been Crap
pling with for forty years, and from
statements of some of the fathers
of present pupils who were them
selves pupils of mine third of a
century ago l have not improved
upon the plan advocated by Solomon,
a plan which these fathers say /
practiced much oftener then than |
do upon their descendants. / plead
guilty to the charge of abandoning
corporal punishment to great extent
but find it Indispensable when all
other remedies fail. The best means
of enforcing discipline are in the
hands of parentsh and / commend %
them the wise saying of Solomon;
"Chasten thy son while there is hope,
and let not thy soul spare for his
crying" Obedience is the first lesson
to be taught a child. We are natur-
ally disobedient Disobedlence
brought into the world death and all
our woes. Had Adam obeyed God
and made his wife mind he would not
have been driven from the garden OF
Eden and made to farm; at time
too. when cotton goods were not in
demand. nor the raw article worth
twelve cents per pound. Obedience
to parents, obedience to teachers,
obedience TO law. obedience to God,
are cardinal virtues that need to be
instilIed into the lives of the youth
of this generation The responsible
ity for the inculcation of this life
giving principle rests in a great de-
gree upon the parent. The respon-
sibility can not be shifted to the
shoulders of pastor or teacher.
lone characteristic to be assidu-
ously cultivated in pupils is truthful
ness. Of course this characteristic
is natural to the children by inheri-
tance Association with his fellows
soon contaminates the young George
Washington, and the loss of this
beautiful habit is deplorable and sub
versive of discipline.
profanity on the part Of pupils is
not uncommon, and. | record no habit
as more vicious. A few boys addict
ed to this vile habit can soon contain
mate the school. Personal appeals
in public school meetings are very
beneficial, and / have found helpful
in eradicating the habit the relation
of a statement by the Rev. Daniel
Baker that satan in fishing for the
souls of men uses various entlclng
bats but he throws the naked nook
to the profane swearer
"Pelnty of work is the panacea for
unruly BOYS. A laudable desire to ex-
eel should be infused into the student
body. The old-fashioned strapping
system tends to this. Promptness
and punctuality on the part of both
teachers and pupils are indispensable.
Expulsion should be the last resort
but one absolutely necessary at times.
1t is better to hear with a pupil Till
the end of O. half term, and then ADVISE
his parents to keep him at home or
to send him elsewhere.
Dormitory Regulations.
The parer on "Dormitory Regula-
tions," by Prof. w. II. Rhodes, evinced
careful investigation and a mastery
of one of the most important problems
of the schools. He held that rules
and regulations are matters of prac-
tice rather than of theory. Each
school, he said. will nave its own prob
lens to solve and the proper solution
of the same problem may be different
i'm different schools. But few rules
are applicable to all schools. and need
but few changes to suit them to any
locality, and these rules Prof. Rhodes
laid down in a highly entertaining
and instructive manner.
At 11:05 o'clock the Association ad-
iourned till nine o'clock this morning
SWITCHMAN BADLY MANGLED.