The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-12-15

buttresses and then lest the light be
shut of from the wide windows the fly
ing bnttreeses were used.
Stained glass came ms matter OF
course and the work OF the glass stain
or OF those days remains stil a marvel
to the glass workers. even the great la
Fargo.
FOUNDED UNIVERSITIES.
'erhe great universities were outgrowths
OF the cathedrals the brethren commence
ing 10 teach what they knew 10 the boys
OF the surrounding country and the ca
thedral school came and then the uni
versity system which is still good enough
for the educator..
III the 18th century had produced
nothing but the universities # would have
done something worth remembering all
these years.
There has been no time when the peo-
pie were so well educa led az I'm the 18th
century, and the technical schools were
then the best that have ever been known.
The guilds carried on the work on tho
cathedrals directing carpenters. iron
workers, masons. glasswoTkers, carvers,
toiners and others. They required four
years service ms apprentices and three
years IA journeymen helpers TO masters
and the learner was required 90 travel 90
increase his experience. Then he was
called upon for an example OF his work
and " IL proved n masterpiece he was
called master workman"
Can YOU imagine anything worse than
a man being held down Ia work which
he does not care for? How different
things We're then when they knew they
would accomplish something by putting
their soul into the work.
BEST TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.
TO read and write, but what need OF that
for they had but few books | suppose
there H. more time wasted in reading
than I'm any other way" he said
THE technical schools were not called
technical schools then; they didnt name
them. when YOU get 10 naming a thing
YOU are usually getting away from its
original purpose.
He went on To show there was more
students in proportion in England than
New York SENDS now 60 its colleges.
conservative estimate gave England about
5000 10 it's 2,o0o,Cpo souls. and New York
city itself with it's 40Oo,coo sends about
500 OF the Il.O00 students I'm its colleges.
The great literature OF the 18th century
when every nation of Europe gave fits
contribution in prose or poetry, Dante
was a noteworthy contributor. Ger
many's Messtersingers apd MinnisinRers
gave many OF the modern writer's their
ideas not excepting the Poet DonGfelow
with his Golden Legend
FOUNDATION or LOVE TALES.
France gave the foundation OF all love
stories and the Troubadours did their
pert. Even the jokes, the widow and
others come down from them through the
centuries.
All Of our English liberties come TO us
from this century. when Magma Char
fa~ oil tolf of sriol ht.
jury was granted. and when the first
English parliament was convened. Then,
too. was prepared the digest OF the Eng
lish common law which Is in use at the
present time and upon which the su-
preme court OF - states base their
decisions
In closing he pictured the great part
that the Catholic church had in beginning
these great things, and whom no conclud-
od his mastery presentation he was
heartily applsuded.
\ SHORT RECEPTION.
There was a short informal reception
Go DR.. wassh afterwarl. when the Penn
sylvania Me5tcal school alumni. who live
In this city. took the visitor OF the class
OF '95 In charge and conveyed him de-
corou-ly 10 the Wellington where a ban
quot was prepared In. a private room.
Among the Pennsylvania Medical School
alumni who accepted the call To honor
Or. Walsh were Drs George 3. Matthews,
Joseph NJ. Bennett. William l.. Harris,
Max y. GonIberg Arthur q. Randall. A.
O. Partridge. George King Arthur Hol-
linsworth Charles w Higgins, John q.
OMeara, William b. Cults, John IL. Dom
ley. bennett Richardson. James Leach:
r. r. Green. Frank IL. Beckett OF Fall
River and Richard Butler.
There were speeches by DR.. II. @. Part
ridge. DIT. william l.. Harris, DR. james
Leach and DR.. John q. O'Meara.