Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-12-05
AMONG GREATEST
Professor Edward Howard
Griggs Accord High Place
as Teacher and Thinker.
TRIBUTES PAID Blythe PRES.
Seats for Annual Entertainment OF
Tri-City Newspaper Men Are
Placed on Sale.

oedtS lot lne lecture OF Professor
Edward Howard Griggs at the Grand |
Opera house, Davenport, next Monday
evening under Tri-city Press club aus
pieces were placed on sale in the three
cities this morning and there was a
heavy demand for them. The Rock
Island plat is at the Harper house
pharmacy and will remain there till
Saturday evening, when it will be
taken to Davenport.
The press of the country accords
Professor Griggs the leadership on the
American lecture platform of today
Here is what the Quebec Daily Tele-
graph says of him:
In the field of education Edward
Howard Griggs stands by himself. He
is an altogether uncommon man. do
ing an uncommon work Many at
tempts have been made to place the
finger upon the source of his peculiar
charm and power.
Some have said that it rests in his
insight into the human heart-that
he is a seer; others that he has added
|
ness of the truth seeker to the wis
dom of the philosopher Some have
| attributed his success to his remark
| able power of clarifying difficult mas
terpieces like the Divine Comedy of
Dante and GOethe's Faust and COM
pelling them to yield their spiritual
messages. Another has said his power
/ ic in rrif
the personality of great moral lead
!, ers, making them in a definite way
serviceable to the ordinary man and
! woman. Some one else has remarked
that he talks of things in which every
| one is interested, in language which
every one can understand; and still
another that his reverence for the
truth makes his hearers enamored of
lit.
i Compared To Cough and Bcecher.
! He is compared to great speakers
like John B. Cough and Henry Ward
i Beecher. to great thinkers and lead
ers like Carlyle and Emerson. But
Ito those who really know the man,
to those who have grown under his
teaching, these attempts to explain
his power seem inadequate. these com
i PARSONS unsatisfactory. He is above
all else himself. His personality is
ditinct and irresistible; it is unlike
that of any public teacher that the
world has known. His gifts, his
graces, his accomplishments are not
J conventional; they are entirely per
sonal.
Some of the qualities of that per
lsOnage are unusual insight through in
( heritance, a trained, disciplined and
enriched mind, an artists imagination
the heart of a friend. the passion of 6
refOrmer, elOquence coupled with The
we'll considered words of the teacher
I and a life training and will that have
overcome difficulties and produced the
man we know. In personal gifts o
! inheritance then, in training will
! largeness of mind and life, in balance
I in absolute simplicity, determination
to grow each day and to help another
/ to live here and now-in these quail
J ties. and in others that follow natur
( ally in their wake, is to be found tht
explanation, so far as explanation i!
possible, of Edward Griggs' singular
\ success and influence.
'In him there is no suggestion o
\ rivalry and no dogmatism; he grant:
I to every one the freedom that hi
claims for himself. He is sincere
sturdy and fearless in his whole atti
tude toward life. But his genius car
only be comprehended by taking into
account his personality, his charac
( ter"