The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01
FROM OTHER PENS
LOVE OF NATURE.

A writer in the New York Evening
Post says cit is significant that the
age of modern science and of the adj
miration of the great and sublime in
nature exactly coincide" Before we
knew the real truth about natural
scenery-the inside meaning of tive
were apt to aScribe to it some ma
levolent purposes.
Since science came to shed it's light
upon these grand aspects of nature,
the use of scary adjectiveS has been
abandoned. Thus science has led us
to love nature, and to look upon her
as a kind and tender mother, who
loves US, too, and would make us
science appeals to the amenities, the
sympathies and the higher sentiments
of our nature. Instead Of fear, wrath
and terror we behold beauty. gran
deur, Sublimity.
The writer referred to ascribes this
change to science, which tells of the
beautiful and loving order of, the uni
verse. Sometimes. the scientist is
struck by this order, which appeals to
him so strongly, that he calls it God.
style, which beheld only disorder and
called it the devil; but it is only an
improvement.-ohio State Journal.
NOVEL GIFT FOR EDUCATION.
In these days of large gifts for
philanthropic purposes 1t takes some
thing of startling novelty or prodig-
ious size to attract even passing no
tice. The Congregational Educational
Society is the recipient of favor
that is entitled to attention. An en-
tire town in Southern Missouri has
been made over to the organization
upon the condition that it shall es-
tablish and maintain there an acad-
envy for the industrial training Of
young men for forestry and mining
work. The town has some $50 dwell
lings, stores, municipal buildings,
bank and all the features of live viii
lage. The donor Is the Missouri Lum-
Der and Mining Company, which, hav-
ing exhausted the timber resources of
the vicinity, has no further use for
the town. Industrial education has
years. Few dispute its value to the
state. The, Missouri concern that gives
the town of Grandin for the establish
ment of an academy shows practical
interest in a practical subject.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
SCIENCE AND CLASSICS.
For several years. there has been
a marked tendency among college
and university students. who desire
to engage in one of the modern en-
gineering professions, to disregard, so
far as possible, the time honored
classics and confine their efforts to
mastering technical subjects bearing
work In some of the larger institu-
lions, through the liberality of Sc
lective opportunities, the classics have
been subordinated to an extent which
arouses criticism.
At a recent convention OF the
American Institute of Electrical En-
gineers, DR.. Charles P. Steinmetz,
who is conceded to be one of the
most prominent and gifted engineers
of the day, pronounced uneQuivocally
in favor of the classics as desirable
adjunct in engineering education. DR..
Steinmetz declared that the general
education and training of mind and
intellect required by the lawyer, the
physician or the engineer is virtually
the same. He regarded the develop
ment of intellect and broadening of
the mind by general knowledge of all
subjects as essentia1.-Rocheste
Democrat and Chronicle.