The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1909-12-16
SOUTH EASTERN
EDUCATIONAL ASSO,
The Following is a Paper Written
For The Association at
Wahpeton, Nov. 18th

Continued from last weekly
1t Enthusiastically follows
that the simplest and most
natural way to accomplish the
desired results, is to train the
multitude. 1t is case of sub
stitution and elevating and
noble training for the one su2-
gested by Dennis A Mccarthy
in his poem, 1.-THE Graduate"
He tells NE that
The street was his school, and the corner his
college
What wonder he picked up great deal of
knowledRe?
The faces of women and men were his books
What wonder he trusted go little to books?
Each person he met was nnknowning his
teacher
The puglist taught him as much as the
preacher:
This outcast in rags, and that other in satin,
| Each gave him lesson more lasting than
Latin.
THE Street was his school.ay, its lessons were
| Deep into his sensitive soul, for he lea armed
! Some things which the wise-t of books do
not tell.
Some secrets that erewhile were whispered
inhell
In halls academic a boy may omit
His lessons some days w5enhe's not feeling fit
There are periods of rest, there are DAYS of
vacation.
For cen the most Jealous require recreation.
Not so with this, College, it's always in SEES
sion.
With teachers absorbed IN their occult pro
fession,
And courses SO alluring that those who've
begun it
Have little desire to abridge it, or shun it,
1.-THE Street WAS his school and thru sound
and thru sight
1t poured in it's lessons by day and by night.
Its method could scarce be described IA ..,ec.
tive
But then what of that? 1t was highly ef,ec.
tive
| 1t took him an infant. an innocent baby,
Whose mother had holy desires for him
maybe,
And class after class, led him onward, until,
beast that is trained but to capture and
kill.
Through lesser achievements he passed till
he stood
Accused at the last of the shedding of blood
And then came his college as proud as could
be,
Aud gave him. cum laude. it's tinal degree.
The street was his school and the corner his
And shall We blame him for applying the
knowledge
So fully and freely provided him there
To land him at last IN the murderer's chair?
Are we. who have never attended, as he,
The school of the street and the corner. are
we
So free from reproach for his life gone
amiss,
The light of his innocence darkened like
this?
Are we in mn way in bis failure involved?
Are we from all blame Tor downfall absoyed?
"Ah; never believe it! We are all to blame;
On all rests share of his shadow of shame;
For. lost in pursuit Of our gains and our joys
We've wondered away from our girls and our
boys.
And tho we spend millions of dollars IN
sch oils
And muddle our minds over methods and
rules.
There's something essential o'erlooked or
forgotten.
Some arch in structure we're building is
rotten
Else. why should we find it SO hard to com.
pete
With those who are running the school of the
street?
"And why shot Id we stand in 80 helpless a
way,
B.ho'diue it capt ured our best day by day,
And draw them away from the things we
reserve,
Until in the end, like this graduate here.
They come to that seat which our science
invented
For crime which our schools should, per.
haps. have prevented?
1.-THE street was his school and the corner his
cllege-
What wonder he picked up great deal of
knowledge?
What wonder he found it so easy to pass
Fro rrade into grade and from class into
Glars.
Till we find him. his college days ended, as
now.
With his final degree like brand ON his brow.
He sined. He must vffer societys wrath.
But what of the others v no follow his path?
shall nothing be done Tor the BOYS who. IL .
morrow,
A leaf from the life of this outlaw may Dor
row?
''Tiiis. this is the question our minds should |
resolve;
Ryaded to-day lest bis trouble annoy US.
Tomorrow twill face, and alright, and de. |
stroy US +" ]
Can we afford to evade it |
longer? Can we afford to
STAND in so helpless way,