The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-13

TT is qualities that fit a man for e LIE
i of usefulness, not the mental pos
session of facts.
The school that best helps to form char
acter, not the one that imparts the most
information, is the college the future VIII
demand
I do not know of a single college or
university in the world that focuses on
qualities, excepting Tuskegee.
At Harvard, Yale. Dartmouth, Column
bia and Princeton cigarettes are optional
but a stranger, seeing the devotion TO
them would surely suppose the practlSe
of cigapette smoking was compulsory.
The boy who does not acquire the TOBACCO
Ia bit at college is regarded as eccentric.
Many of the professors teach the cigar
cite habit by example.
At all of our great colleges gymnasium
work is optional Instead of physical cul-
ture there is athletics. and those VINO
need the gymnasium most are ashamed
HOW would the scientific cultivation of
| these do2
Bodily Qualities-Health OF digestion,
/ circulation, breathing, manual skill;
vocal speech and ease in handling all
Mental Notwithstanding, patience.
decision, perseverance, courage, tolloW-
1 ing directions, tact, concentration IN
| sight, observation, mental activity ac-
curacy and memory
Moral Oualities-Putting ones self in
another's place, or thOugntIulness lOt
others, which includes kindness, courtesy
good cheer. honesty, fidelity TO a PROMISE
seIf-control. self-reliance and self-respect
II you knew of a college that made
speciality of qualities, where the teachers
were persons of quality, would you NOT
| send your boy there? And II you Wouid
send your boy to such a college, would
not others do SO. too?
These things being true, will we not as
a people soon decide to pay teachers
\ enough to secure quality?-wnich is not
presuming TO say that we have none now
Would not such a school as this evolve
through the law of supply and demand d
college that Appropriated the idealE
The advent of women into the world or
! business has worked peaceful and be-
nefieent revolution in favor OF qualities.
I'D to the time of the civil war a woma
school teacher was a curiosity. Inc
typical man schOOlmaster, with his handy
BIRCH can yet be wildly remembered by
many Women teachers came in as an
innovation, and they have brought beau
ty, gentleness and love where before tnere
were fear and force.
THE teacher is the child's other moth
err" said Froebel We didn't believe it al
first, but now we accept it.
About 1852 the discovery was mace thai
women could serve as clerks in the gov
eminent offices at Washington. Women
whose husbands, fathers and brothers had
gone to the front took the places OF the
men at Washington. and 10! the worn
went on just the same.
BY 1870 women were acting Is clerks
and saleswomen I'm shops and stores.
At the centennial exhibition the type
writer was one Of the wonders OF th'
time. In 1880 I sent MS to Harper
and got 1t back with a note saying the,
respectfully declined to read any Ms. tina
was not typewriter.
I lifted wall that could be heard
mile-how could l ever learn to use {
typewriting machine l wrote an artich
on the arrogance OF publishers. I though
J typewriting was most difficult and com
pick business, like producing harmon.
on the piano.
And It seems that is what the Reming