The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-29
PAYS SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO THE
UNIVERSITIES OF THIS couN.
TRY-THEiR ADVANCE.
AND EARNE STNESS Of TEACHERS
Says That Three-Fourths Of the Mis-.
takes Made by Man is Because He
Does Not Really Know the Thing
He Thinks He Knows.

Lawrence. Kan, April 29.-Three.
fouiths of the mistakes that man
makes are made because he doesn't
really know what he thinks he
knows said James Bryce. ambassa.
dor from Great Britain, in an ad.
dress delivered here today to the
students Of the University OF Kan.
sas
Ambassador Bryce paid special
tribute to the universities of this
country. saying that there was moth.
ing in this country which ne noted
with greater pleasure than the con.
tinucd advance OF the American col.
loges and universities.
The last thirty years. Mr.. Bryce
said, had seen the establishment and
development by the state legisla.
lures OF a large number of state
Institutions of higher education. to
which annually liberal grants of
money were made. This witnessed
to the enlightened wisdom a zeal OF
the state authorities. who rightly
thought that nothing better could
be done for the youth OF the state
than TO place before them the amp
lest facilities for prosecutiug very
kind OF study. The appreciation of
such facilities was shown. he said,
by the large and constantly increas.
ing attendance not only at the uni.
ycrsities and technical colleges sup
ported by the states. but also at the
colleges OF private foundation.
Mr.. Bryce said he loved the Anne.
lean universities; he admired the
carnestness which the teachers threw
into thei work. often insufficlentiy
remuneratCd. lie expected great re-
suits from the diffusion of knowl-
edge among all classes of people,
and believed that many men OF
natural gifts who might otherwsic
have been left without adequate
training would b" thus enabled not
only TO succeed IN life but also TO
render admirable service to the com
munity as writer's and teachers and
workers for the public good There
was, h believed. 10 other country
in the world in which so large n
proportion OF the young men and
women were now receiving educa.
tion of the university type as here
in the United States The ambassa-
dor expressed the opinion that the
United States possessed now. thanks
to the munificence OF the states
and Of private bcnefactom, all the
institutions OF that kind that would
be required, and that what was now
needed was 10 develop the cfficicn.
cy Of these institutions by increas-
ing the teaching staff. and by pro-
yiding higher salaries so as to Sc
cure the ablest men that could be
had, and to develop the teaching OF
those subjects which were less like.
ly to be popular because they did
not seem so directly practical
but which, nevertheless, were essen
tial to n well equipped university
and truly liberal education.
II was not only the applied sci
ences, Mr.. Bryce thought. that ought
to be provided for. such as agricul
tural chemistry and engineering, but
also the theoretic sciences such as
chemistry and physics and biology.
There was an even greater dan.
ger today in all countries, in Eu-
rope as well as in America, OF neg.
lecting the literary or humanistic