The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-29
AMBASSADOR
BRYCE TALKS on
COMMON SENSE
Tells the Students of Kansas
University What Makes In.
tellectual Grants
MAN DOES NOT ALWAYS KNOW
| WHAT HE THINKS he KNOWS
Last Thirty Years Has Witnessed the
Development of Large Number Of
State Educational Institutions
Work of State Is Enlightenment /

Lawrence, Kansas, April 29.-
"Three-fourths of the mistakes that
man makes are made because he does
not really know the thing he thinke
he knows" said James Bryce, ambas-
sador from Great Britain, in an ad-
dress delivered here today to the stu.
dents of the university Of Kansas.
Ambassador Bryce urged upon his
hearers the necessity of knowing his.
story, ancient as we'll as modern, and
said the habit Of sound, careful and
Independent thinking was the best in
tellectual quality a young man could
start with in life's journey.
The last thirty years, Mr.. Brycs
said, had seen the establishment and
development by the state legislatures
of a large number of state institu-
tions Of higher education, to which
annually liberal grants of money were
made. This witnessed to the enlight-
ened wisdom and zeal of the state au-
thorities, who rightly thought that
nothing better could be done for the
youth of the state than to place be-
fore them the amplest facilities for
prosecuting every kind of study. The
appreciation of such facilities was
shown, he said, by the large and con-
stantly increasing attendance not on
ly at the universities and technical
colleges supported by the states. but
also at the colleges of private foun-
dation.
Mr.. Bryce said he loved the Ameri-
can universities; he admired the
oo ,,. oexv aee uyI,joI, nJ,Aro %H.rax,v
into their work, often insufacienly
remunerated. He expected great re-
suits from the diffusion Of knowledge
among all classes of the people. and
believed that many men Of natural
gifts who might otherwise have been
left without adequate training would
be thus enabled not only to succeed
in life but also to render admirable
service to the community as writer's
and teachers and workers for the pub
lie good. There was, he believed, no
other country in the world in which
SO large proportion Of the young
men and women were now receiving
education Of the university type as
here in the United States. The am
bassador expressed the opinion that
the United States possessed now.
thanks to the munificence Of the states
and of private benefactors, all the in
stitutions of that kind that would be
required, and that what was now
needed was to develop the efficiency of
these institutions by increasing the
teaching staff, and by providing high
er salaries SO as to secure the ablest
men that could be had, and to de-
velop the teaching Of those subjects
which were less likely to be popular
because they did not seem so directly
practical but which, nevertheless,
were essential to we'll equipped uni
versity and a truly liberal education.
1t was not only the applied sciences.
Mr.. Bryce thought, that ought to be
provided for, such are agricultural
chemistry and engineering, but also
the theoretic sciences such as chemis-
try and physics and biology. There
was an even greater danger today in
all countries, in Europe as we'll as in
America, Of neglecting the literary or
humanistic subjects such as philo-
sophy, history and philology.
Therefore, the ambassador said, he
would remind the students that in
their college years they had to pre-
pare themselves not only for their
special vocation in life, be it CONNER
cial or professional, but also for life
itself. They had to acquire those in
terests and tastes which would make
the enjoyment of their after years.
They must learn to love literature
and histroy; they must learn to think
about those great things which had
occupied the humand mind in the past
and were treated of in the works of
the most famous men of older days..
Let them never be afraid to spend
time on studies which seemed remote
from our own times. From the an
cient writer's of Greece and Rome,
from the great poets Of later timea
such as Dante and Shakespeare and
Milton, there was still to be gathered
such fruit as did not grow on any
trees today. And let them remember
in every study. be it scientific or liter
ary and historical, the essential thing
was to be thorough, to face and mas
ter every difficulty. to be sure that
what one knew was known accurate
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