Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-29
MISTAKES IN LIFE DUE LARGELY
TO ovEREsTlMATioN OF
KNOWLEDGE.
BRITISH AMBASSADOR sPF : s
BEFORE KANSAS ST - .NTs
Pays Tribute to the Univ ties Of
America and Their WorI ays We
Have Sufficient Schools :he Kind
and They Are Literally Supported
Value Of Education Shown.

Lawrence, Kan, April 29.--"Three-
fourths Of the mistakes a man makes
are made because he does not really
know the thing he thinks he knows.
said Ambassador Bryce in an address
today to the students of the University
ers the necessity of knowing history,
and said the habit of sound, careful, in
dependent thinking was the best in
tellectual quality n young man could
start with in his life journey. Prof.
Jesse Macy. of Grinnell College. Iowa,
followed Bryce, speaking briefly.
Ambassador Bryce paid a special
tribute to the universities Of this coun-
try. saying that there was nothing in
this country which he noted with
greater pleasure than the continued ad-
vance of the American colleges and
universities.
The last thirty years. Mr.. Bryce said,
had seen the establishment and devel-
opment by the state legislatures of a
large number of state institutions of
higher education, to which annually
liberal grants of money We're made,
This witnessed to the enlightened wis
dom and 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
amplest facilities for prosecuting
every kind of study. The appreciation
of such facilities was shown. he said,
by the large and constantly increasing
attendance not only at the universities
and technical colleges supported by the
state, but also at the colleges of pri-
vate foundation.
Doing Great Work.
Mr.. Bryce said he loved the Ameri-
can universities; he admired the earn
estness which the teachers threw into
their work, often insufhciently remun-
Grated. He expected great results
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 with
out adequate training would be thus
enabled not only to succeed in life, but
also to render admirable service to the
community and teachers and workers
for the public good. There was. he
believed, no other country in the world
in which so large a proportion OF the
young men and women were now re-
ceiving education of the university
type as here in the United States.
Have Sufficient Universities.
The bassador expressed the opin-
ion that the United States possessed
now, thanks to the munificence Of the
states and Of private benefactors. all
the Institutions of that kind that would
be required, and that what was now
needed was to develop the efficiencp
Of these institutions by increasing the
teaching staff. and by providing higher
salaries so as to secure the ablest men
that could be had, and to develop tho
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
well equipped university and truly
liberal education.
1t was not only the applied sciences.
Mr.. Bryce thought. that ought to be
provided for. such as agricultural
chemistry and engineering. but also
the theoretic sciences such as chem
istry and physics and biology. There
was an even greater danger today In
all countries, in Europe as well as In
America, of neglecting the literary or
humanistic subjects such as philos-
ophy,> history and philology.