Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-09-14

light, and the automobile, Which prob
ably would have killed him before he
reached his plaes ST business, however,
This is trite subject Note partich-
larly that l have said flSthing about
flying machines Almost equally trite
is the correlated fact that mems 10
tellectuat environment has also been
enlarged until IL is scarcely recogniza-
BILE.
/ should like to talk to you about an
hour on the changed attitude OF mani
kind due to the general acceptance OF
what we call the doctrine of evolution,
but / let that go with mere mentlon.
What | am getting at is this that the
PROCESSES and methods OF eaucatlon
have been changed with other Things
az the world has gone on, and that,
however we may regret It, we must
give lip one after another OF our
cherished theories and follow the Zelt-
GEeist fearlessly wherever ne SNAIL
lead.
Requirements Are Greater.
do not mean particularly TO urge
the necessity of keeping pace with new
discoveries in science and IN litefa
ture of welcoming new branches Oh
study and of leading our children along
paths into which we ourselves are ohiy
explorers, although | do mean TINS,
but what | have in mind is most or az
the question that has been forging ITS
way to the front with refereuce 70 the
real PRINCIPLES and aim of the educa-
ton of our children When this schooi
was started it was possible for an am
bilious student here and later IN COL
lege to obtain a comprehensive survey
of the whole field of human knowlede &c.
Today such a thing is scarcely posi- :
BILE When this school WAS founded
it was true that a boy VINO was grad
uated from it might be supposed TO pc
fairly well prepared fof the duties OF
,,it
it is because the Norwich Free Scaoe-
my is now a very different thing from
the academy of 1856 This is because
it is more difficult now to be gooq
citizen than it was fifty years ago, apd
as a result of that greater difficulty
the Norwich Free Academy must have
a larger equipment must embrace IN
it's curriculum broader field of STUDY,
must train its pupils more thoroughly
and more extensively than ever Deiore.
It is because you realize this that we
are here today celebrating an advance
in those directions which | have sug-
gested.
Good Citizenship Principles Unchanged
We are not forgetful, of course, that
| the principles of good citizenship are
unchanged and Interchangeable. Honesty.
! patriotism, self-sacrifice, those have al
| ways been essential. they are essential
| now and forever will be. But in order
| that honesty, patriotism and self-sacri-
! flee may have their perfect work, II II
| necessary that our graduates snail
! know great deal that could not have
| been taught them fifty years ago. They
| must understand not only what civic
! righteousness is, but how civic right
| eousness can best be worked for, how il
! can most surely be attained. your
| pupils must know something of the
| machinery of government something
! of the mechanism of party organiza
| ton They must learn about those
! things which make for municipal wei
| fare so that they can understand why
| city gov eminent in the United States
| is so often humiliation to Americans
| and how the shameful conditions which
! obtain in many places can best be inn
proved.
Now all this rush of new studies
which cannot be ignored has come CO.
| incidently with the pressure of fur
! Their necessity. Not only is it more
| difficult now to be a good citizen thar
| it ever was before. but it is obviously
more difficult to become a good work
! man than it ever was before Ano
! when I say workman | have in minC
/ every vocation to which men devote
| themselves. I am thinking of the law
1 yer. the doctor. the clergyman, the en-
! g4neer the banker, the railroad man
| the salesman, the mechanic, the arti-
san of every sort yes. and those who
! do the hardest and. I will not say thu
| humblest, but the poorest paid tasks
/ to which we set ourselves To do any
of the things thus suggested the hes
4 they can be done is far more diff
| cult undertaking, I say, than ever be.
fore; and the preparation for thes'