The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-04-29
By Associated Press.

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Lawrence, Kans., April 29.-Three-
fourths of the mistakes that man
makes are made because he doesn't t
really know the thing he thinks he
knows, said James Bryce, ambassador
from Great Britain, in an address de-
livered here today, to the students of
the university of Kansas.
Ambassador Bryce paid special tri-
butte to the universities of this coun-
try, saying that there was nothing in
this country which he noted with
greater pleasure than the continued
advance of the American colleges and
universities.
The last thirty years, Mr.. Bryce
said, had seen the establishment and
development by the state legislatures
of large number of state institutions
of higher education, to which annual.
ly liberal grants Of money were made.
This witness to the enlightened wis
dom and zeal of the state authorities,
who rightly thought that nothing bet
ter could be done for the youth of the
state than to place before them the
amplest facilities for prosecuting ev-
Iery 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
versities and technical colleges sup
ported by the states, but also at the
colleges of private foundation.
Mr.. Bryce said he loved the Ameri-
can universities, he admired the
earnestness which the teachers threw
into their work, often insufficiently
remunerated He expected great re.
suits from the diffusian 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 writers
and teachers and workers for the pub
lie good. There was, he believed, nc
other country in the world in which
so large a proportion of the young
men and women were now receiving
education Of the university type az
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 institutions of that kind that
would be required, and that what was
now needed was to develop the eff
cheney Of these institutions by increas
ing the teaching staff, and by pro
viding 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 likely
to be popular because they did not
seem SO directly practical but which
nevertheless, were essential to well
equipped university and a truly lib
eral 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 we'll as in
America, of neglecting the literary
or humanistic subjects such IS phiios
Apply, history and philology.
Therefore, the ambassador said, he
would remind the students that in
their college years the. had to pre-
pare themselves not only for theil
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
history; they must learn to think
about those great things which had
occupied the human mind in the past
and were treated of in tile 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 times