The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-04-30
D|PL OMAT TALKS
ABOUT SCHOOL ING
Ambassador Bryce Tells Kan
sans the Value Of Edu-
cation to Man.
PRAISES OUR COLLEGES
SAYS TEACHING STATES OF UNI.
NERsiTIEs SHOULD ~ IN
cREAsED AND HIGHER sALAR.
les PAID ~ THEM.


fourths Of the mistakes that = man
makes are made because he does not
really know the thing he thinks he
knows.' said James Bryce. ambassador
from Great Britain. in an address de-
livered here to the students OF the
University of Kansas.
Mr.. Bryce urged upon his hearers
the necessity of knowing history. an
cient as well as modern. and said the
habit OF sound. careful and independ-
emit thinking was the best intellectual
quality young man coul start with In
his lii journey.
Professor Jesse Macy Of Grinnel
college, Iowa. followed Mr.. Bryce.
speaking briefly.
Mr.. Bryce's subject was The Educa-
iional Advancement In the United
States.
!. Praises state Universities.
The last thirty years, Mr.. Bryce said,
had seen the establishment and devel-
opment by the state legislatures Of q
large number of state institutions Of
higher education, to which. annually.
liberal grants of money were made.
This witnessed 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 every
kind OF study. The appreciation OF
such facilities was shown, he said. by
the large and constantly increasing at.
tendance not only at the universities
and technical colleges supported by the
states, but. also at the colleges OF pri-
Mr. Bryce said he loved the Ameri-
can universities; he admired the earn
estness which the teachers threw In.
to their work. often insufficiently re-
munerated. 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 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 receiving education OF the univer.
sity type as in the United States.
Education Ia United states.
The ambassador expressed the OPP
inion that the United States possess
ed 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 in.
creasing the teaching staff. and by
providing 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, neverthe-
less. were essential to a well equipped
university and truly liberal educa-
tion. a4.
The habit of sound and careful and
Independent thinking, he went on to
say. was the best intellectual quality
young man could start with in his
journey through life. THAT, and the
love OF truth. are what q university
ought to teach. One Of the highest
tributes paid to your universities was
lately paid by a great German profes.
sor when he said that what he most
admired in them was the conscien.
tious ardor with which the teachers
devoted themselves to the search for
truth and the implanting q zeal for II
in their pupils