Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-01-26
Much Credit is Due Com. Pike For
The Success of the Institute
Next Meeting at Ithaca

the Master on the streets of the cities
gathered around him the dirty urchins
who needed Him more than the 9th
ers. He once heard minister de-
liver a beautiful address on the little
children. In the midst of the verse
Suffer the little children" he stopped
and ordered a crying baby taken from
the building. Thus, said DR.. Winship,
we fully appreciate the beautiful but
fail to make a practical application.
Owing to lack of time, Mr.. Patten-
gill was unable to give the address
which had been announced on the pro-
gram, America Spells Opportunity"
but the institute adjourned until the
afternoon.
The afternoon session started out
with a rush of singing, led by Mr..
Pattengil, the audience entering
heartily into the spirit OF care-free
singing such as "Pat" delights TO lead.
By the time for the speaking OF the
afternoon the chapel was overfowing
and seats had been placed even on the
stage back OF the platform, to accom-
modate the teachers.
In opening his address on Making
Modern Boys Manly" DR.. Winship
said it was his purpose to deal with
the modern boy as he is and our work
with him. There are three very great
influences in boys life which would
be touched upon. These three in1u
ences are the home, the school and
the church, and other public organ
izations OF these the home has far
the greatest effect on the average boy,
and thus it should be treated with the
greatest attention.
In the boys life are three grand
divisions ending with his eighteenth
year. These are chronologically the
time OF his life from his birth to his
seventh year, from his seventh year
to his thirteenth year, and from his
thirteenth year to his nineteenth year.
That is, there are three grand divi-
sions of six years each in length, in
the average boys life. However, this
chronological division is not by any
means arbitrary 1t is rather guided
by physiology and psychology. A
boy physiologically and psychological
ly within one year of the average boy
of his age is to be considered nor
NAL boy. That is, comparatively
dull boy of seven may be no more
precocious than the comparatively
bright boy of hxe or six years, and yet
both of them are considered normal.
Thus it must be remembered i'll con-
sidering this subject that the chron-
illogical divisions made are not un
changeable, nor do they pretend TO be
arbitrary, but may vary by year in
either direction.
Now the public cannot expect a boy
to be right morally intellectually or
physically unless he has had the right
sort of moral, intellectual and physi
cal training. 1t is the duty of the pub
lie TO educate, in other words, the
boys of the country in the way they
should go when they are boys, if they
are to become manly men, To point
out many of the defects of the out-of-
date but still mewhat-in-vogue
training which is inflicted upon many
of our boys, and to contrast that with
the beneficent training of modern
methods, was the object of Dr. Win
ships lecture That he was thorough
ly qualified to do this was evident.
Taking up the three grand divisions
in the boys life, he said that the first
six years ought to end in physical
freedom; at the end of twelve years
the boy ought to be accorded full in
telectual manly recognition, and at
the end of the eighteenth year he
should have been trained to be equal
fully to the fullest moral RESPONSE
bility
The first period he further subdi-
vided into three periods of about two
years each, the first of which are not
years of freedom in any sense OF the
word, the second of which are years
of limited freedom, and the third pc
riod of which should be given over to
developing a capability of absolute
physical freedom. If there is one man
in the world with whom DIR. Winship
is willing to scrap, as he puts it, it is
the man who says that boys life is
never in danger. There is only one
time when boys life is not in danger
and that is the first three weeks of il.
and the doctor is not so sure that
there is not some danger even then.
As soon as baby knows that when
he cries some one is going to fondle