The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-06-08

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scholarship was broadest, his per-
%sonality the strongest, as a public
speaker he was the most convincing
and fluent of any of the professors.
We believe that he possessed great
administrative ability. DR.. Weir is
also IN honorable gentleman, n
who will command respect for his
moral as we'll as his intellectual
superiority"
Relation of Teacher and Student.
The success Of any undertaking
must be determined by the results.
Success is measured in achievement
and not in dreams. Grants tunnel
ing under Richmond, although adj
mirably conceived, was not a sue
cess. on account of its disastrous re-
suits: while the carrying of Mis-
sionary Ridge by his troops during
the campaign about Chattanooga,
was a pre-eminent success, al
though rot conceived at all.
This prlnclple nolds true in all
walks of life, especially in the teach
ing profession, The scholarship
possessed by the students turned out
by a teacher is the best evidence of
his success or failure as an in
structor. AS President Cook, of
the Spearfish Normal, with pardon
able pride points to the world-re-
nowned Mayo Bros, surgeons at
Rochester. Minnesota, as old, stu
dents of his, so DR.. Samuel Weir
IN taking 4 retrospect of his own
life, finds consolation i'll the living
evidence of his success manifested
by those who as students under his
Socratic instruction, are today filling
positions of homo. and trust. Among
these ar those whose articles were
previously quoted, including Bishop
Anderson of the NJ. Il. Church; also
Rev. Kirk Robbins. Greencastle,
Ind, successor to Dr.. Hoagland, of
Mitchell; Professor Karp, of SYRIA
cuse University, and from fifteen to
twenty others who have become not
ed. Among his students in Philo-
sophy, while professor in the Uni
versity of New York, were repre-
sentatives of the Episcopal, the
Presbyterian. the Methodist, the
Congregational. the Baptist and the
Evangelical Lutheran Ministry. He
also trained two Catholic priests, and
a Jewish lady who has since won
distinction as an author.
The kindly esteem in which DR..
Weir is held by the alumni of Da-
] kota Wesleyan was ably voiced in
the large number of letters which he
received from them this year on the
anniversary of his birthday, April
Is. These came from such students
as Professor and Mrs. Evans, Red
as Professor, and Mrs. Evans, Red
field; Elsie Parrett and Margaret
Gable, Pierre; Professor and Mrs.
Tanner, Sioux. Falls; Professor
Wetzel, Castlewood; Evelyn Dirly,
Fremont, Nebraska; and some other
students of his scattered all over
the world, including one from Ethel
Shepher-Carhart, Conception, Chilli.
The latter, in addition to its express
ed reverence for the Doctor and its
~unreserved, outspoken appreciation
of the influence of his life over hers,
by a of their classroom con-
tact, is, within itself, a literary
classic. 1t merits publication in full,
but space forbids. The letters are
all gems, and they evidently i'm
pressed the Doctor with the fact
that ct is not all of life to live, nor
all of death to die"
These young people write touch
ingly of the help received from their
loyal, philosophic instructor. Well
they may. Here is a case that H.
Illustrates his work:-When DR.. Weir
was Instructor in Mathematics,
Northwestern University. Samuel
Merwin.. the present editor Of the
Success magazine and Of The Nat
ional Post. was a student in the in
stitution. Although brilliant along
literary lines, he was dreadfully poor
in mathematics. It became evident
that he was not going to be able
to graduate. Whereupon DR.. Weir
took him under his tutorage, in
personal interest and as q special
favor, with the result that Merwin
graduated with honor; and today he
is ably hlling his mission on earth