The citizen., 1911-09-07

specialist In that subject. II IL easy
to see that our students cannot help
improving more rapidly in every way.
And we take special pains that our
students shall not grow lazy or proud
while attending school. Very often
young people who have been to q
fashionable school are spoiled by It.
They forget how to do useful things
and feel that they are above all the
occupations Of life. This is not the
way at Berea. Every student is ex-
pected to do some work, and he Is
paid for what he does according to
It's real value as nearly as we can
find out. Our girls set the table and
wash the dishes and make the bed
ding for the students rooms, and 10
hundred kinds of useful work. Our
boys work the farm and the garden,
run the printing office and work in
our various shops. One monument OF
their industry is the great fifty thou
sand dollar chapel. Our boys made
every brick that is in It and built
the whole thing from foundation TO
tower.
Really. Berea consists of five
great schools under one management,
so that we have the right kind Of
education for every conner.
First there is Berea College which
| gives its name to the whole institu-
ton. This is not at all like the lit
tie colleges that are scattered thru
out the country. which ought to be
called academies. II is a school which
people have to study twelve years
In order to begin; those who enter
our Collegiate Department must have
finished all the common branches.
which is counted eight years. work,
and then they must have four years
more Of special preparation for the
college course. You can see that
the people who actually get into the
college course at Berea know some
thing. Those who graduate from our
College Department are ready to
catch step with any OF the scholars
Of the world.
Then there is the Academy. The
Academy does two things: first, it
fits people to enter the college; but
more practical and more important
than this, it gives those who cannot
have the full college course THE
NEXT BEST THING in the two years
or three years course in the more i'm
portant subjects. II one cannot have
the full college course, but still de-
sires to be a good doctor or lawyer
or preacher, he should take this Eng
lish Academy course. He can select
his studies according to his life plans.
II he Is going to be q lawyer he will
be specially interested in the history,
the science Of government, the science
of wealth, the science of conduct. II
he Is to be doctor he will be espec-
tally interested in the botany, which
treats of plants, and the physiology
and the chemistry. II he Is to be a
preacher he will want the elocution,
the rhetoric. the history, the science
Of conduct, etc. And the girls will
want the household management AMI
the nursing and the music.
Then there are the Vocational
Schools. Here we group in one depart
ment under Dean Marsh all those
schools which prepare boys and girls
for the important work of life-which
teach them the most practical
branches TO INCREASE THEIR
EARNING POWER. For those who
are to be farmers We have the School
of Mountain Agriculture. l tell you,
friends and neighbors, our farmers
are not getting as much as they ought
to get out of their farms. We can
teach your boys to raise better stock
and better fruits and better crops
generally. Would not II be better
to raise fifty bushels of corn on one
acre than to raise fifty bushels Of
corn on ten acres and have to run
over the whole lot for the stray
ears? 1t is time we had scientific
agriculture here in eastern Kentucky.
And there is the woodwork depart
ment. Kentucky Is proud Of It's
forests. We have the oak and the
black walnut and a good deal yet
of the poplar and linn. But what do
We do with this precious stuff? We
send it up to Michigan, where they
know how to make furniture. and
then We buy it back in tables and
chairs. Why should not our own
| Young men learn how to use tools2