The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-04-23
HEREDITY is
MORE IMPORTANT
CAN ONLY GET OUT OF A BOY
JUST WHAT is IN HIM
SAYS PROF. w. D.
HENDERSON.

"Heredity and environment are the
two controlling influences in a boys
development into a man. and OF the
two heredity, In my opinion. is the
more important. Not that place any
stress on blue blood, hut a boy mus
have red blood for his best develop
ment.'
This sentiment was expressed by
rrof w. ID. Henderson instructor OF
science at the University of Michi-
gan, i'm the first of series of uni
versity extension lectures TO be given
at the Hancock high school. The sub 4
.iect OF Prof. Hendersons address was
THE Evolution OF the Boy this sro-
Ject being selected in place OF the one
previously announced.
Some boys are born with certain
qualities dormant within them that
make them especially fitted for some
task or career. II boy Is made for
corn" he said. taking an agricultural
cabbage or sugar beets. But the kind
of corn that he develops into depends
upon his cultivation-that is. his en-
Nronment
Every boy is at birth and during
childhood little animal, with animal
instincts and impulses. said the lee
turer. lie is more on less of a savage,
with a savage's desire for glory and
emulation. I can always tell by the
play of the boys on the streets wneth-
err there has recently been circus or a
wild west show I'm town. That boys
are naturally inclined To be cruel. the
speaker illustrated by relating how
the larger boys at school terrify the
little ones by threatening to cut off
their ears.
''One of the most important things
IN the development of boy is obedi-
ence. He must be taught how TO take
orders. This is the secret of success I'm
school life or business or official life.
ard should begin in the home. during
the days when the boys mind is most
susceptible of receiving impressions.
Sometimes at the college have heard
professors complain when "A student
failed to do as told that the high
school he came from was at fault. The
high school lays the blame on the
eighth grade; the eighth grade blames
the kindergarten. the kindergarten
pasees the blame on to the parents and
the mother. looking Mt the father de-
prcciatingly says: We'll, what could
you expect
The purposes Of schools are TO
draw out what is in the boy to devel-
op his artistic side by surrounding HIM
I'm the school rooms with statues, pic
lures, and other objects satisfying TO
the esthetic sense. school buildings
should be architecturally symmetrical
and beautiful. and patriotic impulses
should be fostered bp the singing of
national songs and the display of the
national colors Ii is in boyhood that
boy is most chivalrous and patriotic
the records of the civil war, showing
that most of those enlisting were boys
or very young men.
Boys are influenced by their com
panions. They are naturally gregarious
and like to be with others Of their
Kind. When l was a boy ON farm |
preferred the dust and noise of the
threshing room to the quietness of the
fields where was put at times to oil
rect the pillow. There was only the
horses 10 talk to or sing to in The field,
and the singing was enodgh almost TO
cause the horses TO run away but they
never even talked back. This is the
reason that a boy blowing will always
stop To- shout and wave his arms at a
passing train. II is because he longs
Tor company, not because ne hasn't
ever seen train before"
The natural tendency of boys TO take
the easiest way of accomplishing a
task was referred to- and OF leaving
undone difficult task If there was a
way out. The exercise of the will tol
make one take up unpleasant duties
was good mental discipline and should
be insisted upon by teachers. The