The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-02-01

does in twice or three times that
period. Yet at no time does the
nearer fail to understand every word
or to follow the thought. DR.. Vim
cent has an immense store of ideas,
i'm fact seems 20 possess an inexhaust-
ible supply. And how he does ciothe
his ideas with words. His vocabulary
has the range of the unabridged die
tionary. His presence is magnetic, he
catches the attention Of his hearers
the instant he begins to speak and it
never flags. So rapidly does he speak
that his audience, on the qui vive
every blessed moment, is dying to APP
plaud early and often, but has no OPP
portunity. 1t has to store up its en-
ergy, hold it in check and when the
speaker has said his last word, break
forth i'm an enthusiastic, long-con-
tinued spasm of hand-clapping.
] have heard John B. Cough, Henry
Ward Beecher. T. Dewitt Talmadge,
Bob Ingersoll, James G. Blaine and
other great speakers Of the past and
present. but never have | listened to
A man like Geo. f. Vincent. AS an
orator he is in a class by himself. and
take him up one side and down the
other. he outshines them all. lie Is
a hard man to report. the first. in
fact. who completely ''Stumped me.
/ have done lot of reporting in the
past and have always managed to get
there with something Of an outline
of the address. but after five minutes
of vain endeavor Tuesday night, put
my note book back in my pocket and
drank i'm the eloquence. 1t would
take better short hand man than L
ever saw to report him verbatim.
The setting for the lecture was ap-
propriate. The stage wasresplendent
with maroon and gold bunting, and
pennants of numerous colleges, those
of the II. of M. being predominant
The decoration was done by the high
school teachers. most Of whom are
..U" alumnae On the stage with
President Vincent sat the Board of
Education. Before the lecture a high
school girls chorus Of dozen sang a
lullaby song and this was followed
b, the high school male quartet.
His Honor the Mayor then intro
duced the speaker, who sprang for
ward to the footlights like foot ball
center rush charging the foe, and for
the next fifty minutes there was
something doing 1t is impossible to
outline that lecture Through it.,
however, ran the central thought that
education consists not in the accum-
ulation of a lot of miscellaneous, I'M
digested information, but rather a
systematic arrangement of correlated
facts which give their possessor the
ability to fight the battle of life in
the highest. best manner. Dr. Vim
cent COMMUNICATED Sank Centre on
having recently added to its curri-
culum of public school study the de-
partments of manual training, de-
nestle science and agriculture. He
said the new education should not be
set i'm antagonism against the old, but
that each should supplement- the
other. The essential factors in edu-
cation he named as knowledge, wis
dom and enthusiasm. Education he
defined as that which better enables
the individual to attain self-culture.
The lecture was replete with anec-
dotes and illustrations, each of which
both served to admirably point a
moral and adOrn a tale At the
close of his lecture the speaker sat
down nonchantly without the least
suggestion of fatigue, while his audi
tors, after letting loose their pent-up
enthusiasm in prolonged applause,
leaned back and drew long breath,
for it is something of . mental effort
for the average individual to follow
DR.. Vincent 50 persistentiy does the
rapid fire of ideas from the gatling
gun Of his mind beat upon the tym-
panum of the startled ear.
The exercises closed with . song by
ladies' quartet composed OF Miss
Maxwell first soprano; Mrs. M. D.