The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1913-03-27
Ha7GIett Lectures
Strong and Practical

DR.. ALLEN hoeEN OF CHICAGO
DIVINITY SCHOOL DELIVERS
VALUABLE ADDRESSES.
Dr. Allen Hoben, associate profess
sor of homiletics and pastoral duties
at the University of Chicago Divinity
school. opened the Hazlett foundation
lectures at the Normal auditorium on
Sunday evening before a large audi
ence of students and citizens in a un-
ion service Of the churches OF the
CITY. Prof. A. P. Hollis offered few
brief Introductory remarks in behalf
of the school and short program
was given by the musical organlza'
tons, under the direction OF Dean
Goodsell. Prof. Meyer also favored
with a solo. DR.. Hoben's address
followed on the subject of 1.-THE Re-
viva1 of Idealism."
"This is a country for ldealism,"
said the speaker. you are not crowd"
ed and jostled by neighbors and I'M
mediate necessity. You seem to have
space for ideas. In the east with its
crowded cities, the final product Is not
idealistic in the sense Of being devot-
ed to a cause. We must look to these
parts of the country that lie nearest to
pioneer conditions for future leader
ship.
people must have a cause; man
cannot live by bread alone. II you
remain free from an ideal, you remain
in medocrity and If you have an
ideal you must labor and toll and to
a large degree fail" The speaker urged
that to give way, when an ideal more
or less extravagant does not fit into
actual conditions, is folly.
Life is a great relay race" said
DR.. Hoben, and he who finishes Sec
ond or twenty-second is as much a
factor as he who finishes first. Mans
efforts are a choice of what he can do
and nothing, not what he can do and
what another can do better; and man
must not renounce himself, because
another is a better in results. Be true
to an ideal and it makes no difference
if you are first in the race or last"
Biology and Boy Nature"
On Monday morning, at 10 o'clock,
DR.. Hoben gave his second address OF
the series on Biology and Boy Ma.
ture."
"You can't set the restraints OF the
school room against boy nature and
do it successfully" said the speaker;
we often undertake to regulate boy
nature by the thin crust Of modern So
ciety. What we need is an apprecia-
ton of the long processes that made
him what he is. The boy is largely
governed by his primitive ancestors,
and the epochs of his life are not suft1'
GENTLY defined to prescribe for him.
We must get point of contact with
him and connect with him in sym.
pathy and our system Of education"
DR.. HOben showed that boy ma
ture is largely matter Of heredity.
Eighty per cent Of the boys belong to
clubs, teams, ETC., and they crave for
rating to be had in contest among
their equals. They are at the stage OF
tribal development and seek the en-.
cancement of self. The speaker
urged that it was wrong to seek to
destroy the gang and advocated that
it be given wholesome leadership. The
same wholesome outlet must be pro
vided in the boys love of adventure,
such as the modern boy scout move
ment. This the migratory habit will
lead to vagrancy is not provided with
a wholesome outlet in right leadership
In similar way the love for fire
water and the collecting mania, are
all the reflection of former race char
acteristics. These must all be prop
erly dealt with to bring the boy to his
own, urged the speaker, land in due
time school boards will be willing tt
pay teachers to teach outside of the
school house, to take the boy on the
cross country trail as they are now
paying the teacher for teaching read
ing and writing and arithmetic" II
short, the present day environment
must be regulated to deal correctly
with the accumulation of civiliza
ton to be found in the boy of today
"ReIigion and Play"
"Religion and Play" was the sub
iect of the address given by DR.. Hobe1
tuesday evening, in which he urget
that thru organized play surplus ener
sias are released and the Legitimate
Use of the contest spirit brings it,
benevolent results. This spirit, if il