Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-02-26

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and it's citizens are better fed and better
clad than most States of the Union. The
conditions are such that it REQUIRES labor
to extract a living which tends TO the
habits Of frugality and industry. The
speaker closed with an appeal to the
Greater Vermont association not to
make its ultimate object the possession
of great wealth, for no people have ever
prospercd unless the conditions of the
masses were bettcred
Colonel Harvey was the next sneaker
and got the attention of the audience at
once by his humorous stories lie said:
MIR. HARVEY'S SPEECH.
| know so little Of what you gentlemen
have already done to put Vermont on her
feet, so to speak, that ! feel much hesi-
fancy in saying anything at all to you
tonight. But | can go so far at least as
TO congratulate You slnccrcly upon the
sagacity you have manifested in trying
to find n way to rebuild your education
al system upon It sound and scientific
! basis. Instead Of experimenting under
the direction Of quacks, you called in the
DOCTORS and as consequence have for
/ your guidance the most thorough and
! painstaklng analysis ever made of sit
! uation OF this kind Through converse
| lions from time to time with DR.. Prit-
/ ch'tt and President Butler I have been
/ coGnizant of the progress Of the work
| from its beginning. but | have to admit
/ that my comprehension Of its magnitude
was slight until ! received full report
/ Of tho Carnegie Foundation last week
! 1t is. ! believe, the first OF the Kind ever
/ made. but assurcGly 1t will no. be the
! last so that again. wee may safely as
sumo, Vermont has proven her capacity
! to lead
/ shall not venture to discuss that truly
/ remarkable document. FIRST. because I
should be speaking as Dimple laynan
Of the work Of professionals, and. sec
ondly. hecaure one must have mere in
formation THAI the report contains to
speak .ntailicnnuy. The recommends.
lions respecting the elementary schools
certainty seerI to b. nam'rabl- As to
the secondary ana training schools. | am
3 !rcompctent 70 ;rdpc, but am strongly
impressed by the facts ana deductions
sct forth by the examiners dare say,
too that tire mos. striking conclusion
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= iANokS ilHlfER EDUCATION IN
STATE
have To- confess further that. rightly
or wrongly, / am not in sympathy with
the apparent inclination Of the commit
tee to do away with higher education IN
the state altogether. 30 doubt the great
and richly endowed universities afford
notable advantages of many kinds but a
, strong argument can he put up for the
small college nevertheless. Indeed, IT
seems to me that the trend of opinion IS
) now in that direction, but it is not that
: phase Of the subject that [ have in mind
After all, there are more than one thou
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