Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-10-17
. EDUCATION MADE IN AMERICA
. (By Miriam RusSell.l

(By Miriam Russell. }

One curious result ~ the war. accord
ing ID many authorities. J. "A great increase
in attendance nj American colleges, espec-
ially for post graduate work and the arts.
This - because there l. no access TO Ger
man institutions this year, and not much
incentive 10 choose those of England or
France. I'm education n IN other things
SO ore thrown back upon our own re-
sources.
Ii seems likely that after our first gasp
vi disappointment over having the Euro
p,an avenue, VI culture closed and the
questioning second breath. Can We posi-
hly ~ a. well9' we may settle down 10
realize that here. too, war has brought u
"a blessing.
There was a time when perhaps IT would
have been a calamity 10 have been shut of
IN this way from the old world learning.
But that lime has past. There are 80 many
men and women here who have CLEANED the
hest NJ the foreign culture. ready and able
~ lmpart their knowledge, our libraries
are now - good and - comprehensive,
our educational facilities Of al sorts 20
well built up. that We might conceivably
bc shut off Tor five or ten years without
suffering any appreciable lack.
In music and the other arts there will be
a decided benefit in keeping our young peo-
pie at home. II ! just a. true with art-
al it j, with clothes, that while Americans
persist IN giving the best ~ their stimulus
ID European teachers. America will lag.
Once transfer that stimulus. some of those
dollar, and above nh. that same steady
faith III their ability a. 10 finished work
~ American teachers, and the results will
be- surprising.
II j. a noteworthy fact that many a good
music teacher starved in America. borrow
ed money for passage 10 Berlin or Vienna
and there made his fortune teaching the
same pupils who scorned him when hi
studio was IN Michigan avenue or over
Carnegie Hall. Alberto Jonas l. one cx-
ample who ha--in Europc-"mader -
many concert pianist~, Pcpito Arriola
among them.
The musical atmosphere" Of Berlin or
Paris But there i musical atmosphere
wherever a dozen serious musicians are
Gathered together. 1t Is present in the
student sections of New York and Chi
lcaco. Cleveland has been made over
unsteady IN the last ten year, by n score
ui determined, earnest souls. Musician.
used ~ laugh AT Il. Now, sixth city in
population Il u fourth N musical apprecia-
tion and working toward III assured mn-
-inal future. nave been III Denver and
have heard the Denver people talk about
their music, and If ! bad a son or daughter
to be educated unsteady | think ! should
choose To send him or her To Denver as
soon a. would think of Berlin.
For If ever We are To have a national
art and q national music IL must spring
from our own earth. The materials. the
mechanical facility. * nave now acquired
from the older nations. But the soul. the
thing underneath which makes art real and
eternal. that must come out of the soul Of
our own.
Little by little We realize hat we are
not merely money gruhber~. We have
worked for our money and we have not
been ashamed of honest toll. Through all
our labor We have kept our idealism. 1t
h one great characteristic of Americans.
All our bluff and hrae are but our efforts
to hold ou 4" the picture Of what We want
AZ PA ana iu become.
German culture has not awaited 10 save
Germany from the curse Of the imperial
ldca- Surely III the crudc~t VI our little
conc horse" college W. keep the SAVIOR If
lthc democratic ideal. And Il would profit
u~ little % We were L. absorb al the knowl-
edge The old world has TO give and with it
lose the snlri of Amerlca.