The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-06-13
Or. G. Walter Barr Hopes Audience
Realizes How Thoroughly Or.
MagiI Personified Educa.
t'onal Views.
HIS TIME AND ENERGY
Both Are Given to His Work-Dr.
Barr Says He is Enjoying Ills
Labors at Highland
Park.

people at the high school commence
ment last night had realized how
thoroughly the man who made the
address persopifies the gospel of edu-
cation he was preaching" said DR.. G.
Walter Barr to Gate City man yes
terday.
President Magill is giving an ac-
tual, practical solution to the prob
lens involved in the ninety-eight per-
cent Of youth who Will never gradu-
ate from college," DR.. Barr continued,
land sincerely believe that up there
at Highland Park college in the north
edge of Des Moines he is doing as
great work in education as ever
was done by any of the great men of
the past.
He has given an immense amount
of time and energy to planning the
details Of the best possible education
for the boy or girl who will go to
school only year or two after finish
ing the eighth grade or the high
school. An immense part of this is
arranging this education so that the
desire of the boy or girl shall be con-
served-he thoroughly believes what
he said Friday night that you can
educate young person only along
those lines in which he or she has an
interest. This means a multiplicity
of courses of study which appals the
average college president-but Presi-
dent Magill is never SO happy as
when he finds a number Of young
men desiring to study thoroughly
some one thing, so that he can put
that thing into the curriculum Of
Highland mark college,
MagiIps Unparalleled Work.
1.-The boy interested in mechanics
can go there and spend one year or
two years and learn with absolute
all about some one part
OF that field of work. He can get a
very thorough education in automo-
bile mechanics, In traction engineer
ing, in metal turning, in joinery, or
almost anything else under the sun
in mechanics-and he leaves school
finally an expert in some one thing
which interests him-while If he goes
two years to the standard college of
engineering and gets the first two
years Of the four years course leading
to degree in mechanical engineer
ing, he obtains in the average college
only a smattering of fundamentals
and has splattered all over big sub
ject, rather than attained expert
knowledge of a smaller subject as he
does at Highland Park college.
President Magiil is doing this
work at the cost of that personal sac
rif1ce referred to near the end of his
address last night. He can make a
lot more money at other work and
not work nearly so hard as he Is doing
now-but he certainly must get ire
mendous satisfaction out of the sue
cess he is making in that college of
his in D.es Moines. BY the way, it is
the only college in America where
young people can find the kind of edu-
cation insisted upon by President Ma
gill Friday evening. That it is appre-
eiated is shown by its annual attend
ance of 1000 students increasing
every year. get the same kind OF
pleasure out Of helping President Ma
gill that I had during the years
was some part of the Mississippi
River Power company.
DR.. Barr said that he is enjoying
his work with Highland Park college.
hut has not been able in the three
months he has been there to become
familiar with all of its details. The
Magill system of education made
practical and concrete in Highland
Park college IS about as big and COM
plfcated as the worlds greatest water
mower in the Mississippi river at keo-
kuk" he said as he darted across the
street to greet another old friend.