The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-10
Head, Hands and Heart I"
Was Subject Of Commence
ment Address, Given
at the Grand.
IOWA EDUCATOR SPEAKS
Head Of the Department of
Latin of State University
of Iowa, Made Talk
to Graduates.

to Graduates.
/ Education which Is most complete
is that which unites' in the human be-
! ing the best efforts Of the head, the
hands and the heart, DR.. Frederick G.
Eastman, head of the Latin depart
ment of the state university told the
audience and. class of 1916 last night
! in his commencement address at the
/ Grand. DR.. Eastman had for his sub
| ject Head. Hands and Heart He
! traced the development of nature
study and manual training work in
! the schools, telling how it is giving
the hands part In the work of edu-
cation, a part which some years ago
was neglected, while the musn'ts and
/ don'ts of the school room held sway.
J. The danger of too much of this sort of
! work forgetting the work of the mind
or putting it aside as not practical"
was emphasized.
! DIR. Eastman made a splendid i'm
/ preston on the minds of his Keokuk
auditors. He is scholarly man, and
! his address plainly exhibited these
! attributes. 1t was a thorough, con-
| scientious piece of work throughout,
! and he held his audience with little
| difficulty. A pleasing personality
! plus the faculty for very clean and
1 distinct enunciation, makes DR.. East
man splendid speaker for any such
| occasion His choice of words and
! phrases was especially we'll made, and
| carried weight. He has the ability
| to paint word pictures with the clar-
! ity and force which leaves on the
! sensitive film of the mind an impress
sion as clear and sharp as if 1t were
a plate and DR.. Eastman's words the
camera through which the image was
being focused. His selections from
| Whittier and Kipling were most apt,
and altogether his address was en-
| joyed from beginning to end.
/; In introducing the speaker of the
| evening, DR.. R. L. Reid, principal OF
the keokuk high school, spoke of the
| rapid strides that Iowa has made in
education and how the state had es-
! tablished it's school systems. Thirty
| five years ago, and just thirty-five
| years after Iowa had been admitted.
speaker made the statement in the
east that slavery is but half abolished,
| emancipation is but half completed
1
I with the ballot who are not given an
| opportunity for education Iowa, DR..
+! Reid said had been trying to solve
! this problem with it's school systems
and it's state university, and that it
was a pleasure to greet a representa-
/ tive from the university.
Hands, Heads and Hearts.
The speaker prefaced his address
with a word picture of the man
monster, the African gorilla, and com.
pared it's physical frame with that OF
man. He described the enormous
physical strength of the monster DE-
! com pared with the feebler power of
man. The fundamental superiority OF
man is in the possession of mind and
! soul; his physical superiority lies i'll
i the possibilities of the hand. Ph.ysi-
ca1ly there is no great difference be-
tween the hand of man and the hand
| of the monster. Except for the Sc
/ of the thumb, and some differences
| in size and proportion, the lanis are
very much the same. Muscles, bones,
/, joints. skin, cartilage. even the
nerves, are practically alike. The
significant difference is that the hand
! of the gorilla cannot construct-can-
I
can tear and rend and break; they
can strike and seize and hold. The
claw-like fingers, gripped around a
[ tree limb can hold the great swinging
/ body as surely as iron coupling links:
/ they can crush the bones of the
! human frame like crumpled card
! board; but they cannot put things to-
gether That is the function of the
I hand of man. The human hand is a
wonderful instrument with its delicate
adjustments; with the fibres that are
/ strong and true; with joints that are
dextrous: with fnger-tips that are
sensitive. 1t is the ultimate instru-
ment of human creation.
! THAT hand reared the pyramids of
Egypt and the Eiffel tower that hand
framed the rude siege engines that
hammered at the walls Of Carthage
and the Titan guns that battered down
the forts of Belgium; that hand drain
ed the Pomptine marshes of Rome
and cut the Panama canal; that hand
{ has builded the house we live in, IL
has paved our streets. 1t has laid our
! railroads, it has made and driven our
ships and locomotives. That hand
/ has painted our pictures and woven
| our tapestry and carved our statues
and chased our silver. Livery con-
structed thing in the world is hand
m ade.
I'VE call this the age of machinery:
1 but the machine work is secondary.
! / have seen a great printing press at
work with all its intricate. bewiider-
| ing parts I have seen 1t as II seizes
and cuts and prints and folds and