Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-03-22
LATIN AND GREEK AND OUR SCHOOLS.

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DR.. Burton recently elected to the presidency of the University
OF Minnesota; to succeed DR.. Vincent, who has been acquired by
the Rockefeller Foundation interests, declared not long ago in a
puphc address tht much OF the time of the average pupil is wasted
DR.. Burton has a son who is gifted along mechanical and engin-
called upon to devote any time to either of these dead languages.
offering OF a substitute, is not calculated to bring one nearer the solu-
t tln. OF OF a problem unless it tends to spur Others into action to devise
The average boy drops out Of all reckoning, 50 far as his educa-
More drop out at the seventh than at the eighth, taking the country
las a whole Only about three per centum of the school children ever
/, The dihicultyRor perhaps. We should say one dihiculty-lies in
the land-before vocational training was adopted here and there
Latin and Greek-Latin espeeialy-are good for the professional
man 1t would be good for all boys and girls if they were to master
1T sufficiently to afford them a better understanding of English-but
TO study Latin, know 50 little about It upon graduation ns as to make max It t
practically yalueless to them if their educational career ends there.
IS on the accredited hst-which means, furthermore, that they
sore Of : ! e = process . : pi ia E EnsIsb i ia fss h ahsy schools go thr y {be a
are presumed to have mastered it in the grades, whereas the fact
when they merged into high school freshmen, and might have con
1lnued It with profit as q major study during their high school
We admit that there has been some improvement within the
still room for more. taking the average school as an example La'ie :
What Is the remedy, if conditions are a w assumes candidly,
will be a greater aid as it becomes more extensively applied. Bnt
e. r re stu under the thumb of the universities-w6ose great ambi-
ltlon IS mixed with the professions-and unless u school is an
accredited" institution it is a back number
II . = ~ AAsS AidLuAaIu W ySLemS OF eQucatlOn-One DpcIa
for the three out Of each hundred who intend to enter the p orfa
SONS and another for the ninety odd Of each hundred who enter the
Yoea1ons8 we may readily perceive that the xpens will be YER
Whelmng under present methods.
it costs more to conduct our high schools than to maintain any
attending. : p'flA
1t costs more-much more-to support our universities. IN pro-
portion to the number enrolled, than to sustain our high schools.
The higher we climb towards the pinnacle of scholastic attain
nents. the greater We find the relative cost TO be.
IS True, the vocational and the professional run along parallel
INES Tor the first few years in the chids education. 1t learns moth.
ing ~ the first several grades that ia not useful in either line
where. when and how the line Of demareahon between the two
Iticai application.
Perhaps no document In the world contains 81 much and 90
the choicest and most scholarly language; brief dissertations 4 many
9 seaentihe. problem; facts and figures and fancies from the brains
sParRie win hunor and WIT; information garnered from every cor
Iner 9 the earth and from every branch Of the human ace. Yes
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: = y, sends forth anew, here and there, as the spreading branches
st 2 majestic tree that has withstood me bufeting Of the storms FL
zen thousand yeras, q wealth Of useful and valuable knowledge.
Despite the great standing Of the daily papers Of the country
we think the circulation of the WeekIies among the rank and file Of
the people far exceeds that 81 the dalies. II view Of what Con.
lests control the daiIies, the weeklies have their opportunity to show
fhe KIND of mettle that they're madesof
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continue until the European nations become ~ exhausted AS to be
seemingly, but "a don't believe tie time Is rpe for the conclusion q
European peace.MHThey hayent fought enough yet Let EN- fight
II ! lawyer III moi inclined to b. sraight. he 81 one 81 HE NOS
hazardous sort Sof men ws can place inAa Legislative position Will
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