The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-12
New Education Extends
And Supplements Old
1t Is Utility Linked Up to Culture and Discpine-Col
leges Are to Be Great Manufacturing Plants Turn
ing Out Brain Products and Not Temples
of Intellectual Caste.
CHANCELLOR JAMES r. DAY, L. H. d. Syracuse Unversi.y


TT 19ould require no little temerity
to depreciate the old education
by comparison with the new. The
work of those old days in New Eng
and colleges stands with immovable
foundations. The men in themselves,
in their bulwaik of State, iii the Gull
lure If their great times, from the
roots of which later times have
sDrung, are imperishable testimo-
nials to the mighty intellect making
work of those classical, mathematical
md metaphysical studies which COW
cred the whole range of the disci-
plinary courses of the small colleges
where they were taught. If they
lacked some things, they did not lack
thought compelling power, large
lhoughl, correct thought and clear
perception. Great men We're in their
,!--'. ooils. men e.: Sgiora, ant. rebg-
ious force Of the highest scholarship
and unquenchable passion 10 lead
young men 70 the SUBMITS OF intel
lcCtual achieVement-and the more
because those were days of discovery.
Constitutions were new, science was
new, and philosophy was new in its
adaptations. The immense demand
was for men to think--men who
could intelligently inquire and soundly
answer their inquiries. Certitudes
were imperative necessities. 1t was a
time when the land was not ready,
nor was 1t safe for careless specula-
tons. Things must square with math-
onatics. New times were coming
Fast which for their new problems
would require sound and solid men,
tality.
It was n happy arrangement, like
y plan OF Divine Providence, that put
classic forms first. It was prepare
tory.
] suppose that by educational lead
erstip is meant man or woman, an
idea or an ideal. Possibly it may be
that persistent thought which has
come on through the centuries in the
form of classic and philosophic cul-
ture. or the new thought of scienca
which revolutionized our Oldest uni
vcrsity under the presidency OF Eliot
and tile equal privilege that was
opened to woman by Mary Lyon. who
foundations of woman's college educa-
ton at Holyoke.
In any event the man who lives is
immortal by ideas. The idea is moth
ing when impersonal, but It grasps the
world in men and women. Educa-
tional leadership was persistent in its
older type. 1t was unyielding and un-
lending Its fundamental principles
rs cardinal doctrines, were the classics
mathematics and metaphysics. There
vas no provision for anything else
There were no laboratories UP to the
time some of US pursued our college
work Empirical sciences were looked
upon with scant tolerance. 1t was not
admitted that they could be disciplin,
ory and cultural. They have had tC
fight their way to this confidence and
distinction, for it was contended that
they could not be more than inform
atiVe.
One thing that has contributed mos
to change in the educationa
scheme and plan is an earnest study OF
the man. the student. He was OF one
Kind. He was student or he was not
4 student. If he could not be a stu
lent of the old type he could not be 6
student at ALL But there were educa
tors who discovered that there were
students vino failed in classics bu
who became great in reconcile and eX
detrimental science; there were stu
dents who were restless In meta
rslysics who found a great passion II
applied science. And this discovery
extended so widely and rapidly tina
schools were opened for the new clas
Of students. Classical learning yielded
a place in our old colleges grudgingly
TO give science a hearing was to dis
miss classics and abandon the oil
forms forever.
These fears were illfounded. Thu
classic languages are studied b!
greater numbers than ever before
II has resulted In more students II
colleges every year. And hundreds o
Young men have found themselves AM
the world has found them.
The present university would amaz
the former college president and pro
sessor were they 10 appear among IL:
The cldssics would be here, but studio
Of which they had scant knowledg
and less tolerance would be found ais
In >areat departments or schools o
coordinate colleges, each more gener
ously endowed than was any college c
the country fifty years ago, and thes
studies would be found in coequs
place IN many small colleges.
In many of our cities great building
~ full equipment are devoted to VIC
r,ational teaching entirely.
Tho present plan provides for ever
mental aptitude and any young ma
~ woman, under wise and enthusiast
Instruction, can be student. TIL
classic student Is secured in his priv
lege; the young philosopher is not de
MED his metaphysics; pure matht
lnatics opens its doors as widely
ever. But there is mental disciplir
ct the same time that there is applies
ton TO Industrial arts and nature
saiences. Chemistry. profound stud
has been related TO every phase
human life and domestic econom,
Biology and botany are not used