Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-06-09
DIR. Charles Hubbard Judd, Of Uni
yersity of Chicago Spoke Mon
day Evening Before The
Commencement
Visitors.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
WILL CLOSE TODAY.
Large Crowds i'm Attendance and
Many Visitors From Distance
are Attending the Closing
Festivities.

June, the Luther College Lyceum
Bureau presented a miscellaneous
program to it's patrons and the COM
raencement visitors at the College,
the main feature of which was an ad-
dress by DR.. Charles Hubbard Judd
of the School of Education of the
University of Chicago. DR.. Judd is
one of the foremost educators in
the United States today, and is there
fore we'll qualified to speak on his
subject, "The Enlarged American
Public School Program"
DIR. Judd's address was of most
Instructive and entertaining charact-
er. His purpose was to draw a COM
parison between the European school
system with private High Schools
and the American system where
every child has become so habituat-
cd to the idea of the free High School
that he regards higher education as
so much part of his or her birth
right even to the extent Of neglecting
end treating lightly the free oppor'
tunities offered.
DR.. Judd accomplished his purpose
in a manner which left definite
impression on the minds of his hear
ers. He showed how the European
school system had began with Uni
versities for the study of law, theo-
logy and medicine; how later pre-
paratory schools for these universi-
ties had sprung up in the university
cities, as the outcome of developed
need, but these schools had been
only for the selected few who in
tended to follow one of the profess
sions. Later, after the Reformation,
schools had been organized among
the common people purely for the
purpose of teaching the people to
read their bible and hymn books.
The European school system had
started at the top and grown down
ward among the aristocrats. Then ii
had started among the common peo-
pie and grown upward Only in
Europe, the step between the two
has never been bridged, so that it is
only the privilege of the people OF
means to give their children higher
education, because all high schools
are private and require paid TUT
ion.
On the other hand, the American
school system, while it started in ex-
actly the same way as the European
system has had fundamentally diff
ferent growth. Harvard and Yale
were started as universities training
the selected few for the professions
just as the European universitie.
We're doing, but here the parable
growth of the two systems ended
The American school system had its
real birth in the new settlement:
which sprung up in the neighborhoot
OF Massachusetts Bay and James
town. AS these colonies set out, eacf
one took with it its pastor, whose
first duty was to organize a churci
and set up a school, In these settle
ments, being an aristocrat was al
unpopular profession Every mar
realized that the greatest safety la,
in being on par with his neighbors
%he result was that in the new set
Elements only one school system
grew up, g system which was de
signed TO serve all the people AS th
settlements spread toward the ives
the new system became the unigersa
one. AS the settlements grew older
the more enterprising communitie
secured their academies. Before loni
the academies, which were starte,
as private institutions, were paid 70
out of the public purse, because the.
were not the servants of any class
but the servants of the people. II
time. the first universities were alb
sorbed by the new system, until nov
We have the American school sys
tSm, a systaS which grew from th,
bottom UPWARDS for the purpose o
serving n the people, and system
which is snisue among all the sys
TENS in the world (if we accept tn
Canadianl in offering to ever
child of every class at least a fire.
high school education.
Commencement visitors at the Col
lege.
Miss Bertha Megorden and MI