WAYLAND GREETINGS. VOLUME
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BEAVER DAM, WISCONSIN, JULY, 1888.
The Greetings will be published quarterly. A limited number of advertisements will be receired. Subscriptions: 25 cents a, year. All communications should be addressed to W11yland Greetings. In renewing the issue of the Greetings we invite the hea,rty cooperation of all old students and other friends of Wa,yla,nd. We TVishto give former students a, picture of present Wa,yla,nd life a.nd to fumish information regarding those who ha,ve once been its students. Those to whom this number comes will confer a, fa,vor if they will drop us a, card with the addresses and present occupation of the members of their cJa,ss. Names also ofyoungpeople to whom such a,pa,pera,s this might be helpful a.resolicited.
Life is the education-time, the seed-time for eternity; there lies its whole importance.-Tl10mas
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ty to stud_y.-'lhoma,s Arnold. Apply these words of the noted Head Master of Rugby, and a, great impetus would he gh·en to Christian education. It will be the duty of the rising· generat,ion to act as citizens, philanthropists and in a host of other relationships. Let every tea,cher do his duty in stimulating the boys and girls to make the best use of their God-given powers.
partment and advertises itself as Wayland Academy. That the work it has done has been well done is attested by other institutions that in the past and at present receive into colleg·ecourses the students prepare¢! here. Basing their action upon our past work the following Institutions admit to their Freshman class those to whom we giYe certificates, without further examinations: Brown University, Providence, R. I. Rochester University, Rochester, N. Y. Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H. Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. State University, Madison, Wis. The great need of this age in education is'the practical. What will best fit the boy and girl to do duties that in life will devolve upon them,is the all-important question. Too many, however, mistake as to what the rea.Ily practical is. Is the really practical educatio_n one that prepares for just one thing in life? Who can tell what his boy will want to do? In this age of change who can tell what he himi:t,.,Jfwjl]
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Farmers' boys and girls need a good practical education. Is a course in fancy book-keeping· surh? Is a smattering of French or German'? Is attending a course of lectures on fal'ming or commercial law? To one in a hundred any one of these mig·ht be practical, but only after some other things. -------
In talking· with a young man the other ------day who said he had been to a large school Said George William Curtis in his Gettys- where everything was "practical," we burg oration "Let us beware how we reck- asked how many pupils there were. He lessly water our life-blood." The inflow of said two thousand. How many teachers? immigration, with its lack of knowledge Thirty. Then each pupil had one-sixtyand sympathy with American ideas, must sixth of a teacher's time. Now tell me how convince the thoughtful man th~t our life- often were you called on to recite. "Oh, not blood has been considerably diluted. For a very often. Generally once week." The good strong tonic nothing could be better subjects might be practical but would the than a thorough indoctrination of the youth pursuit of them be practical, under such of our land in the history and principles of circumstances ? our government. Teach our boys and girls the growth of liberty; infuse an ap"Practice makes perfect" is the old adpreciation of the priceless blood shed; age. Then undei· the old system of mumake our schools nurseries of patriotism sic teaching where the pupil practices a a.nd the dangers of immigration will be whole week on one lesson, if the pupil bereduced to their minimum. gins to practice a blunder, he gets the blunder perfect by the time he meets his teachWayland University was established er. again. thirty-three years ago. Through a variety of experiences, many of them incident to What ought farmers' sons and daughters, new enterprises in a new country, the who are themselves to be farmers, to know? school has come to the present time. 1. How to read interestingly, write legiSome of the time colleg'iate work has been bly, spell correctly and cipher readily. 2. done, all the time academic. Now, though The history of our own country, and by its corporate name is University, it at- compai-ison, that of other countries. This tempts to conduct only its academic de- includes not merely the battles and the list
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of presidents, but a grasp of the principles that have been at work, as our country has developer!, and will mould our future. 3. A knowledge of physics and chemistry. An amusing story is told of a man who attempted to drain a low piece of land into a neighbor's pond. He drained his neighbor's pond into his low land. Would not a knowledge of the chemical effects of putting different elements together save a farmer from many expensive experiments in the use of fertilizers? 4. A SKillfulness in the use of tools and appliances. A farmer needs to be a jack of all trades. Going to town to have everything mended or spending a half day to bring a man to do a half hour's job is not economy. 'l'he farmer's wife,if ingenious, will train the chi!, dren while young to do lots of odd jobsthing·s that add greatly to the comfort and beauty of home. Thepresentdrifttowards industrial education is a move in the right direction. Let the farmers' sons and daughters be well equipped in these four directions and there will be little inclination on the part of the men to waste time in loafing About, RaloonRand cm•npr gT01•Prip-,_ v\Tinter evenings will l>e gladly welcomed. Children will delight to stay at home. The table will be a place where something is clone besides "swallow victua.ls." Following the plow and doing housework will be something else than just a tread-mill. High thinking will go along with hand labor. Books and papers and the discussion of their contents will fill up the chinks of time. Happiness, usefulness and wealth will cron-n the endeavors of parents to train up well-equipped farmers. Three of the candidates at the present time for the highest positions in the gift of the nation are sons of ministers. A large percentage of the prominent and useful men and women in our city churches were brought up on farms. The church and the Christian home have been the centres where the best thinking has been done. Ministers and farmers have usually had time to be with their children and having· books and papers and thoughts have given a strong impetus to the first few years of tlte child's mental growth. Will it pay for one who wants to get German for a practical use to study Latin? Most certainly it will. Latin is an easy inclined plane by which to approach German. That education is the best, as a general rule, which brings the student into face-to face contact and relation with the greatest number of magnetic, controlling, and formative minds.-Martin B_.Anderson.·
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