| Show TALK ON FASHION BY DR VINCENT Points Out Ont Good and Bad Features of I Following Them Closely TALKS AT THE UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED EDUCATOR ALSO VISITS MORRiS HOME E Dr George Edgar VIncent gave an in informal informal formal lecture before p parents rents and teachers yesterday afternoon at Barratt hail His sUbject was The Psychology of Fashion He followed the growth and development of some extreme faShions as preliminary to showing that the following of certain fashions IS s not limited to anyone any one particular class of people but Is if to both savage and civilized man He then showed how society forms itself into groups and demonstrates Its fitness for each group by its outward conformity to the fashions of that group whether In dress or o in other customs The speaker called attention to the two kinds of imitation which he classed as reverential imitation and competitive imitation He maintained that while mankind is constantly influenced by fashion there is a better power of con in the matter of fashion than there once was vas Beneficent Results of Fashion Dr VIncent then enumerated certain beneficent results from fashion such as commodities cheaper bringing out latent capacities and saving from froma a monomania Re He maintained that these waves of fashion in clothes and In pedagogy are constantly leaving a deposit of good things in their train The conclusion went to show that a certain conformity to the usages of i a necessity To take a stand against useless and extreme fashions for which good sense furnishes no ar argument argument is one thing but to stand out against those customs which are de decreed decreed creed to a certain extent by the needs of civilIzed mankind is another and will some time brand one as a and egotistic Individual The speaker closed with two verses from the poem The Things That Are Arc More Excellent Dr Vincent went to the Morris school where he gave a brief talk to the boys before leaving for Ogden He will spend this morning in the juvenile court and wm will speak both afternoon and evening in Barratt hall hail one Chil dren vs Grownups and The Larger Selfishness University Dr Vincent gave a talk to the nor normal norma mal ma students of the university yester day morning The subject was the re lation which exists e the devel development development of the country and the lum of educational institutions He first traced the evolution of the modern school curriculum from the time in the Middle Ages when it was thought that the school was the place the student should receive instruction in only those studies that give the most intellectual discipline and training to the present This education he said was founded upon the erroneous theory that the study was of most value that offered I the best mental that the training thus received could be used to J I good advantage in whatever line Une of I work the student engaged In InDr inDr Dr Vincent held that the theory does not hold any more with respect to men mental mental tal training than to physical training and that the energy gained by one kind of training may Or may not be of ad advantage advantage vantage in other lines Latin and Greek made up the essentials of this curriculum curriculum lum Finally he said the curriculum be began began gan to dIfferentiate and to lay stress s on the commercial side of life Ufe The public schools began to adjust themselves to the commercial development of the country The technical departments such as engineering mIning and the training of teachers crept In In re response response to the commercial demands of the country So on through th the tech professions of life the school ad itself to changing conditions declared the speaker The change that is taking place to day he said id is probably one of the largest It is he declared the tion of the curriculum in response to the agricultural growth of the country and the commercIal demand for men trained in the art of agriculture ture At present of the working men of the country 35 per cent are engaged in agricultural pursuits On the other hand 42 Per cent of the population are in the cities Heretofore he said the relation that has existed between the urban and country classes is that the former considers the farmer as a reu reuben reuben ben a man uncouth and unprogressive unprogressive sive while the farmer holds the man manfrom manfrom from the city as a man who will beat you at every turn He continued Look Up to Farmer The time is at hand when the farmer Is to be looked up to and within the next half century there will come about a complete revolution wIth respect to the farmer and his work Since agri agriculture agriculture culture Is the comIng thing in America he asserted the next change will be to suit the educational institution to this great change because the country must have men traIned In the technical pur pursuits pursuits suits of agriculture In other words a farmers profession must be made |
