| Show EDUCATED IGNORANCE Not many years ago our War department de-partment admitted that much the best general I map 1 of the t United States were hose I lo be found In the Clerman atlases at-lases But enormous strides have been made In the olTUIal maps of our country during the last fet years iauslng them to compare favorably In ncrtiraoy of detail and execution with nearly the I bent of their kind Issued eluewhero No better way of satisfying ones self with regard to the amplitude and exactness of the German geographical treatment of a country can be had than by examining ex-amining the Baedeker for tile United Stales and by comparing time detail cartographical and descriptive whtuh appears In that publication of the Adlrondacks of the Yellowstone and Yosemite or of the different cllles for example with similar work In corresponding corre-sponding American or lOngllsh publications publica-tions Special 1 stress has hero been laid upon the deflclonrlcK of this particular branch of learning because everywhere every-where they I Ktaro us glaringly In time face Millions of square miles of the Inhabited earths surface nro as unknown un-known to the average university graduate gradu-ate ns Is I time bottom of the sea or the lop of the atmosphere and lens of millions mil-lions of tho earths inhabitants enjoy an obscurity In his cerebral whirl as complete as that which marks the eon cepllon of skyscrapers and railroads in the brain of the Eskimo But It IK not alone here that wo are sadly deficient Into the domain of science to which so much attention Is I properly given at this time wo carry a mlaguided method I which Is most distressing In Its results We or at Jeast many of us may be proficient liiothc dlFHcctlon of It coclc rbaiiUor muKselknpw the ganglia In the sympathetic system of a rabbit and even t understanding of the rein tionsof blastoderm gastrula and hypo dprm iuL rnurh the larger propprtlon ofthosrkwhn bear dlplmnafc fai l to recognize Myckn the commonest birds of the field elthur by song or form and as to the life and habits of animals gcperally the common Knowledge Is of such1 a nature thai it might almost as well be dispensed with altogether Our botanical laboratories tench us proper ly I of sapclreulatlon nnd ombryb and under the microtome we bring plant tissue to nearly its finite particle so far as study IB concerned Uut It Is safe to say that much the larger num ber of those who leave their alma mater I i equipped for the higher life cannot In I the Held distinguish between a birch I nnd a poplar between ti spruce and a I T11tcTh ignorance of Education I I and the Project of an International University by Angelo Ilellprln In the i I March Forum i I |
