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Show ! ' CHILDREN VERSUS 1 GROWN-UPS, THEME Hi ' 2 jl '' George T. Vincent Delivers a l Witty and Interesting Lecture j to Large Audience. l : H' t Trt HOSE who complain that lectures, I though instructive, are dull have V i J never heard Dr. George T. Vln- H "t cent. Dr. Vincent has that most Kp ! i attractive quality, a sense of humor, Hrj ' in the fullest degtee. From his very Klt ' first words to thc conclusion of his lec- B Y lure last night thc large and attentive W T I audience, mostly composed of teachers Bll i attending the summer course at the Vfi j State Normal institute, was .kept up to Hj ,j a warm pitch of amusement. The title H (' of his lecture, "Children versus Grown- Bl'1 T ,' Ups," did not Indicate that there would HlI J I be much humor, but his whole discourse Hl Ti "n'as full of clever, apt and witty say- Hf ' '! lngs that found the ticklish parts In the H 1 , minds of his hearers, and every one Hj 1 ! ' i went home feeling' the truth of his re- H ;'' .! marks and thc value of hi grasp of L ! I1, the really important problem he Bf ' I handled. His is the humor of cduca- HH ? tion of liberality and of a keen lntel- Bi lh ' lect. His view of children Is that of a H ,! I humane and sympathetic man of the H(( I, li world, and as he himself remarked, he jl. , ii. npeaks nbt only from the theoretic Hll point of view, but from practical cx- Hkjj i I perience, as he has three children of f f , his Hl ' j He commenced his lecture by enu- l'1! I- merating the four theories generally i U held about children. "First there is the H 1 ) theory of total depravity." said h e. j if "This, as a rule, is held by disgruntled Hl , I l bachelors. In antithesis to this there H y u Is aha t oS psrfect natural gQodneBS, the view generally held by doting mothers of their own children, but not necessarily neces-sarily of other people's. The third theory is that of evolution, which generally gen-erally leads to a Jalssez faire doctrine on tho ground that the child will build up its own character." The fourth and last, which he asked his hearers to accept, was a mixture of all three; holding that a child was a groat bundle of potentialities. The main theme, the deduction of Dr. Vincent'3 lecture, was that the control of the teacher and of the parent should be a sympathetic and Indirect control. Sympathy, above all, was necessary, he insisted. "We ha e got to face the facts of child life." said he. "The attitude at-titude of the teacher towards the children child-ren determines the altitude of the children towards the children. Teachers Teach-ers should endeavor to enter into the interests of their pupils, and to thoroughly thor-oughly understand their thoughts and motives," Dr. Vincent will lecture this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock In the Assembly hall up at the University. The title of this address is "How the Land Moulds a People." This evening at 8;30 o'clock he will lecture at Barratt hall on "Education "Ed-ucation and Etllr-lency." The opening exercises at the Normals will be held today at S:no o'clock a. m., when State Superintendent of Schools Nelson will deliver an address. A musical mu-sical programme will also be rendered. |