| Show bettor from one who knows YANKEE CON mitie eureka utah aug 18 1904 Ms A 0 SMOOT JB provo utah DEAK SIK I 1 aiu glad to know that your ces 1 ave been enlisted a representative 0 the I 1 C S of So ranton pa I 1 don t know the extent of the pecuniary profit to you personally but I 1 congratulate you upon being the w of conferring a baet benefit upon such of conr fellow men as are e and desire at the same time to pursue special lines of study for material or intellectual advancement or both my own experience the I 1 OS metal mining course etui h I 1 took unsolicited and fin abed a few years ago impress ed roe that I 1 have since taken up ft course in modern french in the same schools having had the prior benefit of a cal edu alloa I 1 am perhaps oetter to fully appreciate these courses then men without th s advantage advant aae on completion of the metal M ning course I 1 wrote lo 10 the schools ds follows I 1 have been as fully what was OMITTED as by what lag in the course of instruction an earnest seeker after information on these lines can asprec ate that remark tor full bet of technical that would tun sh ane information conta oed n this course would cost several times the outlay tor the whole couise and in the last analis s it would be incumbent upon him to determine for himself what is really necessary practical or up to date in practice the work of abee schools s like those natural forces of erosion that take tl e gold in minute quantities from vat land areas and i concentrate it for the use of man in the sands ad gradele of our placers to pit this work in the self contained shape in which it is to ind in the scranton bc ranton courses ie the work ot master minds ana far beyond the time or ab lity of one at actual burk so that I 1 believe that aba dav opened by the I 1 0 is the only way for a nan so sit bated and at the same time it ia the most perfect way Rp garding the co arse in fienco I 1 can peak with equal assurance 1 e only reabun I 1 have not attempted this language until well on in middle life ie lack ot opportunity such as an instructor alone can furnish 0 this tongue I 1 scouted the idea ot the phonograph for this purpose as I 1 could not understand my own tongue on that machine enss I 1 pro knew what it was going to sav I 1 think d now while I 1 dres n the morning or at other odds and ends 0 t me my phonograph talks to e in fience and without special on I 1 under stand all it says in english it patient master of languages A d pronunciation can only te gotten by end less tion what master would patient ly repeat the word ten fatty or a hundred times ditl out con plaint at the mera will of the students stu dentt with the pho you dimply presa the buttmi and it dopa the rest the at on of the need of endless repetition is again exempt fied 1 the vo lu n ous bract ce es by tl e t f s stent abt ot these fluency of n tain t egnatu dl way as a acl ild learns II 11 it 1 as been that a man in mid lie 1 te u n t become fluent in a fore agn tongue I 1 th this language method d apro es the assertion and I 1 can cheerfully commend it as being all that is claimed for it I 1 have written somewhat at length but I 1 really cannot do justice in fewer worde to what I 1 feel on the sub eject if this is of any use to you or the to your work ou can use it entire or cull t om it to eu t vo aselt ours try ly signed N LEHMAN A 0 SMOOT JR provo utah |
