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Show Boston Letter to The Cache American . by F.R.A. scheme of education but they, as Harvard and Alcott would seem to show, need not exclude ten minutes of spiritual thinking every morning. A battle of ideas that we could always count on when we were teaching French in Logan took place each year at the moment when we were passing on to beginners be-ginners in the language the best of all French quotations to the effect that we all have two fatherlands, father-lands, our own and France. The class would mentally shout at us, "What you giving us?" While some one would always demand. "Prove it, please." That was easy to do by the mere mention of such names as Binet, Pasteur, Debussy, Rousseau and countless others. And this past month when Major Max, Vivier gave . a lecture on LlSifant at the Boston Public Library Li-brary we got a new proof of our proverb. It seems that L'Enfant was a Frenchman who came over even before Lafayette to fight in the Revolutionary war' and liked j America so well that he stayed' (Continued on Page Eight) j 5. On Easter morning we were : awakened by the sunrise singing of voices that seemed to us heav- 1 enly but were announced as com- i ing from "Provo University" which : k we interpreted to mean the BYU. It was good music and we rejoiced t that Provo is "going" California in its sunrise services. We wish that A. C. would "go" Harvard in its religious services, ..the value of which came over us recently with , a new force. , One morning while waiting for '. ' a student whom we were working i with at Harvard we went to ' morning chapel exercises in the : comparatively new Appleton Mem- ' orial Chapel. The service is volun- 1 tary and only about sixty attend- J ed, a pitifully small proportion of : J the thousands that study at the . University. . But never have we at- ' tended a more soul stirring service. : It made us wish more than ever that the A. C. would offer its students stu-dents this daily voluntary oppor- tunity for meditation, reverence ( i and soul searching. We understand! that the State college has turned all its religious life over to what! is practically a state church and yet we feel that the college should' itself come out as a partisan ofj the life of the spirit, for it seems: to us that training in soul exam-! ination and listening to the still small voice is as important in education edu-cation as is the explanation of economic ec-onomic theory or scientific laws. That is, if a college even a non-sectarian non-sectarian state, college, is to do ' a work of education, and not ' merely one of instruction. j That morning we had a hymn, a prayer, a psalm sung by the choir and a ten minute address, the subject of which was taken: from Bertram Russell. Of all peo-j pie! Here is the Russell text. fk "This sophisticated generation is in I danger of going spiritually provin-citl provin-citl in the sense that it cannot understand un-derstand or sympathize with other ways of thinking". Then the speaker speak-er developed the idea that in order or-der not to be spiritually provincal V we must turn our backs on pre-S, pre-S, judice and learn that the growth i of meaning and value makes us capable of devine judgement and realize, as Abraham Lincoln said, fthat "The Almighty has his own purposes." We asked the speaker , afterwards if he really believed In a divine plan and he answered I us that God does not work by blue I prints, as we coming from Utah I might have been led to believe, I . but by cycles. A most stimulating i quarter of an hour and one that , made us wonder if Boston were 'y Bot as spiritually provincial as j Boulder Dam. I The same idea came to us when reading Odell Shephard's "Pedlars . Progress," the title of which should jy delight all Utahns, although it is really the life of Bronson Alcott, ' r-j. he father of Little Women, and 1; also the best teacher and the ! worst business man that New Eng- Hand ever produced. He was the I best teacher because he emphasiz-j emphasiz-j ed the spiritual life as beng more important than the material. Man "j. shall not live by bread alone. As 1 Mr. Shepard puts it, "Against John Locke and Benjamin Franklin, '. Alcott set Plato and Jesus, those r really bold gamblers for the hu- man soul who ventured all on a VJ. single throw, and said as Jesus 801(1 to Nicodemus in the night, (U' V except a man be born again he 1 cannot see the kingdom of God." I Of course Lincoln and Morrill put J material things first in their leges. To counteract this report of defects in the well nigh perfect educational system of Utah we will dose with a quotation from a letter written us by a German missionary. "I received a letter from my brother in California the other day. You knew him also, I believe, name of Woodrow Rigby. He is at present time branch manager of the Beneficial Life Insurance Co., at Sacramento, California. He is making good in a big way. Has an office in the big new Insurance Insur-ance Building in Sacramento, has purchased a new home, and seems to be very much thrilled with his work. I am surely proud of him. When you consider that he is only twenty-four years old you can see that it is quite an enviable record he has made." O Boston Letter To Cache American i . . . j By F.R-A. . (Continued from Page One) on the rest of his' life. Washing-tea Washing-tea admired him so much that he employed him to organize the I parade in New York in honor of I the acceptance of the constitution fcy all the thirteen states and to I plan the City Hall in New York jso that that city might be the na-j na-j tional capital. But his biggest work was planning the city of Washington. Washing-ton. Taking the French landscape i architect, Le Notre, ' as his god land model he laid out the city of Washington and thus was the first to give the city Its resemblance resem-blance to Versailles. He was the first to plan streets as wide as Brigham Young liked them, to uoe rotarys as a traffic aid and a landscape feature, to institute zoning zon-ing in cities and to fight real estate companies by offering opportunity op-portunity to buy city lots in Washington to any citizen of the land. We have often wondered why the White House was located so far from the Capitol building and the Major told us how the feature was planned by L'Enfant, so that when Congress had communications communica-tions to make with the President, there should be added to them the dignity of using a carriage to convey them. One of our former . 'students wrote us this month that he had found himself handicapped by his inability to use a typewriter and so had begun to take lessons at the L.D.S. Business College. In order or-der to pay his way he Suggested to Prest. Fox that he be given a ciass : in English to teach. He thought himself perfectly capable of doing that even though he was shaky in spelling, careless of capitals capi-tals and ignorant of punctuation. Prest. - Fox told him that such work was handled competently by one of the ubiquitous Bennions and then asked pertinently why he, with a batcheor"s degree in commerce from the U.S.A.C. knew nothing of typing nor of accounting. account-ing. There was a position to teach accounting open. Could he handle it? He could not. We shudder to think what Senator Morrill and Prest. Lincoln would have said to this glaring loophole in their otherwise triumphant system of agricultural and mechanical col- |