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Show Now comes Professor Eliot of Harvard Har-vard university adding his quota to the testimony anent the failure of the public pub-lic school system. He arraigns it in an address before the Connecticut State Teachers' association. He says it has failed to train citizens so that they can vote intelligently; failed to stamp out gambling; failed to curb mob law and crimes of violence; failed to cultivate sufficient reasoning power in employers and employed to prevent strikes, violence vio-lence and loss, and failed to abolish the demoralizing spoils system in the civil service. . If Harvard's president is correct in his statements it follows very evidently that our school system has proved a failure, after a long and costly trial, says Father Lambert in the Freeman's Journal. Having proved this, 'it is strange that President Eliot can find no better remedy than to make the system sys-tem more costly. It does not seem to have occurred to him that the absence of religious teaching and moral training train-ing may have been the reason why our public school system has failed to make good, reliable citizens. A waistcoat buttoning to the throat, having the choir chant, saying "ah-men" "ah-men" instead of "a-men" these are some of the reasons why the Rev. Charles Le Verne Roberts was compelled com-pelled to leave the pastorate of the Ber-wyn Ber-wyn (111.) Methodist church. One faction, fac-tion, claiming to represent a large majority ma-jority of the membership of the church, hoped to retain him. The other faction, fac-tion, also claiming to be the majority, is not sorry that he is to leave. The result is a church fight that threatens to disrupt the organization. Captain Shaw-Taylor, a heavy owner of Irish lands, is the man who called a conference of landlords and tenants to meet in Dublin and attempt to reach an understanding, which failed owing rb the refusal of other landlords to attend.. at-tend.. The attitude of the landlords toward to-ward Captain Shaw-Taylor's proposal increased the bitterness felt toward them, and brought about the feeling exhibited ex-hibited in the house of commons recently. |