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Show SW FARMING VS. g$$ LATIN B& Tho speaker at a recent grange meeting In another town mado tho gj Temark that four years of farming Jgi ' jives a boy uulto as much mental ex- a rclso as four years study of Latin. life; No one should speak disrespectfully 5m of Latin. It Ib Impossible to 'on- 'W?- elvo of a boy who could study It ifcSg attentively for four years and not SMP , . K't practical moutal development $k ' Ills translation oxerclsos would great JqS ly enlargo hla command of English f!Hj Ho would mako good dlscrlmlnatlonB EJj hctweon English words of nearly tho BB tamo meaning. In any literary or HJH professional calling, this would bo of Hljj great valuo. Ho would wrlto and HhJ tpcak English moro fluently, Ills HBl liiiowledgc of Latin roots would on- HBI blo Mm to seo deeper Into tho things ho reads. Ills mind would bo Iroailnr by knowing tho llfo of and- Hll cnt peoples, and his bottor knowlodi'.o of llteraturo would glvo him llfo long onjoymont. If a boy works four ycar3 farming and simply does what hlg father tells him to do, mnklng no observations for himself, ho Is little bottor equip pod for llfo than ho wns before Ho may have acquired tho regular habit hab-it of Industrious toll, which has nl-no. nl-no. Hut that can bo acquired also In studying Latin. Uut if n boy would mnko hU four years' farm work a school, an ex perlment station on producing results It might have a higher valuo than tho scholastic occupation of Latin. If every tlmo ho planted a Hold of corn he would cxamtno carefully all tho conditions of his work, compare tho results of different methods, reach an original conclusion as to the best method, ho would bo doing original research work Just as valuable as anything tho collego has to teach. Unfortunately comparatively few people peo-ple work In that thorough way. |