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Show STILWELL PROPOUNDS TWENTY QUESTIONS It is doubtful if the answering or one-half of the Chicago University lecturer's twenty questions recently quoted In a Standard editorial would constitute a test of a broad education, educa-tion, for example, tho first six might readily be answered by a ward politician, poli-tician, while His Excellency the Pope would fail on most of them. Any contemporaneous office-holder, as Lee McClurg, who does not make his name well known to the common people is not worth romemberlng. The biography of one of them fifty years hence would be absurd; and Just now their names are certainly not more Important than are those of tho crack baseball players. I herewith submit twenty questions, to ninety per cent of which moBt educated ed-ucated people will be able to give a more or less satisfactory answor, tho nature of tho answer indicating tne kind and degroe of education, as in the tenth, equally well educated persons per-sons would glvo widely different answers: an-swers: 1 Explain the changes which havo taken place during the last fifty years in the political geography of the world. 2 Compare the conditions one hundred hun-dred years ago that made life worth living with what makes life worth living now. 3 Mention ton discoveries which have prolonged human life. 1 What changed conditions havo made It possible for somo men to amass great wealth? 5 Mention five ancient nations and a modern nation somewhat resembling resemb-ling ench. 6 Compare ancient and modern transportation and state the effects on civilization. 7 Comparo ancient and modern communication and state tho effect upon civilization. 8 Mention five great engineering works of the ancients and comparo with as many modern works as to utility. 9 To Tvhat uses wero capital ana labor put in the past, and how are they now utilized? 10 What efTect have tho laTs of Confucius had upon China? Compare with our constitution and supreme court. . . , 11 in what does modern education excel that of ono hundred years ago? 12 What preparation does one need in order to become a noteworthy physician, phy-sician, lawyer, preacher, teacher, politician, poli-tician, statesman, civil engineor, farmer, far-mer, banker, merchant? IS Mention five astronomical discoveries dis-coveries of tho last thirty years. 1 1 Mention five industries dependent depend-ent on chemistry. 15 How has geology taught us tho past -history of the earth? 16 What is meant by evolution? 17 Give tho derivation of ten English Eng-lish words. , 18 Mention three authors whoso works havo produced groat social or political effect. 19 Of those who have left tno deepest "footprints on the sands of time" mention a warrior, religionist, statesman, poet, prose writer, inent-or. inent-or. 20 Mention one great polntor, sculptor, musician, actor, and a"cm-tect, a"cm-tect, and ono of tho pr9ductJ? fT "?'T (Sicna) O. X STITAVE1T T. , -1 -t-jammeSSSSSik |