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Show WEBER ACADEMY OPENS COURSE OF LECTURES The 1914-16 lecture course at tin-Weber tin-Weber academy was opened last night with a lecture by Chancellor Georgp H Bradford, one of the foremost fore-most Lyceum lecturers of the pros-cnt pros-cnt day The academy auditorium ' was wdII filled with interested listeners listen-ers and In every waj the opening event was considered a most auspicious auspic-ious one. Chancellor Bradford took as a theme for IiIb remarks. "Education in Its Relation to the Brotherhood of Man Present-day education and ee peclally that of the United States formed i he greater part of his discussion discus-sion and throughout the talk he Indicated Indi-cated that the United States, as the baveu of refuge for people of all nations, na-tions, would at some future da lead '.lit' world in forming a great federa '.ion This federation, he said, will bring the leaders of all thp nations together for the establishment of international in-ternational laws, that will be follow ed in thp same way as the states of this nation follow tho national laws The solution of thiR problem, he continued, win come through education, educa-tion, the (raining of the young men and women and the boys and girls of today, to become "100 per cent men and women." who can be developed devel-oped to handle the great problems that now confront the world. With respect to the possibilities in the American youth Chancellor Bradford predicted that with proper educational advantages and environ mints, it would be easy to bring a president of the United States from the ranks of Utah boys within 25 years, and also a governor for every ; state In the union riume Training was aiso BPOKen upon by the noted educator with I much seriousness. If this is developed, devel-oped, he said, along the lines of the i individual needs of the child, it would do much to bring about the brother- j hood ol man. In connection with , home training with this point in view, the speaker said that Individual attention was also needed by the child in the schoolroom and tt he could have his way, no teacher would have more than IS pupils instead of 40 or 50, as they do at the present time. The value of the education that would result in the forming of the smaller classes, he declared, would be incomparably more important than the question as to whether or not such a step would increase taxation |
