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Show GIVE ALL BOYS A CHANCE.- The boys in the schools of New York City are experimenting with wireless telegraph apparatus and aeroplanes." They are study ing electric forces and aerostatics, with the result that youngsters not more than thirteen years old are keeping up with the latest discoveries dis-coveries in those two branches of investigation and experiment. Why not encourage Ogden boys to study these most interesting subjects? Why net aid thom to obtain wireless apparatus and model aeroplanes? " There is something fascinating to the boy mind in these excursions excur-sions into the realms of the strangely new, and the opportunity to develop along these lines may be productive of more than one eminently successful young man. I We are told there are bright boys and dull boys in our schools. There were the two classes of boys when James Watt was a stripling and Watt was marked down in school as among the stupid. Yet the boy who was dull in imitation proved to be a genius in original ity, and discovered the principle of the steam engine. And eo it may be among our children, that while the precocious preco-cious youngster will Bhine in book lore, we may save some of the dull boys from the charge of lack of brains by proving that in the mechanical field and in original research they are pre-eminent. There is the mind which can memorize. That is the literary mind. There is the mind which is analytical. Thit goes with the mathematical mind. But beyond either is the mini which, though it suffers by comparison in school, so often gives to us the man of genius in the world of applied science or mechanic;. Our schools cannot be too broad. They should te wide enough in their scope so that if a child proves deficient In one branch of learning, that child may turn to something in which its latent talents, even though they be purely mechanical, may find adaptability. Many a boy, branded as a dullard, in whom confidence is early destroyed by a false measurement of his worth, mirht be saved from a life of condemnation and lost ambition by a beter understanding of a boy's worth in the tender year3 or formative period, when the school teacher is authorized to pass judgment. We are for schools which can find the bent of i boy's mind and develop the brain cells along that line of least reiistance. We are in favor of the introduction of anything, even though a novelty, if the study of the same will bring results and male of boys men of capacity, skill, originality men of service to hununlty. |