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Show EDUCATORS GIVE FINE LECTURERS Several splendid lectures were given giv-en in Mt. Pleasant on Sunday and Monday of this week by Dr. E. G. Gowans of the State Industrial School and Dr. G. E. Petersen of the Logan Agricultural College. The former was here in response to an Invitation by the M. I. Association while the latter came to address a High School meeting. The conflict in dates was not discovered until too late to make a change so both gentlemen gen-tlemen delivered addresses at the Sunday evening meeting, and the following' fol-lowing' morning addressed students and citizens at the High School. Audiences Aud-iences that packed the buildings greeted them at both places. Dr. Gowans' addresses were de- doted principally to the training of the young, a subject in which he is of course vitally interestd, and he gave much splendid advice and in-.ormation in-.ormation on that and kindred subjects. sub-jects. At the school he was particularly partic-ularly convincing and kept the crowd of young folks there intensely interested inter-ested for two school periods. Men tal, Moral and physical cleanliness, and a perfect home were his topics. Dr. Petersen confined his remarks to educational subjects both places, agricultural education in particular' receiving much attention. At the High School his subject was the many changes being made in the course of study offered high schools and col- leges of the country at the present ! time, which were rapidly eliminating such subjects as Latin, Greek and Others of the kind, to which he referred re-ferred as "Tom Foolery," and substituting sub-stituting subjects more in harmony with modern community life and of far greater real value to the average ' I young man or woman preparing for life. He was particularly emphatic in his discussion of this vital question, ques-tion, and predicted that the time would very soon be here when all of these, as he termed them, -jseless subjects would be eliminated from most high schools and many colleges. He named eminent educators of the land who entertained the same idea, the president of Cornell University being one of them. |