The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding as Queens College, 1766-1916 . the libraries. Yale began with forty books,and began greatly. It was not the buildings. They wereshabby and dilapidated in many cases. It was not thecampus. What is it that made the great teachers in thiscountry! It can be summed up in the one word per-sonality. The students know that something is happen-ing in the teachers mind, that he is now conquering newintellectual territory. When a class know that some-thing vital and important is happening in the teachersmind they hang on his lips
The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding as Queens College, 1766-1916 . the libraries. Yale began with forty books,and began greatly. It was not the buildings. They wereshabby and dilapidated in many cases. It was not thecampus. What is it that made the great teachers in thiscountry! It can be summed up in the one word per-sonality. The students know that something is happen-ing in the teachers mind, that he is now conquering newintellectual territory. When a class know that some-thing vital and important is happening in the teachersmind they hang on his lips, throng his classroom, andgive him the homage of the immature mind to the richand great mind. And there is no substitute for buildings may grow and campus may extend andequipment increase, it will still always be that vital thingthat will make the great teacher, the personality behindthe desk that kindles young minds into flame. And thenthe fire spreads. It burns up laziness and apathy andruns through a college as fire through dry forests. These old Colonial colleges taught the creators of. FRIDAY, OCTOBER THIRTEENTH 101 America how to think. Twenty-five years ago, even tenor fifteen years ago, we all disparaged the doctrine ofmental discipline. We said it had gone by the board,that there is no such thing as general mental power butonly unrelated powers. But today that old doctrine isbeing rehabilitated by some of our best will never come back in its old form, in that old pureabstraction, which was first presented; but we are comingto believe that there is a possibility of so developing thepersonality that it can grapple with more than one taskin life and fill more than one sphere. I received some years ago a letter from the head ofone of the largest industrial enterprises in this , if I mistake not, some of the other college execu-tives here tonight received one also. He said: *^ We wantto get a man to take charge of our two thousand em-
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