Caption: Booklet - Element of Inspiration in the Schools (1902)
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SCO UNIVKR8ITI OF m i : S T A I D o r M:\V rORK [26 D | I know a man. yel under middle ag< who In on( ol the i Hflc laboratories of the Qniver tj of Illlnol bat, aft Ion rears of patienl experimentation, conclusive i; prov< d n < r»l thai yon ran change the character of corn thi h in in ion of choice ears for propagation, bu1 al t tin h the taking of the kernels from particular i rts of tl r a .in chanc ihe chemical elements and bi d into h i ni n (>v more fat as von will. There are millions of m < y I incalculable other consequences in thai i monstration. h can no1 1 said too ofl D thai il does i ma' i h liffei w hai one does so Ion s he ma >m n I the productivity of the w rid. And on is liable uii is substantial a contribution, and in uite pi a i irn, in rash and in cultui , in the industrial as in il class! world, and in the Hold oi* applied as In thai t s< The w osi understands o\ o I r i ban i h d < 1 w much easier il is to tei ch iInn- - and boj lian b \ l a l k i n : a n d I would no1 d a . to i m p l j thai w ill backward aboul talking. The Unv di\ of illii 1 uilt in the las! three ov four yeai a raih n i r h f two gi n i ilway systems of the an try. We o] tfc N In trs betw< n Cleveland and Omaha I Chiea ml (U'l sendii our teachers and our senior s1 ] » ii i , measui i he potenl iality of < oa I i n id i del in i he roadbeds, and to do e\ erj i hing \ ill Ii i he companii to secure I he gi n tesl on 1 Hi of operation. The unn ii\ has learned thai the In t i to teach raih' engin i o si udenl s io ci\ i il in .in all-round trainin md then i them to engiiu ring r 1 oi 1 A ml ill. railroads have fouhd thai the men who i an only bold a job an noi educated, and thai educated men an do oi for them than uneducated men, when 1 comes to th< 1 i\ of the \. aiosi speed and when the closest sa\injj is imporn i ive. *
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