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trained young man whose energy and grasp of affairs soon led 

 the management to promote him over a faithful and trusted 

 employee. The old clerk felt deeply hurt that the young man 

 should be promoted over him, and took occasion to complain of it 

 to the manager. Feeling that this was a case that could not be 

 argued, the manager asked the old clerk what was making all the 

 noise in front of their building. He went forward and returned 

 with the answer that it was a lot of wagons going by. He then 

 asked the clerk what they were loaded with, and again he went 

 out and returned, reporting that they were loaded with wheat. 

 The manager again sent him to ascertain how many there were, 

 and he returned with the answer that there were sixteen. Final- 

 ly he was sent to see where they were from, and he returned, 

 saying that they were from the city of Lucena. The manager 

 then asked the old clerk to be seated, and sent for the young 

 man, and said to him, " Will you see what is the meaning of 

 that rumbling noise in front ? " The young man replied : " It 

 is unnecessary, for I have already ascertained that it is caused 

 by sixteen wagons loaded with wheat. Twenty more will pass 

 to-morrow. They belong to Romero & Co., of Lucena, and are 

 on their way to Marchesa, where wheat is bringing one dollar 

 and twenty-five cents per bushel, while it costs only one dollar 

 at Lucena. The wagons carry one hundred bushels each and get 

 fifteen cents per bushel for hauling." The young man was then 

 dismissed, and the manager turning to the old clerk said, "My 

 friend, you see now why the young man was promoted over you." 

 This illustrates the tendency of our times, for we are rapidly 

 advancing into an age when concentration of energy and grasp 

 of a subject in detail in the shortest possible time are requisite 

 for advancement. 



This is largely an era of material progress, and the training 

 which is needed most for the rising generation especially here in 

 the West is that which will fit it for the application of its best 

 efforts to the noblest piirposes of life. The prei^aration for this 

 work must come through our schools. Teaching here involves 

 three distinct processes : instruction, or the imparting of knowl- 

 edge ; education, or the development of the faculties ; and train- 

 ing, or the formation of habits of thought and work. The mas- 

 ter teacher has a happy combination of these three processes, 

 no matter whether it be in the primary grades, the college, the 

 university, or the technical school. In the elementary schools 

 instruction necessarily predominates ; in the college and univer- 

 sity, the educational ; while in the school of technology, the ele- 

 ment of training is the most important. And I believe that the 

 principal work of a technical school like this should be the train- 

 ing of young men in accurate methods of thinking and working. 



