ADDRESS FOR THE NORMAL SCHOOLS 



PRESIDENT LEWIS HENRY JONES 

 Ypsilanti State Normal College 



I have the honor to bring greetings from the oldest insti- 

 tution for the training of teachers west of the Alleghenies to the 

 oldest institution in the West which devotes itself to technical 

 training in agriculture and the mechanic arts. Our fervent 

 wish is that prosperity attend you in all your ways to the end 

 that the commonwealth may continue to receive at your hands 

 well-trained citizens, with that happy balance of culture and 

 efficiency which you so well represent in your courses of study 

 and your teaching practice. We have recently had coined three 

 catching phrases descriptive of tendencies more or less evident 

 in American life, and more or less represented in our educational 

 institutions. The celebrated French preacher, Charles Wagner, 

 coined and placed in circulation the phrase, "the simple life," 

 thereby eulogizing that happy poise of mind resulting from a 

 kind of culture which finds its interests mainly within — or at 

 least within the domain of — the spiritual life. Our honored 

 President of these United States has invented and exemplified 

 the phrase, "the strenuous life," laying emphasis at least upon 

 the outward struggle in which power delights itself in contending 

 with problems which tax its utmost strength. Hon. Frank A. 

 Vanderlip, vice-president of the New York City Bank, in an 

 address before the National Education Association, at Asbury 

 Park, used the phrase, " the efficient life," as expressing a modern 

 idea of the union of knowledge and effort by directing these 

 in practical ways toward the accomplishing of ends directly 

 increasing the comfort and happiness of the people. 



Each of these phrases is in a way a happy putting of a half- 



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