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teaching reading ; she is teaching literature. She has set 

 up a new standard ; and presently upon the minds of the 

 young people there begins to dawn a sense of values that 

 are real, that shine and ring through the years, and that 

 can not be measured by all the silver coin of the realm, 

 though silver were free as ever benevolent Mr. Bryan 

 could wish it, and came in showers upon the pavement. 



Such visions of value may not come in a day, though 

 sometimes they do; sometimes the lesson of a day lasts 

 for fifty years. 



But if not in a day, yet during the years through 

 which American children are moving forward to young 

 manhood and womanhood, through the fair fields of our 

 sweet, pure literature, through our more than romantic, 

 heroic, and generally noble history, through the fascina- 

 tions of physical science, you may lead them to such an 

 estimate of things really abiding, and satisfying, and 

 worth while in this world, that by and by you have a 

 whole community around you devoted to ideals the best 

 that men know ; and by and by you have a generation of 

 men loving cleanness and simplicity and beauty ; wisdom 

 shall be justified of her children, and the commonwealth 

 shall live and not die ! 



On and after January 1, 1915, every one who teaches 

 in our Iowa public schools must pass an examination in 

 agriculture, manual training, and domestic science. But 

 let us not err. Even here we seek not to develop intel- 

 ligence in the ordinary conduct of our familiar agricul- 

 tural operations alone; it is not only desired that a 

 teacher be able to know a ''hawk from a handsaw," a 

 cart from a plow, a grain of barley from a grain of 



