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Prof. Edward Amherst Ott delivered one of the most inspiring, helpful and eloquent lectures ever delivered in our city. We have had all the great men of the American platform and Mr. Ott measures up with the best of them.

Not an adverse criticism has been heard. I wish that his "Sour Grapes" might be heard in all the land.

This is unsolicited and I mean all I say. I have been a member of the committee for eighteen years.

Very truly,

J. W. ZELLAR,

Superintendent Findlay Public Schools.

Dear Mr. Harrison :

CRESTLINE, OHIO, Dec. 8, 1905.

Edward Amherst Ott was with us last night, and we were "with him." The universal verdict is that "Sour Grapes" is the best lecture ever heard in Crestline. His plain, forcible statements of our duties to posterity were clothed in the most delicate language conceivable. His bursts of oratory charmed and his humor amused.

The people seem much pleased with the attractions thus far and are patronizing them splendidly.

Very truly,

H. D. CLARKE,

Superintendent Crestline Public Schools.

Read on other side of this leaf the opinion of two prominent Ohio school men.

When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour
Threatening and darkening as it hurried on,
She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down
To make a man to meet the mortal need.
She took the tried clay of the common road
Clay warm yet with the genial heart of earth,
Dashed through it all a strain of prophecy;
Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff.
It was a stuff to hold against the world,
A man to match our mountains, and compel
The stars to look our way and honor us.

The color of the ground was in him, the red earth;
The tang and odor of the primal things;

The rectitude and patience of the rocks;

The gladness of the wind that shakes the corn;

The courage of the bird that dares the sea;
The justice of the rain that loves all leaves;
The pity of the snow that hides all scars;
The loving kindness of the wayside well;
The tolerance and equity of light

That gives as freely to the shrinking weed
As to the great oak flaring to the wind-
To the grave's low hill as to the Matterhorn
That shoulders out the sky.

Number 2

And so he came.

From prairie cabin up to Capitol,

One fair Ideal led our Chieftain on.
Forevermore he burned to do his deed
With the fine stroke and gesture of a king.
He built the rail-pile as he built the State,
Pouring his splendid strength through every blow,
The conscience of him testing every stroke,

To make his deed the measure of a man.

So came the captain with the mighty heart;
And when the step of earthquake shook the house,
Wrenching the rafters from their ancient hold,
He held the ridgepole up, and spiked again
The rafters of the Home. He held his place-
Held the long purpose like a growing Tree-
Held on through blame and faltered not at praise.
And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down
As when a kingly cedar green with boughs
Goes down with a great shout upon the hills,
And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.

- Edwin Markham.

NEW STANDARD OF PREPARATION FOR ELEMENTARY

TEACHERS.

BY DR. FRANK P. BACHMAN, NORMAL COLLEGE, ATHENS.

Standard in Prussia. - The highest conception held by any nation of the world of what constitutes a proper preparation for elementary school work is that of Prussia. The preparation required, not in theory but in practice of elementary teachers in Prussia, when translated into American equivalents, is quite equal in time to the period required to complete a full course in the best Ohio

colleges, and it is equal in quality to about two and a half or three years of academic college work, and to about one and a half or two years of professional study. In other words it is about equivalent to the courses leading to the Teacher's Diploma in such schools as the School of Education of the University of Chicago and Teachers' College, Columbia University.