The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1900, Page 3

\o N THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GIWRL . i PosE BY LILA ConvERE. oF THE ALCAZAR. BuSHNEL —_— PHoToT Next Century in American Edugation. By David Starr Jordan. t of education in Amer- but tedious drudgery. Some acquire f ot ock 3 u en- come to it in numbers. It must be poor in the past half century is such ulne culture from the study of modern in the best sense, because it can keep no we can speak with some cer- historical movements, others from the idle capital. In its efforts to meet the just pi B e i In my CoUtemplation of physical law or from demands upon it it will strain to the ut- R the next fifty Lh¢ relation of life to its surroundings. most all its resources. The universities o = o . i Whatever strengthens or clarifies the of England have stood in the past for directic ictive In- mind, whatever broadens the horizon of personal culture. The universities of Ger- a made Visior: or intensifies one’s Interest in higi- many have stood for thoroughness of Py : good ¢F Lnings is a source of culture. Culture knowledge. The universities of America, e S e A R ¢ result of any study or combi- under the impulse of the virility of en- . ot s peamenl - ¥ i f studies. It is concerned with lightened democracy, have tried to com- . g ot gty one’s attitude toward nature and human- bine these two ideals into a third, that of ‘ e will be greati xten, ity, and there is no single gate through rsonal effectiveness. What can you do? o for special c with which all may pass to attain it. B the auestion yery Ameriban. student & bring the student inio The growing realization of the value of has to answer. The university should en- 1 i 7 in which Le will expert knowledge, itseif one of the best able him to answer it well. And with P r At the same time tests of the existéence of general culture, their present rate of growth in usefulness ke w y widening oppor- will demand of the American universit; - and power, there seems no reason why in . wral culture, but this cul- constantly greater thoroughness n . ity fihyp;')ears the Jeading schools in higher t sc adapted to the indi- work. Thoroughness requires costly ap- education and specialized tralning should vidu to the fullest account the pliances, the best of teachers, the best not be on American soil. In any event, a rs and needs of different of libraries, the best of apparatus, Espe- the“future of the American republic must mel emphasis cannot be laid cially is this true in the study of the lie"with the American university. In {ts ))' for a broad general train- plied sciences. For example, the subject hands the future is safe. The change in ¥ tion for successful spe- for this training those chosen which will se- of electricity alone demands for effective hecded Tor a Ereat collees of the seit ne e cl stamp in the fl:t‘nnenuon. e The American university of the future must be wealthy, for it must have means to meet the needs of a very of men and women. L variety ‘when it meets these needs will the Hl.r;ll.l'd olulfliflnweéhllt of }'900 suffi- ecas m| fhe Harvard of 190, for the samg. the fluences that have found response in the wise administration of President Eliot ”‘nu remain at work for the generations come. In my judgment the line of h will a’h‘lllowcd in m'wm° Me e vaw— must subjects cure the desired rcoult in the individual case. It is not mankind which is to be trained, but the individuz! man. BSome fwen attain culture through the study of the noble monuments of the literature of satiguity., Others fipd nothing in Greek THE SUNDAY OALL. sities as In those of private foundation. The latter are freer to move, better fitted jonal ex The State loser touch with the peo- ple and will carry the people with it. The ominational institutions will become aistinctly specialized as such, emphasiz- ing general culture with religious train- ing. They may become feeders to higher institutions, or el where their endow- ment permits, they will develop into unt- Versitfes of the same general type as the others. To become a living university is to recognize the movement of the times and to respend to it The position of the preparatory school will become more worthy as it is more definitely fixed. A good academy is far more useful than a weak college. The preparatory school wiil fill the space be- tween childhood and the beginning of A ization. The student who leaves its doors will ook directly toward life. no matter how long the vista of training which lies between. And with the growth of real universities all other schools wi feel the stimulus of their activity. Bétter methods will yleld better men. The in- fluence of the univ ; wHI be’ felt more and more through the whole school & tem. Tt will rett from the student who « m to the university. Tt will follow -rsity student who goes back to the academy as a teacher, and this mu- tual ence for good must grow greaier t X g0 So long as “America opportun: N progress. The Eutlre OF Medicine. By F. W. D’Evelyn, M.D. s0 long will democ- TL_f ISTORY has demonstrated that {7l there have beer moted periods in I [ whieh growth and development in arts, + been me sciences and economiecs have t pronouiced, vet there has not been any discovery of fixed laws by which we covid formulate auses” for thi activity; or which would enable us to con- jude that this growth and development any given period would be constant uniform. Were it otherwise the fu- ture would be simply a proportionate de- elopment of the present, and would.ad- it no difficulty in ful eness, v appreciating > conclude at the m B rade in the art and sclence of the past one hundred years ively sustained in the sue- at best simply a mat- Yet we are prepared to te great thin for we cagnot t the next ¢ rs will so € ate the active faculties of medi- cine that there will not be born to it minds in eompari 1e present type is in "' whose genius w e pres- dvance only ter: rkne: a lesser dar tion of a fact long since suggested, or an unexplained observation long since made. Let us note that 1800 years ago Pompeii was destroy ut many of the surgical instruments discovered in those ruins are in principle essentially the same as those now in use and in all likelihood baptized by the ‘“inventor,” electroplated and safely protected in the grip which bears the vrcud name of a modern Galen »dorus. n, might not good old James Mo- ., who somewhere about the yea: pointed argec for stc d worthy of dignity of a as fairly as surgeo: add fr or e trips to » arms of pre list of ‘‘ore-crushers zthy and ex- and also some new “tips” in the application of hydraulics and ilumin- ants. Do we not even find recorded new agents" m yome and medicaments which have in very fact been practiced and known for many generations to some barbaric medicine man or int lins not the much-lauded ‘‘fo the great germ-killer, heen fucl the pharmacopela of the Bantu pe re the Carthaginians hunted the elephant in the forests of Mauritania? And what have we added further to t ygen treatmert since Priestley, in i7i4, told us “this pure ay become a luxury, £0 far only and myself have had the p ng it ances of like nvince hate two mie liege of u nature o studied the subject deeply proportion of the ‘“novelti in medicine are mernly novel in application and not In discove The advances the Jast century, more ¢ ma irgery dur the latter half, > borde: phenomenal. results collateral factors, such troduction of general and thesia, improved ruments precautions and sgurgeon himseif study and manip the reach of his predecessor. resulting from these combinat come mftammatory, and it is not to recognize that operative has a strong ‘“‘upward tendenc with this (here is much danger branch of medicine will be overw. 4 There is in the human mind a fetic awe or veneration for “blood,” Mation altogether beyond The i and whether it flows on the ficld of battie. in the prizering or on the table of the sur- geon the effect is in a measure the sam blood speaks. And when the eyes of th layman view just for an accidental mo- ment the modern surgeon, antiseptized snd purified, clad in the immaculate vest- ments of the operating theater—the cawled head, the bared arms, the won- drous ‘‘table the background filled in with white-robed nurses, while the silence is broken only by the weird monotone of the assistants’ husied voices, is not the effect tragical? And the layman would be more than mortal were he not pro- foundly impressed. _Yes, blood speaks—and It also counts— so that there are dangers that the thirst “to subject everything to the knife" may at times be exercised to the detriment of well merited, justifiable, scientific and es- sential surgical interference. This is one feature which we trust and believe will be much modified in the coming century. The surgery of the future will have great and wonderful operations and the surgeon of the future will be a 8t reglonal surgery will alone occupy - tention and his skiil, to his credit, and we trust to the greater benefit of those operated 500. Stlil as there Is a limit than the surrounding gloom of ignorance which shrouded the medical world a century ago. We must admit.that we are indebted to those who have gone before us, and’ that much which we claim to-day orig- inal is in very truth simply the elucida- L) to regional hnatomy and therefore to to it, There f= a fixity Impressed wh o vhi regional and functioral repair, there must Is its birthright. and to this all corre also be a limit to surgical interference, ductions must uvltimately converge. e t s and perchance the future will not so muek it may be long these are all discov- b see more done as it will see whatever is ered, but they re ther accomplished better done. torced fancy can ev ucid Nature has had some reasons for the Son. To all intcrpretations implantation of certain organs within the they be frreconcilable and but when that one is ¢ overed it a revelation like the inspiration that re- vealed the thecry of gravitation, the ua skeleton of her greatest triumph an— and it will not be weil to advocate in the twentieth century the ‘“preventive sur- gery” already contemplated by some “ad. duiations of light, or the Infective germs vanced” men in the present. We must ©f pus. ia learn prudence from our successes. and we _ Already do we not see efforts being made in this dlrection, namely, a strain- ing after the solution of how nature con- serves her powers and combats her ad- versaries. What are the anti-toxins, the serums, crgano-therapeuties, but foot- steps along the pathways of Dame Na- tri . for instance, that the ovary may be™ granted the courtesy of fulfilling its des- tiny, and not be removed at puberty sim- ply because it may be diseased at midlife. colic Nor would we desire that every should be classified us a case of dicitis” an|l the appendix be r as a ture? Let the physician of the dawning timely preface to secure the patient per- century solve the meaning of that which fect fmmunity in tne future eating of We call dis-e . not-ease—lack of alance, the entities which stone fruit or seeded raisins. Nor will it be well ‘for the surgeon of S ip of tke co the future to recommend too strongly the make up this body of ours. Solve that removal of tI omach and the substi- and there will be no longer a mystery t tution of a plano-convex autom: unt- ills that we are heir to. Look at the lung coupling of iridfum so that the of a consumptive, read his death certi ieth century gourmand may not be cate and you will find inseribed th by dyspeptic. inconveniences as a use of hi: el h pulmo- sociated with other unpleasantnes: nalls,” a result not a wift when he begins to find the pace too able to trace thc long and the nights too long. Thus we are changes—the congestions, depletions, fain to hope that “regional surgery’” may the vici udes by which the ‘‘dis-ecase” Dot in the new century become of a ton was produced? The patholegist tell pronounced type. as otherwlise the prac- you it Is the illus of K as i possibly initiate a drsire not done this; he will kill the “bug,” but the il intestines and remove dead bug is still a foreign bod 111 stomachs but to develop crants an initiative factor, Results are ours; the causes are com- plex, and the solution is not yet. If the physician of the twentieth century does naught save develop the projects al- ready in embryo, great work and aston- ishing results will follow, and,, although we have hinted at boundary lin still we are convinced that great and pecullar ef- forts will be made. Should we hazard a izatien so markedly that t be consldered a “‘fore removal insi ic consummation to be among the ‘papers” of the eth century, as there are instanc un rvation. where the indl- recorded twen: alrea .mu.u:\'nn ||n‘ zht af --rn|u n% a .f(‘.;m ergy to be devoted to that class of dls- > reulatory for example an to modify acute ormal blood me . loc temy b mills” ace the blood Of tor) of the horosc is ther esumptive evide that the evolution of the new wo acute that long ere the tleth century reach species will bg so met woman's d imulation of the will demand an e m on the ¥ n or other m r specialist y a reduced atmospheric at this moment o re in l“(';'l' or less vacuu ception.” So we leav well, but feel grate Or ag: our lives has alread actuai mierference will be In the field of the the nt of blood enterin e future we (fancy that we cavities in ction of incres r boundary 1 for It Is decreasing the supply in order to reduce ~cardiae .. and estat culation. sly consider the a the limitation of 1 and ate in sue, be it epidermis, muscle much longer support the ure. was b the Ar It wa —can interpretations which have been Good Work of Red Cross- By [llrs. Willard B. Harrington, President State Red Cross Seciety, Member Bcard of Control National Red Cross Society. ER iin ' the history of the Red s has the outlook been so prom- disasters, the Red Cross can give assist- ance at once. Cro N ising. The work done by the Red The Spanish war has proven to the pub- Cross in the past. helpful and hu- )¢ the efficiency of the Red Cross. In manitarian as it has heen. will not com- event of any similar occurrence the con- pare with that of the f e. For t10-day fgence of the people need not be won. the society stands on « ntial and That has already been done, and this systematic basjs. Its work has |n""fl TéC- point argues well for the future of the »y the Government: its aims and gocjety. mly “'““‘:“";(h As for our own State Red Cross, praises s eonh O its Work been sung far and w heon - Lhu ’“"X" Congress in i t report will officts b t no other State in the Union say th : in i 2 f“;‘:]‘::‘ dene such magnificent work. Red (A vos "“.".”w n ".{:47'1': On April 23, 1868, a number of people met look to the grow e k. here in San Francisco and banded them- of these childran, and help them to make 5. "4 cther in an unofficial soclety, ;1.,. most of their po: ties for useful- oy ion quickly developed into a State Red e ‘ross Socle s to the amou ¢ This official st 2 of the Red Cross ;;"’" SRQILY. Tinde 2t Cwelint | of 000 being subscribed.by the enthusias- ol longer onEls tic and generous publ Vithin thr it & IS eeks after organization we ha es now any doubt ;. the field—the first sent out in the Union. —Congress has f Sy placed 16 seal on-th Howt There is no need of going into the 4 ST pi el o the g Al ot llhel\w;rk ;r Ill!(‘l :-:,lw.m, P i ‘ross. s too fresh in the Cross cannot help but e great strides Cross- 1t i all to need recounting. Our organization the fut p The noble e In the future. The noble and enpable .y e draw up its own constitution and X A g it proved so complete that the National ) ot Tor 1e e Red Cross has not interfered th v e Red Cross h Many othrer States have sent for our e stitution and have adopted it; cach Stite, of course, belng under the National Re Cros ontri utions giv- ;‘.,','f’.{:".;lhi ”;"m ¢ ds. While the interest in_the Red Cross lay. and uyrgent cases fered. Now it Semewhat abated after the war, the Gal- The A is purposed to have enough funds in the Veston flood showed the pubilc the neca break treasury to meet any immediate demand. for its continuance In time of peace as ¥’ . For instance, in the Galveston flood the Weil as war. ey 2ed Cross was hampered and deiayed by The history of the Red Cross of this miral this deficiency. Every effort will be madg State Is a red-letter page in National Rea plal to have e h funds on hand so that in Cross. I am sure the future will not dim looked the pestil its prestige. case of war, e, flood or kindred » The Worman of the Future. By Mrs. I. Lowenbergz, President, Philomath Club. — shall cease. o, [ The Hague Peace Convention left a bl e record e Ameri- nsin bolds r class in t_will be seen that VERY age from the dawn of civili- zation has brought forth new de- 1 velopments In which woman has Tift in a clouded sky for a day and then (he D sl 8 aiwavs played an important part. behold! All was darkness again. What son that the br Her impress and mora} Influence are en- Is civilization If that civilization does not the Governmegt graved on every step of the world's prog- tend to make man betler as well as wiser? :,;)-‘l‘.'r‘";.m- - s Ridton ress and woman’s power and true worth This boasted civilization of ours fails to ° | ees than ears have passed are to-day given glad recogmitidii. *She pleces when stripped of its veneering and the fl it ship was con- is no longer the ignorant, soulless thing reveals man's innate evil propenmsities in s on Works. Tt was of former times, but sne has put her foot all their hideousness. g (1‘» .-‘)‘: e t : i,u.;:n&ve'?.l on the rung of the ladder, determined to And the God whom we all worship—is dvmmv“m"'l hant mMaue & climb to the top. She has organized and mnot his voice of anger expressed in the ot 4" cajifornia’'s shipbuilding enter- become a power: let her now use that famine, plague and misery that follow in prize. The S o G the S5t. Pul were power to the best advantage. She nas the wake of war? To alleviate this woe next wedded wave here and bath done much, but she can accomplish more, Is, Indeed, an herculean task. And though Wwere r‘.:.‘rvrn dl .yh:wu:\ ernment as ] b e transports for tl my sel woman’s intellect may be developed (o any extent; though she may gain name and fame in the study of celestial phe- nomena: may paint, write and build; may sit in the White House or in the halis of justice; may develop in all directions— vet no deed in the b fleld of ths world’s action ean bring her a larger tribute of love, admiration and gratitude than the accomplishment of the aban- donment of war. For when justice, sweet peace and harmony follow in wom- an’s footsteps then, ‘nfleed, has she ful- filled her truest and highest mission, Her possibilities are unlimited. Where will the centuriés bring her? Woman has always been “a ministering angel,” man’s comforter and friend, as- suaging his grief and alleviating his pain. From the cradle to the grave it is wom- an's gentle hand that leads and teaches him by precept and faith, patience, peace, love and hope. She has always exercised a restraining influence on men's fighting propensities and hers is the power that must turn the mind of man from thoughts of martial glory and colonial possessions to sentlments of peace; carnage and riot ) freizht ship Califore nian is the t =hip built for the mer- chant marine on Pacific Coast, having 11,800 tons . displacement. The Alaskan and Arizonian are each 18500 tons dis- lacement, and these will be the largest Preight steamships bullt in America Y to date. The ferryboat Berkeley is the largest double-ended ferryboat on the ‘Western coast, operated by a single serew at each end and having a seating capaeity of 1700 people. These with numerous other eraft—tugs, yachts and small boats— prove the wabstatial establishment of Soe ship-building industry on bay of San Francisco. + Manila reute.