Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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Doctor E. F. Bartholomew EX MULTA ERUDITIONE ET I'LURDL'IS ARTIBUS ET OIINIUMI REILUM SCIENTIA EXIFNIJAJ' ET EXUemu'r ILLA .xmmmuius ELOQUIIINTIA.e-l'.-wl'1tlis. HE opinion generally obtains that it is at colleges and uhivereities where educated men are mm'le. And yet, paradoxical tho it-wouhi seem, we do imi often, at these institutions. hear of educators, in the more profound and comprehensive sense 01' the term: we hear very much of professors, specialists, experts, authorities, et. alwethere are specialists in physics, specialists in Chem- istry, authorities in Em'ptology and authorities in mythology, experts in economics and experts in dinlectir-sj e- but to refer to an expert on ornithology, say, or a muster 0f bugolog'y, as an educator would be to speak inmngruously and to invite mirth. Neither are these specialists themselves very often desirous of having any such ttadditionnlv obligation, as seems to be implied in the apellation ul' educator, super- imposed upon their oihce: their business is not to educate, - they have agreed to no such extra-duty upon accepting their professorships: their business is to impart fecteefaets in physics, facts in mathematics, facts in whatever the special science may he to which they have demlied themselves. All the specialists, moreover, make the student feel that their respective sciences are in themselves the ali-in-all, the end of life And then follows the complete hewiidemient of the student as to which one of these muititudiuous ends of life it may be the desire of Providence that he should attach himself to; he is directed to the vocational expert who is a master in the interpretation of Providential intentions with respect to individual cases. e e But the educatorewho is he? What does he consider to he the end of life? In what Capacity does he oiliciate?--We deem it that the educator is, in the iirst place, himself an educated man. And an educated man, someone has said, is tone with :1 universal sympathy for everything and a certain amount of knowledge about everything that is known, and who still is 011 the line of evolution and is learn ing to the end.n An educated man conceives the end of eirei'y 111211175 life to he one. A true educator will define the purpose of education to be the unEolding of the noblest that is in :1 man, the creating and nurturing of high ideals in each individw e1 soul; and all pursuits and exercises in the manifold arts and sciences, he explains- to he of importance only in so far as these are contributory to this grand and univer- sal end, of making life great and beautiful for all of us upon the lam . m? 90 we have iem-nt it from 0111' Doctor Bartholomew: he is himself just such an eduvated man, and such an edueatm-ze A man: the catholiuity of whose imowletige, and pro fouuchiess and extensiveness of whose sympathies, tempts us to qunte the words of Messala, in Tacitus? Dialogus De Oo'mtaribm! on the genius of Cicero: Omncs philo- sophicw paring penitus hamisse ....- nun Mllius arm's tn-geimac sc-x'entimm ei riefuisse. 4$L IHI

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DR. E. F. BARTHOLOMEW

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A scientist: in his desire to discern the more separate and palpable causes of things-a'm'mn cognoscm'e cmwws -, in his disposition to demand tangible evidence -inteiligib1e i'crilicution; in his respect for and faithful application of, the laws and principles of nature as they are fmni time to time made manifest to man thru scien- tific research. A philosopher: not satislied alone with the specialistic and analytic tendency of science, its destructive and disintegratix'e methods, its prejudice for niateriality,H but animated by a desire to construct, to synthes LE, to comprehend into a. wholes- D. unity, he becomes a philosopher. He would see all. things, at bottom, interrelated: the world is a harmony; each ostensibly separate and individualistic manifestation is after all, directly ni- indirectly, concordant with this universal symphony. There is, in the last analysis, but one Fact; one is the pause: one animating force. This force, he explains, is a spiritual principle. A critic: a. man with a kemi perception of artistic proportion; a broad under- standing of human nature; at psychological insight into the motives that actuatc and propel human expression. A A poet: in his emotionalism, and passion for beauty, qualities which often find eloquent expression in his speech and take completely captive his audience. A poet, too, in his lofty idealism. A11 optimist: a believer in health of body, and the immortality of the soul; the latter from, what he would assert, a logical 01' psychological necessity. He would agree with Piot'mus, that the soul W11 ic-h i5 piu'iii ed by philosophy here below, continues to be purified beyond the grave.,, A mystic: Yes, with all his passion for rationality and demonstrability there is, withal, it touch of the mystic in him, too You have but to study a little the certain distant and contemplative look in his eye, to observe that there is that in him. And in his eiucidations how often have We not heard him, When human logic has seemed insumcient, refer to a certain mysterious and oriental power called intuition. A Christian: in his faith in Christ as the redeemcr of humankind. An intelli- gent Christian; a Christian from a reasonable-phiiosophicnl necessity, A Chris tian especially, in his attachment to the personality of Christ.-4We said he is a Christian because of philosophical necessity: mg were wrongsho is ii lover of and believer in Christ first, and a philosopher r-ouc-erning His mission, secondarily. His devotion to Christ is the serious fact to him; his philosophical cogitations, like a great man, he will cheerfully smile away. 15 not of supreme importance. A11 educator: in teacher thru personal inspiration; he believes in interesting his students in the pursuit of high and ideal things. by being interested in such pursuits himselfi Au educator he is 1101023 i'ol'cns, as it Were, by virtue of his per- sonality. There is somewhat of the Emcrsonian in him. He believes and promul- gates, and personally cxemplih'es the truth. that wherever :1 great and good man moves and acts and speaks among men. there is an educative force. m 4$.