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

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DR. E. F. BARTHOLOMEW

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To Dr. E. 1:. Bartholomew whom we have learned to love and know and whom we most 11181119 esteem as teacher and friencl we respectfullg dedicate The Rocket; J 1 91 6

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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