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Excerpt from The State and Education: Annual Address at the Commencement Exercises of the Ohio State University Most of us will recall that in the early days people expressed the belief that education in the public schools should be con fined to the elementary work. We remember equally well that no one was able to define an The Extent to Which elementary education. We are quite sure that the State Shall En the kindergarten, the manual training now so gage in the Work common in many of our cities and much else of Education. Now taught was not then thought of. About all we can be sure of is that people believed in such an education as fairly well met the conditions under which the people were living. With the new development in modern life and industry all have come to see that if education is what it ought to be it will prepare for life. But life in all its surroundings and in many of its problems has greatly changed. As a result educators are doing what they have always done and always will do-they are trying to make the years of early education a preparation for a larger, fuller and-richer life. Under this conception the subjects taught in the elementary and secondary or high schools have multiplied and indeed have been greatly modified. The enlarge ment of the field of education which has brought to the doors of all our people an opportunity in many respects better than was offered by most colleges fifty years ago has been a great move ment in the interest of the people in which there has been a gen eral acquiescence. It would be a hopeless task now to undertake to turn the thought of the people away from this system. In the sphere of higher education the problem has been more sharply debated. There have been those who stoutly opposed any higher education at public expense and of course the higher the education the more strenuous the objection. In general this objection has been overruled on the ground that the higher edu cation was necessarily expensive and no one was so well able to bear the burden of expense as the whole people. With the advent of the modern curriculum the argument has been greatly strength ened. The introduction of the modern principle of electives in education has not only increased the expensiveness of a college or university but has added to the argument that the state shouldengage in the work. It has become manifest also in the past generation that the progress of civilization has made higher edu cation quite as necessary as the elementary. As a matter of fact and proof there never were so many people pursuing higher edu cation as now. In primitive society with its simpler life higher education was a luxury but with the greater complexity of mod ern life many luxuries have become our every day necessities and higher education is one of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Thompson was born in Cambridge, Ohio, in 1855. He was the eldest of ten children of David Glenn Thompson and Agnes Miranda (Oxley) Thompson. His paternal grandfather was a native of the North of Ireland; his father was a shoemaker and farmer who served in the Civil War.
William's elementary education was interrupted by the war and limited by the short term of the rural schools; when not studying he worked as a farm hand at eight dollars per month. In 1870 he entered Muskingum College but was able to attend only at intervals, between periods of laboring on the farm and teaching school. It took him eight years to complete the course, but he graduated first in his class in 1878.
In early life Thompson had determined to be a missionary, and accordingly he entered the Western Theological Seminary (Presbyterian), Allegheny, Pa. , from which he graduated in 1882, again with honors.
He taught for a time in the academy at Indiana, Pa. In 1883 he accepted an appointment to a Presbyterian mission church in Odebolt, Iowa, being ordained at Fort Dodge on July 13, 1882. In Odebolt, a town of some six hundred, his genius as a leader of religious and community activities manifested itself, his interests extending into every community within the traveling range of his team. In 1885 he removed to Longmont, Colo. , where for six years he served as pastor of the local Presbyterian church and president of the newly established Synodical College.
In 1890 he sought a return to Ohio, and in 1891 was elected president of Miami University at Oxford. His success at Miami was such that in 1899 he was called to the presidency of Ohio State University, where he served until his retirement, as president emeritus, in 1925. During his administration the University grew from a local college of some 1, 200 students to an institution comprising all the higher educational activities – undergraduate and graduate – of a modern state university, with an enrollment of some 12, 000.
Meanwhile, his interest in religious activities continued. His devotions at the college chapel exercises made lasting impressions upon his students. He conducted weekly convocation at the Ohio State University for many years after the number of students made it impossible to hold a general chapel exercise. He was a dominant figure in various religious bodies, special minister to numberless congregations in the Middle West, baccalaureate speaker in colleges and high schools, president of the Ohio Sunday School Association 1897-1902, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1927.
He also participated in civic life with enthusiasm. In Oxford he served on the village council; in Columbus, on the Board of Education. He was chairman of the United States agricultural commission sent to Europe to make observations on the food supply in England, France, and Italy in 1918, and chairman of the United States Anthracite Coal Commission in 1920. He was president of the Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company of Columbus, Ohio, from 1905 to 1925.
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He was president of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, 1903-04; president of the Ohio Education Association, 1905-06; president of the National Association of State Universities, 1910-11.
Thompson was a natural leader, endowed with an admirable physique, boundless energy, and a pleasing voice. He possessed great dignity without imperiousness; his eloquence was uncontrolled by rhetorical rules. He was simple in his habits, frank in conversation and debate, sympathetic toward misfortune. His friends among the simple and poor were as dear to him as those in positions of influence.
In 1883 he married Rebecca Jane Allison. In 1886 his wife died, leaving one daughter, and in October 1887 he married Helen Starr Brown of Longmont, who bore him two sons. After her death, on June 28, 1894, he married Estelle Godfrey Clark, a member of the faculty of Oxford College for Women.
