President Butler, of Columbia University, made the following reference
to his friend, Dr. James H. Canfield, before the National Education
Association at Denver, in July, 1909:
How patient he was with the typical errors of the pedagog,
yet how fully he understood them! I remember a story that he
told of himself when he was chancellor of the University of
Nebraska. Toward the close of the college year a young tutor of
mathematics who was completing his first year of service came
into the chancellor’s office and asked whether he was to be
reappointed for another year. The chancellor said: “Well, what
do you yourself think of your work? What have you done that you
are proud of?” The young tutor answered, “Mr. Chancellor, I have
just held such a stiff examination in my course that I have
flunked sixty members of the freshman class.” The chancellor
looked at him kindly and said, “Young man, suppose I gave you a
herd of one hundred cattle to drive to Kansas City, or Omaha,
and you came in to tell me that you had driven them so fast and
so hard, and had made such good time, that sixty per cent had
died on the way. Do you think that I should want you to drive
any more cattle to the Missouri River?” “No, sir,” said the
tutor. “Well, I do not think we will let you drive any more
freshmen.”
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