Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1917 — Teachers Institute. [ARTICLE]

Teachers Institute.

The outstanding feature of Wednesday’s program was the address by Prof. Mark H. Liddell, of Purdue University. Coming from a long line of fighters, he was especially well qualified to handle his subject, “Fighting' for World Peace.” Schooled in the universities of Germany, he well understands the inner workings of the various propaganda tending to keep us out of the war and to eliminate us as an influence for peace. His statement of the aims of the nation, coming in coincidence with President Wilson’s reply to the Papal peace proposal, profoundly stirred his audience. Prof. Gingerich spoke this morning on Robert Browning as the most learned ahd most religious of English poets, dwelling especially upon his optimistic spirit in religion. His afternoon lecture was a continuation of this'theme. These lectures are of an excellence seldom approached on the institute program and well merit the commendation of the teachers and community, the visitors’ seats being unusually well filled.