"The Worth of a Child": Edwin Diller Starbuck

              1916
LECTURE ANNOUNCEMENT

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SUBJECT:
The Worth of a Child

EDWIN DILLER STARBUCK
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

ADDRESS:
ROBERT M. BROWNING. Secretary
IOWA CITY, IOWA



As Secretary to Professor Starbuck, the well-known writer and lecturer, I beg to announce that it may be possible for him to address your organization, provided a time can be arranged consistent with his duties.

I wish especially to call your attention at this time to his lecture The Worth of a Child which has been enthusiastically received by institutions and associations in many parts of the United States.



COMMENTS
Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck's lecture on The Worth of a Child is distinctly the finest utterance on that subject that I ever heard.  It is most illuminating, and has, as I know, led directly to better teaching and to better motherhood.

REV. WILLIAM I. LAWRENCE, Boston, Massachusetts.

I have heard no one at various educational conventions recently who has spoken with a fuller wisdom and a richer suggestiveness on subjects interesting to institutes than my good friend, Professor Edwin D. Starbuck.

F. W. GUNSAULUS, President Armour Institute, Chicago, Illinois.

Dr. Starbuck delivered the Hazlett Lectures for Wesley College for the school year 1913-14, taking for his general subject The Psychological Basis of Religious Education.

In his interpretation of the child, Dr. Starbuck combines science and friendly interest in terms so fitting that his lecture embodies the warmth and beauty of a prose poem.  To hear him is a delight.

EDWARD P. ROBERTSON, President of Wesley College. University of N. D.

The lecture The Worth of a Child which Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck delivered at this College was one of rare merit and value.  Dr. Starbuck has a fine delivery.  He has a message to give.  It is a privilege to have the opportunity of hearing him.

ELIZA A. BLAKER, President, Teachers' College, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Dr. Starbuck has the rare gift of making the human element stand out prominently in the presentation of these studies.  He is delightfully suggestive and not a bit dogmatic—and this is probably one of the secrets of his popularity.  He is so humanely simple and sympathetic, so genuinely humble and unpretentious, that he wins all hearts and holds attention.  His language is the farthest removed from the pedantic.  He gives the impression that he is really a seeker after truth and is himself teachable and therefore worthy to be a teacher of little children and of child-like men and women.  We do not recall when we have met a man of more delightful personality.  The charm of his address is in this same engaging personality.

THE CHRISTIAN UNION.


Just a note to tell you how much we appreciate the fine service that you rendered us on your visit the other day.  Students and faculty are still talking of your lectures.

Sincerely yours,
L. A. WEIGLE, Dean of Carlton College.

Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck of the State University of Iowa delivered his lecture The Worth of a Child to the teachers of this county at the Institute held here last week.

I invited many of the prominent people of this place to attend the lecture and all pronounced it to be the greatest lecture ever given in this city.

The lecture is clothed in most beautiful language, scientific, intensely interesting, a message of life and should be heard by everyone.

W. L. PECK, Superintendent of Schools, Allamakee County, Iowa.

I know of but two men in all this country whose discussions of child psychology and child education are so valuable, vital and stimulating as those of Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck.  His contribution is that of a scholar, an investigator and a profound thinker.  And with efficiency he combines vision.

Dr. Starbuck is a good speaker, and one of the best men for institutes, teachers' gatherings and clubs.  While he never lowers the dignity of his theme, he is non-technical in his phraseology, speaks to the common understanding, is followed even by the immature with ease and delight, and he is in a very high sense popular.  His discourse is rich in illustration and touched with the light of humor.

HENRY L. SOUTHWICK, President, Emerson College of Oratory.

Boston, Massachusetts.

The address The Worth of a Child, was notable for its grasp of the subject, for the specific application of it to child life, for its concrete and specific quality, and for the enthusiasm, duly restrained, with which it pressed the subject home.  I could wish that such an address, or a series of them, might reach, as was our privilege, groups of such teachers and students.  The personality, as well, of the speaker greatly helps his theme.

DAVID N. BEACH, President Bangor Theological Seminary.


One of the most interesting of the Dayton Teachers' Club meetings of the year was held on Friday, March 12.  Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck of the University of Iowa addressed the members on The Worth of a Child The subject was handled in a masterly way and the speaker held his audience for an hour in intense interest.  The lecture was psychological, clear and splendid.
DAYTON SUNDAY NEWS.

I want to express my deep appreciation of your week's work here at Drake.  Your lectures have been highly commended by everybody who heard them, and we feel that you have rendered the institution a real service.  I want to thank you on behalf of the school and all those who heard you for your presence here at this time, and to express the hope that we may have the pleasure of hearing you again at some future time.

Very truly yours,
HILL M. BELL, President of Drake University.




OTHER LECTURES
Professor Starbuck has other Lectures equally significant.

Several of his Themes fit together in such a way as to form a Lecture Series adapted to Teachers' Institutes, State Associations, Women's Clubs, Church Groups and University Extension.

It is a delight to tell you of the surpassing value of an address on The Prophet given by Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck, before the Pilgrim Club of Congregational ministers, of which I am president.  Nothing finer or more helpful, nothing equal to it, I think, has been given before the Club.  It was subtly alive with the very spirit of religion and helpfulness.  He has made life finer for us all and abidingly richer.  He is the spiritual kin of ministers, a brother, an inspiration, I rarely write thus, Taste and See.

REV. E. ELLSWORTH SHUMACHER, President of the Pilgrim Club, Boston, Massachusetts.


Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck of our State University in his three lectures gave us a treat which would cost $1.50 to $2.00 in any Chautauqua program.  His first lecture, The Worth of a Child, was one of the finest the writer has ever heard.
The second lecture was equally fine on Helping Nature to Help Children worth a dollar of any parent's money in the way it showed how the parent might help the child, from three or four years on, to develop fully.
The third, Just Entering Manhood and Womanhood, was even more in order and more excellent in appropriateness because of the duties the homes of to-day have turned over to the High School.
Each lecture, while connected with the preceding or succeeding one, was a gem in itself.

WAUKON STANDARD.

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ROBERT M. BROWNING
IOWA CITY, IOWA