THE MENTOR 1918.08.01, No. 160,
Photography
LEARN ONE THING
EVERY DAY
AUGUST 1 1918
SERIAL NO. 160
THE
MENTOR
PHOTOGRAPHY
By
PAUL L. ANDERSON
DEPARTMENT OF
FINE ARTS
VOLUME 6
NUMBER 12
TWENTY CENTS A COPY
A Voice From Far Cathay
Dear Mentor:—One of my most respected college professors advised hisclasses to review their several groups of studies every seven years, and inthe broad, I agree with the advice. It is just this review that The Mentorgives some of us. The Mentor is not learned. It furnishes a most readablereview, with pithy editorials and discriminatively selected pictures.It can be appreciated by the man who has never been outside the townof his birth, and it can be enjoyed by the person who has convertedstamped gold into the legal tender which lets one into the city, or gallery,or park, or museum, or observatory described; and it can be read withprofit by the one who is interpreting life in the class room.
I usually read it by bits between courses at the dinner table, and it oftenhas taken the place of another seat. It has this advantage: it never talksshop, save in an entertaining way.
The pictures make good material for “identification” or “informationtests.” A selection of twenty makes good material for one “stunt” of anevening for a small group of guests.
But I like them best for use in a bulletin board in my class room. Withtitles or brief notes translated into Chinese, they attract the studentsaround the board between classes. It is an easy matter to have a seriesof fifteen or twenty groups through the year, that are of interest to one’sstudents, and give real information and stimulus.
This letter is not designed to lead you to believe that the publicationtakes its place with the essential possessions of the American missionaryin the Orient—the Bible, Montgomery Ward catalog, and tennis racquet—butit is written that you may know that it helps one to keep “fit.”
In appreciation, yours,
Daniel S. Dye
West China Union University
Chengtu, West China
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