The Grange advance., 1874-02-04

0tSyKSy IA81FUtd10f0 3 Oh Inv Nv go g4seS0k
between. the Uniysrsity and public schools.
TIE sqnsstion. how tAis shsll 70 SLED q leave
With you. If yous would have : good Uni u.
versity, stimulate preparatory schools al of z
high order. 4 system OF public SCHOOLS
must be more than boards and gradatlon.
Csn we not learn from the late Prussian- q
Franco war that the education OF the people
must be for all the people. There 70 room
enough for all. must hope that the Uni-
yersity of the future must grow to be the
acknowledged and appropriate head OF the
system 1f public instruction IN the State.
FOURTH REGULAR TOAST
The Governor Of Minnesota, alive 20 the
Importance Of An intellectual citizenship
responded TO BY Hon. Cushman K. Davis,
Governor Of Minnesota.
I shall say but few words. l do not
know how this scene affects others, but it
has awakened in me sentiments different
from those which aid one to speak. What
/ shall say on the subject Of the Governor
Of this State will bear much the same re-
lation to the remainder of my remarks
that the introductories of Sallust do to his
histories.
Indeed, do not recognize the propriety
Of calling on me to respond to this senti-
ment. There are others Of my predeces-
sors living in the contentment of honors
now safe who would better perform this
duty. By my side here sits Gen. German, to
whom this State owes great debt for his
exertions in introducing into our Constitu
tion that which makes our school fund
perpetual endowment.
can say this of all my predecessors,
that the interests OF education suffered no
loss at their hands, and God grant that it
may pass from mine as unimpaired as re-
ceived it from them.
As an association we can do much.
The same tact and energy which has
brought together this assemblage sof cul-
tivated gentlemen, would, if brought to
bear upon our legislators, make our Uni
versity all that its most ardent devotees
can hope tor in their widest dreams. +
/ Is it not deplorable that the termina-
tions Of university course is simply the
disbandment of an. army, which if it
could be made to work together would
act with that power which is only pos
sessed by men massed into batteries :?
But it probably can never be wholly other
wise than it is. We break ranks when we
leave the place of our encampment We
enter single handed into the great battle
of life. In its preliminary skirmish we
do not lose sight of each other entirely
Sometimes, we are for short time near
enough to a comrade to cover him with a
shield when he is stricken down. But in
the press we drift apart. In the distance
familiar faces grow dim and unrecogniza-
BILE. We may hear, perhaps. from afar
/ <ho P,sn 10 1,
Of some victorious friend. or the moan
of vanquished or fallen brother. The
years go'by, and thronging multitudes Oh.
struct the view entirely. We stumble,
perhaps, across q grave, out of which
spring, as we look at it,, the magical for.
get-me-not Of a bed dimmed, yet beautiful
youth. Or We can see afar the crest ol
some triumphant comrade and learn from
the fruit Of fame that he was once our COM
panion in those days. of real fraternity
when no question of equality or inferiori-
ty was entertained. ,...: .
Here the Governor spoke Of the influ-
ence of classical education in refining,
sharpening and liberalizing the minds OF
the students and attaching them to the re.
publican ideas Of the days when the writ.
ers of the classics lived '.
a. permanent organization was effected.
and Rev. E. D. Neill, of Minneapolis,
elected President, DR.. c. II. Boardman,
Secretary, and H. NJ. Knox, Treasurer
1t is hoped the association may result ir
much good to- the educational interests Of
the State.
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