The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03
ESCULAPIUS.

,rt1u TSDIANA MEDICAL COLLEGE.
,,o,,,,r~cE,rESr EXERCISES LAST NIGHT-AN-
,-IrAr AnDRFsss OF THE REV. DIR. MUTT
vXIFpIC-roRY ON THE PARToF THE Glass
ADDREssFs BY GOVERNOR HENDRICKS AND
MAJOR GORDON.
Tho commencement exercises OF Indiana
,fo3;cal collage attracted large audience 10
Masonic hall last night. The exercises "eie
of a very interesting character through
out and were interspered with ex
callent music by Brsdshaw's band' Inc
.o.,-,,ro was occupied during the evening
Nv the Rev. Dr. Cyrus Mutt, president ol lne
;.-aro;tv Dr. VIM. Hammond, Dr. Brown,
n 9 p Collins, DIR. Mears, DR.. j. coming
ar DIR. III. Jameson, DIR. s. Z. OoiiIhs; O1 - IA
clark, Df. +. NJ. Stevens, Dr. ,.,, n; M, Co.
n, IT p Harvey. DIR. X. f. Haughton, GOV
n A. Hendricks, the Rev. Dr; nol- ,l
liday and Mayor j.. W; GoruTn, III,
The exercises were opened WITH prayer ny
the Rev. f. C. Holiday. who y, an lnPLes-
sive yvay invoked the divine piesslnS uPoit
the graduating class .merinr m trinr The annual
address of the Rev. Dr. Cyrus Men utt ocGu- S.1
MED over an hour in delivery ana was rs
Tened to with every mark OF lnteresT anu tai az
tention on the part of the audience. Inc Iol-
lowing is an abstract;
UNIVERSITY EDUCAIION.
.nDprss BY PRESIDENT CYRUS MUTT, OF THE
STATE UNIVERSITY.
What constitutes modern university
The term, university, has different mean
ING in different countries. In England IL
ann1ies to a number of colleges with the
same course of study, located together IN the
same citv or town. The far-famed universl-
+vof Oxford embraces twenty-seven, each OF
which with it's own buildings, library, fix
tures. and faculty, corresponds 10 the Des'
colleges in the United States. The unlVersl-
tyof Cambridge is an aggregation OF eighteen
Similar schools. In the United States, and
esneeially in the west, the name university
has been greatly abused. Mere colleges, and
some that have little more than preparatory
denartments for colleges, claim for
themselves the dignifed appellatlons
of universities. In Germany a uni
varsity means an institution which
embraces all the professional schools.
If is of a Grade above the colleges. The col
Ieoes are called gymnasia, through which
students must pass before they enter the
university. Now university proper, Is
an institution in which is taught every De
partment of knowledge, scientltic, phlio-
sonhical. and professional, by competent In
structors. supplied with buildings, libraries,
museums laboratories, and apparatus 1or
experiments and illustrations IN every heId
of research traversed by man. lt should
embrace. at least, five faculties, viz: The
faculty of arts, philosophy sud science; the
faculty of law; the faculty OF medicine; the
faculty. OF military science and civil engl
neering: and one OF agriculture the mecnah-
ic arts and mining, There are SUBDIVISIONS
in each of these departments embracing
pOnRnD-
tions of what a university should be,
let me introduce you to that OF
Berlin, which now confessedly ranks
first among all the universities OF the world.
The current expenses OF this university
amount to $500 900 per annum. 100000 are
annuaIIv appropriated from the national
treasury; and 500, 600 are derived from tut
tion fees and other perquisites. The whole
number of professors is LIS, and the number
of students is 5000. The total number OF
branches Taught by the five different facul-
ties is 375. The whole number OF branches
taught in the best colleges in the United
States only about seventy; less than one
fifth of the number embraced in the Unlver-
sity of Berlin. In this university each stu
dent selects his profession and takes his
course of lectures under the faculty of that
department. He has also the privilege ofat-
tending the lectures of such professors AS
he NAV choose. in the other faculties. Stu
dents who have taken the prescribed course,
and passed satisfactory examination In any
one of the departments, receive diploma
and the degree of doctor of law, medicine
theology. or philosophy, according to their
chosen profession. In buildings, fixtures,
libraries, museums, apparatus, botanical and
geological gardens, and all other faculties OF
instruction, experiments and illustrations,
this institution stands unrivaled. The plan
is to teach tho student all thai is known in
that science and art, he may have chosen,
and to train him in the best methods OF pur
suing still further Investigations in his
chosen field. So that when he has fully
completed his course he can say with truth,
sT thoroughly understand all that is known
upon this particular subject, and there is no
one in this world that can teach me any
thing more" With mind well trained
in scientific methods he is prepared to make
still further progress In his held OF research:
Now, it is in this way only, that the grand
discoveries of modern times and the intel
lectual development Of the age have been
achieved; and thus only can the world be
advanced in knowledge and civilization,
and our common humanity elevated.
THE REQUISITES FOR COMPLETE UNIvER-
sITY.
Two things are absolutely essential for
the establishment of complete university.
These are money and men. The greatest
want of the Oldest and best institutions of
learning in our country, and even those of
Europe. is money. There is no limit to inn
provements, if sufficient means are supplied.
4, Money is needed for two purposes: to fur
.nish material aids for instruction, in the
way of fixtures and appliances. These
should be furnished literally; and they
will require large expenditure They are
the tools or instruments which the profess
sors are to use both in imparting in
struetion to their classes, and in original
investigations. These constitute the neces-
sary mae hinery of education and progress,
without which little can be done. The sec
ond great want is men. Men are needed for
officers and professors. Workmen of native
ability, and of the greatestculture and skill
should be employed, in order that complete
success may be assured. They should be
live men, fully abreast with all the improve
ments of the age, and among the very first