Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-25

uowu, ne has had special opportunity
ties for gathering the choicest iittr-
ary and scientific treasures, while the
facts already laid up have been verlheu
at these fountain heads.
As an extensively read metaphysl-
clan DR.. Laws stands i'll the front
rank of American teachers. All ac-
cord TO him ability and rare acquire
meuss. Intelligence, will and exc
cutiye talent stand written IN ms
face. When one has conversed with
him for All evening h conclusion Is
reached thai this man would nave
succeeded Ms the head Of some great
railroad; that here exists "A conoiha-
;inu OF qualities suited to make tteir
uosscssnr "A distinguished chairman
Of committees Oh affairs, home or
foreign.
These gifts aud qualifications are
all needed i'll the president OF great
university. For no thoughtful per-
-nu can tail TO accept the fact that
| the chief of the state schools located
=, Columbia holds the most RESPONSE
bic post that can be filled by any
citizen of the com alth. Ii Is
,rre that the largest measure of tai
! emf. learning and foresight, Will
| aud wisdom are demanded. Although
Dr.. Laws has occupied the presiden-
| Ilai chair OF the university for y short
season only, there are two things III
his administration, already, that
must be remembered. Last winter,
before the Legislature in Jefferson
CITY. the pre-ldeut brought to light
The following Historic Memorhu-
dunn which had we'll nigh been coy
cred up and forgotten, VIZ, line
policy of the general government to
aid the state in the work OF eouca-
ton by land grants established oy
the ordinance of 1877. In the act OF
organizing the territory of Missouri,
TINS article of the ordinance OF 81
was carried across the Mississippi!
aud somewhat amplitied. When the
state OF Missouri WAS organized,
Congress deemed 1t expedient TO de-
vote two townships of land for q
university, etc" The university is
All integral part of the public school
organization established by law aud
imbedded in the successive constl-
:. tutions of this state. 1t was one OF
, In. fundamental conditions on which
! Missouri was admitted to member
\ ship in the Federal Union that 1.-The
= general assembly shall take measure:
4 for the Improvement of UGH lands
a etc, to support u university
President Laws thus shows from
the records, records which Legislators
= were allowing TO grow dim, that 1t Ii
. obligatory upon every citizen of th'
commonwealth to sustain the pubil'
:, schools, with the university at thel
head. To shirk this responsibility,
" is TO prove unfaithful to the genera
government, to which We owe tn
n lands.
=, On the very threshold of his worl
- President Laws demonstrates hl
. readiness to meet this ludlvldus
ID obligation by his boldness to asser
he the claims of the university. 1t i
+. to be earnestly hoped that he Wi
es guard these claims sacrediy; hrs
- because they are just, under the or
i. Linauce OF 81: secondly, because a
Ia ample fund must ever he at the un
1T vrr-lty's command TO place her upo
to the high plane occupied by ali INST
Al tutious worthy the name OF un
- versiry.
e. The second thing for which speci'
NJ thanks are due To President Law
$ can pr found in the printed address,
- I]r!ivcred on the day of his iuaugur'
N. ZION. The incoming president max
s. the following striking, fresh and pr
iunudly true announcement: III
" authority OF government i'll a scho
on i not derived from the pupils nor
mt il dependent oil them i'll any sen
he wh,tever. II dies not come up fro
them, but il comes down upon theI
Ia Any other theory works lis lneVl
on able destrucliom." The preside
nj proceeds to Elbow that, by any 9th
a. n-tlruu, every one would be COVER
III ed 10y his own personal code
.cn honor, aud each student, child,
war,t do II 81 which WAS right III
IL own eyes. Addrpsse-, SO, 60
he |, may b. remarked by some II
adj here IS "a manner about Preside
laws trat sihacks OF severity, not
her Nv har-tnr-s, At times-i btari
er- has appears t" l,rK sympathy W
20 ge BE- er natures. But every thou2'
,ud tut reader OF biography and eve
tor Intelligent observer of men, III
bIy have MOTEL that th"s. very traits
human nature which impart streng
rite which tit a person to lea't, are
de- very qualities which give the asp
b.. nt ~crmur Mankind are nothIl
ali, it would seem, to these men of rou
hat EXTERIOR, but open them and 10
hi wlIhin ut their serious purpose a
nts, there will he ssen in them divine n
golden images of fascinating heiut
um President Laws, evidently, Is
:tly right mar in the right place." q
.esh holding the sympathy of studei
era AID generously sustained by curat
aud the legislature. the day cannet
per far distant when Missouri will be
that a university of which any comm
II - wealth might be proud. The pI
,res, ident has had difficulties to mas
Ma but these are all clearing away
tore his intelligence and Will.
cor therefore becomes every citizen of
) of state TO sustain by moral intiuel
bles and all other honorable Iaeth'
fed the chief officer of An institute
tue which. under wise management,
,era- destined to become i'll fact as we
lude in name the state university.
ex- Before concluding this imper
'reat sketch the writer takes the lib
yet o! making reference to certain di:
t OF guished professors in h unlveI
nder " ho are heartily and nobly 90
rs Its atiny with the president. Lea
wing out the law and medical departm
which are ably conducted,
mind mention will be made of a few M
pera- in the literary and scientific sch
and There is G. &. Swallow, NJ.
e the LII. D., professor OF agriculture,
pow of natural history, and dean OF
ana agricultural faculty.
,mcnt This gentleman has been come
rms with the university for years.
'ancis has put the department OF ma
VINO history on u magnificent footin
on IN his good judgment, untiring ]
erish- and broad and deep learnln
ty. scieuce. He has worthily won
4 wei distinction, boil as teacher
e, but w,l,er. and may be justly calle
l phy- Ag4s-iz of the West.
Sree,h Joseph Ficklin, PHI. D., the ?
would sur o! mathematics, is not o
'mna'- thorough instructor, but the a
nnrs', ct school books which are highl
hough proved aud widely used by Il
mntlcIans.
], he Is Paul Schwei'zcr, Pb. D., the
results fr,sor OF chemistry, though co
: long .,;v.I, n Young man, has a
w"uI" won q well merited and Ell
u Reputation.
WI The Latin chair is filed by