New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-17

, some re Will maybe have some of your names TO
brodCr upon his legend Of as srS IN TSnT blood
,ISbt Viet il keep YOU wakefu to all honorable d,i-
es Let it make you bold and honest ana m
sbsmsto love truth;o cherish simple ties ana
whatever may bede you Will walS Nun e1r bere
must all go in -
PROGRESS IN COLLEGIATE EDUCATION.
Merrill Edwards Cats PhD., presidcnt-elec' VI
Rutgers College. spoke next upon the "flity leafs
Progress in Collegiate Education" He said;
Enthusiasm for the present must be based upon g. n
apprecaton OF the past Ia college education tnce loo
strone presumption in favor of that education who
succccded. Great progress been made IN luo 90 and
of educa ION which was unknown Atty years as a
the great advance In the natural soe0 roetnods of
duced into education more scientific Tbere ia a
instruction in oil branches of study ihe ,or the
growing disposition nowadays 10 ~ sindy and. as
a rsalt of Ills tendency in he study oL and
people can nov wIlIe tn This country than
any ober land or at any other time lhe gro" " Odd
nsinTic1i anu Ser indication of educational progress
The material appliances tor educauoa te viii be of
s Unless the night thought and the right purpose
Undue both teachers ana puP''s'
DIR. sTORRs ON PROGRESS IN sClENCk'
The next speaker was the Rev. DR.. H. .. Storrs'
whose subiect was Fifty Years Progress in
Science" The main parts of his address were as
follows: -
I,hiuk that nv loyalty to our Fraternity was never
heiore mi to so severe test when Vas invited 20
10
Snce some preindicsd Ems ishman has SAID about
Americans hat VIVA. ever they 90 III Poiiios' btar
scIenoe they want to do IL III twenty minutes s ~
So come TO YOU representing that typical American oy
trying TO ali that can be sara aDoil science ~ h
rinnes rather 10 show my fidelity than VIVA inc nope
Of Giving YOU any new hgnt vast subject opeaA
ing then as outsider, an win no at'enp, %, ih ne
,nca disnlav wish choose out OF the materials De-
Tor me- one single themetno progress of science IN our
country. which has mad me Last my 80 cen,idc
Yrosrss wouid he late order of development AS
new country, had 10 do and learn many thISs DC
m
s ss,orS nnd experi@enta philosophy had be
mastered. after our material comforts WERE Sc
cnred after our political questions were Settled aiter
on,p cdncatio ceas to be a nope and ossomed out
iulo a reality after the first ieepe stps III ~ ~
had essayed after the manifold prooens ~ new
land had settled, then the DAY lor me
of science cameaher grand tna Eue.S or Ameri
can MINI especially apt Tor tue ION OF aISe
higher departments Of learning "RSn are reme
Der that in ine essays Z" the Fnsish and
American MUD fruit III in quick observations aud &C
curte deductions, nut not SO quick as thOse apsuact
and German mind However may for
nifty years were occupied WIN 0tner lnllgs ' VA
fhrrs was little opportunity scientific progress 1et
even in our early history can point TO Franknh
whose achievements are known and nonore1 IN Two CON
tinents aud 10 RittenhouSe, VINO hty I9o"s nun ia
the glorious path VI experimental kno"euse-s nm az
once and,eminent as scichtnc GENUS anu ~" rs
Iinguished as a noble man. Our country I'D lls
eaIIier days also produced BENJAMIN IhomPsOn,
Rumord TO the greatness Of genius Bavaria owes
40 mncn To whom Munich the beautiful park
which many of you, doubt not, have seen; VINO was
The true founder as believe, OF the Royal Society III
Ionuon; VINO the first to suggest 10 inc WOrIu the
theory the correlation OF forces and VINO, tnoush e1
lied rom country OF his birth by political and per
sonai Jealousy. was yet great enough ana ngnaous
enough endow chair III Haryard University wnose
usefulness goes TO tuls day But yet we must ac
knowledge tnat the great names are iow our scen
tine Literature OF that day was lunar HT.
solsr IL content 10 SHINE Win
borrowed light was merely pslhd reflection OF kre
peap thought and study.
Pa But ;e dawn OF the began to appear
1sS6 MAS tue first Visible embodiment OF this IDEA Pro
fsssor Siniman in 1880 wrote the nrst sClennc text
those DAYS CLauguterl In 1929 the first Volume of
Audubon's great book came out III 1881, Professor
Henry the electromagnetic could be used
10 telegraph, ana actually established circuit vi mile
wicn worked successfully Une ye rtn nv means of
eectrcity tue domain OF edlco cncinlcai science
cbloruolL discovered in 1881 Ana even III tho7e
e.ry days before the modern astronomical appliances
were invented, Americans we're noted Tor their quick
eoI,|V and 40 on the Coast survey organized
In 1852 the geological Investigations OF MasSa,
New-York -four years later. You must remember that
in those days science was smiled at as newauslel
thing 1t vas good Old hew,Englsnd munster won III,
once who declared That FOSSILS were created py
Coo in the rocks 70 S0nS San 'ni Rnt y'an In
the college where educaied there was society
nose Naiura Labor Del; but very rfeveIeny trans
fat,1 them to "NuInskuls Love DISTINCTION
tacse days science S MAS "a baby ,..i in
49, ,nSu,se and has given back hat impulse wdey
and pow eruly 10 every corner OF me earth AsassM
ZION added 70 reputation BY many long years o
briant service in tle eause O1 scenee Many o1herr
anTns p 1Is n 10 Earn iae by ooseryaon winch DOM
he world tod nrs ri ets oT srte
the eighth satellite Saturn, tine thid rug o. Saturn
sn',d i Relieve of the asteroids MI Rutherford an
Dr Henry Draper have given US planetary charts
jso charts Of The lines in the spectra botany Pro
fssor Asa Gray and Dr. TorreJ have reduced cLtsshca
mIneraogy aud in paeontoiogy. Professor harsd has
literally Joed the morse OF inc Locene feriod ana
loof In medical science the great discovery Of the
century. the OF ether IN anesnesia was made IN
LABOR, of many men reputation has become world
vide Inajorliy Of the standard textbooks ia thus
science are Written by American authors
sciences Rubber, which MY years ago was used ioI
nothing but erasinG to-day employed 70 maze almos
eyerythng-e1cept eaek~ neat caES7, l;augnteT1 81
void together and narrowed the globe Verify We may
repeat Tonight the first teiegrapAc message; Nal
TITS orocr ss to which the past bears witness is pro
Hynossailatlc impershabe. Soientnc Iruth is gor
geous ulauyeoorcd mosaic IN stone tne prisnaue COZ
ors of theory shall become aim and Iuslrrless
The education that demands as lis basis the
Inowl.dce of science fixed lact with U.s. and tnougt
II will never supersede other departments OF huInaL
thought aid eudeayor Viii always stand IN inc IIturt
a. the foundation vi which they all grow, ana ny
when Lhey exist
PROGRESS IN POLITICS AND MORALS.
United States Dlstrict-Attorney A. e. Keasbey
ofNewark was next introduced by the president
He spoke upon Fifty learS Progress in Our 20
hucal system" He said that the mere fact thai
the political system of the United States. which
was formed to govern 100000 inhabitants, still
endured successfully governing 5O,OOO,OOO, wa
proof enough OF progress made ID political matters
"IYfty YearS Progress in Morals" next
treated by the Rev DR.. Roswell d. Hitchcock
who said in part;
While there has been q confessed advance in all ma
teria interests in letters IN science and in art II ID
reported among the pessniss that there is
lnmeutabe decay In morals gOing ~ this very time
Tins is not the cant OF Ort lodOxy; Is the cant of u