Wichita eagle., 1886-10-10

| ment that it may have men, and men tina,
! it may have students The men and the
students are the college, and without them
! you have none though you pile brick and
stone to the sky. 1t must have a city and
| county devoted to its interests; city which
| will supply large local patronage, which
will sustain first-class lecture course. and
| large audiences on all literary occasions.
| 1t must have large local church fully in
sympathy with it and assisting powerfully
| in the maintenance of moral and religious
vigor. 1t must stand in vital and organ
lied relation to the churches, all of whose
ministers shall support it and ali Of whose
members shall regard the school as their
own, and as the place where their children
must be educated.
| Finally, this institution should possess,
in high degree, the characteristic suggest
ed by its honored name. Garfield university
Carried the widows son, the manly stu
dent, the model teacher, the Christian sol
dier, and the Christian statesman. This
name has not been chosen from any mer-
cenary motives, nor because he bequeathed
millions of endowment; for he who gives a
hundred dollars 10 such work may have
practiced as much self denial and may be
as worthy of honor, as nc who gives from
his abundant surplus This name has been
chosen rather that it may become to the
university a guiding star rising higher and
shining more brightly every year Ii has
been chosen because the study of his life
and character, the emulation of his exam
pie, and sympathy with his heroic suffer
ings, may secure 10 professors and students
what money can not buy; because we. as a
religious people with whom he was identi-
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whose meaning and grandeur shall be
worthy of us and, in some measure eX-
pressive of his character. Let Ohio erect
statues to the memory OF her illustrious
son: let the cities OF the nation vie with
one another in doing him honor; let the
genius-moulded marble at Washington
speak TO coming statesmen of Man: lei
| the monument on the heights of Lake View
cemetery rise to the sky and for centuries
look down ON Erie's blue waters expressive
of him who.
'.Rising from high to higher,
| Became on fortunes crownlng SLOPE
The pillar of peoples hope,
| The center of @ worlds desire,
and, what is more, let his portrait an the
home. but let us erect here monument
|
the greatness to which he attained in the
worlds esteem as of his early struggles, rs
OF the mental and moral training which en-
abled him to achieve this greatness and tC
become worthy OF all these honors.
That the university may have this signiii
canoe, it must be place where mental ane
moral worth are the insignia of honor and
not the tinselry of wealth. 1t must be {
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all the people shall be at home Il
must furnish the self-rcliant student oppor
tunities for self fhelp-ringing the college
bells. sweeping It's halls, working at th'
carpcnter's bench teaching in the lowe
clases. and doing any honorable labo
which shall secure the ''sinews of war.
1t must not be lust the thing" for ;
student to spend fifteen hundred dollars
wear. 1t must not be place mainly 70
rowing and racing as in English universi
ties. nor for rowdyism and dueling as il
German schools.
Again, it must be place distinguished
bv christian friendlness Did you eve
grab Garfields hand? Did you ever know
him as a student and teacher. Then yo,
know what | mean-tcacliers who have
hearts as well as brains: who receive tn
strange student with extended hasds an'
warm words of welcome; who often en-
quirc concerning the students progress an
purposes; who are quick TO perceive ant
remove encouragement; and ready in thei
confidence and approval-students whose
rivalry is generous; among whom hazini
is impossible unless il should be to drum
out of town one who could be guilty OF ii
higher classes showing their superiority b,
: helping the lower; students not split int