Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-02

the most ambitious life may well be de-
voted. In his inaugural address there was
wealth of practical advice, clear, sound
and unmistalable warnings of what must
be avoided, and just as clear and positive
demonstration of what the ideals of both
students and instructors ought to be. He
declared that the students are not to
strive for partial knowledge, for partial
facts as an end, and finally to be graduated
Bachelors of Arts, but to strive for COM
plete and utter manhood, and to add to its
magnificent qualities all the learning
which our schools afford simply as help
toward carrying out the Utmost and the
highest aspirations.
We cannot refrain from producing in
this place, some of the more incisive sen
fences of his address, which indicate what
his policy and purpose are in administer
ing the affairs of the institution, and what
he expects of students, teachers and the
citizens whose University this is. lie said
No friend of the University has any cause to
fear, so long all of us Regents, professors and
students alike, remain united in the future as
we are at this present moment, in a single effort
toward the same high ends. Let us
consider the demands which the community
makes of the University, and, again, the stand
ards which the University should set for its in
diyidual members. In the first place we must
carefully examine what it is that we as citizens
demand from the University. We must see to il
ont ritl 7rxrl1o f
we ought to demand. If we find that we disa-
gree with what seems to us TO be the position OF
the University, ought We not in fairness, to
calmly inquire which of the two is right? Is
| there not at least a certain presumption that
the efforts of body of intelligent scholars can
not be all instructed? We claim that
the University is one of the most useful, and, in
a high sense, practical parts of the machinery OF
the State. 1t has a function as important, or
more important, than any other 1t Shares this
function with the Church, and the voices OF
both are to be your guide. The chief and high
est function of the University is to assert and
ciples-laws-goYern man, society, nature, life,
and to make unending war on the reign of tenn
porary eXpedients. You must not for
one moment forget that the power of g Uni
versity lies in its men-in its governors pro-
fessoIs and in its students. If you come here to
our beautiful grounds and see them fair as they
are to-day and always; if you see fine buildings,
and many OF them; If you find our laboratories
stocked with costly apparatus, and our libraries
with splendid books. you must not for that rea-
son suppose you have University fitted to the
needs Of the State. You are to inquire about
forother things. And it sof prime importance
that every citizen should know exactly what
question to ask. 8 How, then are we,
the Faculties of this University. to send forth
from our midst men and women who are gen
uine, true, high, noble, sincere simple? Men
and women whose natures are such, and whose
training has developed, harmonized and
rounded out their natures? We must be con-
stnntly on the watch to put the genuine issues
of life before ourselves and before OR pupils.
We are constantly tempted to put the name for
the thing. How hard il is to avoid this, even in
our personal conduct, and how doubly hard it is
in our public acts to point always TO the essence
and not to indicate the accidents.