The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-06
UNIVERSITY or VIRGINIA.
Extracts hom the Address of Professor
Francis II. smith.

an address before the Society oi Alumni
of the University of Virginia IN Louis
vile. Ky. on the Both April. from which
SIC take the following extracts.
We only premise That better iello"
or a higher excmplarof uniyersiiyirain-
ing and Virginia good breeding than
Professor Smith wc know not.
The sight of some OF my old fellow
students around me carrie, me- iuesiaunly
back 90 The days so far and yct so near,
when we saf ON the same bard benches
and perhaps piled our knives ON iht
same well-mar sed desks No such days
,s those have ever sh0ne since. No one
will make as believe there are any pro-
fe.sor- now. the equals of our own pro-
fessors. We old bows have a feeling Of
nifty f0r those Younger students who
came after US and did not hear the mem
orable lectures that We heard. Oh
sit under The gifted teachers
who opened 10 us the treasures OF
knowledge There are no doubt faith
nl professors now, men of experience.
learning. and industry They arc lmany
of them. no least. arel thc best ihe times
afford But tO us they DO NOT seem go
Dee quite lhc equals of thc men of The old
time What happy genius oar teachers
had for giving us the essence of learn
inc without encumhering us too much
with ifs details. for cOmmunicat-
ins the highest results of scholarship
without embarrassing us with the minute
apparatus bv which they We're reached.
Now and then pick mp an old note book
of those davs. and mark. with admir-
despair. the pregnant yet simple sen-
fences. which embodied She thought OF
hours. and had q suggcstiyencss that en-
larged with the knowledge of the hear
er. As speak OF those men their shad-
owv forms arise out OF The dim past and
become real 90 me again.
There was COurienay az modest as "a
girl and as manly as 70 hero How kindly
lust he was How mild and gentle both
Ina the lecture room and outside OF 30.
4 master of his subject, "a profound and
palient instructor Who can ever for
yet the pathetic and even tremulous
tones IN which Doe spoke OF The asserted
failure of TaylOrs fheorom. or The beau.
dful smile that lighted up bis face when
he mentioned The properties enjoyed by
the rectangular hyperbola
There was McGulley. keen, quick, i'm
cisiye. with mental activity so conta-
si0us that his dulle't student was
stirred. of necessity, 90 thinking. Ills
epilrams, his def turning of an old
proverb TO o. new use. his sparkling
paradox that. upon ec0n4thOughi, was
/ found bv MS 10 be serio~- iruih-the
we can never forget. Can we not bear
as. with lifted pencil. he says Gentle
men. the man who cannot teach with
/ ont "A textbook is moi iii 10 teach
with one =. or Gentlemen, lis said
/ that honesty is ihe best policy, but the
/ man who is honest from policy is %
william al heart His sentences often
ended a- if with the crack of a whip
lash. No wonder that some OF our most
distinguished graduates in church and
State are fond of recognizing in the I'M
huence of this original man the spring
/ of their own independent intellectual
life There was William Barton Rogers,
| the ChrvsOsiom of American science.
whose lecture room was the attractive
resort of students from all the other de-
pariments at their unoccupied hours
ANY mention Of the events of this
session would be- incomplete, that did
not include the only one which has given
universal s0rrOw ] refer 10 the res'gna-
ton of DR. Cabell. after iifiy-iwo years
of active service In apparently the un.
decayed yigOr of his powers and when
visitors. faculty. and students unite in
entIeaiing him 10 stay, he chooses, from
noble delicacy 20 law down his work.
The university would bee different
place without Dr. CaleN. and ] 'eIoice
10 say that ! ann assured be will not ah-
s0luielv sever himself from us. but will
still give MS the advantage of his Occi.
sional counsel and the inspiration of MS
presence.
THE NEW CHAPEL AND ITS MEANING.
am happy to tell you that the com.
pletiOn of the new chapel before The ue-
ginning of the next session is now as
surcd It's erection was undertaken 10y
the faculty and friends of the University
by private subscription. $4,000 having
been spent upon 10, and the building
was then stopped for want of funds.
Recently the four or five thousand dol
lars needed for It's completion have been
raised. and the work on 10 will soon bee
recommended. When YOU see il you
will agree with me that 10 j. the most
beautiful structure within our precincts,
unique I'm material and architecture,
fitting symbol e the value placed by the
friends of the University on religion a.
the best part of education.
The chapel remiads Us OF one of the
most interesting features of university
life-the union, in Christian effort. of
young men of all the religious denomi-
nations of the land. Coming from the
various churches, they for the first time
perhaps strike hands with comrades Of
different religious persuasion, and learn
that Christian excellence may exist I'M
der great varieties OF creed. The value
OF such experience, just al the age OF
opening manhood can not be estimated
too highly The generous youth, who
ha- left the paiernal home. filled. as he
ought to be, with love for his father and
his fathers church, who has passed /
through the college of his denomination. /
and has become fixed in his religious be (
lief, and often, as is best, member OF I
the fathers church. but whose asso- I
citation has hitherto been exclusively /
with Christians of the same name, is 10 .
be envied. il he now has lhe privilege Of /
university, and there Is
wider field aud in communion with com
panions of other folds. expands his Chris
ton charity auI apla rue. li. definition
IF Christian brotherhood
Let our fate bee definite and decided,
lut not bigoted Let our charity be
discriminating, bnt not narrow. Let Us
lail this and every other movement Of
he times which cultiyates brotherly love
Imong Christians of all names as pre-
ude TO what We fondly imagine will
and beautify higher
phere.