Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-26

As to the time when we expect to see the stone
buildings Of the university rise and catch the
| beams Of the morning sun we dare not speak q
| syllable. To plant is the work of day; to rear
the labor of slow centuries. II in our little life
we can plant well the acorn we can well trust
to Gods calm sunshine aud His gentle rain
/ drops, to His infinite patience and to the SYM
patty and help Of His children to reveal and to
/ mature the OAK.
| Applause frequently dotted Bishop Hurst's
remarks and when he had concluded his ex-
planatory statement he said he had expected
| the presence of Mr.. B. II. Warner That gen.
tleman could not be present, but he was repre-
sented by Rev. DIR. Bartlett.
DIR. BARTLErr's ADDRESS
DR.. Bartlett said he had not a very extensive
constituency, but it was a power in Washing
| ton-a single but potent factor. AS to the uni
| versity there could be no possible objection to
! 1t; 1T was in the interest of Washington of the
United States, of the world. As to location
Washington was the place-the city of Wash
ington and Jefferson. the great literary city of
the country. Tyndall said there were more scien-
ttc men III this city than in any other city in the
world. The city only needed to be rooted in to
be university, even the spire being found
the Washington monument. pinch of per-
fume scattered here could be scented in Texas
drop of poison administered here had its eff
| feet IN California.
Now is the time" said the doctor. .'This is
the era-another word and I'll stop-and this
Is the man. Indicating Bishop Hurst. met
| him thirty years ago at a German university
and We stood together looking up the dizzy
1 heights that had to be climbed. Now / want
to see him at the head Of great university
here"
DIR. Bartlett concluded with a eulogium of
Bishop Hurst as "a scholar, a man and Chris
tian.
| REPRESENTATIVES, MoRsE's REMARKS.
Representative E. A. Morse of Massachusetts,
was called upon and said that he had once
heard of man who belonged to the Society of
Friends and who was asked the difference be-
| tween the Friends and the Methodsts. to
which he replied that the Friend was Quaker
| and the Methodist earthquaker. There
\ were some earthquakes in Washington. The
| question had arisen as to where the great uni
| yersity should be located. That question had
| been settled; it must be in this city. beneath
the shadow of the Washington monument, in
the finest capital city on the face of the earth
Fox once said that good Quaker ought to
| light up the country for ten miles around. A
Methodist or Baptist Congregationalist or
! Presbyterian ought to do WELL How much
! light might be spread by great national uni
versity, MIR. Morse said it was popular in
some places to sing ''Oh. to be nothing" and it
was probable that the Congregationalists had
some good reason for printing 1t in their col
lection of hymns. His sentiment however. was
of different description and he wanted to
sing ION, to be something" The congrega-
ton applauded this idea and Mr. Morse sat
down.
SENATOR HAwLEY's SPEECH.
Ahymn was sung and then Senator Hawley was
| introduced. He said that national university
had been discussed for more than one hundred
years-a university which was to be founded
| and supported by the general government
The country had been waiting for such an in
| stitution and he was glad it did not have to
walt much longer. He agreed with DIR. Bartlett
when that gentleman said that Bishop Hurt
was the man for the work, for" said the Sena-
tor, The came to see me and in five minutes
made me promise to be here and speak. When
he had gone l wondered why" Referring to
the part Methodism had always taken i'll edu-
cational matters the Senator talked of the
Oneida seminary, where he had for associates
Bishops Andrews and Newman, Senator STAN
ford, Charles Dudley Warner, Prof. Willard
Fish and a number of others who reflected
credit OH the institution. Methodism had
won Its eminence. 1t was meet that Methodists
should take the flag and say, Fall in here;
march behind U.s." The university, he I'M
derstood 1T, was to be q university in the best
sense and not merely college. 1t was better
ON the whole that 1t be not a national unver-
sity in the sense that it was to be sustained by
Congress. 1t would be great university any
now, and Its promoters would escape a great
many embarrassments. In the first place and by
no means the least annoying of these would be
the stllted debate as to the constitutional right
OF Congress to aid national education. Laugh
teri Senator Hawley said ne was glad in his
heart to know that this would be a university
where ii would be quite In order to mention
the Lord God and to invoke His blessing. ZAP
plause.l Unfortunately it was the fashion IN
many educational institutions not to have re-
Igious services, or if thev did they were care
full to invite variety of preachers, as to
sound the whole gamut of belief from him that
believed very much to him that believed al
most nothing. In such places 1t was regarded
as rather bad form" to attend prayers. I'm
tired Of that" said the Senator.
THE LIBRARIES OF WASHINGTON.
Then he went on to give statistics as to the
libraries here-the helps to study The Con-
gressional library contains $50, 900 volumes and
has besides innumerable engravings In this
immense collection of books were to be found
splendid law and medical libraries, the latter
enriched by DIR. Toner'S munificence The sur
glcal and medical library at the Army Medical
Museum had in it so 900 volumes and the
museum was the finest one of morbid anatomy
III the world. The State Department had his
tory and diplomacy to the extent of 25, 900 vol
umes, while the Patent Office collection OF books
numbered 10000. There was also the great
model room and the immense number OF de-
signs and plans. affording the students in me-
cnanics opportunities to be found nowhere
else. There were $4,000 volumes of the library
OF the Agricultural Depar tment and 10000 in
| the Bureau of Education. The Naval Observa-
tory was equipped with ~. 900 books; the War
Department had $4,000, the Navy Department
1900 and the Geological Survey 1900. In
ali there were III this city-accessib!e to STU
dents-S89,O 600 books belonging to the govern
ment. The libraries of educational institu-
tors made the figures exceed a million.
A CITY OF CULTURE.
"This Washington ;" said the Senator, lis in
creasingly city of culture. The growth is
very clear to me. l have lived here for
eighteen years and can see the change it its
mental and moral atmosphere as easily as | can
see 1t IN Its streets, It's parks, Its public build
ings.
Il know place-a scientific club" he went
on. where can get almost any kind of in
formation. can stroll in there in the evening
AMI find II in mana live man is much better
than dusty volume. | need only to touch
him. for he is full of his subject (maybe he'll
give ME chance to ask an occasional question:
and I'll get lecture that can't be had any
where else for money"
THE SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT
After depicting in bright colors the future of
this city the Senator eulogized the National
Museum-the place in which to study the ma
teriai progress Of the race-and then went on
! to talk Of Washington as the place in which to
! study the science of government. He felt as
| sured that 1t would be great advantage to the
| country to have three, four or five thousand
young men go out from this university every
| few years with thorough knowledge as to
| how the government IS conducted There