Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04

| In every field of learning we mus
| have matters of research, and if we have
| them not must grow them. For the com
| pleteness of all this We can wait. From
| the first we will have some things of, and
| equal to the best, and for few hundred
students; afterwards, all good things, fol
| thousands, and through the thousands, fol-
| the state and nation. In the coming century
| when 25,00O, 900 of people make their happy
| prosperous homes in our vast state, then
| will many thousands of devoted students
| fill the spacious halls which thankful
| friends will build for Fort Worth uuivers
| ity-s Long live the university! This is our
work. Let us thank God and go at it. Car
| lyle says, Blessed is the man who has
| found his work; let them work like
/ Hercules and ask no other blessednvsS. y
| Here in the city most of our laborerS
| will find their work; but we have some
| already abroad in the field. Two yonder in
| the East-land of books, have accepted their
| commission to help in building for US u
| commission yOnder in the Rocky Mountains
| 1900 miles away, TO seek out every precious
| obtainable thing for our museum. When
| the MUIR Der is increased an hundred times,
| there will still be opportunities for other
co-laborers. If time permitted, it would be
pleasant TO recount some of the features of
growth in university work. We would
speak CT Cornell with its thirty
courses of study: the university
of London, comforting degrees only
South Kensington, with its $4,000 students
instructed in whatever they like. as far as
they choose to go, and in whatever place
they elect. The new Chicago university is
wonderful study in its development.
THE ESSENTIALS OF REAL UNIVERSITY.
l. A universal library we must have.
1t must cover the whole field of human
thought must be treasury where the
student in any ana every department of
human learning need know no limit of
helpfulness Matthews well says: "A
book is a yoiceless teacher, and a great
library, a virtual university Because the
books in such library are numbered by the
tens and hundreds of thousands, and in q
life time one can only read comparatively
few, the great question for the student
there is, what shall L read. 1t suggests the
need of a professorship of books which
every university should establish and
which consequently we must have. That
we read not to know books but things,
needs the fullest setting forth. Newton
said the earth compressed could be put into
nut SHE'LL and Hunt decided that all lit
erature without repetition, could go into
nine or ten volumes. Here we need the
services of our professor of books.
2. A competent faculty. These must be
masters of departments, who will wake the
slumbers of the dead in books and things,
and clothe them in inspiring life again. 1t
is said that Alexander Hamilton touched
the dead corpse of finance and it sprang to
its feet. So must the teacher of literature,
philosophy and science do. / am happy to
say to this audience tonight that we have
not sought in vain for at least a few of
these masters of departments whose praises
will soon be in the mouths of all people.
g. Suitable buildings and endowment
We will un6Oubte6lv soon nI1tpra1v ON,
present quarters, but we have no fear that
we shall be left without a shelter. And
we already IN measure have endowment
in the large appreciation our Texans have
for education, and their independent spirit,
which would despise using what they did
not pay for. But Of this we will speak
later
now come to the,departments of study
and though the time will not admit of more
than glance here, we take it. The contest
especially between science land the
classics goes on. Here we might
array the scholarly classic Wesley against
tie long continued study OF the
classics. He says: 4 cannot with any
patience reflect that out of so short time
as human life, consisting it may be of fifty
or sixty years, nineteen or twenty shall be
spent in hammering out little Latin or
Greek. If one We're to judge of the life of u
man by the proportion of it spent at school,
one would think that the antediluvian age
was not yet gone. How many excellent and
useful things might be learned while boys
are thumbing and numbering Hesiod and
Homera What improvement can it be to
my understanding to know the amours of
Pyramus and Thisbe, or of Hero and
Leander!i These are the views of Wesley,
the classicist. With him stands Farrar,
the great scholar, and multitudes of others.
Yet on the other side, there is an equal
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ground that there Is wisdom in each and it
will be our duty to open the doors of the
university to the sciences and classics
WITH EQUAL FREEDOM.
First enrich the ground by broad generous
culture before planting the seed for special
growth. The reaction from the pedantic
worship of the classics, has resulted in
Germany in the pleading for dread
studies" from the emperor on the throne,
down through the profoundest universities,
to the lowest peasant in his hut In re-
Spouse, the words of the Master come to
us: Man shall not live by bread alone
Again light is thrown upon the subject by
Solomon, who says: Bring up a child in
his way and when he is old he will not depart
from it, There is his study undoubt-
eddy, as well as ''his way for every child
in which the best results will be obtained.
The honeySuckle is at home in balmy
Texas, and gladdens the eye and sweetens
the air of your houses and streets. But
yonder on the mountains, on the borders of
eternal SHOWS, there grows a plant, send
ing its stem through foot of snow and
perfects blossom as white and more beau
tiful than the snow itself, which blossom
fades and dies as soon as the snow by melt
ing, uncovers the feet of the plant. There
are students who in the sciences are as far
from home as the honeysuckle would be in
the SHOWS of the Rockies. The very high
in helping the student to find in what soil
and air he can make his largest, richest,
happiest growth. The wise uniting
Of all these faculties and attain |
ments constitutes the complete university.
Emerson says: ut is one of those fables |
which out of unknown antiquity, convey an |
wisdom, that the gods in the be- |
Cunning divided man into men, that he |
might be more helpful to himself: just Is |
the hand was divided into fingers, the bet |
ter to answer its end.'' Thus is the uniyer- i!
sity one in many. |
The fine arts must have large place
in the university. On this the thoughtful
can scarcely think without delight. Beyond !
the art of men, imitation, no matter how |
nearly perfect its reproductions of nature |
may be, is higher realm for the |
painter, where color is to the artist |
what words are to the scholar, |
the vehicle of thought, in which |
hose are more fitting colors and words, |
which are like the best mirror, least OBJ |
served. In these realms the artist under |
stands the comment of the blind man that |
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