Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-26


emigIants coming 10 our shores 10 full,
absorb the principles Of American liberty
but their children can be so firmly ground
eS in its truths in the schools that they
will be the best and bravest citizens of The
state
The grand mission of institutions like
Cornell is the training and graduating OF
men of independent thought and action.
The self reliance which comes from the con
scious mastery Of ones calling is indepen
dence, and when supplemented by the teach
ings and touch Of the university il is lib
| erty. Every youth who goes dut into the
world from any department of this college
becomes in the community where he settles
an influence for right thinking and right
acting He is standard for better work
in his vocation. One OF the difficulties of
our situation is the mass of half educated
and eadly trained young men who come
every year from our schools Their equip
ment is too superficial for the professions
or for business, aud they have no prepare
ton for the trades They emphasize by
their necessities and their careers the call
for every possible extension of the new
learning. Ii is both commentary upon
the public necessity for education and
comfort for the future that there can be
found in the ranks Of socialism or anarchy
in the United States scarcely single grad
uate of any high school-classical, tech
biological or manual training.
Cornell gives free education to nearly 600
students, the representatives Of the Assem-
bly, districts of the state OF New York
In doing this she fulfills in fourfold
measure the spirit and letter Of her founda
ton. But the Empire State should not
permit its sons to be drain upon re-
sources which have been so wisely hus-
banded and so admirably administered.
IL should generously recognize thespendid
work done at Cornell and appropriate the
means for the tuition Of those who are here
and those who wish to come. Then there
would grow up on the shores Of Cayuga
lake student republic rivaling those
which greeted the middle age revival Of
learning and instinct with the life and en-.
ergy and aspirations of today. The picture
and the prospect should thrill the people OF
New York with loyal pride
A few years ago the University OF Heidel
berg celebrated its five hundredth anniyer
sary. The heir to the throne of the German
empire presided. Princes responded to the
sentiments. and around the great hall hung
the banners and armorial devices OF the |
hereditary rulers 1.-THE land. The spectacle |
was brilliant and imposing. and she daz.
zling display OF the emblems Of rank and |
power made II "A memorable pageant. When |
your eyes had become accustomed to the |
sheen of the armor and weapons and jewels, |
and your ears TO the blare of the trumpets. /
you instnctively queried. What lesson Of |
these five centuries does this ceremonial |
teach2 You saw the baron in his castle on /
the Rhine, with his vassals at his feet: you
felt the power and glory of Teutonic valor
and achievements; you knew Of the scholars
and learned men who had passed the portals
OF the university, but you felt that the
political, the social and the material con.
ditions of the age OF invention and democ
racy were not represented.
Ii is the proud boast OF Cornell that she
is not only abreast with the times. but is
leading them No traditions retard her
growth. and no legends obscure for her the
truth. She feels the movement OF the In
tellectual activities OF the country and the
pulse OF our industrial develop.
ment. Her % years are coincident with the
unparalleled progress Of the United States
since the close Of the civil war and her
growth has been stimulated by
its impulse.
Said Mr.. Gladstone TO me: IF had to
select from all the half centuries of record
ed time the 80 years in which to pass my
active life. would choose the 30 years in
which have worked Ii has been 50 wears
Df emancipation" What is true Of this
most remarkable and potential statesman
IS still more applicable TO this university |
Her quarter OF "A century is the high water
mark OF intellectual activity, scientific dis
'overy. realization OF liberty and material
progress Hero worship Is the happiness
md inspiration of youth. and we have for
his period Lincoln and Grant and Sher-
nan and Sheridan in craftsmanship and
rms in our own country, and Gladstone
bismarck, Won Moltke, Theirs. Cavour and
jambetta abroad. Literature has been en-.
1ched by Ruskin aud Hawthorne Tame
md Emerson. Longfellow and Tennyson,
bancroft and Green, Whittier, Lowell and
1olmes. Scholars and scientists too nu-
nerous for record in the limits of this ad-
ress have irradiated this era with the re-
ults OF their genius.
Glorious Future.
Edison and Bell and others have demon
trated the limitless possibilities of cleo
richly. The spirit OF invention and discov-
ry has broken down the doors which safe
uarded the secrets OF nature and let loose
he imprisoned forces of resistless energy
nd renorseless power and tanned AID
rained them to the service of man The
OF the slave and the recon
Truction of the states, the education of the
reedmen and the restoration of national
nifty and national PATRIOTISM are our oh
act lessons in philanthropy and state
raft of priceless value to this and coming
eneratlOnS.
In the heroic age its honors and renown
ere for those who had been most success
Al in killing their fellow human beings
! our prosaic one, they are reserved for
lose who do most and best 10 preserve the
YES, improve the health, increase the hap
mess and promote the welfare OF the men
40 women OF the present and the future
has by natural evolution
rown from an impulse to a science The
discriminate giving which pauperized
Is become the wise endowment for res -
ration to independence OF the training
r leadership. Our benefactions assume
70 forms, the one for repairs and the
her for construction. In the first are
'spitals, homes and asylums, aud in the
cond the school, the college, the uni
rsity and the library. Money Yields
most satisfactory return when il is
ent to open and smooth the pathways
youth To opportunity and careers Tue
vestment compounds. aud in compound OF
Z reduplicates its beneiicence with each
neration of students, while the benefactor ON