The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-06-21

ton represents no idea its existence is
simply unintelligible; the events by
which it develops itself are with com
mon unity, and the nation itself is
unimportant and is soon forgotten
Such in substance are the words OF
Cousin, and history has not
been unfaithful to them; for Greece,
lovely Greece, the land OF scholars and
the nurse of arms, where is she? The
grand lessons in speculative philoso-
ply and plastic art, the propagation
OF which had made her instructress OF
the world, yielded the palm to Rome's
lessons OF law and legion at Cynoce-
phal8, and Greece's doom was eter-
nally sealed.
Thus, indeed, there hath passed
away glory from the earth.
And what contrast. On the one
hand simple mathematical treatise
that has defed the critical attacks of
scholars for 1000 years, and on the
other nation, once the foremost in
the world, sunk into hopeless insjg-
niticance. Here philosophic ideas
that have given rise to as many con-
tending schools as there nave been
philosophers to study them; the simple
automatic assumptions that carry
with them to every mind the impre IS
| of truth.
Turn now from the world of mathe-
MATES to that of humanity and study
the parallel. Whose are the names
that men will not willingly let die?
Whose are the lives most worthy of
emulation? This is your answes,
''Those whose life and death
are the embodiment Of principles
as universally esteemed noble as Eu-
clid's are true. Will the pages of all
eternity offer a nobler and more uu-
dying spectacle of self. devotion than
that of the Greek king, who, unmind-
full of his lofty state, feaped first upon
the Trojan shore and met certain
death? But is patriotism the
only base upon which to
found nobility? Study the religious
war that wasted Europe for 30 years
and find an answer in the bones that
lie whitening on the fields of Luetzen
and Breitenfeld.
However, the smoke of all such bat
ties have cleared away. Slavery and
states rights are perhaps eternally set
tied and may soon be forgotten. The
flesh that was rent, the
blood that flowed have put
on Immortality and passed
TO that country from whose bourne no
traveller e'er returns The blue and
the gray join sorrowful hands over
those that fell and all is at peace. All
is at peace, but all shall never be for
gotten; for as the black cloud of ami
mostly and revenge that hung dark
ening over both lands is rolled away
bit by bit by the passing years, there
comes to us through the riffs glimpses
of a mighty temple, celestial in its
whiteness, for it is the shrine of a
love that knows no North and
no South; eternal in its con-
for it is to COM
memorate the death of those who gave
up life and all'its charms for principles
they thought right. These are they
whose names men will not willingly
let die.
But it is not on the battlefield alone
that men embody in their acts the
universal ideas of the true, the beau
tiful and the good. l would that
might illustrate this point further by
recalling to your minds the high res
gard in which every man faithful to
his oath, cost him what it will, ia held.
| would that | might show unmistak-
ably that our reverential devotion
to woman owes its existence to the
ideas Of the true and the good OF
which her life is the outward express
sion.
In the previous remarks hope it
has been shown clearly that true
nobleness of character, like the science
OF mathematics, rests upon ideas, I'M
iversal and eternal. Chis is what l
would have you remember, for in it
lies the noblest incentive to a higher
love of your fellow man.
Upon the conclusion of Mr.. Shep.
ards address Professor Chamberlain
announced the University magazine
prizes, awarding the prize tor the
best prose selection to Miss Fannie
Van ZAndt and the prize for the best
poem to Mr.. A. l., Holland.
THE REGENTS.
The board of regents spent most of
the day in session yesterday, hearing
from the various committees, etc
Professor Dabney, who recently re-
signed from the University sent in a
bill for S4l6 for services rendered, ETC.,
UudJ OGCdSlOHeu d NlGdl vi 'llcCuo'
sion 1t is even intimated that red
hot committee report was heard from
Oh the subject, recommending non
payment of it and speaking rather
caustically of the matter in general
After lengthy discussion of the mat.
ter, however, the regents concluded
that for reasons best known to them
selves they would pay the claim and
such was ordered done.
The next matter of moment that en-
gagged their attention was the charges
preferred against Mr.. A. P. Wool
ridge, the secretary of the board, oy
DR.. Everhart, late professor of chem.
istry. These charges in the main ac
cused Mr.. Woodbridge of securing the
resignation of DR.. Everhart by fraud
and wilful prevaricstion. When the
committee had been heard from with
reference to the matter, it became very
evident that they proposed to set on
DIR. Everhart very hard and it was &C
cordingly done, the board adopting
their report unanimously.
The committees report on the mat
ter was as follows:
To the Honorable Board of Regents of the
University of Texas