Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-23

that could not fail to be magnetic. His
youthful auditors looked up at him with
evident approval and satisfaction, and it
was easy to perceive that they felt in
stinctively that their new president was
man in whom they could place implicit
trust and confidence, to whom they could
turn when in difficulty without hesitation
and be assured that he would find a way
to help them out. and who would, in q
word, be friend Of each as well as the
careful director and guardian of them all.
His Opening Remarks.
Dr. Whitman began by referring to the
excellent auspices under which the new
year and what he regarded an enlarged
and greater future of the Columbian Uni
versity were Icing ushered in. He said
that some people were believers in omens,
and that he was a member Of this class,
with certain qualifications. 1t was his plan
If omens were favorable to accept them.
and, if they were not, to regard them as
nothing but signs.
with me-" he said, with engaging
smile, the matter of omens is very much
like what we hear in the common vernac-
ular about heads. 1 win; tails. you lose
Continuing. he said that everything,
omens and all, pointed to a prosperous year.
and he felt inclined to emphasize again and
again the important part the students
themselves would have in making it so.
The president of one of the great uni
versit.es had defined a university some time
ago as being "a single great teacher and
single faithful student" 1t was very inn
portant that all should enter upon the work
before them. both as students and as teach
ers, with the full knowledge of what such
harmony of effort and intention meant.
Faithfulness on the part of the students,
the manner in which they attacked their
studies, the spirit in which they pursued
their researches, should be regarded with
full seriousness, and it was the duty of all
to pursue their work in such a manner that
they would be better men and women in
al a of
What Homoculture Means.
After impressing his hearers with the i'm
portance of this portion of their duties, DR..
Whitman sad that man is the key to
nature, and that nature was simply the
realization on large scale of what man
believes he contains within himself He de-
clared that some day the science of homo
culture, which meant the breeding and MAX
ing of better men and better women, physi-
cally, intellectually and spiritually, would
be followed in Its larger and better sense.
Educators were recognized in this science,
and those of today who have met with the
most success are the ones who believe in
the putting of the whole child at school, so
that morals as well as mathematics and
literature will be instilled, and the whole
manhood and the whole womanhood put at
work for a common purpose He adjured
his young hearers to follow such a system
in the future before them, and to let all
their elements work together. He did not
wish to be understood as advising course
Of steady seriousness.
Mirth ms u Medicine.
Amusement and recreation were as valu-
able as application and energy in the pur-
suit of knowledge. He had read in re-
cent number of a monthly manazine an
article which described the gift some men
have Of "a broad and smiling capacity for
idleness'' He deemed that q very good pos
W
Some writer had said "Mirth doeth good
like medicine" 1t was hardly necessary
to state that medicine should always be
taken in seemly doses, whether 1t be OF
homeopathic or allopathic variety. The at
tempt to be funny all the time has always
been CHASTITY failure. and 1t was easy to
perceive that the taking Of any medicine
continually would certainly reach equally
dismal results.
It was the duty of all, therefore. to get the
serious and non-serious elements together
and combine them to make the full measure
of true manhood and true womanhood. The
body, mind and spirit should all be directed
toward accomplishing the object to which
one devoted himself. He did not mean spirit
development of that large side that looks
toward God constantly and becomes like
God" he said. THE emphasis of the spirit
ual element in yourselves will inspire all
your other work with spirituality.
Forms and Facts of Faith.
Continuing, he remarked that the forms Of
faith were too often mistaken Cor the fact
of faith. At one period abstention from the
bath was considered q high form of piety
and general uncleanliness looked upon as
sarctity He dwelt at length upon the neces-
sity for spiritual feeling in making all work
successful, concluding by declaring that the
worlds next great leader would be the man
who would stand face to face with the
world and compel it to acknowledge truth.
In conclusion. DR.. Whitman alluded to the
faculty and the eminent character Of the
gentlemen composing 1t, and said: '"The sue
cess of the year depends not 30 much on