Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-12-08
GOVERNOR M. Il. MCORD'S ADDRESS. Words of Patriotism aud Praise for the Territorial University at
 the Flag Raising. A Strong and Eloquent Plea for the Development of the Higher and NObler Traits of
 Manhood and WO-
 manhood.

I
 Governor McCord stated that he
 had prepared his address not only for the faculty and students and
 those present, but for the people of
 the territory at large, ss the uniyer- slty was territorial institution and its success interested every good
 citizen Ot the territory, and it was
 his hope that the press would pub fish the same for the benefit of
 those interested in the higher edu- cation of their sons and daughters. The governor spoke as follows:
 MT. President, Ladies and Gen.
 tlemen: In this university can be
 found all the facilities and advan-
 tages that are found in almost any
 college in the United States. Stu
 dents here enjoy the advantages of
 other institutions of like character
 and some that others of like charac- ter do not afford. Its faculty is able, its apparatus first class, full and
 complete. and the expense is much
 less than that of similar institutions,
 besides being at home. For these
 reasons the people of Arizona who
 desire to give their children the
 advantage of a higher education
 should patronize this institution.
 A spirit of patriotism also ought to influence every parent who desires
 to give his son or daughter an ad-
 vanced education. to send them to
 this institution. Before the close of
 the next school year I confder ly
 expect to see the present attenda' ce
 doubled, and before the end of the
 present century, predict the rolls
 will show an attendance of at least
 four hundred.
 This university is destined e be-
 come a great and celebrated institu-
 ton of learning; great ia ;ts capa-
 city to furnish homes for, and to
 impart useful knowledge to thoee
 Whu attend it; gres. m the moral
 influence it is destined to exert upon every class of society; great ir lSa
 numbers 1t wlll forward upon the
 high TUsi tu hUBur and usefulness and fame; great ia causing virtue to
 be encouraged and rewarded and vice 10 shrink from its atmosphere;
 but greater st l in quenching the inordinate desire for material wealth and pomp and circumstance, which
 freezes the genial current of the soul, and which has become the bane of civilization, and realizing the poetic sentiment. that
 m fares the land, to hastening ills Where wealth aocumulates, and men de-
 cay
 '1ts pupils will gather in from the north, and the south, and the east and the west to drink at the foun- taiu of knowledge here opened, and will go out refreshed and inyigor- ated, to diffuse the blessings of edu. cation where ever civilization has travelled or may travel. Though no theology will be inculcated here, the institution will stand as the representative os 6 Christian people, who in their ministrations have literally obeyed the divine to preach the gospel to every creature It's object is, of course, education; that education which qualities us to meet the prac- tical realities of existence in every walk of life, enabling us to enjoy the greatest amount of happiness and to accomplish the greatest amount of good; an education which will teach the value of knowledge and humility, the emptiness of su- perfcial gliding, and the low bred vice of ostentatlon and vulgar dis play; an education that will fit both | sexes for the discharge of their . various duties as responsible mem bers of society; an education which . has been eloquently described as which no misfortune can depress, no cline destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism en- slave; at home a friend, abroad an in solitude solsce, in society an ornament; that cbastens vice, that guides virtue, and gives at once a grace and government 10 genius
 Without learning no one can possess true wisdom, or enjoy that self reliance necessary to success or manhood or woman hood. Learning cannot be acquired proper advantages and iD- .ense application. Education l.; DO rival; experience may teach us many things, but treasures of learn ng are the wisdom of every age and the fruit of every cline. Edu- cation dispenses with a lavish hand her lessons of justice, truth and goodness, over perversion, falsehood and disorder; she teaches how to ,ubdue and fertilize the desOlate and waste places in our moral exist snce, and clothe them with perennial 7erdure and beauty; how to chasten and subdue all irrational desires; now to turn back tides of thought and change an existence and mind lf sterility to one teeming with the choicest thoughts; how to make the ,ares and duties of life agreeable and the land prosperous; how to .nioy wealth without vulgar pride, md how to surround the home Of poverty with happiness.
 The good influence that will low from this university will reach III ages and conditions. Its per 'orming its good offices will cheer be young, gladden. the bleak and xintry existence of age, and beguile he solitary hour as 1t sees the sun ight reflected at its evening. It will nerve the heart of manhood to ,irtuous resolves, and stamp its moral impress upon the tone and eeling of society. Its philosophy, natural and moral, will teach the lature of tho laws which govern hind and matter, make plain the -aIue of reason aud revelation, and erve to expel from respectable SO iety the charlatan with his base and implous hummer es.
 'This university will stand as an nduring monument of the liberal nd enlightened spirit by which it gas established. Those who con