The news & observer., 1897-01-28

OLHeIy OF SiletH We not flLuer Dulld MM
both according to our ability? A head
less school system heightened a few
hours is no proper outcome Of so much
emotion. Our ideal should be an eight
months school, aided by as generous a
general tax as possible and supplemented
by local taxation. This is the historic
method which has given the East and
West their splendid results. Let us have
Il real remedy that is based on wisdom,
not a bind scheme of destruction. In
every effort to this end the heart Of the
University shall lie close to the schools
which feed it and its hands be quick 10
serve them.
(5) The University serves the State
by ennobling the idea of the State in the
minds of it's picked youth This is n
very great thing to do. The anti Chris
tan, or Pagan city State was a mere
expression of rude force and it's indi-
yiduals were dWarfed or shaped to its
uses. But Jesus Christ brought another
idea into the world, in his care for the
poor, the weak, the child. the plain people
society fused by the the divine energy
Of the Master, became a unit and de-
veloped an aim-the mutual benefit Of
its members. Out of thus marriage OF
christianity and Democracy have been
born the nobler institutions of society,
hospitals, Libraries, colleges, universities.
In an atmosphere such as this, therefore,
young men behold the Christian State
ia lbs greater and more lOvable relations,
not only just and law-enforcing but in
formed with a conscience, a heart, a pur-
pose and a will. There is born that large
civic pride which is so infaIlibly note
Of high civilization-tbat pride which
does not spend itself in more boasting.
nor eat out its heart in jealousy but
winch has respect for government and
governors, If they prove worthy: which
deems the States honor it's own: which
does not loosely undermine the props of
order by wild speech and epithet: which
Is foremost in works of public spirit and
which stands to serve the State in anv
hour Of danger and unrighteousness. Co
read yonder long list Of the mere bova
who fell in the shock OF battle and he
lieve that, if unhappily, another war
should burst upon the land these BOYS
would be the first to doff the gown and
buckle ON the sword
What now can the State do for the
University?
1t can understand it and sympathiEe
with It, 1t can refuse to punish it for
its success. 1t can nOurish it, giving to
life and growth not as if it doled ont
charity, but as one increases his nobJeet
investment. Lastly the State can honor
and protect its Umversity-its manhood
making engine-lifting it out OF the region
OF passion and jealousy and vicissitude
and giving to it that sense Of security
ana that air Of hope which multiplies ana
quickens its energies.
An unbrOken sovereignty OF genius ana
devotion has ruled and guided this in
sutution in the past, Their pictured
faces look down on us to-day and some
Of us may recall their benignant figures
as Chey arise out Of the shadows Of the
past-Caldwell, Swain, Mitchell. the
Phillipses, the Hoopers and a host Of
others. DR.. Battle, is happily with us. as
in zeal and power as when
he plucked the University from decay.
set 1t on its feet and guided it to assured
success. The energy, the commanding
intelligence and the resourcefulness OF
George L. Winston is but n thing Of yes
terday here, though he has transferred
his great constructive gifts to the far off
State of Texas
| do not permit myself to think that
can be to this institution what these
men We're though their examples light
my pathway can only promise to dedi-
cate to it whatever strength I have of
mind or body or soul and this do under
God and before the face Of this goodly
company. | realize that the University
IS larger in scope and greater in useful
ness than it has been in any former day.
The work it has to do is more vital and
varied and exacting as the age is more
intense and complex. And yet there *
no despair in the task Like some noble
oak on its campus the University haa
stuck its root deep in our soil, deep down
through the rock. Underneath its hos
pitable branches all sorts and conditions
OF men will gather, and the rains may
descend and the foods come and the
winds blow and perchance sway its
branches in the upper air, but it shall fail
not, for it is built upon the rock OF public
favor, and public necessity and Christian
Democracy, and it shall stand forever.
1t inspires me to think how bravely 1T was
standing here generations before you
and l were born; or our fathers were
born-a small, pleasant voice crying in
the wilderness of a feeble young State,
and 4 new world
My fancy has sight Of it in the strange.
new century awaiting it and us, growR
more beautiful in it's outward seeming
and fairer to look upon, its altar fires
llight and glowing, ardent youth bearing
)ur names and flesh of our blood stream
ing through its groves and it's gray old
walls still inviting from out the busy
world all those who would woo the god
less Truth.
Strong in the strength of an unweary-
ing service, confident of the unfailing
OF public impulse, the Univer-
sity enters a new stadium OF the second
century of it's course with malice to-
ward none, with charity for ALL" and
with a will to serve the high and majestic
ends OF Republican citizenship. The
University is the peoples school. Her
and her craven motto shall
be creative energy, enlightened civiliza-
ton, and untrammelled manhood. "Whe
shall rail against her power? May she
mix with men and prOsper!
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