The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-02-04
WHAT DAN 1T DO?
Closing Paragraphs of President
AldermaD's Inaugural

What now can the State do for the
University?
1t can VI derstand it and sympa-
thza with it. 1t can refuse to punie b
it for it's success. 1t can nourish it,
giving to it within it's means What it
needs for life and growth, not AS if it
doled out charity, but as one i'll
creases his noblest investment.
Lastly the State can honor and pro-
tect its Upiversity-its MANHOOD
making engine-litting iJ out of the
region of passion and jealousy and
vicissitude and giving to it that
sense of security and that air of hope
which multiplies and quickens it's
energies.
An unbroken sovereignty of genius
and devotion has ruled and guided
this Institution in the past. Their
pictured faces look down on us today
and some of US may recall their
behignant figures as they ARISE out
of / be shadows of the past eli,
| SH lin, Mitchell, tue Phi lipses, the
| Hoopers and a host of others. Fr.
RI ttle, Ia happily with Us, as I'M
! worrying In al and power as WHEN
he pluckrd the University from decay,
|
| assured success. The energy, the
commanding intelligence and the
resourcefulness of George I. Winston
is but a thing of yesterday 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 were, though their exam
pies liz hit my pathway, | can only
promise to dedicate to it whatever
strength | have of mind or body OF
soul and this | do under God and
before the lace of this gondly com
psny. realize that the University
is larger in scope and greater in use
fulness than it has been in any form
er day. The work it has to do II
mere vital and varied and exactinl
IA the age is more intense and con-
pick. And vet there Is no despair il
the task. Like some noble oak omit
ca mpus the University has stuck IL
root deep in our soil, deep dow
through the rock. Underneath IL
hospltable branches all sorts an
conditions of men will gather, ant
the rains may descend aud the flood
come and the winds blow and per
chance sway It's branches In tb
upper air, but 1t shall fail not, for !
i. built upon the rock of public favor
and public necessity and Christia
Democracy, and it shall stand fol
ever. Ii inspires ne to think hO'
bravaiy it was standing here genera
tions before you and | we're born; o
} our fathers were born-a small
pleasant voice crying in the wilder
ness of feeble young State, and
new world.
My fancy has sight Of it in tn
strange, new century awaiting 1t an
Va, grown more beautiful In it's ou
ward seeming and fairer to loo
upon, its altar fires alight and glow
ing, ardent youth bearing our name
and flesh of our blood streamin
through it's groves and it's gray oil
walls still inviting from out the bus
world all those who would WOO tt
I. goddess Truth.
Strong in the strength of an I'm
wearying service, confident of the I'll
failing rectitude of public impuls
; the University enters a new stadiu
Of the second century OF it's cour'
with malice toward none, wit
charity for ALL" and With a will
serve the high and majestic ends
Republican citizenship. The Unive
sity is the peoples school. 81
; watchword and her craven mott
| shall be creative energy, enlightent
. civilization, and untrammelled ma
= hood "Who shall rail against n
power? May she mix with men ar
prosper y