The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-23


Philadelphia, Feb. 22.-President Nc
Kinley ate an early breakfast with the
family of Charles c. Harrison. He die
not leave the house until a few min
utes before II o'clock. when, in com
pany with Mr.. Harrison. he was driver
10 the Academy of Music, where the
Washington birthday commemorative
exercises of the University of Pennsyl-
vania were held.
Over 1000 students assembled on the
university campus at $3.50 and marched
four abreast to the Academy OF Music
When the head of the long column
reached Mr.. Harrison's house, Presi-
dent Mckinley appeared at the door
There with barred head, he bowed to
the hundreds of undergraduates, in re-
spouse to their hearty college greeting
As each class reached the house, its
members shouted the college cry OF
Pennsylvania" ending with The
PRESIDENT 1.-THE PRESIDENT" 1.-THE
president" The presidents face light
ened up and betokened extreme pleas
ure. At the Academy of Music the
students took the seats reserved for
them.
THE AUDIENCE.
President Mckinley addressed an in
telligent and appreciative audience at
the academy. BY his side on the stage
were assembled the faculty of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania and many
professors and executive officials of
other prominent educational institu-
tons. The seating capacity of the
academy is $500. All seats and boxes
were occupied, and from 400 to 500
persons stood in the rear of the several
lf he
auditorium was reserved for the stu
dents of the college.
The appearance of the president on
the stage was the signal for thunder
GUS applause, and as it died away, the
students broke out with their thrice
repeated college cry of 'Penn-syl-va-
nia," and the Municipal band followed
with Hail to the Chief" and the Star
Spangled Banner"
The exercises were opened with
prayer by Bishop Whitaker of the
Protestant Episcopal church. Charles
c. Harrison, provost of the University
of Pennsylvania, then delivered an ad-
dress. on closing which he introduced
President Mckinley.
MKINLEY'S ADDRESS.
Following, in part, is the address of
the president:
We celebrate here. as in every part
of our country, the birthday of a great
patriot, who assured the beginning of
a great nation. This day belongs to
patriotism and the people. But in a
certain sense the University of Penn
sylvania has a special reason for hon
oring the 22nd Of February For over
half century, with ever increasing
popularity and public recognition, you
have observed the occasion either as
holiday or with patriotic exercises,
participated in by the faculty and stu
dents. No other American institution
or learning has prcuder title to the
Venerauon of Washington'S memory
than this, whose foundation was laid
in colonial days nearly 80 years before
Pennsylvania became a state; whose
progress was largely due to the activity
OF Franklin and other jealous and far
seeing patriots, and whose trustees
were on terms of sufficient intimacy
with Washington to congratulate him
upon his election to the presidency. and
to receive from him a notable reply.
which has passed into the history of
the times.
WASHINGTON A Ii. D.
Washington, too belonged 70 the
brotherhood of the alumni of this insti-
tuition. having accepted the degree of
Doctor Of Laws. conferred upon him in
1IS3-an honor doubtless yet the more
appreciated when he recalled the events
which gave him closer peculiar attach
ment to the city of Philadelphia.
No wonder that your great university
has made the END of February its most
impressive cere mOnial and devoted its
annual exercises to special tributes to
the memory of the first president of the
United States and the patriotic themes
which cluster thickly about his life and
work rejoice with you in the day. re-
7GlCp olCn that -brny1 . r.
land the birthday of the patriot leader
is faithfully observed and celebrated
with ar enthusiasm and earnesness
which testify to the virtue and graft
tude Of the American people.
FAMILIAR TO ALL.
In its entirety. Washington's public
life is as familiar to the American as
the history of the United States. They
are associated III holy and indissolnble
bonds. The one is incomplete without
the other. Washington's character and
achievements have been part of the
school books of the nation for more
than century and have moved Amer
lean youths and American manhood to
aspire TO the highest ideals of response
BILE citizenship. With enduring fame
as great soldier. the world has recog-
nized his equal accomplishments in the
paths of craftsmanship. As a SOL
der, he was peerless in the
times In which he lived. and as states
man his rank is fxed as the most illus
trious IN any country or III any age.
The president traced the life of Wash /
inston in panegyrical eulogy. and then /
drifted into educational soiioquy:
LIBERAL EDUCATION.
a liberal education is the prize of in /
dividuai Industry. 1t is the greatest /
blessing that a man or woman can en-
joy when supported by virtue, morality
and noble ain S.
But the requirement of learning in
or schools and colleges seems so easv (
that we are apt to underestimate its
value and let the opportunity to win il
slip by Until. regretfully, we find that
the chance is gone.
The rudiments must be engrafted in
youth or, With rare exceptions. they are
forever lost.
Life to most is a struggle; there is
little time for the contemplation of the
theoretical, when the practical is press
ing al every hand. Stern duty monop-
olizes our time. The command of 9TH
ers controls cur preferences and often
defeats our intentions. BY steadily adj
herring 10 firm purpose amid the ac-
tivities of life We may keep in touch
with the literature of the day, but to
go back 70 the classics or to grapple
with the foundations Of the sciences is
beyond the power OF most men when
they have entered upon their chosen
business or profession.
Ones mental frrhfipo oftap bond