The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-01
PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
TEN NEW, DOCTORS AND ONE
NEW PHARMACIST.
ONLY TWO GRADUATES IN THE LAW
A Fine Address on College Life by President
Butler Of Colby Universily..A Re-
view of the Years Work by
President Meserve.

PRESIDENT MeSefVe'
The annual commencement exercises
of the Leonard Schools of Medicine ana
Pharmacy and the Department OF Law
Shaw University, classes OF 1890, helo
yesterday at the college chapel, were
most sl,l,ccessful and highly gratifying
to the friends of this great institution
The programme was a most interesting
one.
The exercises were opened by an ap-
propriate prayers by the Rev. Mr.. De
laney. President Meserve then in
troduced the orator of the day
Rev. Nathaniel Butler, ID. d., president
Of Colby University, Wateryille, Maine
DR.. Butler began by expressing his
pleasure at being the guest of such an
institution and having an opportunity
TO address its students.
Il want to present to Shaw UNIVERSE
ty.'' he said. 1.-THE cordial, fraternal greet
ings of Colby University, which has
the honor of numbering among its dis
tinguished alumni your honored presI
dent"
WIN InIS DFltl LII. LII
Ter announced as his subject The Col
lege Ideal and American Life"
The old notion of an education, he
said, was that it lasted for only a few
years and consisted and what was
learned out of books in the school and
college. This. he declared to be a false
idea.s Education is the continual de-
velopment and expansion of the indivld-
- - ly.,r~ wa
we must go on enlarging our field Of
knowledge, for our education is never
complete until the brittle thread of life
is snapped. the golden bowl at the foun-
tain is broken.
but it is not my purpose to-day 10
speak of education in this broad sense.
/ want to discuss, rather. college edu-
cation. In doing this, the speaker first
pointed out the difference between a col
lege and a university. A university he
defined as a collection of schools where
men and women go to complete their
chosen courses. An ideal university
would be a collection of all such schools
for receiving students who have grad
uated from colleges. This is the ideal
university where college graduates are
fitted for their professions or specific
line of investigation. Here they acquire
specific knowledge or the technical train
ing of practitioner. A degree is now
essential for entrance to Harvard or
Yale medical or law schools.
The student must enter his profession
al study with a trained mind and we'll
disciplined body under his control. This
is the work of college. The college places
the sharp axe in the mans hand while
the university sharpens the axe and
teaches him the use of it.
The college course has its value there
fore not in what the graduate knows
but what he can learn and can do. His
training Is general. 1t teaches a man to
use himself and apply himself to human
life and activity. Symmetry of mind
and character is the colleges object.
The four-fold side of human character
the physical social, intellectual and
spiritual-must be developed in college.
The speaker first referred to the ply
steal. At one time the typical under
graduate was distinctly mediaeyal: he
was the victim of one-sided culture.
hut now it is understood that the stu
dents life is complex. The body at its
hest is indispensable to the intellect.
How does it happen that the barbarism
which existed in the college thirty years
ago, after it had been eliminated from
the rest of society, has now disappeared?
The speaker believed that it had been
eliminated largely by the athletics IN
the colleges.
While the man is gaining physical
courage and endurance and daring. he is
getting moral courage, self-reliance.
strength Of character, manliness and
fairness. Physical contests and exer-
cises in the gymnasium and on the ath-
letic field have proved the best solution
of the college life.
President Butler next spoke of the
necessity OF developing the social side OF
the college student, for if ease and grace
and versatility in conversation are not
acquired in youth they are understandable.
Many college graduate has complained
that his college has taught him for years
and left him rude and boorish. in man
ner. But this too has passed away and
the college considers it part of it's mis-
sion TO cultivate the social side of stu
dent life
But there are other things to be done
The eye must be educated. the hand
must be trained, the muscle must be
taught. This done the man is a better
man, a more thoroughly and symmetri
cally educated man. He may never do
any of these things. but it is well Il
know how to do them. 4 lawyer ply.
stefan or artist who can make table or
watch is better trained and more com.
petent man than il he did not have the
use of his hands and eyes.
The spiritual life. Tn this. more than
in anything else is the American college
weak. An education as we have tbus
far considered it will do all bnt tbis
last. II is in this-the greatest and crown.
ing work-that an education finds IL
complete fulfllment heard man say
once that when young man goes to col.
leee, he goes at the peril of his soul
This is not true. There is peril in al
things-peril in being b0rn--but il is MOI
true that there is peril to the colleg,
student in the sense that man meant
The time has come when the spiritua
side of college life is recognized. Lee
the graduate be the servant of fen
der conscience, respectful and obedian