The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-03
DE PAW DAY At ACTON
VICE CHANCELLOR HICKMAN SPEAKS
OF UNIVERSITY FINANCES.
Expected to Raise a Half Milton En-
dOwment Fund-The bethany Meet
ing-Pentecost Services.

Yesterday was assigned as De Paw day
at Acton Park, and a number of interesting
addresses were delivered. A number of
prominent college men were present. among
whom were the speakers, Captain Ritter, of
Indianapolis; DR.. Hickman, vice chan
cellor of De Paw University; Rev. Mr..
Wise. pastor of College-avenue, at Green
castle, and Thomas Nadal. of Greencastle,
who won the prize in the state oratorical
contest this year. An impression has gone
abroad that the university is in bad finan-
eial straits, but Dr. Hickman showed this
to be exaggerated He assured his audience
that the institution will be able to pull
through until the settlement of the De
PAW estate, which is worth quarter of
million. Said DR.. Hickman: Twenty thou
sand dollars in the last few months have
been subscribed or given outright to the
sustaining fund and the permanent en-
dowment fund. A plan has already been
outlined and passed by several conventions,
among them the Epworth League state con-
vention, to raise half million dollars for a
permanent endowment fund as a gift from
the nineteenth century to the twentieth
century,
The work of the day was opened by DR..
T. A. Goodwin, of Indianapolis, who con-
Quoted the devotional exercises. The ad-
dress of the day was given by DR.. Hickman,
who spoke on De PAW University and In
diana Methodism. He introduced his re-
marks by speaking of the revolution which
has swept over the Nation in the last few
months on account of the present war. He
then spoke of the premium the world pays
on the educated mind. of the place the edu-
Gated man fills in politics, business and So
ciety The doctor said that Methodist par
ents owed it to their sons and daughters
to give them such an education as would
give them an equal chance in life with other
educated men and women The Methodist
Church must educate her own leadership.
said the speaker. What West Point and
the Naval Academy are to the Nation, the
university and theological school are to the
church. As the Nation could not hold its
own, even with an effete and dying civil
ization like Spain, without men trained by
these schools, neither can the Methodist
Church hold her own, not to say make
progress, in these difficult times without an
equipped leadership; and that leadership
must be trained in her own schools"
Continuing, the doctor said, Conduct is
three-fourths of life, and knowledge only
incidental, while character is everything.
Since religion is the greatest factor in mold
ing moral character, it follows that re-
ligion should permeate all educational insti-
tutions Methodist colleges must not be
second to any in the land"
DIR. Hickman said the College of Liberal
Arts has been changed but little, the re-
ports to the contrary notwithstanding.
Captain Ritter made a brief address on
Methodism, saying in part: 1.-THE Methodist
Church came into the State of Indiana as a
fDI a11o ai,if,. aI Il
to help redeem and educate the people of
the State. 1t undertook TO plant the school
house beside the church Governor Whit
comb, as a Methodist Governor, did proba-
bly, more effective work than any other one
man to establish and incorporate into our
State Constitution our present school SyS-
tenn His work was supplemented by his
successor and number OF other prominent
have been thoroughlv deVoted to educaton
as a part of their great calling. Governor
Whitcomb was also an ardent and efficient
friend of De PAW University, bequeathing
to it his valuable library Governor Wright
was graduate of Asbury, now De PAW,
University. Governor Lane was on the
board of trustees from the organization of
this university and until after his election
as Governor. Educational interests as rep
resented by De Paw, in the minds of our
greatest laymen and minister's were some
thing to be struggled for sacrificed for, and
right nobly did they do their work. We
must receive anew the spirit of the early
| take hold of the college as they did and
bring it up to its former standard of ex-
cellence, TO let this institution go down
would be to abandon Methodism."
DR.. Wise, OF Greencastle, spoke on "Secu-
1arism and Christian Education" He took
the ground that the great conflict in the
religious world is not a conflict in the
creeds, but that it is conflict between
Christianity and secularism. 1t is a ques-
ton whether Christian principles can be
applied to the social and political institu-
tions of society; whether there can be a
Christ order of society instead of society
organized on the principles Of selfishness.
In that conflict, the university holds the
strategic point. 1t is training the future
editors, merchants and college men as well
as the ministers What philosophy OF life
these men hold will construct the civiliza-
ton of tomorrow. The speaker then made
a plea for great Christian university, bold,
honest thorough and reverent, in which the
future leaders of the world should be
trained He closed with an especial plea for
De Pauw University,
In the afternoon Mr.. Nadal delivered his
successful Grafton on The New Patriotism"
A number of selections were rendered by the
Mandolin Club. composed of Edward Dash
iel Harry Wheeler and Miss JeSsamine
Boilvin There was also a piano solo by
Miss Jennie Thompson and vocal solo by
Mr. McClain. In the evening an entertain
ment consisting of humorous and miscel-
laneous readings was conducted by Miss
Blanche Brenemau. A partes of young peo-
pie including Misses Bertha Siddall, Edith
White, Maude Whitman. Louella. Bowen,
Emma Ronecker and ]: L. Stout. chape-
roned by Mrs. Maria Thatcher attended
Epworth League at Shelbyville last night,
returning on the midnight train.
The work of the w. c. T. y. will be taken
up this morning and will continue until
Friday evening. Many of the best speakers