Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-29
DoLllvER's ELoeuENcE
In Pleading for support of the College.
Every Word Applicable Here.

1u 1,leHulnk IOr support Oh tne SOueRes
Every Word Applicable Here.
Before a Sioux City audience the
other day in speech in behalf of
Morning Side college, a Methodist in
stitution at Sioux City, Congressman
Dolliver made a strong speech, every
word of which is applicable to our own
Black Hills college. Where the words
"Morning Side college" occurs, just
read it Black Hills college, and you
will get the full benefit of our purpose
in reprinting the following, which is
only brief portion of his address:
II like Morning Side college because
it is struggling institution. There is
naught that so brings out what is good
in men or institutions as a hard fight
for existence. Look into the lives of
great men, men who have done some
good for the world, and almost without
exception you will find that there has
been in them u chapter of desperate
struggling for an existence. 1t is the
fighting church, the fighting college,
that must be active both day and night
to hold itself together that does more
good for intellectual progress than any
of the great universities. I've been
observing things among our education
al institutions, and l declare that if
the present tendencies continue there
will be II day not far distant when our
great colleges will be mere athletic as
sociations that will fail to command
either respect or support. A man of
moderate means cannot even venture
within their luxurious precincts, where
wealth and the ability to spend money,
not intellectual qualifications, is made
the standard for prestige in the stu
dent body.
"But the true intellectual life of
America does not lie in the centers of
learning of the east; it has It's home in
the smaller, braver, young institutions
of the land that by their constant
struggles have built themselves places
in the educational world. They create
the genuine atmosphere of intellectual
life. They attract to themselves the
young men and women who have SER
ious purpose in life: who go to school
to learn, to grow and to develop and
TO get the best there is in a college
courge. The atmosphere of fighting
that surrounds the institution itself
permeates the very natures of it's stu
dents, and they go out anxious and
eager for the battle of life-genuine
men and women, not cads.
Morning Side college has warm
place in my heart because it is CO.
educational institution. Itgives women
an equal chance with the men to fiji
themselves for the duties of life. be-
lieve i'll the full and complete educa
tion of women. The old doctrine that
housework and sewing and emborder
ing, with few accomplishments like
music or painting, were enough fol
them, is humbug of the past. Some
express fears that women may run
everything if they be given too many
opportunities. don't know but what
their fears are right, but it wouldn't be
very bad thing if they did run every
thing. Modern society has nothing tt
fear from granting the largest possible
privileges to a woman, even the ballot
81 like Morning Side college because
it is Christian institution seeking il
a practical way to carry out the princi
pies Christianity. Here education
and religion are kept before young
men and women together and they ac
quire both together. There is nothing
else like Christianity in the world. My
business for fifteen years has been in
the study of social problems and how
to reform the abuses that exist in {
practical way and guarantee the integ.
rity of our social fabric and it is my
belief as result that Christ's teaching.
afford the only practical solution o.
the problems. The gospel applies te
the world that now is, not merely tt
the world of the future. Variou.
schools of socialism have studied ex
listing conditions. One, the atheisti,
school is in deepest despair and find.
no way of escape. The spirit Of thi
school permeates more than one edu
cational institution and there ar,
scores of American colleges turning
out men who feel an intellectual prid
in denying the existence of God ant
the hope of any help from such
source.
But there are some preachers VIII
have fallen into an opposite extreme
that of fanatical Christian piety
Their influence has reached the colleg'
and there are some institutions O
learning in Iowa today that are send
ing out the doctrine that the worlt
must be torn up by the roots be*or,
the gospel can be Of any value to it
They denounce most bitterly the OK
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