The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-14
CHANCELLOR HILLS ADDRESS.
Spoke in Athens on the Value and
Importance of Education.

Athens, Ga. Sept. 13.-Chancelor Wal
ter B. Hill of the University of Geor-
gia made his first public address in Ath-
ems last night since his election to the
CHARACTERISTIC.
Chancellor Hill lectured at the Athen-
aeum Club, and the large building was
crowded with a most appreciative audi
ence.
Mr.. Hill spoke of college Education
and Its Relations to the Business World"
His address was one of great force and
made a deep impression on his hearers.
He was introduced by Mr.. w. G.. Mich
ael, vice president of the Athenaeum. AT
the conclusion of Mr.. Michaels introduce
tory remarks Chancellor Hill began his
lecture. He first spoke of the advantages
of Athens as a university town, a place
where the people take a general interest
in the inner life of the university, the
result being that the students feel that
they have the people of Athens as an au-
dience and that their interests form an
inspiration for them. The student achiev-
ing success realizes that he has the APP
probation of not only the student body, but
also of the citizens, the mature men and
women of Athens
In this situation there is great inspira-
ton to the students, an inspiration i'm
possible if the university were situated
in a village too small to furnish such
a community or in a city too large 10
avoid swallowing up the university in its
extensive business life.
Chancellor Hill said ne realized that in
his own college life there was an inspira
ton from the interest the people of Ath-
ems felt in the university, and that his own
college days were so delightful and prof.
table as to make the recollection of them
a strong appeal TO him when he came
to decide to change his life work and ac
cept the CHARACTERISTIC of the university.
Chancellor Hill then spoke of the bene-
fit the university was TO Athens 1t is
a means of culture, a perpetual protest
against the narrowness of view into which
business men may fall without the wild
ening influence in life. 1t gives Athens
the reputation and the reality of being
the Classic City of Georgia.
Chancellor Hill then entered into a dis
cussion of the position taken by Coils
p. Huntington as TO the value of col
lege education to the business man, which
he characterized as a destructive criti-
cism. As against these views ne placed
those of Robert C. Ogden, the managing
partner of John Wanamaker
Chancellor Hin then quoted from the
address of Lord Chief Justice Coleridge
as follows:
Il suppose the ma jority of you whom I
address are engaged in some business or
profession; that you have TO work in some
way or another; that you cannot treat life
as a mere enjoyment nor do always what
you please or what you fancy; that you
have Toll and struggle and labor, and dull
duty, perhaps repulsive, at least uninter-
esting, out of which your life is for the
most part made, and in which i'm a large
measure yonr days. perhaps your nights
arc spent. If this be so, in this, at least
you and l are one; l wish, therefore, 20
suggest TO you the true practical value, TO
such as we are, of great imaginative and
poetical compositions; and as an example
of such compositions. l will take the works
of the poet 1 know best next to Shakes
peare, the works of William Wordsworth
and urge upon you their reverent study