The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-12-12
UNITARIAN
CLUB MEETS.
Brilliant /" Ladies' Night" at
TrocadeTo Last Evening,
BANQUET, MUSIC, ADDRESSES.
President Faunce Spoke on the Relation Of
The University 10 the City.
IMPROVEMENT IN COLLEGE MORALS.
Il Has Been Marked During ihe Last Quarter Of q
Csnlury-Ms. Bellows address on Hind
ranoss 10 Modern Culture.
President Faunce Spoke on The Relation Of
the University 10 the City.
IMPROVEMENT IN COLLEGE, MORALS.

The Ladies' night" OF the Unitarian
club was held last evening in Tilling-
hasts assembly rooms, and the affair
was a very brilliant one. The banquet
served was all that could be desired,
and excellent vocal music was furnish
ed by the choir of the First Congrega-
tiOnal church.
After the dinner the first speaker in
troduced was President Faunce OF
Brown universiE, who spoke on The
Relation OF the University to the City,
and he said in substance:
The relations OF the university ana
vhe city can best be appreciated by
imagining either without the other. III
the city w)e abandoned, how long
could the college stay?If the city should
remove the college must remove with
in "a hours In the city live professors
and students, and many OF fts valued
counsellors. In the city are wrapped
up the interests of the college. II the
college were removed IL would fake
a difference TO the city. OF all barren
cities the most uninteresting would be
a manufacturing city in which there Is
no educational influence. The college
furnishes faculty OF refined and cul-
fivated gentlemen, whose lives have
proclaimed that men do not live by
bread alone. The inspiration OF their
words and example has been of import
ance.
college morals have vastly imprcV-
ed i'm the last quarter century. We are
understanding today that barbarity OF
the olden time is barbarity. Any stu
dent today who attempts 70 resusci-
tate II receives the frowns OF his fellow
students. There are not two codes OF
Haw. one for Westminster street, the
other for our campus. All kinds of men
i'm the world may be found within the
college. Much of the discipline or coll
lege life is in the choice of friends, but
today college life is as safe for the
young man as any other occupation In
our modern life. / want the Sfe OF that
college 10 be interviewer with the life or
the city. In all the life of the city
those from the college are to bear an
honorable part The city can give IN
tellectual and social sympathy and H.
nancial assistance. Not for genera
tfon has Brown university asked the
community for any general movement
for assistance until now
ti"I pray that in cur churches and in
our schools there may be given that
largeness OF heart and largeness OF
horizon which alone makes life worth
living. Both of us, city and college.
can sta 44A- -+aeat her in impressing on the
celional process. The best thing a
school tan do for man or woman Is
to show how much there is to be learn
ed and the method of learning IL. That 8
as far as we can go"
The next speaker was Mrs. John A.
Bellows OF Boston, who talked on
Some Hindrances to Modern Culture. ="
She spoke very interestingly and said
I'm part:
"The laissez faire doctrine In the
homes forms one OF the greatest mod
ern hindrances to the finest develop
ment of character and culturs and that
produce the restless, blase. conspicuous
young person with whom we are 81
sadly familiar. A deal Of the difficulty
comes frC<.l a lack OF nealiZing the i'm
portance of the little things that go 70
form chld's character. The self-con-
troll that comes from a child being OBJ
liged TO sit through meal OF ordinary
length decently and in order Us of val
ue.
"If the price OF liberty is eternal Wig
ilance the price Of character Is not less.
Every school Is as naught when home
influences are thrown into the scales
II is the home always that tells. as IS
shown plainly by the fact that all the
English grammars In the world are
nowerless TO prevent a pupil from us
ing the language OF his faeher and
mother The fathers and mothers
should beOin early to lay The founda-
fions of character in the child