Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-10

day is not the city OF decade ago.
Our horizon has expanded, our views
are broader, and into our city strang-
ers have come who heretofore have
lacked the opportunity of close asso-
8, ciet!cn with college life. And in ex-
charge for the material prosperity
tAss came with them. they have found
a prepared social condition and refine
mea; and opportunities that can exist
only where there is mental culture.
And yet it is not best for those who
here follow the quiet pleasures of the
s,rdents's life to think for a moment
that The college is the city, The inter-
e:ts Of all demand that there be a
close association between the College
ard the citizens of the city A free
acquaintance cannot help but promote
a common interest, and by union of
labor there will come strength. | be-
love that our citizens are in strong
sympathy with this school, and that
the men who are at the front in our
affairs today understand the great val
ue of a college education. Dr. Thomp-
that an educated man is above failure,
and | believe he is right. A college
education makes men self-reliant, it
opens avenues of thought whereby
seeming failure can be turned into vic
tory. Every educated man finds in
himself resources that would have re-
manned dormant without the school
Business at its best is a continuous
round of sameness. and the business
man who can find recreation in the
stores of knowledge has a great ad-
vantage over the one who insists that
the world is fiat, or that the third is
greater than the half. Education says
to the man:
10 not butt at the storm
With your puny form,
Bit bend, and let it go DER you
There is a wider. freer l'fe in store
fer he mind that can draw lesson
from the rocks, that can trace the laws
CT the great Creator in the stars of
heaven, or in the unfolding of the
flower. And we as citizens Of Marietta
appreciate that opportunities that lead
to such a condition are at our very
Gc0.s. Thai it is possible for us to
Genre in contact daily with men whose
calling cannot but inspire, whose lives
and example are always for the best,
and whom to know in social life is
Lositive pleasure.
/ And now | will propose the health of
President Perry; may long years of
succe ; attend his labors, and l wish
him a full share of the good things of
this earth. And TO the old College that
| blcs ed our fathers before Us, that now
receives our sons and daughters,
| kIcugh whose veins still course the
/ hot blood of youth, | would say, your
work has but begun. Go on! Go on
Be thou forever!
PROF. SMITH.
Prof, Smith, of the o. S. T., convey
ed the greetings of that institution to
the new President, and said that all
the colleges of Ohio were united in one
grand crusade against the intrenched
forces of ignorance Both the univer-
sity and the small college meet on the
same path; both teach men to live
PROFESSOR SPRING.
Professor Spring, of Williams Col
lege, expressed the kindly feelings of
| the Alma Mater to her graduate and
outlined the sentiments which have
guided both Williams and Marietta in
their methods of instruction.
PROFESSOR BONEBRAKE.
Hon. l.. d. Bonebrake, State Com
missioner of Common Schools, spoke
very interestingly of the cause of ed
ucatiOn in Ohio and of the abundance
of the small colleges in the State. The
statistics which he gave proved that
Ohio has the largest number of High
Schools of any state in the Union and
chat her colleges, while small, are
Gourd in siXty-two out of the eighty
ishJ counties. On behalf of the teach
ars Of Ohio he welcomed President
Perry.
PROFESSOR BOSWORTH.
Prof. Bosworth conveyed messages
of interest and welcome from Oberlin
College to its sister Congregational
Col. ege. Oberlin and Marietta have
mary things in common. For each
Institution one man has accomplished
an exceptional work. President
Elnchilo, for sixty-six years connect
ed with Oberlin, has rendered inesti-
mabe service TO the college in the
!ow.ands by the great Lake" Presi-
ler, Andrews has been benefactor of
uE.old worth to the college by the
great river"
PRESIDENT PERRY.
President Perry was called upon,
md in simnle straightforward