New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-28
THE POWER OF EDUCATION.
CHANCELLOR's ADDRESS AT UNIONS
COMMENCEMENT

year, and delivered the Chancellors address. The
Office instituted in 1873, and George William
Curtis the first to hold it. Mr.. Reid began his
/ address follows
s n6 fn W6 on the9
expanded into nearly hundred institutions. may
Childish d hnss This historic foaHda{on has
@ag the not al eoee dis
tincty and emphatcally religious but abse-
the study of science the same plane with that of
perhaps less Certain Value to-day-to Permit cleo
| I've studies, but only as a means of encouraging
French optional instead Of Greek And here in the
IS the @ II the the Of as
even yet as lately at It's centennial celebration.
the state Tith {3s peerless Seward at the bead
This century just Closing Is commonly said to
have have made greater progress for the human race
Christian Era. However great it was progress
made possible by the diffusion Of learning very
veTsees and IN nothing more remarkable or more
Ther 81 roWtS f9G nguenc
me chanse IN character and resources and scope
twenty years have been almost revolutionary
with which | was honored in my younger days
TO my my question what on the whole he thought
hhearly fouTi1fths passed he replied, not as Z had
the ocean cable or steam naVigation' or the pSoto
graph or Bessemer steel All these he brushed
aside in order to select the greatest and most
nenetcent discovery Of the Nineteenth Century an
the most wonderful strides America has made
nave Peen on not IN subduing continent. not in
sSnpig hnd hmanaining ndepepdenee and not
to the poorest well the richest child of the
thing Not in the armies that have so heroicalIy
borne our flag not in the navies whose 8nch guns
Iatey shattered an ancient monarchy at ten thou
SAND miles range; not in the Inventions that amaze
general diffusion of comfort that beggars the world
Rather il is in the mind that has been enightened.
IN me IRE that has been shaped and drected-in
word, 1t is in the kind of man that America rears
The speaker described the Stanford University |
as the greatest and most benehcent monu-
ment Of parental grief ever reared in the history |
Of civilization. and then referred to the move |
ments for carrying out the plans Mrs Hearst has
secured for buildings for the other great Pacific |
Coast university. that OF the State of California
and to the gifts of Mr. John Rockefeller to the Uni
versity Of Chicago which he described as the most
colossal gifts private business ever diverted
from his business and his family during his life !
time. for the sole purpose Of spreading education
among men, He continued:
II these examples may not be equaled they have .
over the Union IN coyec and sm4ated all
cation IG a n and In private sits for edu;
as mas been on this continent during the century
now closing, and especially during its last twenty
doubt claim the widest diffuson of lea aa
of the world? ~ INNS
The speaker then detailed the complaints that
education is cheap that it is uniting many for
anything they do in the world and closed his
discussion Of them by saying:
No doubt in the interest Of the State and the
as Me a the me Gs re for the secondary schools
o e 81. b be TO make it easy for every youth
and his circumstances permit; and difficult for him
to try for any more. ~
The address then discussed SUCCESSFULLY the com |
plants that there too many little COLLEGES that
the coeducation so common in Western institutions
ola not secure the best educational facilities for
either sex; that an unworthy competition for stu
dents has cheapened degrees and degraded educa-
uon; that institutions Of a high class some
unes treat learning in a low and bookkeeping
spirit. and that college education. under present
conditions, tends to prevent the graduate from at
tanning a business success On this last point he
said
and in professional studies three or four vesTs
cornnIafned in @e I%entyy1hye or twenty-six, it Is
a;stEQus, with the boy who up for himself at
only 10 get him " r tne ehd OF educating boy is
factory railroad or to s 90 into van van Street, ST. rn or
to DISPUTE that menfy Ann e n9t
versitv SradEates at r. from among college or uni
representng the greatest OF none6egiats
Tno consolidated the Aston fortune came it is
i did not The found eTs Of the Vanderb lqnnf iSe
Morgan. the Moses Taylor the Goelet the MackaV
college. at home or abroad Take the nosf con- !
spGGuous business successes confessedIv won and /
NMla5uE ye by nigh ability, the front in
New. DIRK C. p. Huntington, for example was |
he vas eighteen We're john n and tGE W 4Hf9T9
enumeration. was Andrew Carnegie The Jatfe9
positive disqualification for business s-r1 aImS a
ave mas not the slightest chance" he saws "as
WHAT the tRen 2oy mus Must sT me6 the R66 Office
a liberal edvca3, aDahu1 on the JOY and comfort of
One is the argumentum ad bominsr7 '"' aus "e[s
scarcely ever favor that course themselves When
other is that there are specialized oIrsos
py all the leading colleges now which nartIy rneet
nv ss en19 oL nose who think they must begin life
man INA either of these, there better things to
those t at no than mere money making least for
higher joys than that OF simple business success
80 mere are those who must forego these for the
the shop as Mr.. Carnegie puts it. in the hone NJ
coming some day to own the shop-that is no rea
not dSveiop along the best lines for the sake of Tho
16o increasing number In this prosperous land
no longer young poor people on a wild ms 10
Piored continent, struggling desperately with hard
circumstances to make beginning Success In
american life hereafter will be measured D,ith
more characters than merely the dollar mark and
70 ht the man rather than merely his bIsi+e -ie
Many, no doubt, who will hold deseryedIv high
PI it me Iwenteth Century must be at work
eSLlt0ell or Garner nut that is a
ing them such education as they need and can
az I'M {ehot LOT lowering the college standard
10 me uetfliIent OF all the rest in order TO give
the deceptivo decoration of a diploma Thus de6re
ciated ' uepie-
Mr.. Reid next traced the development Of Eng
lsh ideas about colleges and German ideas about
universities in this country. and the changes from
pothi and then raised the question what higher
learning would be most helpful to the Republic In
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