The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-09


is to read it, and the sure way TO
appreciate a Gear production il TO
put yourself in the place" Of the
speaker. We give his definition of an
University:
II am going TO ask just a question
or two. What is a university? What
IS your conception of It To me 1t is
a little world where h young and
inexperienced come to be made strong
by contact with books and men Of
larger power and larger learning ana
larger experience. II is a place that
stands for power, in the first place
more thar for knowledge; in the seq
ond place it stands for culture, and
in the third place it stands for truth
It is the ideal democracy, where wealth
is NJ prejudice and poverty is ne
shame, where men should rise by earn
estness and by the might Of merit. II
is the place where strength of charac-
ter of any sort may rise to the top,
like a cork rises out Of n water. It
is a place where power is applied TO
life, where power is put into use, sent
along the wires of life to move things.
to make things whirl, and to bring
things to pass.
Now. what can his university-do
for YOU. what can any university like
this do for you, what are you here for?
I am going 10 claim that il Shoul make
you a man of power; it cannot give
you brains, ii cannot furnish you with
power, but it can change the nature
of your power, it can sharpen II, II
can make il s~ervicable."
And there is much more of the same
insight and wisdom and c-ommonsense
philosophy. Here is another small
nugget of gold:
Seriousness is the test of the edu-
Gated man to me. 1t is a certain sort
of fine seriousness, a culture of pur-
pose. II is the backbone of an educat-
ed mind, which results in doing some
thing and not talking about every
thing. l mean by modern culture a
certain sediment, a sediment that fer
tilizers the life of the youth and gives
it richness and body.
For a dollar you can buy an ency-
clopedia which car give you more facts
than you can ever hope to get at this
or any other university, but these facts
do not give you that culture, they do
| not enable you to do things, or to i'm
press yourself upon life. This power
is a spirit, and cometh not by obser-
walton; man cannot say, 10! l have
got it, he has got to go and work for
it. 1t is the grand result of a certain
steadfastness and power of character"
He begs them to form a habit of
| reading and DIV ellis upon it, and to
know each other, Ito learn your fell
lows and to cultivate 1.-THE power of
speech" These are pressed upon their
| attention. Here is a fine compliment
for a great young man, and it illus
trates:
There is one man who has yet to
| reach his fortieth year who has done
| more to unite the English race across
| seven seas than any other n man
living on the globe today, and I can
| never forget, quite apart from any
political significance, what was done
by Mr.. bryan -four years ago at Chi
cage when that convention sat there
on that July day, a mass of emotional
indecision, not knowing what to do,
| one man, with a thrill in his voice got
up and said something decisive. 1t
| matters not now what it was, wheth-
er it was right or wrong to you, he
old it i'm such a way that 10000 people
forgot their indecisiOn and made him
| one of the conspicuous figures of the
! world"
He praises and magnifies athletics.
The truth is the gifted Doctor has
long been very soft on the physical man
It is a fashionable craze and has been
for some thousands of years. He tries
to stimulate a love for mes OWE col
lege or shool. What he says is spec
tally good but we give but this about
| Alma Mater:
Il have known most Of the great
| emotions of life, the secret of lovesthe
agony of grief and loss, the stern joys
of ambition and duty and work, and
/ do not now of anything that sweet
ems my soul and touches my heart like
love for the old mother, from whose
breast I sucked some strength, and
whose great hands led me gently into
life-and this is what Tulane is to you,
This institution should be the mos
important in the southwest. 1t must
touch everybody and everything about
1.-THE public, the public heart, the
public spirit, social conditions