Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-07
BIG GIFT 0 VARSITY.
A. Whitney Carr, Of Jordan, N. T..
Presents s5O.OOOto State
University.
The Money to Be Used For Scholar.
ships Features Of Com
mencement.
Alumni Banquet . Grand Event
Harmony in All the De.
partments.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Iowa City. June THE greatest
piece of news in connection with this
commencement is that OF the gift of
$50,000 from "A. Whitney Carr. of Jor-
dan, N. ", Ito be used for scholarships.
This Is piece OF the work of President
Mac Lean. Mr.. Carr made part OF his
fortune out OF Iowa land.
In many respects this commencement
has surpassed all predecessors. The
alumni of the uninverity have come in
greater numbers than ever before to-
attend the commencement exercises.
They have been attracted by the talk
about .sThe New University" and by
desire to see the new president, as
much as by the wish to return to their
old associations and to meet old
friends. The alumni banquet on Tues
day evening was the grandest event of
its kind in the history of the univer-.
sity. AT the tables 1856 persons were
seated the largest number at any pre-
|vious banquet was under 300. Many
were turned away Tuesday night, un-
able to get seats because the committee
| In charge had sold seats for the num-
ber of seats provided and no more.
| Several of the classes represented gave
their class yells and some OF those be-
fore the days OF ''yells, mprovised
| some for the occasion. The class of '90
81. 10 and so were especially we'll
represented. The class OF 1910 call
themselves THE Noughty Noughts."
and gave vent to the expression that
1.-The next class will be the.The Nought1
iliOnes."
A spirit of harmony was strongly
\ manifested upon this occasion. Some
little objection has been made by some
4 of the alumni and the timc-tried
friends of the university to all this
talk about The New University"
4 They took 1t as reflection upon the
4 good work that has been done in the
past and as sort of intination that
A the University heretofore has not
4 jamounte11sto much, and that not until
the last year has 1t really been a full
fedged university. President MacLean
did the tactful thing in responding 70
\ the toast 1.-The Old University. He
q spoke with genuine appreciation of the
Il great work of those who had gone be-
4 fore him. and particularly of the sue
+ cess of President Schaffer, in bringing
harmony into the faculty. In short, he
! covered his predecessors with eulogy
4 the men who have built up the old
university, and made individual men,
a sgtion of Professors Currier. Calvin and
4 Mcbride. He closed by proposing this
4 toast: THE old university, brilliant
most tried, ever to be current in oul
century.
q Former President Pickard brought
the greeting to the new university from
1.-the old. He said that his love for the
university had not lessened, because
Iinew men had come to love and wori
!, for IT. He would love the university
|, all the more because she commanded
. the affection and the services of 81
many other good men. He spoke of,th,
renewed university, intimating that i
. was not new, but like all other things
must be renewed. His expression
! toward the new management wa
Very cordial and hearty and has don
much to prevent the slightest feeling o
jealousy toward these new men. TIL
late President Schaefer has many mos
devoted friends among the alumni an
faculty and all those who understood
his work here. He was universally re
! ispected as frank, honora BILE. conscen
tious, earnest man. and 1t will not d
the university any good to try to BELT
tie his work. There were some thing
g he could not do. one Of which WAS I
! make speech. and he did not give th
literary departments as much attentio
as the scientific departments received
: These things President MacLean is at
e tending to with ability and tact an
G with satisfaction to the friends of tn
e university. He has /; talent for sayin
Il graceful things that produce harmon!
e This faculty, combined With good idea
u Of university management, and genera
e executive ability of high order. max
q him a very successful president.
J, The president took occasion in hi
y baccalaureate sermon. delivered las
+ Sunday, to express some general idea
+ that show him to be broad -minde
e man. In speaking of the Christian .et
ucation. for which he stands. the pres
o dent declared that "a deeper phllosoph
J, and higher Christianity have show
that the distinction between seculs
and sacred is nominal. A larger Amer
canIsm, conscious of a new nationalit
y with mission for humanity. roots /
y self In basic spiritual life. and is n,
: afraid that religion and morality in II
= schools will trench upon liberty of cor
:. science and degenerate into sectarlal
y ism. BY common consent. therefore, Il
2, contrast now Is not between the Chrl
tian and the goddess state school, bl
between the church and the sta
school both essentially Christian. "
, hope the day Is at hand when we ms
=. expect the cooperation between Il
!. church and the state school. each ha'
= Ing its sphere. each lending a happy Il
\ tiuence to the other and a luster to o,
common American education III
president elaborated upon this idea
g. harmony between the church and Il
y, state schools, which he said differ,
~ but little in the work they were doin
because the church schools we're gran
ing more and more liberty In the choi
OF courses. The improvement of 4
" students conduct was attributed to 4
Dy-i removal OF the old restraints and cor
st pulsory religious observances that we
Imposed upon the student and the -
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