The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-02-20

| left behind in the ranks. The sole
desire was to get ahead no matter by
what means.
'And that reminds me of the cynical
| French philosophers saying:-'Virtue is
! often more dangerous than vice, because
its excesses are not subject to restraints
| of conscience /" said the speaker, who
| contended that the best colleges had
reached that point where numbers were
| not considered the only thing. Reverting
| TO the benefits wrought by university
| clubs, President Hadley said that as New
| Jersey was famous for it's trusts he would
| be glad TO see formed here an educational
| trust. He then told an amusing story,
! which he ascribed to Aristotle. One
Thales of Miletus, whose philosophy was
ridiculed because he was not able to ac-
| qulre wealth with it's practice, predicted
that there would be a big harvest of
olives, and he proceeded to get corner
| on olives in Miletus. Thales having all
the olive presses, fixed a la trust his own
prices, and became rich. Then he said to
his scoffing friends that he didn't care for
| the money, bul he merely wished to prove
| that he could make more than anybody
| else.
| and so with you said President Hadley
in closing, 'if you university men are
not all rich men in Jersey City it proves
that You have better things in contem-
plation." daughter and applause.
| Chancellor H. M. MacCracken speaking
| to the toast of Twentieth Century
| Obligation of Universities thanked the
club for giving him its diploma" Ghe
menu card). He was, he said, going to
send it to his son. who was stuck on
Latin. Formerly man had to be able
| to read his diploma, today all is neces-
sary is to know that it was one. His
toast, he said, resolved itself first into
| the obligation of character and from this
the Chancellor wandered into a COM
parison of the mental qualification of
Lincoln and Washington. The former
left no thought, while the latter's legacy
was a desire to found national univer-
sity. Lincoln's idea of patriotism, said
the Chancellor, had been carried out by
the nation in spending $3.50, 900 this year
on widows and orphans of soldiers, while
to further Washington's sentiment only
900 was spent on colleges and uni
versities. The second obligation of uni
versities, continued the speaker, was to
lead in education and that meant close
coordination of schools in the land. There
must be learned:-What America is?;
| What Education is? and then introduce
these to each other. The third obligation
was the broadest, said the Chancellor
and the twentieth century should be
begun by making universities an intelli-
gent and independent and influential
tribunal of public, opinion. (Applause.)
He instanced the appeal of Henry VIII to
the English Universities in the matter of
the divorce from Queen Catharine. Too
much moulding of public opinion was done
by the pulpit and the press, the latter
by the way, he says being out for the
dollars, controlled by politics, consisting
of scribblers, while the universities
I ignored. That should be changed and the
universities take the foremost place
! (Applause.)
President Bradford P. Raymond, LII.
D., of Wesleyan University, in rising to
respond to the toast of 1.-THE School and
the State" said. that he felt like the
Egyptian mummy which was pressed for
time. (Laughter) Diving at once into
his subject he said that the problem was
how to get at the votes of the people who
! eject men to boards which command the
whole civil and political life of the State.
A new and deeper philosophy was needed.
! The ordinary voters idea was that his
business was to get all he could out of
the State, and not what could he do to
serve the State. 1t was an selfish philoso-
] ply. Hence the universities were the
! only solvent of the problem. They must
| get at the boys, and teach them Mrs.
! Browning's thought that they should die
| for the State. The speaker turning to re-
/ forms, concerning which, he said he was
suspicious. He told a story of woman
visiting a girl sent to Boston for ''re-
| form" in education. On her arrival she
! found the girl packing up for departure,
| and lnquiring the reason Jane replied:-
"Three days ago I was taken to hear
Ingersoll, and l lost my God; two days
| lost my ancestors. Gaughter.) Yester-
| day I was taken to hear Jenness Miller
and I lost my underclothes, and I think
ii is time to go. (Uproarious laughter)
/ Closing, President Raymond said that
the schools to reform the boys and train
/ them that their duty was to build up the
the universities should put teachers into
State, and that was step toward MAX
ing the State what it should be.
| (Cneers)
Mr.. Malcolm MacLear responded for
/ Essex County's Club; Judge Otto Grouse
for Hudson County. and Rev. j. Madison
Hare for THE Infamous Graduate"
This ended the most successful dinner in
the clubs history.