The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-06-06

for bachelor degrees and about fifty for
masters These students, with the
regents and faculty, assembled in front of
the Library building at $3.50. They stood
,, in drizzling rain, the gusts of wind
sadly disarranging the coiffures of the
''co-eds,' until President Northrop ap-
peared walking from his Office with the
regents as escorts. The University band
| then struck up the march, and the pro-
cession headed for the armory, where the
exercises were held. The president was
attired in his Yale LII. D. robes and made
an unusually imposing figure on the
rostrum. The gold tasseI of the cap, a
distinguished honor, stood out in con-
trast to the royal purple of the decorated
gown.
! AT 10 O'Clock the exercises were opened
with prayer. President Draper of the
University of Illinois delivered the COM
mencement address His words were
marked by an enthusiasm and a sincerity
that impressed the vast audience of 5000
! people. 1t was especially fitting that the
president of one of the large successful
state" universities should deliver the ad-
dress at the commencement exercises of
a sister institution, and President Draper
took occasion to comment on the fruit
fulness of the work of these colleges.
their prospects in the future and their
standing at present. His address. in part
was as follows:
President Draper's Address.
When you invite a sister state university
to send her representative across an inter
vening commonwealth, that he may deliver
the message to this eliminating assembIaee
of the year in this splendid university of
the great, towering state of the northwest
you pay a compliment which claims her most
grateful acknowledgements, and you imnose
responsibility which she would be glad to
meet much more capably than she can
we had conference at the University Of
Illinois the other day between the presidents
of ten state universities erected between and
including Ohio on the east and Colorado on
the west Two others accustomed to meet with
us were kept from doing so by the regret
able illness of their chief executives These
twelve universities enjoy an income this
year OF s., ,421, 1872; they employ liza teachers
they have registration of 22733 students
The average of income and teachers and stu
dents, the requirements for admission. the
range of offerings, the strength of eouipment
and the exactions for graduation, are higher
than In any one American university gen
Grafton ago. and higher than in all others
save a bare half dozen now
But that is not all, nor is it the most i'm
portant. These splendid institutions are the
products of democracy; they are the imple
ments of the purest democracy on earth for
| its security and its advance. They have been
set up by the people; they are managed and
supported by the people They are costly. but
there is no lack Of confidence in the wisdom
Of the investment no diminution in the meas
ure of their support. The revenues are stead
ily charging; the development is steadily
going on. They are democracies in them
selves. The competition is earnest and the
! life is free.
How Universities Pay.
| The return Of the university to the state is
steady and unceasing one. 1t is being
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