The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-07
NEARLY Eve HUNDRED.
UNIVERSITY GRADUATION ExER.
CISEs TAKE PLACE AT THE
ARNToRY YESTERDAY
PRESIDENT DIAPERS ADDRESS
President NorthroD Delivers His
Annual Address After That of
the Illinois University
Executive.

The class of 1901 at the University Of
Minnesota was graduated yesterday.
| There were 400 candidates for bachelor
| degrees and so for masters The exer-
cises were witnessed by an unusually
| large audience and one Of the most at
| tentive that was ever seen upon a sim
| liar occasion.
President Andrew s. Draper, of the
| University of Illinois, delivered the COM
mencement address and President North
rop's address followed.
President Draper said in part:
The universities are doing quite as
much for the mechanical as for the agri-
cultural industries. We are increasing
the volume of our manufactures We
are making better and handsomer goods
which are commanding the markets of
the world. We are running railroad
trains swifter and safer, we are turning
cut battleships which become the models
for the nations, we are gaining yet
prise because Of the applications of sci
ence to skill in our chronological schools
The universities are purifying and in
vigorating literature. They are aiding
music and painting They are Searching
history and investigating the present
conditions and tendencies of men that
they may shatter false theories and
frame philosophlc chart for the guide
of life.
The state universities are beginning to
make substantial returns, which must
with the passing years, in their contri-
buttons to the public life of their states
AS a class their graduates are not nat
! urally oficeseekers but they are tnevita-
BILE leaders in the action and the thought
of the people. They are finding their
way into the legislatures, and the Judge
ships, and into the administrative offices
Of their states. Coming from the body
of the people, literally educated by the
peopA, they must have a deeper under
standing of the feelings and purposes Of
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than the educated who have not known
the necessity of strenuous living OF felt
the deep heart beats OF the great throng
They will have thought deeply of the
rights OF man, of the prerogatives of So
ciety, of the functions and responsible
ties of a democratic state. knowledge
will strengthen faith. Laws will be pre-
pared in better form, voted upon with
better and more Independent Judgment,
construed with sterner justice, and ap-
Piled without favoritism and with moro
unt1aggtng courage, z-a
The sharp advance, so noticeable In the
professions came with the advance of
the universities. Tt will continue with
the progress of the universities
The higher education of women in as
ISOLATION with and upon the same terms
as men Is one of the logical and ben
efcent products of the evolution of the
state universities. The old-Iine institu-
tions in the earlier days refused them al
together. Public institutions could not
long do that without injustice being
the common people were better prepared
by nature and by habit for university as
sociation and training than their sisters
in the Weather homes tributary to the
old-l1ne institutions. No middle ground
was taken.
EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY.
Your university expects you to believe
With undoubting confidence in this de-
mocracy- The accomplishments of it's
br1ef history is respondent, and its out
loo A h,Cr1
ago the Angles and Saxons and Jutes and
Norwegians and Celts compounded in
Britain new nation, in which there
soon appeared a love for freedom a re-
sepect for law, a quickness of initiative,
and a gift for government above and be-
yond that shown by any other people in
the world. That stock established Eng
lish freedom, developed the English COM
mon law and set up English institutions,
and in time sent its children, and it's
freedom, and it's law and it's institutions
to the new world For more than 200
years these people struggled and wor-
SHIPPED together in laying the foundations
Of an English nation in America. With
but little change they remained. all that
time, the typical Englishmen of Crom-
wells time. They have come to us with
out our ideals, but with some ideas Of
liberty. The process of assimilation is
going on. Fundamental national prin-
ciples are as mistaken as in the days of
our fathers, but these people are surely
putting new marks upon us.
LOUA university now pldCSS the marx
Of appreciation upon you and returns you
to the state in the hope that you will par
ticipate in all this. 1t. knows that you
Will go with some knowledge and some
power of thinking. It believes you will
go with loyal hearts and right spirits.
1t adJures you to go with confidence,
with conviction and with blunt courage.
The state needs such as You. Govern
ment is a burden not a pastime. Serve
faithfully and truly the commonwealth
which has educated you. Understand her
needs and uphold her hands. Come to
such. prominence in her councils as you
can by honest service. : Do not destroy
your chances. Do not dishonor your
university, do not sacrifice your country
which compel the unthinking to chuf-
fling and indirection, but university men
and women ought not to be deceived. Be
generous, but not to the point of intellec-
tual or material dissipation; be tolerant
of opinions, but not to the point Of CIV
ING over all opinions Of your own; seek
the good opinions of your fellows, but
not with desire which will consume
YOU; remember that you will accomplish
most for yourselves; that you will en-
nance the return OF your university to
the state by straight thinking and by he
ro1c and blunt courage.
President Northrop then delivered his
address, saying:
The university has received a nob'e
gltt OF $4,000 from Hon. John B. Gila1-
| Ian, the income from which is to be de-
! voted to assist worthy young men and
! women to secure an education. The total
! gifts to the institutions Of learning in the
last few years have amounted to many
| millions; but our university has received
| no gift of any considerable amount ex-
| cept Gov. Pillsbury's gift of Pillsbufy
| hall previous to this gift of Mr.. Gillian
! The purpose to which the income of this
! donation is to be devoted is a most ex-
| celent and important one. TIE Gillian
| trust will do an immense amount Of good
! IN the coming years, enabling many a
| bright student who is too poor to go to
! college to obtain the education which he
| could not get unaided.
NEEDS OF THE UNIVERSITY
| sincerely. hope that the future is dos
tined to bring to the university many
| gifts from men and women who have
been successful in life and who desire to
use a generous portion Of their accGmu-
! lations for the benefit of the world The
| state OF Minnesota is remarkable for its
| l6eraltty-but it has many objects upon
! which to bestow it's bounty. The care Of
the insane alone Is an immense burden.
! When to this is added all the other char
ltable correctional and educational in
st1tutlons, It becomes plain that the uni
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