Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-26

should not, however, be expected that she
will so far disregard the law of her origin,
and become SO unnlindful OF her revered
traditions and splendid achievements as
to depart from her habitual course for
the sake Of acting In sympathy with
importunate restlessness and doubtful in
novation.
IF newborn Impotence should ever
demand a swifter educational current.
and be content with its shallower depth,
anw if the solid and substantial acquire
ment we offer should ever De discredited
as unnecessarily irkSome. Princeton will
remember that men educated Ions ago in
accordance with her methods, are still
teachers of the presenZ generation; and
that the lives they led, the students they
fitted for instructors. and the records they
left of their wisdom. are to this day dut-
fully acknowledged as undiminished
forces in higher education. wherever it
convinced that the human mind has in
these latter days become so fundamen
tally enlarged that broad and useful
education can BY some peasant process
Of the human intellect has SO kept pace
with the eager hurry or the time that
with no toll or patient wooing an educa-
ton worth having can De bought or
glorious and trifing presence Of erudi-
ton. If false educationa, notions should
prevail, Princeton will bide her time until
they are spent, and until saner judEmerf
ence to the demands Of her charter COM
pact. and gratefully appreciate her devo-
ton to the bright standard which for
more than a century and half she has
held aloft on the field where higher edu-
cation has been courageous and trium
plant.
TT only remains for me to pledge to
our newly-chosen president the united,
willing and effective cooperation Of he
trustees Of Princeton University. in all
his lahors for her prosperity and advance
ment His success Is president will be
our JOY as trustees: and neither he nor
we can desire a wider opportunity for
pride and satisfaction than the con-
seriousness that we are sincerely and faith
Princeton's mission. and have appreci-
ated the high duty and impressive sig
nificance Of irstructing the youth of our
land in the learned languag es. in the
liberal arts and sciences and in religious
truth
President Wilson in his address. said
the nation needed efficient and enlighten-
ed men and the universities must take
their part In supplying them. The task
of the universities was two-fod; the pro-
duction Of great body of informed and
men. and small body of
trained scholars and investigators.
Though the university may dispense with
the professional school; the professional
schools may not dispense with the uni
versity. The managing minds of the
world; even the efficien. working minds
of the world must be equipped for mas
terry whose chief characteristic is ada pts-
bilty, play an initiative which tran
scends the bounds Of mere technical train
ing. Technical shoots whose training is
not built up on the founda tons of a broad
and general discipline cannot irnpart this.
The stuff they work upon must be pre-
pared for them by processes which pro-
ducc fibre and elasticity and their own
methods must be shot through with the
impulses of the university.
Speaking of the disciplinary studies
through which q boy is put in mis- school
days, President Wilson said the classical
languages of antiquity offered better dis
cpline than any language OF the present
day except the language Of our own
thought. Drill in mathematics stands in
the same category, and the English is
also OF the fundamental group of studies.
But the fundamental studies have
widened in our day, chiefly because sci
ence has had its credentials accepted as
Of the true patriciate of learning. and it
is as necessary that the lad should be in
Quoted into the thinking of the modern
time as it is that he should be carefully
grounded in the old. Undoubtedly the
fundamental sciences are physics,
In conclusion, President Wilson said
every concrete thing America has done
principle, some vision of the mind Fer
grea test victories have been the victories
Of peace and OF humanity. And in days
quiet and troubled alike Princeton has
stood for the nations service, to produce