Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-18
NEW HEAD FOR UNIVERSITY
Former President strong Of Oregon Uni-
vsrsity Goes to Kansas,
EXERCISES MADE A NOTABLE EVENT
President He dIey of Yale IL One Of the
Principal Speakers aud Talks
of the Problems of
Unipersitics.

LAW itENCE, ID han.. OCt. lt.-fTank
Strong, former president Of the Oregon
State university. was today installed as
chancellor Of the University of Kansas.
The exercises were largely attended by the
alumni and several noted educators were
present.
Arthur T. Hadley, president Of y ale, was
the leading speaker. Governor William e.
Stanley spoke for the state and Chancellor
Strong followed, outlining his policy.
An Innovation OF the Inauguration was
a procession OF the faculty and students
from the main college building to the new
museum building. where the exercises were
held. The hall had been, beautifully. deco
rated by the. different classes and societies
Of the college There. were $500 persons
present.
Hon. Thomas NJ. Potter Of Peabody, Kan,
a member OF the Board Of Regents, pre-
sided. President Hadley was warmly APP
plauded when be arose to speak.
Address of President Badiey.
President Hadley of Yale dwelt upon the
purposes Of the American university, point
ing out that the functions were different in
various sections Of the country! There were
two ideas as TO a university, one regarding
1t as a coping stone to secondary education
and the other as a place for laying the
foundation for professional sturdy and work.
The college had the advantage OF bring
ing together boys and girls from different
localities and providing for an Interchange
OF ideas, and when these students went out
as graduates they diffused the broader ideas
and higher standards. In the United states
the high schools do the work OF colleges.
Many things once learned only in the ONCE
or shop are now on.the whole better taught
in the university and asa result the tend
ency is for the university to become a
group Of technical schools, as Is the case In
Germany. $50 -s p 60.
Ideal of GENERAL Culture.
The college course is making the ideal of
general culture count for less and less In
comparison with that OF practical prepara-
ticn for the duties OF life. There are some
who hold that the colleges may be able to
maintain these two ideals side by side.
Many OF the most progressive university
men would make every student who enters
a school Of theology, law or medicine show
a college degree.
President Hadley, while he sympathized
with the purpose underlying these efforts,
could not believe that 1t represented the
true solution of the problem. II you re-
quire a college degree from every profess
sional student. you prevent the college de-
gree from representing more than that
necessary minimum which can be fairly i'm
posed upon every professional student. BY
enforcing it upon those who do not want 1t,
you diminish its value to those who really
do want it.
Solution Of University Problem
1--WE should seek for the solution of our
university problems! not In the enforced
application of a German course to an En-
glish one, Blu tin5a OF the En-
gllsh spirit withlthe German organization.
The great thing that the English colleges
have always done, and the great thing that
the best American Institutions are doing in
their collegiate courses, is to lead the stu
dent to value some other ideals besides the
commercial one.
ITO effect this combination Will task the
best efforts Of the leaders of American edu-
| cation. but they are destined to accomplish
it. For its accomplishment the fullest in
| terchange OF mind and ideas being differ
emit localities and different sections is an
| absolute essential. May the time be not
far distant when there shall rise in the
world OF education, out of all the diver
sencies Of thought, someone. or some men,
who can lead us to the realization OF ma
tional ideals as popular and yet as pro-
found. as practical and yet as unselhsh, as
those which revealed themselves to the
political vision of Abraham Lincoln
NotabIes Who Were There,
Among those on the platform were the
following:
Harvard, Prof. /. e. Baron, R. Briggs.
Brown university, Providence, r. l., Prof
william Mcdonald.
Princeton Theological seminary, Rev. j
d. Countermine.
University Of Chicago, Prof. A. w. Small
Cornell university. Prof. Charles De-
Garmo. s.,..r.
Massachusetts, Institution Of Technology
Dean Alfred z. Burton.
Washington university. st. Louis, Presi-
dent w. s. Chaplin.
University of Minnesota, Dean p. s. Jones
University Of California, President Ben.
jamin Ide Wheeler.
University OF Wisconsin. Prof. Fred ]
Turner, professor of history.
University Of Illinois, Dean David Kinley
University of Maine, President Fellows.
University OF Missouri President r. H
Jesse. A.
University Of Nebraska, Prof. Q. Z. Bes'
sey.
colorado college, President W. F.. slocum
Colorado Springs.
University OF North. Dakota, President
Webster Merriheld. .t .r