The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-10-28
WOODROW WILSON.
Impressive Ceremonies at In
augu alton of Princet0n'S
New President.

Princeton, ". j., October 25.-Decora-
tons of orange and black were display
ed everywhere here today in honor Of
the inauguration OF Woodrow Wilson
as thirteenth president OF Princeton
University.
Among the distinguished guests OF the
University were Former Speaker Reed,
J.. Pierpont Morgan. Robert T. Lincoln.
Wayne MacVeagh. Samuel Clemens,
President Butler. Of Columbia: Presi-
lent Hadley, of Yale; and President +.
p. Venable, of the University Of North
Carolina.
The exercises were held in Alexander
hall to which the academic body went
in procession. After the administration
Of oath to P~resident-elect Wilson, an
| address was made by ex-President
Francis L. Patton. Former President
Grover Cleveland followed
Mr.. Cleveland's address was devoted
largely to Princeton, her traditions and
her prosperity. He maintained that an
cient standards of scholarship should
be upheld.
President Wilson then delivered his
inaugural address, in which he SAID:
the nation needed efficient and en-
~lightened men n the universities
must take their part in supplying
them. h task of the universities
was two-fold: the production of Il
| great body OF informed and thoughtful,
men and a sm"ll body of trained
scholars nd inve. tigators. Though the
university may dispense with the pro-
! fessional , school, professional schools
may not dispense with the university.
4 u .- -o,-Ir q tho world
even he efficient working minds OF
the world, must be equipped for q
mastery whose chief characteristic is
adapta bility, play, an initiative which
transcends the bounds Of mere techni-
cal training. Technical schools whose
trsirir is not built up on the
tions of a broad n general discip-
line cannot impart this. The stuff they
wolk upon must be prepared for them
by processes which produce fibre and
elasticity, and their own methods
must be shot through with the i'm
ulses' of the university.
"Throughout long generations the
thought of studicus men has been bent
upon devising methods by which spe-
cial aptitudes could be developed, de-
tailed Investigations carried forward,
inquiry at once ~broadened and deep
ened to meet ne specific needs of the
age, knowledge extended and made
various and yet exact by the minute
and particular researches of men who
devoted all the energies of their
minds D a single task. Thus We have
gained Immensely in knowledge, but lost
system, which must be regained. The
processes Of instruction which fit a
generation with powers released and
fit for great tasks ought also to serve
as the initial processes by which
scholars and Investigators are made.
They ought to be but the first parts
of the method by which the crude force
of unframed men is reduced to the eX-
pert uses of civilization. There may
come a day when general study Will
be nc part of the function of a UNI
versity, when it shall have been hand
ed over, as some now talk of handing
it over, to the secondary schools, after
the German fashion,; but that day viii
not be ours. The age has hurried us.
but we must not lose sight of that
fine conception of a general training
which led our fathers to build great
colleges. The college is for the min
GRITTY. who plan, who conceive, who
Superintend, who mediate and must
see the wide stage as "a whole. There
are men Of genius who play these
parts of captaincy and yet have neve:
been in the class room of a college,
whose only school has been the world
itself. The world is an excellent h
for those who have vision and self
discipline enough to use it. 1t is this
;. sweep of life thai we wish to bring Il
the commissioners of young men DJ
the shorter processes of the college
for every man who plays a leading OF
: c~onceiving part in any affair, mus
I ( somehow get this schooling. In col
leges we must deal with the spirits O.
men, not with their fortunes. In his
7 tory, philosophy, science and litera
Y ture, the experiences of the world ar,
I summed up and if we be not pedant
we extract from them the edificatiol
2 and enlightenment as of those VIII
Q have gone the long journey of ex
perience with the race. One way y
r preparing a young man for his life
D work is to give him the skill and spe
n cial knowledge which shall make a
excellent bread-winning tool of him
t But the college should seek to max
the men whom it receives somethini
f more than excellent servant of
trade or skilled practitioners of a pro
V fession. 1t should give them elastic
ity of faculty and breadth of visior
v so that they shall have a surplus q
r mind to expend, not upon their pro
+ fession only. for it's liberalization an
A enlargement, but also Upon the broad
~ interests which lie about them, i
the spheres in which they are to b.
not bread-winners, but citizens q
we'll, and in their own hearts, wher
they are to grow to the stature of req
y nobility. Ut is this free capital {
:. mind the world most stands in nee
of. The day has gone by when it
= possible to do this by the old disciI
>, line of Greek, Latin, Mathematics an
e English. The circles of liberal Studio
: is too much enlarged, the area of ger
eral learning is too much extended,
maxi it any longer possible TO max
these few things stand for all. An as
of science has transmitted sDeculatio
IF into knowledge and doubled the Dc
min: n OF the mind. The mind of II
y modern SUDDEN must be carrie
w t rough a wide ans of studies
n y ich science shall have a place n
- distinguished than that accorde
L-trature. philosophy or politics"
Id Speaking Of the disciplinary stu'
les through which a boy is put in n
y school days, President Wilson said Il
ID Advice to the AGED.