Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-06-27
TWO COLLEGES.

The inaugural address of President
Hopkins Of Williams College, on Tues
day. rings clear and true with the
note which represents the fine tradi
tons of that honored seat of learn
ing.
II pleads for the usefulness, in its
place, of the small college. and is
warning against the results to be
feared from the present tendencies to
early. and therefore immature, special.
izations.
II speaks, above all else, for the
cause Of liberal tion,-not only
in the best but in the strictly literal
signification of the term. A liberal
education Is an education worthy of
la free-man-liberalis. And this
more than anything besides, is what
the American youth of today need.
AS the sum total of his ideal of the
true function of the college, President
Hopkins said:
Williams College stands unequivo-
cally for that specific thing which
we call the liberal educat tion. and pro-
| poses TO continue to stand for Just
that. The scholar in politics is more
worthy of admiration than the scholar
| in his cloister.'
1t was well said. 1t was worthy of
his great father-the president Of vii.
liams more than a half century ago,
| Mark Hopkins Mark, the perfect
man, as the students well called him.
AS a bright and shining example Of
the converse of this ideal. something
| was going on NJ an Ohio college-old
Kenyon, on the same day.
| But instead of "the scholar in poll
ties it was exhibiting politicians
III the scholar"
1t was laying the cornerstone of
n college building to be known as the
Politicians Barracks"
This building, and likewise the name
of IT, was the gift of Mark, not the
perfect man. oh, no! but Mark
Hanna
And the quid pro quo, the price, WAS
the comforting upon Mark Hanna, by
Kenyon College, last year, of the de-
Chase, and McIlvaine and Bedell!--
scholarly and godly men, all OF them.
| Politicians Barracks; Doctor of
Laws; Kenyon College; Mark Hanna
How well they sound, all in "A string.
! The latest performance of Mark
Hanna, LII. D., in doctoring laws, was
that of procuring the release of two
men convicted ns felons by the courts
of Cuba If the commencement season
Is not yet over, it will be the proper
and consistent thing for Kenyon Col
| l'Ef' W uo'tti W
divinity and Neely professor OF
ethics. The latter might give the
poor old thing a part of the $4,000
found on him when he was arrested.
The Western Mail says; In Panty
def0ld churchynrd there is yew tree
planted by the Welsh Democratic poet,
Rces Jones Cannon, Pfwllffein,
LlandysSll The Rev +. Thomas
Winds up his article by touching
quotation referring TO those at rest
In the churchyard:
"An pentwr lie maent hwythau
Bryddaf linnau cyn bo 'hir.'
III viii not be strange II some un.
scrupulous paragrapher in the West
orn Reserve steals this cpitnph and
runs II Ms original poetry Youngs-
town Telegram.
Have no apprehensions on that ac-
count, Mr. Telegram. We've read the
coup.et n dozen times and
fail to find the name Of Chns. Dick
mentioned once. If the Welsh rhymers
expect the Western Reserve para
Ipraphers to publish their effusions
they'll have to throw In Jolly or two
occasionally for the peerless General.
Otherwise they can't get within hail
Ing distance of the logical candidates $
loyal praise singers. We can prove
II by the Akron Beacon.
Grover Cleveland's suggestion that
the Democratic party is far from poll.
teal insolvency. but no one should he
otfended by the suggestion that Its
capital and prospects have suffered
serious injury" offers food for thought
The prosperous condition of the party's
organIzatIon and prospects today vii
bear comparison with those of the soup
house days OF Cleycland's second ad
mmlstration.
The Youngstown vindicator sug
gests that an Akron mans chance,
for being made the Republican nomi