The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-26
CLEVELAND SPEAKS AT
WILSON'S INAUGURATION
Says Princeton's Faculty Will Csltinue to Dictate
What the Students Of ye University
Shall StHy.

I stage as a whole. There are men OF ge-
MUS who play these parts of captaincy
| and yet have never been in the class room
| of a college, whose only school has been
World Excellent School.
The world is an excellent school
| for those who have vision an6
| lent school for those VINO have vision and
| self discipline enough to use 1t. 1t Is this
| sweep of life that We wish to bring to the
commissioners of young men by the short
| er processes of the college, for every
! man who plays a leading or conceivne
schooling In colleges We must deal with
| the spirit of men, not with their Tor
| tunes. In history, philosophy, science
and literature, the experiences OF the
pedants we extract :rom them the edit
cation and enlightenment as OF those VINO
have gone the long journey of experience
with the race. One way of preparing a
young man for his life work is to give
| him the skill and special knowledge which
| shall make an excellent bread-winning
tool of him. But the college should Sc ~
| to make the men whom Ii receives some
trade or skilled practitioners of pro-
| fession. 1t should give them elasticity
| of faculty and breadth of vision. so that
| they shall have surplus of mind to ex-
pend. not upon their profession only, for
its liberalization and enlargement, but
| also upon the broader interests which lie
| about them, in the spheres in which they
| are to be, not bread-winners merely, but
| citizens as well, and in their own hearts,
where they grow to the stature of real
| nobility. 1t is this free capital of mind
| the world most stands In need Of. The
| day has gone by when 1t is possible to do
| this by the old discipline of Greek, Latin
ma thematIcs ard English. The circles oil
| lihpral Qfndlps Ia ton much enlarged. the
| area of general learning is too much
| extended to make t any longer possible
| to make these few things stand for all
| An age of science has Transmitted spec
ulation into knowledge and doubled the
| Dominion of the mind. The mind of the
| modern student must be carried through
| a wide range of studies in which science
| shall have place not less distinguished
| or politics"
| Disciplinary Studies.
Speaking of the "disciplinary'' studies
| through which a boy Is put IN his school
| days, President Wilson said the classical
| language of antiquity offered better dis
| cipline than any language Of the presel.i
day except the language of Our own
thought. Ill in mathematics stands n
the same category and the English Is
| also of the fundamental group of studies
But the fundamental studies have Wi
dened in Our day, chiefly because science
| has had its credentials accepted as OF
| the true .;atriciate Of learning and 1t Is
| as necessary that the lad should be In
| Quoted into the thinking of the modern
time as it is that he should he care
| fully grounded in the old. Undoubtedly
| the fundamental sciences are physics
| chemistry and biology. Physics ant
| chemistry afford a systematic body oil
| knowledge as abundant for instruction
| as definite almost. as mathematics itself
and biology, young as 1t is, has already
supplied us with a, scheme OF physical
| life which lifts its study to the place OF
| a distinctive discipline. And there stand
alongside of these geology and astronomy
| whose part in general culture. aside from
| their connection with physics, mechanics
and chemistry, is. to apply to the mind
the stimulation, which comes from being
brought into the presence and in some
sort into the comprehension of stupen-
| dous. systematized physical fact-from
| seeing nature in the mass and system OF
her might and structure. These, too,
are essential parts of the wide scheme
| which the college must plot out. And
when We have added to these the mani
| fold discipline of philosophy. the indis-
pensable instructions of history, and the
embellishments of economic and political
| study, and to these the modern languages
| which are the tools of scholarship, we
| stand confused How are we to marshal
this host of studies within a common
| breath?
Must Make Choice.
mo doubt we must make choice among
| them and suffer the pupil himself to make
| choice. But the choice that we make
must be the chief choice, the choice the
pupil makes the subordinate choice. Since
| he cannot in the time at his disposal &c
| the grand tour of the accepted modern
| knowledge, we who have studied the ge-
| ography of learning and who have OBJ
served several generations of men attempt
| the journey must instruct him how in a
| brief space he may see most of the world
| The true American university gets Its
best characteristic it's surest guarantee
of sane and catholic learning from the
| presence at it's very heart of college
| of liberal arts. Its vital union with the
| college gives 1t the true university at
mosphere, a pervading sense of the unity
| and unbroken circle of learning-not sc
much because of the presence of a great
| body of undergraduates In search of gen.
eral training as because OF the presence
| Of a great body of teachers whose life
work It Is to find the general outlooks oil
knowledge and give vision of them ever5
| day from quiet rooms which. while they
talk. shall seem to command all the pros
| poets of the wide world"
| The speaker said he would wish to SCI
| every student made. not man of his
task but a man of world. whatever his
| world may be.
80 soon as generous friends have ar
ranged their finances so as to ena BILE
| them to release enough money for the
purpose 1t is the intention to build a
| graduate college, which will be not only
| a body of teachers and students. but also
a college of residence, where men shall
| live together in close and wholesome COM
radeship of learning; a comradeship fol
the novice as well as the graduate
The Modern Failing.
mo doubt, the old, purely literary train.
| ing made too much of the development OF
mere taste. mere dellcacy of perception
| but our modern training makes too little
There are other things which must be
supplied our generation besides mere ma
| terial success. 1t must be supplied with
men who care more for principles thar
| for money, for the right adjustments OF
| life than for the gross accumulation Of
| profit
I'm America for every man touched witt
nobility for every man touched with the
| the high law of duty. and every American
university must square its standards bJ
! that law or lack its national title. 1t IL
! serving the nation to give men the en-
| lightenments of a general training; it Is
| serving the nation to equip fit men fol
thorough scientific investigation, and foI
| the tasks Of exact scholarship, fol-
science and scholarship carry the truth
forward from generation to generation
| and give the certain touch of knowledge
| to the processes of life
| In conclusion, President Wilson said
| every concrete thing America has done
| has seemed to rise out of some abstract
| principles some vision of the mind Hell
| greatest 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
men and patriots.
New Minister to Greece.
| Washington, Oct 25.-Minister c. L. Wilson
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