Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-25
HEAD OF OLD NASSAU
Woodrow Wilson Installed as
President Today.
NOTABLE MEN PRESENT
NEW PRESIDENT TALKS OF UNI
VERSITY AIMS.
It's Mission is to Give It's Students
a Broad knowledge of the
World

| World.
PRINCETON, N. j. October 25.-Decora-
tions of orange and black were displayed
everywhere here today in honor of the inau-
guration of Woodrow Wilson as thirteenth
president of Princeton University. Hun
dreds Of graduates OF the university arrived
| last night and this morning and there were
many warm greetings between old alumni,
| some of whom had not met for years
| Among the distinguished guests OF the
| university were former Speaker Reed J.
| Pierpont Morgan, Chancellor Magic. Attor-
ney General Thomas n. McCarter of New
Jersey, Senator John Kean of New Jersey,
Robert T. Lincoln, Wayne MacVeagh,
| Samuel s. Clemens, President Butler of Co.
| lumbia President Hadley of Yale, Prof.
| Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard DR..
| VIM. L. Harris, national commissioner Of
education President w. n. P. Faunce Of
Brown, Chancellor F. p. Venabe. Universi-
| ty OF Carolina; President Cyrus Northrup,
| University of Minnesota; President Wheel
| er, University Of California: President l..
Clark Seelye, Smith College; President VIM.
| r. Harper, Chicago University; President
| d. c. Gilman, Carnegie Institute, and Pres
| ident Taylor of Vassar.
March to Alexander Hall.
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university library and marched to Alex
| ander Hall, in which was held the literary
| exercises ex-President Cleveland and Gov.
| Murphy, President-elect Wilson and the
| retiring president, the Rev. F. l.. Patton;
| the Rev. Henry Van Dyke and Bishops
| Scarborough and Satterlee formed the first
! division.
| the following order:
Second division-Prof. Fine. marshal;
| delegates of universities, colleges and
| learned societies in the order of seniority
| of which degrees are conferred
| Third divsion-J. S. Morgan, marshal;
| invited guests not formal representatives of
| universities.
Fourth division-Trustees of the univer-
sity and treasurer of the university.
Fifth division-Prof. Thompson, marshal;
| Princeton Theological Seminary.
| Sixth ddvision-Francis Larkin, marshal,
! class of 1875.
| Seventh division-F'rancis G. Landin. 81.
| marshall. representatives Of the alumni
| Then followed the, general body of the
| alumni and the undergraduates.
President Wilson's Address.
President Wilson in his address said the
nation needed efficient and enlightened men
| and the universities must take their part tp
| supplying them. The task Of the universi-
| ties was twofold-the production of a great
| body Of informed and thoughtful men and
a small body Of trained scholars and in
| vestigators. Though the university may
dispense with the professional school, the
| professional schools may not dispense with
| the university. The managing minds of the
world, even the efficient working minds Of
| the world, must be equipped for a mastery
whose chief characteristic Is adaptability,
play initiative which transcends the
bounds of mere technical training. Tech
nical schools whose training is not built up
| on the foundations Of a broad and general
discipline cannot impart this. The stuff
they work upon must be prepared for them
by processes which produce fiber and
elasticity. and their own methods must be
shot through with the impulses of the uni
versity.
Continuing, he said: Throughout long
generations the thought of studious men
has been bent upon devising methods by
which special aptitudes could be developed
detailed Investigations carried forward, in
quiry at once broadened and deepened to
meet the specific needs of the age, knowl-
edge extended and made various and yet
exact by the minute and particular re-
searches of men who devoted all the ener-
gies of their minds to a single task. Thus
we have gained immensely in knowledge,
but lost system, which must be regained.
The processes Of instruction which fit a
large body Of young men to serve their gen.
GRAFTON with powers released and fit for
great tasks ought also to serve the ini-
tial processes by which scholars and in
vestigators 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 expert uses of civilization. There
may come a day when general study will
be part Of the function Of university,
when 1t shall have been handed over, as
some talk of handing it over, to the
secondary schools. after the German fash
ion; but that day will not be ours The age
has hurried US, but we must not lose sight
Of that fine conception of general training
which led fathers to build great col
leges. The college is for the minority, who
plan, who conceive. who superintend, who
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whole. There are men of genius who play
these parts of captaincy and yet have never
been in the class room OF a college. whose
only school has been the world itself.
The World Good School.
1.-The world is an excellent school for
those who have vision and sef-dscipline
enough to use it. 1t is this sweep of life
that we wish to bring to the commissioners
of young men by the shorter processes Of
the college, for every man who plays a
leading or conceiving part in any affair
must somehow get this schooling In COL
leges we must deal with the spirits of men,
not with their fortunes. In history, philoso-
ply, science and litera ture the experiences
of the world summed up. and II we be
not pedants We extract from them the edif-
cation and enlightenment as of those who
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 seek to make
the men whom it receives something more
than excellent servants of a trade or skilled
practitioners of profession. 1t should give
them elasticity of faculty and breadth Of
vision, so that they shall have surplus
of mind to eXpend not upon their profess
sion only. for its liberia liza ton and enlarge
ment. 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 or
The day has gone by when 1t Is possible TO
do this by the old discipline of Greek, Latin.
mathematics and English. The circle of
is much enlai 2ed. the