The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-18
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PRESIDENT STRONG INSTALLED
President ETadIey OF Vale Was One OF
the Orators of the Occasion.

Lawrence. Kan, oct. 17.-Frank Strong,
former president of the oregon State
university. was today installed as chan
ceiior OF the University of Kansas The
exercises were largely attended by the
alumni and several noted educators were
present. Arthur 7. Hadley president of
Yale, was the leading speaker. Governor
w E. Stanley spoke for the state ANA
Chancellor Strong, following, outlined his
policy An innovation Of the inaugural
vas 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
classes and societies OF the college. There
were $500 persons present. Hon. Thos. M.
Potter. of Peabody, Kan. member of
the board of regents. presided President
4Iadley was warmly applauded when he
arose to speak. He said in part;
president Hadley Of Yale, dwelt upon
the purposes of the American university,
pointing cut that the functions were diff
forent in various sections of the country.
There are two ideas as 10 a university.
one regarding it as a coping stone TO sec
Cndary education, and the other as a
place for laying the foundation for pro-
! fessional study and work. The college
had the advantage Of bringing 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
liz the Office or shop are now on the whole
better taught in the university and as a
4 result the tendency is for the university
/ to become group Of technical schools as
the case in Germany. The Old college
course is making the ideal Of genera
/ culture count for less in comparison with
/ that Of practical preparation 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 have every student who enters a
school of theology. law or medicine show
/ Il college degree President Hadley. while
/ he sympathized with the purpose under
] lying these efforts could not believe that
/ il represented the true solution Of the
! problem. If you require q college degree
! from every professional student, you pre-
vent the college degree from representing
more than the necessary minimum which
can he fairly iurosed upon every profes-
sional student. By enforcing il upon those
( who do not want it. you diminish its
value To those who really do want it.
I'VE should seek for the solution of our
university problems not in the enforced
addition OF a German course TO an Eng
! l.sh one. but in a combination OF the
/ English spirit with the German organiza-
/ tiCn. The great thing that the English
/ colleges have always done and the great
! thing that the best American institutions
are doing in their college courses, is TO
/ lead the students TO value some other
I ideals besides the commercial one.
To effect this combination viii task
the best efforts OF the leaders OF Amer
lean education. but they are destined TO
/ accomplish IL For its accomplishment
/ the fullest Interchange OF mind and ideas
! between different localities and different
sections is an absolute essential. May
the time be not far distant when there
/ shah rise in the world OF education. out
I of all the divergencies OF thought. some
man or some men who can lead Us 10
! the realization OF national ideals as popu-
{ lar and Yet as profound. as practical and
Yet as unselfsh as those which revealed
/ themselves 70 the political vision Of
Abraham Lincoln.