The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-22
PRESIDENT BRYAN INSTALLED
NOTABLE ADDRESS ON NATIONAL
FAITH IN EDUCATION.
Students, Faculty and Visitors Join i'm
the Inaugural PrOcessiOn-Other
Features of the Day.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

presence of many of the most eminent
scientists of the country, and this after
noon there was the formal inauguration
of William Lowe Bryan, Phi. D.. as the
eleventh president of the university.
The dedicatory exercises began at $3.50
o'clock, in the mems gymnasium. In the
absence of Isaac Jenkinson, president of
the board of trustees, owing to sickness.
Benjamin F. Shively, of South Bend. pre-
sided, and in assuming the craftsmanship of
the exercises made a very appropriate
speech, setting forth the need of beautiful
homes for science. After music from the
double quartet. Prof. Edward L. Nichols, of
Cornell University. spoke at length on the
Needs of Science in America" lone of
the greatest needs of science has been
well-fitted laboratories" he said. You
have long had the scientific spirit in this
institution. There are few places for scien-
tifc research to-day; we have no more than
dozen institutions devoted exclusively to
research work in this country But we
need more than homes for science-great
teachers of science" He pointed out the
fact that very few of our great scientists
in this country had been men who could
we'll express their knowledge. David Starr
Jordan, he said is probably the only lit
erary man of science we have in this coun-
try.
DIR. Coulter, professor of botany at the
University of Chicago, formerly president
of this institution, spoke briefly on 1.-THE
Scientific Spirit This spirit. he said, was
a spirit of inquiry. He pointed out the
dangers in the study of science which
might result in the wrong Interpretation
or accumulated facts, and that the needs
of true scientific teachers were great.
DR.. Arthur Foley, professor of physics,
reviewed the progress of science at Indiana
University. THE new science hail." he
said, will be milestone in the progress
years ago, when he first came to this in
stitution, the department of physics occu-
pied only two rooms. To-day the depart
ment is the greatest in the West.
DIR. BRYAN INSTALLED.
Benjamin F. Shiveley, of the board of
trustees. presided at the installation of
President Bryan. After the invocation, by
the Rev. DR.. Lyons, and the singing of
How Firm a Foundation" President Will
liam H. p. Faunce, of Brown University
delivered the principal address. The key
note of his speech was the democracy of
the colleges in the West. Higher educa-
ton in the East" he remarked, lis looked
upon a privilege, but here in the West
education, as afforded by such an institu-
ton this. is considered as a right. The
government has established many insttu-
tons here in the West and their graduates
have never failed to lend their services
| when needed by the State. But the pri-
| vately endowed institutions of the East
| have their advantages. They have grown
| by virtue of the sacrifice of the founders,
| the graduates are brought upon the altar
| of sacrifice and the memory of these sac
| rificing founders is an inspiring lesson to
| all graduates. The genuine friend of state
| institutions is democracy. Here the stu
| dents are trained for citizenship. The play
| of democratic principles is certainly freer
| than in the East. Education in the West is
| not looked upon as the vestibule of profess
| sion; it is training for life and citizen
! ship. In the state university in the West
life is taken err more seriously. =, Sinking
| earnest and strenuous.
In speaking of the consolidation of educa-
tional institutions he said: IF consolida-
| ton does take place in the educational field
| Ii will be accompanied with loss of interest
| and the loss of the initiative which is prev
| alent in all industrial enterprises" In clos
| ing he remarked that the college stands for
| making life and not livelihood; for making
| men and not adopts. Il believe" he said,
| that every Eastern college man should
| come West one year and every Western
| college man should go East one year in or
| der to get a broader view of American
| life"
1 ". n
| diana Supreme Court, with very brief and
| appropriate address, installed President
| BRYAN, and as the audience stood the new
/ president came forward, greeted with pro-
/ longed applause. His inaugural address
| concluded the exercises.
His subject was Faith in Education. -
| In part he said:
| I'm general we should not forget that all
| men of all times are in many essential
| ways alike. We share with all the funda-
| mental instincts and many of the habits.
| good and bad, which grow out of them.
| 81 would say, then. that our people are
like every other in the possession of GER
| tain instincts and habits, lower and higher,
| but l would then go on to say that, rising
| out of those we have developed along with
| much other good and evil two salient char
| acteristcs.
lone of them is that strenuous prac-
| ticality with which all the world gives us
| credit.
1.-The other is less obvious, is often over
looked. often denied. but has always quite
| surely been here. fighting with or fighting
| against practical interests-in either case
effective and never more so than at pres
ent. This characteristic is devotion to ideals
| which lie quite above the world of money.
THE DOMINANT FAITH.
1.-The sober truth is that faith In educa-
ton is the dominant faith of our time. II
pervades our society with a compelling
power like that which sent Christendom
again and again upon crusades for the
4 pOSSeSSlOn OI the nOly StpuiCHTe II Mas
taken possession Of the rich-the very mer
| who are said to have made this the age
of money-Johns Hopkins, Clark, Stanford
Rockefeller Carnegie, Armour-men who
were for the most part poor and without
liberal education, but who have faced the
commercial situation of our time and In
one way or another wrested from IL grea
fortunes; these men come bringing theil
surplus millions 10 the service of educa
tion
1T is a significant fact that these hard
headed men have thought IL practical L
give their money. not solely or even mainl,
tions, but also for fine art. for research
in pure science and for the study of ancien
classics. The common sense of giving. a!
these men see, is TO give so that men shall
be set TO work. And the craftsmanship
| of giving is to give that men everywhere
shall be set 10 work at what they can d,
best. The individual motives of these mel
doubtless vary widely. but and all
they are caught up by the power of so
cial faith which is wiser and stronger thar
any man.
There is yet stronger proof of the domi
nance of this faith in the conversion to /
of the whole people. They have no surplus
millions. Their strength must go to pro
| vide the necessities of life. But IL is a fac
which heartens US when We think of thi
history of our race that most peoples
are willing to sacrifice material necessitie
TO a spiritual one IL they believe In It. Tn
| people of Athens in the days of Pericle
lived in mean houses and covered the acrop
as hxury. but because they believed tina