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Culture No Longer Abides Alone I'm
the East, and De PAW Is Doing
It's Part I'm the West.
HISTORICAL LECTURE AT NIGHT
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PRIOR
TO THE SPANISH WAR.
Reception Follows the Address-New
Heating Plant for Purdue-Other
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GREENCASTLE. Ind. May 20.-The Hon.
Charles w. Fairbanks. Indianas senior SEN
ator, was this evening initiated in Alpha
Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa, an event
that has been anticipated with great inter-
est in both college and city society and
educational circles.
The De Pauw chapter of this organization
OF scholars customariiy invites prominent
man 20 address them and to be the guest
OF honor at a reception after the lecture,
every few years, and the senator proved the
most popular this year. But the lecturer
should be a member OF the society and this
difficulty In the present instance was over
come by making the distinguished states
man a member. He Is q graduate Of Ohio
Wesleyan.
The initiation took place at o'clock in
Plato Hal! and 1T was. of course. private.
The programme was the customary one in
every detail. The formula was presented
by Prof j. r. Weaver. who is president
OF the De Pauw chapter. At its close Pro-
fessor Longden, secretary of the chapter,
presented TO the senator, in the name of
the society. gold key. the Phi Beta
Kappa emblem. He responded most gra-
ciously. expressing his pleasure over the
significance of the gift. Short speeches
were also made by DR.. H. A. Goblin, presi-
dent of the university; Professor Crowell. of
Franklin College, and George b. Lockwood,
OF ndanapolis, secretary to the Cover
nor.
In the course of his remarks to the chap
ter the senator said:
I'VE are doing much in Indiana to pro-
mote higher education. Our colleges and
universities are taking good rank. They
are not only fostering high ideals, but they
are more and more fitting young men and
women for the severe and exacting realities
of life. Higher education is desired in all
the walks Of human activity.
Culture no longer aDides alone in the
East We find people of culture in our own
State and throughout the West. They are
the products of our colleges and universi-
ties They are the fruit of our own civ
flizatfon. We have produced many who
have taken high rank in craftsmanship,
law. medicine. literature, art and science
There is no department of intellectual ac-
ample contribution.
i've have a generous hospitality for such
institutions as this. De Pauw University
Is aiding spiendidly in the advancement OF
the cause Of higher education in the West
All honor to her and to her student body
May she continue to fulfill worthily her high
Tonight he addressed a large audience
in Meharry Hall. His subject was "a
Chapter of American History showing
the Spanish-American war, events leading
I'D TO the war and our course during IL
and since IL closed 1t dealt largely with
matters that came to his knowledge through
his intimacy with President Mckinley and
mostly matter which has not been used
publicly. He went into the effects of the
war on America from a civil point Of view
He deplored the effects OF the war because
OF its bloodshed but found many things
wherein it has proved Of the greatest value
to the country. He did not touch on the
political phases of the subject.
The senator was heard by an audience
Of 1000 people from the city and university.
including the members of Phi Beta Kappa
who are In the city, the university faculty
and their ladies' He spoke for more than
an hour.
After the lecture, az Beechcroft. the home
OF Professor and Mrs. Weaver, there was
formal reception for the senator and Mrs
Fairbanks, with only the society members
and their wives and husbands and the uni
versity faculty as the guests. The large
and beautiful grounds of Beechcroft were
Illuminated with electric lights and Jap
anese lanterns. The elegant home of the
president of the society was decorated
throughout with American Beauty roses
and palms In profuslon. and the scene was
very attractive. Those receiving were Pres
ident and Mrs H A. Goblin, Professor and
Mrs. ]. r. Weaver. Professor and Mrs III
Z. Longden. DR.. and Mrs. Swahlen, the last
president. vice president and secretary of
Alpha Chapter OF the socity.
This chapter has 160 members, and the in
vitation list included all of these. The
presence of most OF these. with their wives
and husbands. made the crowd a very large
and brilliant one. II was the first occasion
OF a public address by Senator Fairbanks
In this city on other than a political occa-
sion, and the entire city united in honor
ing him. President Kane, of Wabash Col
lege. was q guest.