Arizona republican., 1903-11-05
Installation of President
 BabCOCk Last Night
HE GOOD WILL OF ALL
Expressions by the Governor and the Regents Of the UniverSity's Rossate Future The Address of Benjamin Ide Wheeler.

Tucson. NOV l- AsaDcttel J - ne llt st.ration of President Babcock Of the luversity tooA place here tonight at .Hc opera house. The auditorium was era.rdeI notwithstanding the audience lld been elected by invitation. The stag. was Handsomely decorated and vas occupied by the members of the faculty tLe board Of regents. the board of trade. Governor Brodie. President HabcocS and President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of tbe University of California The Ildience included representatives from various parts Of the territory.
 TEa invocation was pronounced by Rev. George seity of the Episcopai church after which Chancellor Scott Df the university regents presented Governor Brodic who pledged the sup roft of his administration to the new president and said that the choice of che re--nts had met with the approval rl the people of the territory. He be- Il-yed that -Ec university was now in a better position than ft had ever been.
 Chancellor Scott speaking in behalf of fhe reg nts. said that President f.lEtock had been closeu cut of a lis; 1f twenty applicants and that the board was s1tisl.c that it had chosen wise o.. It had given to the president com rI-r- control 0f the university and n- would be held responsible for .E- advancement of the institution.
 Acting President Hall delivered a brief address on behalf of the faculty. The principal speaker or the evening was President Wheeler who. however. uas preceded in brief address by President Babcock.
 Fr-ziL ut Wheeler said in part.
 --Tte University cf California brings tCa irz greetings tC the University of Arizona The two institutions are close akin in origin and purpose. Beth were established -n their respective u.rEllrealths in cooperation with ft- purposes of the United States gov esnment Go be recipients of its bounty. Both are therefore national uniyeTsi- tiaa 4s well as state universities Beth Eet the clpstoue upon the state system 70 public education. and are cOnstitu- ent p4Et5 of the public school system. Herein after all lies the most signifi- c-n- mark Of the kinship.'
 President Wheeler paid an eloquent ard feeling tribute to the worth of President Babcock. who came rom Berkeley to become president Of the Univ -rsity 0f Arizona He then refer red at length GO the difficulties and complications which on every hand be- sst the Ires-dert of a state university saying.
 -To5 often tine position has been made th= football of shifting popular moods .r Of party politics. or worse of fractional strife. Unless the university il au its working and being can rise like a lighthouse high and clean above th- surging and dasnirg of th- transient and sordid. unless lt can lay hold wi:h its foundations upon something more solid than the shifting sands Of opin- ton and prejudice. unless it can look down calm and undismayed in it's an cherage of truth upon the battling waves around it. conscious that their fury cannot reach it. there might as well 5e DO university.
 -I am warning here not alone about the common brew Cf party politics. but about the meaner brew that is stir red in the name Of private 'pulT:-the Influential citizen who wants his wife's cousin appointed 10 an instructorship: th- editor who wages a grudge because frield who was an Incompetent in- struct-r lost his piace:-the assembly man whose brothers boy must not be expelled. lest appropriations in the EeNt legislature Guner.-the professor whose saiar- had better be raised be- cause it E-H Doe acceptab bic to certain impol taut railroad people with whom he goes camping tn the summer. etc"
 "All this business is full Of baclhaud- cd blackmall and backha nded stealing. but it ls tolerated and often promoted by otherwise well-inteTtioned citizens cf sluggish public conscience. who dazeIIF conform to the vulgate notion that someway OF other public money cannot be expected tC have as much value as other money. A public off cial. who uses his position to secure public office and pay for a man infer ior Go the available best because cf personal cr private relations or obli- Eatlcns Go that man. has used public money Whercwith to settle private ac- counts. he has treated a public trust as private possession: he has stolen public money, he is a thief The man who urges an official to dc such a thing has ircited theft. and is a partaker in the crime.
 Among other difficulties one has been alleged Go inhere in the position '.A on Nla4 4st.i rAAE A4lfl+F puDlAc tLnLfOlr which may in some circumstances con- sttuts a real danger to academic lib- erty and the liberty of truth This concerns the possibility that free in v-stig1tiOn and frank instruction con- ccrhng subjects involved in the par ufan ccHtlntions of these parties or societies into which the public is liyid- cd may be restrained or perverted through the influence of these organi- zations. A few pitiable cases have oc- cured in state universities. but i'm Wecsurably more in private institu- urus. In fact these latter are often organized in loyalty to some idea or set of beliefs. which very fact precludes the free scientific treatment oe suO- jects having relation thereto. A state university should lend Ho aid to par tisanship Of any kind, but on the other