Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-06-13
Secretary Wilson Places Farm knowledge
Above Classics and Science
AssembIage of Distinguished Educators
and Others at Great Banquet
Germany, England, Canada and the Old
East Represented in PostprandIaI

ments of human activity and progress
had been accomplished by societies or
guilds. associated in one department.
As educational institutions grow older
and better endowed. the guild of edu-
cation, those men and those minds de-
voted to learning will go forward in ed
vocational achievement.
Grove Karl Gilbert, head of the
United States geological survey, con-
graduated the university upon the
fact that a great geologist has for the
second time in the universities his
tory been called TO the head of the in
stitution, and he referred with gratifi-
cation TO the fact that in the inaugural
address of President Van Hise there
was good promise for the development
OF scientific research in the university.
He entered one regret, however, that
great scientific man was to be sac
rificed to the work of administration.
agreement which presumably would
be given TO science in the university.
He said that scientific research was
not inspired by the hope of being bene-
fetal to mankind, but BY an Unsuitable
curiosity. He FASTENED to add, how
ever. that scientists are by no means
Indifferent to human progress.
Western Colleges Mature.
DR.. Albert Shaw, editor of the Re
view If Reviews, spoke extemporale-
ously and happily To the occasion. He
said the jubilee celebration demon
strated the comparative maturity of
the western educational institutions
and he explained that the time had
come when public leaders realized that
the universities had a right to infiu-
ence the public in social and ethical
ways. but most of all in expert ways.
He was gratifed TO observe that the
universities are contributing materi-
ally TO the development of the re-
sources of the country, for by the pros
perity and growing wealth of the coun-
Try is II possible TO maintain the ex-
pensive educational institutions. The
university must assist in adjusting
social conditions and also must help
the business world, raise business to
the plane of a profession. He closed
By stating his great pleasure in OBJ
serving that the university was free
from factiOnalism and anything unde-
sirable Of that kind.
DR.. Theodore Lewald was introduced
as the representative of a country
which has given this state one-third of
a. 10 DTfN q a
cided German accent. He said he had
revealed in this Madison atmosphere the
same breeze blowing that he had felt
in the German university towns. After
thanking the university for the kind
ness shown him, he invited the assem-
blage. particularly the men of science,
TO visit the German exhibit at the
worlds fair in st. Louis. He expressed
the hope that out of the great exposi-
ton would arise a more close feeling
Of friendship between Germany and
America.
Dean Henry Taylor Bovais, Fellow of
the Royal Society of England, head Of
the McDiIl university at Montreal, an
alumnus of the university of Cam
bridge. spoke of the old English school.
He was pleased to note the growth OF
technical education in America, sug-
costing the marvellous strides educa-
ton in this country would make when
the material resources of the middle
west should be developed.
Edwin Hale Abbott of Cambridge,
Mass, the reorganizer of the Wiscon-
sin Central railroad and a graduate Of
Harvard college, spoke briefly, saying
that the most rich event in his life was
his coming west, as a lawyer, in re-
Spouse to the necessities of his clients
in Boston. He said that the graduates
of a university should repay the great
debt of education, for what it costs a
student to receive an education is only
the merest percentage of what it
costs the university or the state to give
him that education.
Prof. Kuno FRANKIE, a professor OF
Harvard college, spoke briefly. James
Ford Rhodes. the emminent historian,
from Massachusetts bowed his re-
Spouse, and James Wilson Of
Iowa, secretary of agriculture
in the cabinet of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. closed the speaking.
He referred to w "A. Henry and S. NJ.
Babcock Of the Wisconsin college of
agriculture. who have done work and
made discoveries in agriculture that
have made them famous the world
over and through which these two men
are Oenefactors of mankind. He said
the greatest hope of progress in edu-
cation lay in agricultural education.
Jubilee Exercises.
University Jubilee ceremonies held