Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-06-16
University Honored in Honoring Leaders
OF the Progress Of the
Worlds Learning
Madison Takes Pride in the Possession of
Two Members of the Dis
tingushed Company

Samuel Lewis Penfield, professor of
mineralogy, Sheffield scientific school,
Yale university.
| William Peterson, principal of Nc
Gill university, Montreal.
Herbert Putnam, librarian of con-
gress.
James Ford Rhodes, American his
! torian
Auguste Rateau, professor in the
Ecole des Mines, Paris.
| Albert Shaw, editor of the Ameri-
can Monthly Review of Reviews.
Edgar Fahs Smith, professor of
chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of
the Wisconsin Historical society.
Edward Bradford kitchener, Sage
professor of psychology, Cornell uni
versity.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of
! the University of California.
James Wilson, secretary of the de-
tpartment of agriculture in the cabi-
nets of Presidents Mckinley and
Roosevelt.
john Bradley Winslow, associate
justice of the supreme court of the
state of Wisconsin.
Robert Simpson Woodward, dean of
the school of pure science, Columbia
university.
Larger Procession.
| The academic procession that had
| formed and marched on the severai
previous occasions during the week
was increased yesterday by the
presence of the larger graduating
class and the recipients of higher
degrees. While the procession was
! filling into the hall and marchers were
being seated-the distinguished guests
on the great platform and the uni
versity seniors in reserved chairs in
| the main body of the hall-Bach's
! orchestra CT Milwaukee supplied music
of rare sweetness.
! DR.. T. C. Chamberlin, former presi-
dent of the university, not professor
of geology in the University of Chi
cago, delivered an address on The
State University and Research. He
institutions of learning had the
privilege of choosing for themselves
| the line of work they would pursue.
but state universities must have for
their motto and plan, the education
| of the commonwealth by the com
monwealth for the commonwealth.
The discoveries of great truths,
he said, 1.-The authors OF great ideas,
are great educators. If the new
knowledge does not rise above the
level of the old, there is 10 advance
If the breaking of new ground in
accidents there will be no advance,
research must be controlled sys
tematically by the great universities,
and particularly along the line OF
benefit to the commonwealth" The
! speaker illustrated his remarks, as to
agriculture. by relating the great
change in agricultural conventions in
Wisconsin from the earlier times to
the years when the experiment sta
/ ton had become a power in the
furtherance of scientific investigation
| in agriculture. The meetings formerly
were dogmatic and unscientific, now
they have become accurate and
demonstrative.
! The speaker hoped for an advance
in the science of law-making in the
same systematic way that surgical
experts deal with problems in THEN
department. The University of Wis
consin, the speaker declared, is
leader in education and if the means
| and the moral support were forth.
coming the new head of the institu-
ton would lead it to the fulfllment
of the true destiny, of a great educa-
tional system.
From Canada and Oxford.
/ DR.. William Peterson, principal Or
McGiIl university in Montreal, the
representative of Oxford university,
England spoke to the subject, The
Unity of Learning McGill university
is 25 years older than that of Wiscon.
sin: Oxford is so old as not to know
its own age. He spoke of the friend
illness of England and America and
the sentiment was vigorously APP
plauded The speaker pleaded for a
broad. general education, without
haste to specialize. Delay Of year