Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-06-13
Madison. June =.

The hope OF this country and its
most promising hope, from the field OF
education. is in educating the Ameri-
can farmer. and no other education
classical nor scientific, l tell you, will
be so fruitful Of great, truly great, re-
suits. as agricultural education.
would not have you professors OF an
cfent history or chemistry or any sci
ence or philosophy do anything less
than YOU now are dOing in your respee'
tive chairs, but I am intensely interest
ed in this greater work Of education
and must ask you TO add these other
things besides"
These words of James Wilson, secre-
tarv Il agriculture in the cabinet OF
President Roosevelt, brought applause
from the most distinguished dinner
company ever assembled at Madison
and perhaps the most distinguished ever
assembled in the state. IL was the
great university banquet, at the tables
of which were seated representatives
Of the foremost educational institutions
OF the country, of Canada and England
ard Germany.
Secretary Wilson, by inference, rid
died the old standards OF education,
classical and scientific. and declared
that the hope Of the country from edu'
cation lay in agricultural training.
Two men from this university,
said Secretary Wilson, Dean w. A.
henry and DR.. 5. NJ. BabcOck, by theii
work and their discoveries in agricul-
ture. have made themselves and this
state famous the world over and have
made themselves great benefactors OF
mankind. What good does it do TO
know ancient history? The farmer OF
America. who is the first and real foun-
dat!ou OF the country, needs TO know
something about the acre that he tills,
needs TO know something Of the egg,
the tree. the plant"
Three hundred sat down TO the long
tables, the POSTMASTER, Col. w. +.
Villas surrounded by the leading distin-
guished guests of the occasion at a
Grant. OF the department OF the lakes,
showed i'm an historical essay that all
the great strategists of the worlds
progress had been men c. education.
Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president OF
the University OF Indiana, prayed that
the great educational Institutions
might become more richly endowed, TO
the end that progress might be greater
III scientific research.
Grove Karl Gilbert, head OF the Unit.
ed Stetes geological survey, expressed
pleasure that a great geOl0gist hau
been raised 10 the head OF the univer-
sity.
Col. Villas Presides.
Gel William F. Villas, calling 70 or
der the company at the close the
long menu. took eloquent occasion TO
express the profound thanks of the
university and regents 10 the distin-
guished guests who had so highly hon
ored the jubilee with their presence
and he expressed gratitude for the elo-
guence with which the greatest educa-
tors of the country had graced the pre-
vfOus occasions OF the semi-ceatennial
week.
Brig. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, u.
s. a. commanding the department of
the lakes. was first introduced, as a
man who bears an immortal name,
who was first known by the toastmas-
ter just before the charge at Black
River bridge in the civil war, as a
United States general in the Gar with
Spain. serving also in the Philippines
and there receiving the submission of
the last warning natives.
General Grant stated his gratitude at
being a delegate to the great Wiscon-
sin jubilee and the representative of
the national military school. He said
that all great strategists were schOl-
ars. citing examples from history TO
prove this-Cyrus. Alexander the
Great. Hannibal. ScipiO. Julius Caesar,
and others including with scarcely an
exception all the great generals Of his
tory.
Great nations. he said, acknowledge
the high character Of the American
military academy at West Point and
this. the speaker said. was because of
the high standard Of scholarship there
maintained
Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president
% the University Of Indiana, was In
troduced with emphasis on the Lowe, Z"
and as the first alumnus oil a state uni
versity who became the president Of
the institution.
Dr. Bryan said that all the great
achievements OF the various depart