The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-07
CELEBRATES ITS
SENI-CENT[NN|AL
Hamllne University Commend.
rates the aFlftieth Anniver-
sary of Its Foundation

Harnline university. at a platform
meeting held last night at the Hamline
Methodist church, celebrated it's semi
centennial. The church was we'll filed
by friends of the educational institu-
ton, and several addresses historical of
the university and educational in
theme were given. DIR. George III.
Bridgman. president of the university,
presided and congratulations for the
record Of the past and words of en-
couragement for the future were.
spoken by Judge Hascal r. Brill; Pres
ident Guy E. Maxwell, of the Winona
normal. school, alumni Of Hamline; Dr.,
w. G. Rice, one of the earliest living
students of the school, and John Penn.
berton, himself a graduate, as we'll as.
one Of his sons.
Judge Brill, who. was graduated from
the school some thirty years ago, re-
viewed the history of the university.
1t is Older than the state, he said, and
on May 3, 1854, the act incorporating
the university was passed by the terri>
torfal legislature with the first meet
ing of the trustees held May 8 follow
ing. In the fall Of the same year. Rev.
Jabez Brooks was chosen principal of
lAC anu -ll0
school was opened at Red Wing with
thirty mine students. Referring to the
work of Hamline in the past fifty
years, Judge Brill said:
HamEine's Early Struggles
In the development of this frontier
community of fifty years ago Hamline has
borne most honorable part. The work
OF Its early years is not to be measured
by the number sof its graduates. In the
no
llDraryi 1t hadEno wealthy patrons and
no high salaried professors. For the
most part its students We're from very
humble homes. They came not to shine
IN athletics or to get into a fraternity,
or to attach to- themselves a great col
lege name, but they came because they
wanted to develop their minds and enlarge
their ideas. They knew that every dollar
that they used represented hard work,
and prlVatiOn of physical comfort upon
the part of those they left behind as
intensity about their college work, a
grim determine ton to master their tasks,
which, with the earnest work of their
devoted and poorly paid teachers, might
lily developed intellect and strengthened
character.
Judge Brill paid a high compliment
to William Pitt Murray and the others
who had assisted at the institution Of
the university, and said:
Let US forever honor the memory of
the men who laid the foundation of this
institution and started 1t on it's career
of usefulness. They made possible the
great work it has done for the community
and the world and the great work it will
continue to do till time shall be no more.
What HamIne Has Achieved
President Maxwell spoke to the
theme, NEED of a New Emphasis in
College Life" He said that IIamline
had done its work thus far, not only
in the century of individualism but in
the century in which more completely
than anywhere else on earth the inde-
pendence and Self-Sufficiency of the in
dividual has been greatly emphasized
President Maxwell continued:
The university hasisdone its work in
the midst of and in opposition to a
marked tendency towards q materialism
and desire for training for skill i'll
manipulation, whose purpose is success
In terms of increased earning capacity,
and early and complete adaptation of the
individual to his appropriate career All
honor to college which in such a time
has not erected affairs to new and I'M
familiar GODS but has stood for culture
and for the perfection Of the highest and
best in Christian character sending out
students year by year who have thought
little about getting out Of the world what
1t owes them and much of rendering to the
world the love and service which they
owe 1t.
IL EtlC0, OI FdFlUduA, VINO was a
student at Hamline in 1861, told of the
early history and, achievements of the
school, and created marked enthusiasm
when he suggested that the alumni
erect fire-proof library, building on.
the university campus; and that other
means be employed to secure at least
two more new buildings, with suitable
apparatus, TO enlarge the scope and
abilities of theginstitution.
The annual meeting of the trustees
of the university will be held this after
noon and the class night exercises will
take place this evening in the univer-T
sity chapel. elaborate preparations
for the event have been made by the
students, and the programme promises
to reveal some surprises.