The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-22

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 College Versus University.
 A comparison was made by tho speaker of strictly technical colleges and real universities. It was charged that technical colleges are often mis- nomers for universities. He would not try for one moment to disparage tho technical institutions for they certainly
 have an important place in this world. but he viewed with some concern the money applied to these schools from year to year which could be more equi- tably diverted to the university proper.
 The trend of all technical schools to- day. as noted by the speaker. Is to teaching true science and less and less of the applied detail. Benefactors are gradually realizing that even in col ieges of applied science the fact must ever hold that we cannot learn every thing.
 pr. wilson said that the nation is only one grand dramatic unit We have passed through one century In starting the republic, second In getting rid of that complication, the French" and third in clearing the stage for the real drama that is to come, and in the fourth the first act is really to begin. The question was asked. What Is to be the continuation of this dramaf" It was asked what we are going to do with the firstfact. He said in boasting of where America stands today, we have no right to look to her achieve ments except to regard the motives which were behind them. We must kuow what to do for our country In character and not in meaningless detail if he would work out the right cuimi- nation of the great srama.
 The Broader Life.
 The speaker then turned into the philosophy of broader life than do- nestle life. The people of this age must look beyond the hills that shut us in our homes. The world that lies about us should be known and known for what it is. The Babel that split inc tongue of nations split not only | the tongue, but scattered temperaments as we'll Some humorous passages were indulged here by Dr. Wilson who ridicuIed the domestic fiend to whom the Cynic's almanac recently said, '.Tell the truth and shame your family. pr. Wilson said the coming citizens of manhood and philanthropy are to have International minds. Our cousins abroad must be searched and 1t shoulo be known what they are doing ana what they are thinking. If we con fine ourselves to the homes where we live and live and move only In their environment we do not know where we are. according to pr. Wilson. We do not know where we are and we cannot telI where we are until we know what and where the rest of the world is." "vellicle of Spirits"
 Another phase of university ire is the indispensable regard for what those who have been before us have done Ii is a fallacy, said MT. Wilson. to say that we disconnect from what has gone before us, In the walls of the uni- versailles, in quietude and separation there are the opportunities to see the great map of things done by the | fathers of long ago. In the same atmosphere the young man is surcharg- | ed with that sentiment that follows him all through the lifs of this com mercial age. The horizon of nntrained
 motives are seen from the high mount | and indelibly impressed on his mind so that when he dips down into the vortex of industrial frenzy he can LOOK back and nurse the sentiment that ne once caught sight of life not so | tainted. At the college there Is to De sound the "vehicle of spirits" and 1t is to be found nowhere else.
 | The historian has no particular de- light in reading books. In fact, nc | savs. he takes 1t that a degree ot resolution is necessary for him to read A book. He does not delight in "dis- tressing his young men with constant tasks Notwithstanding this. there | l who have gone before and 1t Is not policy to "wait until we can get with them to talk with them" With all his early theological training, the speaker said he is not sure anyway that ne
 is going just where these ancients are and he preferred reading them ho"'
 Travelling Minds.
 Dr wilson emphasized two qualities os mind that the university guarantees to inc student who seeks 1t alright. One og these is a travelled mind and the other is discriminating. He humor- ouslv remarked that many people we see have travelled bodies, but not so often are to be experienced the traVeli-
 ed minds. For benefit to oneself 1t
 is the mind that travels ana no. the the
 hodv. This probably accounts for the
 oueer characters we meet within our | travels. according to the speaker. They
 have only their bodies with them or
 if their minds they are concealed
 somewhere about their persons.
 These men reminded the speaker oi
 A recent characterization or certaln
 head. One friend asked another wna'
 sort of head 1t was that had come into
 sHead? That's no head" said the other. "that's only a knot God Al
 mighty has put on him to keep ms
 body from ravelling out
 l The discriminating mind IS tauBu by the university life because there II
 the chance there of cultivating Il , which is impossible in the commercial realm. The man who has not dis ,, criminating mind was almost defined Inv pr. Wilson as a man who enJoy' holding an opinion today with tn. , expectation of giving it up tomorrow . Ue reyels in the delight that he hal ! held an opinion and 1t was all right fol the time although 1t had to fall down
 More respect for the man who cling + to his opinion with sincerity Dr. VII
 son says he has than for the maj
 without discrimination.
 one of the charming illustrations O i the catholicity of mind and the infec lion of ideals to be found in universi lies was given by pr. Wilson wh' ltraced the freshmen through thet four years. They go in with differen
 minds apparently and do not know on another Yet when they go out int . the world they are one homogenou mass. reeking with the ideals tha
 were distributed among them by tn
 ldispensations of the university.
 pr. Wilson who reached here at
 lo'cIock yesterday evening from Mariol
 Ia the guest of F. P. Glass while h
 lie in the city. He will leave early thi
 morning for Princeton University ac
 companied by MT. Glass.
 MIR. WILSON AT MARION.