Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1905-06-29
PRESIDENT
DELIVERS
ADDRESS

shortly before noon the people lef
with Lieutenant Governor Guild fol
Massachusetts Hall where the Har
ward commencement procession was
formed. The National Lancers, garb
ed in their picturesque costumes, with
red tunics and Unlau caps formed the
Presidents escort. The streets were
filled with cheering crowds as the
President passed along. Just before
reaching Massachusetts Hall, Secre
tary OF War Taft, former Secretary OF
the Navy Long and the incoming sec
rotary of the navy. Charles j. Bona
parte, joined the President, and the
entire procession moved into the thea.
Ter where the commencement festivi.
ties are held, President Eliot tnen
presented the honorary degrees. The
theater was packed by distinguished
company gathered TO hear President
RooseyelIs address, which he de.
liyered this afternoon.
Toe Presidents address in full fol
lows:
A great university like this has two
especial functions. The first is to
produce small number of scholars
of the highest rank a small number
of men who, in science and literature,
or in art, will do productive work OF
the first class. The second is to send
out into the world very large mum
Der of men who never could achieve,
and who ought not to try to achieve,
such a position in the field of scholar
ship, but whose energies are TO be
felt in every other form of activity;
and who should go out from our doors
with the balanced development OF
body, of mind, and above all, OF char
acter. which shall fit them to do work
4 pin honorable and efficient.
- Much of the effort to accomplish
the first function, that of developing
men capable of productive scholar
ship, as distinguished from merely
initiative, annotatiye, or pedagogic
scholarship, must come through the
graduate school. The law school and
medical school do admirable work in
fitting men for special professions,
but they IN no shape or way supply
any Shortcomings in the graduate
school any more than does the college
paper, the college of the undergrad
yates. The ideal for the graduate
school and for those undergraduates
who are to go into il must be the
ideal OF high scholarly production,
which f. 10 he distinguished in the
sharpest fashion from the mere trans
initial OF leAly-made knowledge with
out adding to 1t. If America is to
contribute its full share, TO the prog
ress not alone of knowledge, but OF
wisdom, then we must put ever-in
creasing emphasis on university work
done along the lines of the graduate
school, We can best nelp the growth
of American scholarship by seeing
mat as a career it is put more on a
level with the other careers open to
our young men. The general opinion
OF the community is bound to have a
very great effect even upon It's most
vigorous and independent minds. Ii
in the public mind the career of the
scholar is regarded as of insignificant
value when compared with that OF a
glorified pawnbroker-and some OF
the most conspicuous OF our financial
magnates come fairly within the lat
Ter category-then it will with diff
Guilty be made attractive TO the most
vigorous and gifted of our American
aounf. men Good teachers, excellent
inst -htions, and libraries are all de
manded in a graduate school worthy
of the name But there is an even
more urgent demand for the right
sort OF student No first class sci
euce. no first class literature or art
can ever be built up with second class
meu. The scholarly career, the ca
reer of the man of letters, the man OF
arts, the man OF science, must bs
made such as TO attract those strong
and virile youths who now feel thai
they can only turn to business, law Oh
politics There is no one thint
which will bring about this desired
change, but there is one thing which
will materially help in bringing i
about, and that is to secure to schol
nrs the chance OF getting one of few
brilliant positions as prizes If the!
rise to the first rank in their chosei
career. Every such brilliant position
should nave as an accompaniment al
added salary, which shall help ind
cate how high the position really Is
and it must be the efforts of the alum
nj which can alone secure such sal
aries for such positions.
As a people think we are wakln'
M 10 the fact that there must be BET
Ter pay for the average man and a'
erage woman engaged in the work
education. But | am not speaking o
This now: | am not speaking OF tn
desirability. great though that is. o
giving better payment to the averag
educator. | am speaking OF the desii
ability of giving to the exceptiona
man the chance of winning an e'
ceptional prize. Just as he mas