The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-14

"I bring you as the representative
of this great state of Kansas most
hearty and cordial congratulations.
The history of Washburn college is the
heritage of the whole state. We are
all proud of the splendid history of
the college and we are all hoping that
the S1,O0O,OOO will come not in 10
years but in one year"
Brewster Speaks for Alumni.
Arthur w. Brewster of St. Joseph,
No. of the class of 80 brought the
greetings from the alumni to the col
politician and postmaster at st. Joseph
and sustained his reputation as an
-OratOr. He said: we of the alumni
association bring you greeting. At
the request of the older alumni I con
graduate Washburn on its 40 years.
We are likely to underestimate the
courage necessary to found college
in those dark days of 1865
This is a time for joy and for pleas
ure and I would not instill a spirit of
sorrow on this occasion and yet I feel
it is right to remember at this time
those that have gone before. The col
! lege never had truer friend than he
who guided its destinies for over a
! quarter of q century. I speak of one
who brushed aside the technicalities
! and was the father and parent of the
| boy who came to him trembling but
who went out strengthened by the
fatherly advice There never was a
stronger, better, kindlier man than
/ Peter McVicar.
Great were the founders of this
/ college and great were the men and
women who directed its course. We
the alumni congratulate you the
| trustees and president of this college
! on the founders of this college. It is
a matter of congratulation that you
the successors of those founders have
! been and are equal in every respect to
] those who have gone before And vet
it is not only matter of congratula-
/ ton of the past and the present but
also Of the future. Not a better place
could have been found for the esta b.
Hshment Of a college like Washburn
than Topeka. Kansas. To the future
Of Washburn college we bring greet
ings and congratulations"
DIR. ThayeF for Churches.
Rev. Henry Thayer. superintendent
of the Association of the Congregatfon-
al churches in the state, brought a greet
ing from that body and said in the
course of his remarks: Somehow this
Washburn college has sprung mn
Minerva like. The mother, the Cons
gregatonal church in Kansas. as soon
as the college was established left it
suddenly and said, Now hustle for
yourself and I believe from that time
on she no longer contributed towards
It's support The college was not
brought out for only ecclesia stfcal rride
but for those two things, love and iight
I'VE are glad, we the CONGREGATIONAL
church, to make this state of Kansas
your field. The whole world is Yours
/ for a school, the whole world of learn
ing. And you stand as the exDoneDt
of that intellectual system in the stat
of Kansas which says that there is
nothing unholy in the world Of truth -
Dr. VIM. F. Slocum, president of Colo
RADIO college said briefly in behalf of the
greetings which he brought from tba
, colleges and the universities Of the
country: 1.-The greetings from the col-
leges and universities of the Tinted
states TO you IS that Of devotion and
{ earnestness. 1t is a pleasure to add to
my great faith that Wash burn COLLEGE
IS to play great and noble part in
, the history Of your great common
wealth"
Rev. A. NJ. Brodie. pastor of DR. II
2 Pearsons' church in Chicago. and 1r
Henry King, president of Oberlin col
S lege, spoke briefly in conclusion mr.
D. K. PearsOns is the noted phiIantbro-
. plSt won has endowed a great MANY
/ colleges throughout the west and The
/ appearance OF DR.. Brodie was in ma
ture greeting from him. DR.. Brodie
!, sald; Il bring greetings and congrat1I-
/ latlons to you from the $50 Congreoa-
7 uonal churches of Illinois. I will state
, / that feel assured that when YOU sta RI
l out to raise that $1,000. 600 Dr. Pearsons
VIII contribute among the first as a
= lever to raise that amount
DR.. King followed: At am very Ger.
tain that no nation can succeed without
a training of leaders and the COLLEGES
] Of the United States are training those
leaders"
Musical numbers were contributed h
Mrs Florence Fox, Thaeher, Mrs. Georg
= W Parkhurst. Prof George B. Penny
7 burn Ladies chorus. Prof. Klingenber,
i was encOred and forced to reaDDear
Just before the audience Started +,
leave the hall DR.. Plass read congratula
tory letters from Andrew Carnegie an
President Roosevelt They follow:
The White House, Washington, D. G.. Ma