The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-14
HE-INSTALLATION SPEECH OF DR.. EDWIN AMBER

yersitv hope to become a. school Of
power, binding other colleges to 1t in
loyalty, and not only responsive to tra-
dition, but to new truth daily appearing
in the life OF man. Here the quie! scholar
may search out the truth and hold 1t
aioft for men to see.
10, The Professional Sahools-the hearl
and bran 1t work OIL life--as varied IN
number and scope as society Is complex,
seeking to provide the world with the best
skill needful for It's growth, and 50 justly
! relatNd to the whole, that we shali escap pc
the peril of the Liberal and uneducateo
| specialist.
All! this shall be placed In a setting
| VI d little world Of libraries, laboratories,
loan funds. fellowships. mechanism and
| beauty, and the whole v!tallzed and spirit
ualzed by men in such force that their
| spirits shall not break and their hopes
/ shall not die. We do not need many
! such universities but we need them
strong and In the right places. The null
duplication of weakness by weakn css
yields weakness STILL The South needs
them to protect Its real reconstructive
era from the dangers Of enipiricisn', IN
! dustrial dependence and the perils that
| beset character In all democracies Vir-
ginin needs such a university to guarantee
that educational leadership to which
| 1t has owed It's greatness for two genera
tons and to light Its path to that point
| of usefulness and power which General
Leo saw In the dark days, when he said
simply. "r1ct Us work to make Virginia
| great again.
For the South.
rho building OF such a national Funtver-
| sity OF modern type in the South Is the
! great opportunity TO benefit the republic,
! now offered toxthc wisdom Of States ana
| the imagination Of far-seeing men. There
| Is d pre- superstition Of vast power in
such institutions. America spends thirty
ismllions II year in maintaining them.
! Many millions a. year are given for their
expansion. The States of the NORTHWEST
| Territory. much Of which Was formerly
! ytrginiu expends six millions yearly,
and upon less than four or five hundred
thousand a. year one cannot be maintain
ed: Money alone cannot make such q
! university, but vast powerSis necessary.
and though it bear the image and super
| scription OF Caesar, there lis an alchemy
OF conservation IN our la boratories which
can transrnute money into moral force
Mere Individual genius, even Of Plato, Q,
.Nbclard or Arnold or Hopkins, cannot
4 make such university though God
lfpity It IL It have not such duality Of
/ soul somewhere in It's lie. Prestige Will
not suffice for prestige may be another
lSterm for eptaph, IL isolated from con.
tinulng power to serve a widening field
4 Holding fast to all Of good that 'ye
have, let us discern 5SsE four new paths o.
service for the University Of Virginia
4 First OF English spe aking statesmen Mr
i Jefferson perceived thet meaning of cduca.
i ton as an Slm iuence upon national a.
i distinct from Individual development, an
| for forty8yesars his mind played constantly
] around three lines of institutional re
i form In Virgnia-el ementary instruction
4 for every child, in order to guarantee cit.
i jzenship, to elevate economic desire anc
| to increase indus trial capa city; secondary
4 education, or more education for those
4 fit for 1t; 5university education, or train
i ing for leadership. II 3Si,s
i I The largest social task Of this univer'
sity, cooperating with all 5educntiona
Il forces, is to strive for the accomplish
Il mcnt Of these unre allied ideals Not sonl!
4 lin Virginia, but throughout the sout
s|fthere IS enthusiasm, growth under di fl
3 culties, splendid determination and pro
R gress and Individual excellence. but on
5lfcducational systems are unorgarhzed ant
/ bear sornew hat the relation to What the,
i Will finally become that the old voluntee
4 fire companies bear to the organized fir
4 departm emit. Their proper coo rdinatioi
4 will come MS a. result Of community eff
4 fort and II a conception of educa uona
unity. Education is one compact interes
OF society, and no ono part can be profit
ably studied alone. as no individual car
be studied Isolated fromti his fellows. HI!
cadayer may be valuable for such pur
poses, hut not his personality know Q
! no more fruitful fled Of Inquiry thas
] that which has to dow theS,rentiol
Of part to part in our systems fof educa
ton, and Of the intrinsic relation OF tn
4 whole to State and church. The Untver
4 sity Of Virginia is essentially not thi'
particular City of5Light, but n composite
i institution. including every school house
4 academy, denominational college, Stat
school tied together In a union o
4 sympathy and notwithstanding y. some :, IN
4 how must become this or confess failure
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