Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-18
president JAMES
INSTALLED TODAY
New Head Of State University
Delivers a Notable Inaueur-
al Address
PROVINCE OF THE STATE SCHOOL
Ne Relation to the Smaller Colleges and
the Larger Universities - lite Pros
psrity Dependent to Large Extent on
Success. Of the Smaller Schools, the
Work Of Which Supplements.

I Champaign. Ill, Oct. iS.-Dr. I'D
mund James was today formally In
/ stalled as president Of the University
I Of Illinois. The exercises were elab-
/ crate and were conducted in the pres
/ ence Of q large crowd, which included
many distinguished persons. The adj
dress OF President James was note
worthy from the fact that he gave a
clear and concise exposition OF his
views on the proper function Of the
/ state university and its relation to
/ smaller colleges! and larger universe
+ ties.
h After referring to the marvellous
/ Growth OF state universities DIR. James
turned to an interesting discussion Of
/ the future Of the state university, say
/ ing in part:
.4The State University, following Its
practical tendencies, Is destined to be-.
come q great group OF professional
schools preparing its students for
the various occupations Of life for
which an extended scientific training
based on adequate, liberal, preparatory
.training ie necessary or desirable. 1t
will abolish the old fashioned Ameri-
can College as one Of its departments,
relegating part Of its work to the
high school and absorbing another part
OF Its work in the university proper. It
viii cut of the freshman and sopho-
more years, letting the high school and
k.~i. L.
date tho Junior and senior years
with the graduate school into
I 4 general university faculty of arts and
science It will be q place Tor training
|! mon and women and not boys and
girls a. IL 80 largely the case now.
..'The idealism which many people
fear will be lost with the disappear
ance OF the college will be found anew
in the training for the profession itself
which will receive new position TO
dignity and power through the scien-
tific preparation which will thus be
secured for 1t in the enlarged and lib
eraMzed university.
''It will embrace not merely the old
fashioned learned professions law
and medicine. 1t will prepare for en-
gineering and architecture in all their
various ramifications. It will go still
further. It will In its general faculty
OF arts and science, be q professional
school to prepare men and women TOR
teaching in secondary and higher
schools It will thus give q scientific
training to the teachers Of our high
schools such as few Of them possess
ct present; and no great number will
ever obtain except through the en-
larged and improved state university
II will prepare for the many callings
IN applied science such ais chemist,
physicist, bacteriologist, ceramist, etc.
etc. Nay. 1t will include the great field
OF scientific farming and business OF
commerce In all its diversified forms
TITS keynote will be scientific train
ing for specified calling. based on
adequate liberal preparation. BY its
requirement Of adequate prelimi-
nary preparation of a general charac-
ter, it will be distinguished from the
technical or trade school Of secondary
grade; by Its scientific training framed
70 develop the original investigator 1t
will be distinguished from the ordi-
nary cram shop now known as the
professional school.
''In word, the State University
which most fully performs its func-
tion for the American people will
stand simply, plainly unequivocally
and uncompromisingly for training for
vocation-not training for leisure nor
training for scholarship; except as
scholarship Is a necessary incidental
to all proper training for vocation or
may be vocation in itself But train
ing to perform an efficient service for
society in and thru some calling in
which man expresses himself and
thru which he works out some lasting
good to society. Such training for
vocation should naturally and would
inevitably, II the training be Of the
proper kind, result in the awakening
OF such ideals OF service as would per-
meate, refine and elevate the character
Of student 1t would make him
scholar and investigator, thinker. a
patriot and an educated gentleman.
..The State University will thus sup
plement the great system of col
leges and universities which has been
bnilt up by private beneficence and
church activity 1t will not undertake
to displace or injure private institu-
tions. It's attitude will be one OF CO.
operation not exclusion. Its policy will
be one of comprehension not monopoly.
The great gifts of Pearson and Rookie
teller for the benefit OF the small pri-
vate college can only be hailed with
delight by the State University. since
on the prosperity of these institutions
must be based the foundations on
which the state University can rise to
its highest usefulness.
For a long time to come IN the
older and more thickly settled states
of the union the private universities
and colleges will exceed in the aggre-
gate the attendance and Importance OF
the State university-perhaps for all
time. In the younger states they are
destined to increase and multiply no
matter how great the State University
becomes. But the value Of the state
university is not merely in the faciii-