The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-23

Last evening the First Baptist
church was filled to the doors with the
students and friends Of the University
Of North Dakota, who assembled to
comme nlorate the twenty-third ami
versary Of the founding of the institu-
ton. While the enabling act which
created the U. N. d. passed the legis-
lature Oh Feb. %, 1t has been deemed
best to hold the celebration on the 22d
and merge 1t with that -of Washing
toms birthday. ,s-. s
Last evening at, 8: 30 o'clock the Uni
yersity orchestra struck up the over
ture which marked the opening of the
exercises 1t is composed OF students
entirely and the opening number on
the program was the recipient Of many
compliments from the musicians In
the audience. Their work shows care
full training and musical ability. The
overture was enjoyed by every mem
Der of the audience.
After the audience had sung Amer
lea" standing, President Webster Mef-
rifeld, who presided, introduced the
Rev. Frank e. R. Miller, pastor of the
church. who offered the invocation
President Merrifield then read his an
nual address. which partakes of the
nature of a report of the years work
and which will be found In full below.
At the conclusion of his address,
President Merri1eld called upon the
University Glee club for number.
They rendered a number of selections
which pleased their audience i'm
mensely.
II Prof. Lords Address.
In introducing the speaker of the
evening, Livingston G. Lord, presi-
dent of the Eastern Illinois Normal
and president Of the Education Assoc
citation of Illinois, President Merrifleld
took occasion to pay him a handsome
compliment. He said that since the
days when Prof. Lord was superinten-
dent Of, schools at st. Peter in 1874,
until he was made president Of the
Moorbead normal In 1886, he had been
one Of the potent educational factors
I'm Minnesota and North Dakota. His
4 work as an instructor at teachers in
Sstttutes. etc, had had great influence
for good in the states named.
Heregretted for the sake of the
states the promotion which took him
from the valley in 1899, but must re-
joice for ProfS Lords sake
By way of introducing his address,
Prof. Lord took occasion to sap that
the students of the northwest were
safe in the hands of the University
of North Dakota. President Merrifield
did not educate the mind at the ex-
pense Of the soul. The education Of
the young people at the u. N. d. is
/ symetrical and Their els none of the
+ materialistic preponderance which is
complained of in some other uniyer-
/ ties.
A Modern Sir Galahad.
Prof. Lords address, "a Modern Sir
Galahad," was on the work and char
acter of Thomas Henry Huxley. The
leading thought Of the address was
truth and courage The ancient Sir
Galahad had modern counterparts in
such men as Folk and Jerome and the
Of today who were true, honest and
the young men and young women Of
today who were true, honest and
brave, but the greatest Of all modern
knights Of purity and truth and cour-
age was Prof Huxley. He considered
him especially as an educator and the
exponent Of truth as against tradition.
He took the position that Huxley was
not an atheist, but an agnostic Of a.
modified type. The great purity and
courage of the great English scholar
and scientists life was most admirably
brought out.
Prof. Lord is an able and pleasing
speaker and his knowledge of educa-
tiOnal men and affairs is wide and
penetrating. The address last evening
was a liberal education In itself
| After the audience had sung the fol-
lowing selection, written by one of the
university students, Rev. Miller pro-
nounced the benediction:
Alma mater.
(Tune: '.Austria.')
Hail to thee, o Alma Mater! i.,
= Hall to thee with heart and tongue!
Ws I've fee na nad yse
Home Of lofty thought and learning,
Beacon DER our western land.
4 Shrine whence still the everburning
Torch Is passed from hand to hand.
Free as roam our winds the prairie,
Free a. ae roana
Soar, proud offspring of the mind.
s. e ssats wi 4SSs e d SaSna
thy ~ e aaas sRSsas aaa BEAUTY s.
4 Alma Materi thine the ~ orv. IN 5.,
II or thought. of ours or deed,
4 Find q place In song or story,
Win Sendeavors glorious NEED.
4 Prosper ever, fostering mother!
4 Down the ages long resound
Loud thy fame. while many another
A Finds In thee what we have found.
4 II ohm Macntc, University.
President derriaeId's Address,
We are celebrating tonight the 23rd