The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-03-30
GOVERNOR REVIEWED IT.

O. A. c. Cadet Reg ment-And Made
Speech in Chapel-What he
Said.
Upon invitation of the president,
Governor Chamberlain today re-
viewed the Oregon Agricultural
College cadets and addressed the
entire student body with many Wis
itors from the town. In spite OF
the disagreeable weather, several
hundred spectators witnessed the
various evolutions of the College
cadets. The governor, accompan-
led by President Catch, DIR. Witty
combe and Major Edwards. took
much pleasure in watching the
regiment throughout the review.
At ten o'clock College chapel was
crowded with students and visitors
so that standing room could no
longer be obtained on the stairways
in the adjacent halls. Following
the regular morning devotions,
two selections by the Bach quar-
tette, consisting of B. w. johnson,
John Allen, Otto Herse and Prof.
Fulton. President Ga1ch introduc-
ed Governor Chamberlain as the
chief executive of Oregon and as
an alumnus of Westinghouse
University. After words of praise
for the college, he impaired much
good advice to the student body,
frequently referring to President
Roosevelt as Americas model of
fearless integrity. During the ad.
dress of twenty minutes he was
roundly applauded repeatedly; and
at the close of the exercises, the en-
tire student body gave nine rahs for
Governor Chamberlain. In part,
his address was:
THE GOVERNOR ADDRESS.
AS commander-in chief of the
Oregon National Guard, it afford
ed me great qualification to review
your battalion. I say without
disparagement to any institution,
that I have never seen so large a
body of men so we'll trained, ply
sically and so thoroughly in the arts
of soldier. In common with 9th
er citizens of the stste, I am proud
of the progress you have made and
congratulate you upon your mag
ni6cent showing as soldiers. Your
training along military lines is for
two purposes; first, so that our com
mon-wealth and country may be
able to rely with confidence upon
the trained soldiery, and second
but by no means least. in order
that you may thereby develop ply.
sically, because without a strone
body it is difficult to maintain q
a strong mind, and I am sure thai
good results will follow from ths
efforts you are making.
In common with the people o
the state, I am proud of you, and
am proud that we are citizens o
one of the most magnificent com
monwealths When we read th'
history of Thomas Jefferson, VIII
while yet minister of Paris, NOR
than 100 years ago, and of his de
termination to send out to thi
coast as emissaries, Lewis & Clark
with a letter of credit against the
world; when we read of the hard
ships encountered by our men ant
women, yonr ancestors; when W
read of the struggle instituted a
Champoeg in 1843 and the par
played by Joseph Meek and th
sole survivor of that honorable bant
F. x. Matien. when it decided Ore
gon to be part of American soil
when we read of all this and tn
hardships endured by those VIII
have preceded us, it seems like
an epic poem and is more like 70
nance than history.
"There is everything here to in
spire you to higher aims and am
bitions. Off to the right and LEI
are magnificent valleys, schools an
churches on every hillside; highe
upon sides stand splendid forest
and above them the snow cappe
peaks, All these things while ad
ding to the beauty of the state d.
not constitute state; it is citizen
, ship that makes it great and thi
institution of yours is engaged in
work that will do more than an
other factor to teach Our people t
strive for higher ideals in publ
and, private work.
PRAISE FOR ROOSEVELT
The time is not far distant whe
you, young gentlemen, the student
of this splendid institution, mus
assume the affairs Of governmen
: and it is your duty to study the lif