Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-07-10

only one style of doing business.
Truly,
i d. X. PEARsoNs."
This is certainly a noble and gener-
Gus offer. You will note that it is not
hampered by restrictions. All above
the bare cost of the building will
strengthen the general work Of the
College, for men as well as for women.
The next step ahead for Middlebury is
to meet DR.. Pearsons' conditions. and
that promptly.
We do well to be proud of DR..
Pearsons' endorsement, and most
hopeful because of it also. He, has
not record of giving to dying causes.
He has received not a particle of
personal benefit from Middlebury, and
if he can be thus generous, certainly
we, who owe all that we have and are
to the start this College gave us,
should rise in enthusiastic self-sacrifce,
and send for his sa5 1000 SO promptly
that he will ask how best he can give
us some more.
am aware that l am taking up a
great work, of large and persistent
difficulty, weighted with consequences
utterly beyond the vision of the keen
est. Mistakes are inevitable, and I
invoke your charity. l promise you
my best, and ask you for whatever
help you think you ought to give me.
l am certain that Middlebury College
is needed, certain that she has work,
distinctive and separate, that can not
be done as well by any other institu-
ton. We have an individuality of our
own, which we must preserve, but
must also strengthen. Our entire
endowment and our entire plant, taken
together and added to the resources
of any other College you might name.
would not begin to do the educational
work it is doing to-day right here.
Our College is as fixed in the green
hills as the archaean rock of Cancels
Hump and Killington, being anchored
by quarter of a million of stone
and marble buildings, and by the
enthusiastic love and loyalty of hun
dreds of friends, mostly poor, but all
rich in courage. +
The Alumni of Middlebury do we'll
to be grateful to her, for she has been
most generous with them. This village
and this countryside have reason to
be proud Of their College. Because of
her, strong men from far and near
turn their hearts hitherward in CRATE
full interest. No business here con-
Quoted is of such direct benefit to the
community, financially or otherwise.
l would that every humblest citizen of
this. town might learn to speak with
pride of "our College. We will
return ten times over all that we
receive from tax exemptions in this
village, and from benefces of the
State, that every last Vermonter, proud
of his mountain State, may remember
in his pride the little College that sets
herself to the making of manhood,
clean as Vermont's marble, and strong
as her granite. The interests which
appeal to-day to men of affairs are
many and large. Philanthropies are
multiplied and the obligations of life
are increased on every side. The sick
and the poor, the blind and the lame,
move the dullest to pity. The interests
of religion, with continents open to the
gospel, with myriads strange to the
piety of our fathers pouring in upon
us, demand largest sacrifice. Never
theless l venture to declare the rightful
claim of education upon the bounty of
those who have insight to see its worth.
Only the brute turns aside from the
helpless child, freezing in the cold.
The most thoughtless are moved by
the cripple's pitiable plea. The pas
sion of religious faith wakens millions
to her summons. But the boy of the
frugal home, who stirs at ambitions
call, who feels within him impulse to
prepare for the worlds large service,
waits with his more pitiable need until
we who have known like stirring in
the days now far away, come close to
him to tell him that we understand.
You can feed the hungry with bread
at five cents loaf. You can care for
orphans at few pennies day. But
the hunger of the mind, the deep
hunger of the soul that presses out into
the mysteries of life-that you can
feed only with Libraries, and with
laboratories, and above all with men,
not cheap men either, mastery men
sufficient to the making of masters.
These things cost, but they are worth
all they cost. 1t is terrible to want
bread; but it is more terrible to want
knowledge, to want opportunity, to
want grip somewhere on the worlds
worthy work, and not to know just
how to get it.
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