The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-11-19


raised the s150,000 and the college got
my $4,000. Then 1 built your beautiful
college building as a memorial to
Marcus Whitman. Years passed. The
young man was smart enough to get
married, and as l had heard that he
was going to do wonderfully we'll,
sent the note for $12,50O as a wedding
present to his wife, and it was we'll
bestowed.
Enlarge Whitman.
"Such was the beginning of my in
| terest in Whitman, but that interest
has never tagged a day since, and
now that 1 have actually made the
journey and have seen your city and
your college, now that have seen the
surrounding country and it's wonderful
resources, I fully concur with your
, present efforts to create a new Whit
man. You are on the right track En-
large Whitman. And now that we
are, gathered here in this special place
and on this special occasion, with a
group of people both visitors and res
idents, such as have never been gath
cred together before, I want to say
that two facts become most prominent
in my mind. One is the Pacific ocean,
and the other is the future Of Whit
man college. The world even yet un-
derstands but little Of the boundleSs
possibilities Of the Pacific and it's ISL
ands. The future of the world is
bound to be largely wrought out on the
Pacific ocean and the Pacific coast.
With the enormous populations of
Asia, and with the enormous re-
sources of the Pacific ocean with its
shores and islands, aad with the i'm
| mense natural wealth Of these Pa
cific northwest states nothing re-
mains but a class of people equal to
| the occasion. What you need out
here is body of genuine, whole
sOuled, we'll educated and practical
Americans, filled to the brim with the
old fashioned American spirit of lib
erty and enterprise and enthusiasm
Now the best way to get them and
make them is by the kind of education
which the Greater Whitman is going
to be fitted to give. What grander
/ opportunity can your Greater Whit
man have than to fit young men and
women to work out its noble ideas
| all over this northwest country, and
! then carry them to the shores and
,, islands Of the Pacific world?
Brains VS.. Muscle.
Now l want to saw one special
word in respect to a kind of study
"hlch hope the Greater Whitman
VIII pursue. Among the many lines of
! useful study which 1 hope you will
provide for, 1 wish especially to COM
mend that of oratory. I think our
! colleges do not generally appreciate
the supreme value of the gife of
speech. At the time of the great Chi
ego convention it was impossible to
lind a man with sufficient command
, Of his vocal apparatus to call the roll
IN the hearing of $4,000 people. They
even thought of sending to Iowa for
DolllVer, but he was busy at home
Among 500 ministers in Chicago there
| Is PROBABLY but one that can be heard
distinctly by 10000 people. The man
who can get the ears and the SYM
pathies and the convictions of the
masses in our country, is going to be
one of its greatest forces Now 1
| have heard something of your Whit
man spirit I have heard that it
shows itself sometimes in athletics.
| hope that it may show itself more in
training the voice and power of speech
than the legs. Cultivate the larynx and
the lungs and use them to express
IDEAS with. 1 believe Walla WalIa is
genuine American community and
the northwest a group of genuine
American states. I believe. too, that
Whitman is genuine American COL
| lege. It's American spirit can, and
ought to reach the masses through the
capacity of speech. Therefore I hope
the Greater Whitman will be a school
OF oratory, as we'll of other things.
Now one added thought. You have
rich country here, beautiful coun-
try, country with heroic past, a
country with great future of some
Kind. Whether that future is to be
good or bad depends on the kind of
spirit that this generation puts into
it. We hope that Whitman, the
| Greater Whitman, is going to be
center Of learning. Let me counsel
you, with all the learning, never forget
the plain, homely virtues, those vir-
tues which have made our nation what
1t is; sincerity, honesty, industry, COM
mon sense, and above all, thorough
going American patriotism"
Following the reading of the speech
by Prof. Lyman, the other speakers
were introduced. AS the speakers had
prepared no copy of their remarks
and the space allotted to the press
was so far from the speakers, it was
| impossible to get any adequate report
| of their speeches. The following were
| introduced: Samuel HILL Of Seattle;
Anson Phelphs Stokes, jr.. of Yale;
Dean Remington, of the philadelphia