Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-18
SIGNIFICANCE OF
SCHURMAN's VISIT.
Noted Educator to Deliver Lee
ture at Tabernacle Sun
day Afternoon.
/ He WILL ADDRESS TEACHERS
State Association viii Hear lilm Dis
cnss Pertinent Thcmcs---Gradu-
utcs TO Organize.

Saturday there viii arrive in this
Of Americas most roted educators,
Jacob Gould Sclurman, president or
Cornell University. ithaca. \. y. His
coming Is Of vast moment, not only to
those who are directly interested and
engaged III educational work here, but
10 all the people Of the state. His do
ings and sayings will be watched and
5lisrened to with rant attention where
ever he appears. and all possible honor
will be showered upon him during
his STAY
President Schurman comes to deliver
a number of lectures. not the least OF
which will be given in the tabernacle
next Sunday afternoon. The subject
that he will there discuss is Tho De-
velopment OF RELIGIOUS Thought" 1t
is safe to say that the great auditor
ium will he packed for the theme is
majority of people here. and as o
speaker President Schurman is the
peer OF any man now appearing OH
an American rostrul,,,
-Four years ago, while on his way
home from Europe. President Francis
NJ. Lyman visited the Cornell Uni
Nersity. While in Ithaca. he had q
pleasant interview with President
Schurman on conditions in Utah. An
invitation was extended to him to WIS.,
1t this state. and he was promised
by President Lyman the privilege OF
speaking to a larger audience than he
had ever addressed. the lecture to be
given in the tabernacle, OF any subject
he might choose.
SPEAKS AT CONFERENCE.
Next Sunday will be the quarterly
conference of the Ensign stake. and
the meeting at which President Schur-.
man will speak will be under the
auspices of that organization. Presi-
side. was serving MS a United States
Judge in the Philippines when Mr.
Schurman was there as q member of
the first Philippine commission the
latter having been the predecessor OF
Joug William IA. Tafttin that position.
X Both formed for each other a friend
ship lasting and firm.
AS at,scholar.g as an educator and rs
a statesman and philosopher. President
Schurnlan has a, Worldwide reputation.
Like many others who have becoms
eminent in America. he has had tc
make his own way in the world prac-
tiGally from the beginning. Asa school
bow and college student he worked 10
pay his own expenses This seeming
EStiis plONGi-. W DC Oily II
spur to an ambitious young man. AS a
,boy-he devoted most Of his time to his
hooks and studies with the greatest
vigor 1t is said Of him, that during
his lifetime as student. he entered
many contests for scholastic honors
and for other prizes, and that whether
the contest was for n comparatively
trivial thing in his boyhood days. ~
for scholarship that would pay his
expenses while travelling in Europe as
"a student. he fought for the honor with
all his might. And. in no instance has
he failed to win the prize in such 4
contest. With such IL record it is moi
surprising that ut the ago OF OF =,
years he was made president or Cornell
university. Thus he has the distinction
Of being the youngest president of a
great university. The growth of Co..
nell university in the last I6 years, OF
during the administration OF Presiden1
Schurnlan, is another evidence of tn
greatness of the man.
HIS EDUCATION BROAD.
Jacob Gould Schurman has been pres.