The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-19

from now and long before that tine
this state will be supporting S,00O,00C
people.
Young ladies and gentlemen. 1t /.
from just such material as see before
me that the future great men OF this
nation must come.
Sees Great Future.
II have found that your directors
are a splendid body OF men. Men with
vision. They can see in the future
and with them hope to see this cam
pus crowded full of great buildings. tho
| faculty enlarged, not changed, for
have found your faculty to be splendid
teachers with whom feel honored Il
be associated. But ! hope to see the
time when many more such teachers
will be needed.
I have found that you have cur
riculum so high that students could Cd
and have gone from your sophomore
classes for instance, into such institu-
tons OF learning as Wisconsin univer-
stty and Harvard university.
1T will be our determination, speak
ing In the name Of the faculty as well
as for myself to maintain this high
standard and even to raise 1t IL neces-
sary.
Il will not take the time to speak
to your board Of directors today or to
your faculty We will have other times
and occasions In which to confer. But
now wish to speak more directly to
the students Of the college.
Believes In Strong Bodies.
David said: BE thou strong and
show thyself a man Had he been
speaking to his daughter instead of to
his son he would have said; BE thou
strong and show thyseh a woman and
what say will be just as applicable
to the young ladies as to the young
gentlemen.
II will speak to you about the de-
velopment of the threefold nature
which God has given to each Of you,
First the physical nature thank God
that am living in a time when we
recognize the Importance Of physical
training. In the days OF our immed-
late forefathers they did not believe In
the we'll trained body. SO much as we
do today.
1T was not long ago when the great
est preacher and the one who was
pointed to as the model of that time
was Payson, man so weak that he
could hardly straighten his body. and
who preached during the closing years
Of his life, sitting in his pulpit. The
modern idea of a model preacher is a
man after the pattern OF the late Bish-
op Brooks, a giant in statute with body
wen trained and under perfect con-
troll. Such a body was the best place
IN which to house a giant intellect.
'One OF the first things / learned
about your school when / came here
was from your daily paper which said
that twelve Of your preachers had won
football game. / am glad TO learn
that. I am glad to know that YOU have
winning football team and consratu-
late you on the place you have won
in athletics.
Il am going to give you my hearty
support in all clean athletics.
John l.. Sullivan was a man who
had perfect physique. He was q
giant, with muscles OF steel and untir-
Ing energy, but in his great body he
housed brain so small that he did
not even know enough to preserve that
str myth and energy. It had never
been developed and the highest at
tainment that Sullivan could reach by
the use OF his brain was to keep a cor
ner saloon.
Need Trained Faculties.
Unless we have those God-given IA
Guilty of brain trained we are niser-
able failures and while we must Law
the right stress on athletics we must
not forget that the principal reason OF
college life is to train our intellectual
faculties.
But there Is still another nature
which God has given us. If it is nee
essary to train our bodies and our
minds 1t is even more necessary that
we should learn of spiritual things It
is our spiritual nature which should
receive the greatest care. and as long
as ! am presiden. here we win exalt
that part of the work.
The book of God will be our text
book and we will sit daily at the feet
OF that great teacher and learn of him. .
Following DR.. Creegan's address DIR.
knowlton, who presided ct the exer-
cises asked Trustee George Perley for
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