The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-29
BRYCE AT K. U.
The British Ambassador Given
a Royal Welcome.
Many Prominent Kansans Meet
Distinguished Visitor.
ADDRESS TO STUDENTS
Pays Handsome Tribute tC
COuntry's Universities.
Says We Lead World for Educa-
ton of Men and Women.

Lawrence. Kan, April 29-James
Bryce, ambassador from Great Britain,
spoke here last evening in the audi
torfum of the Kansas university on "a
Study Of Contemporary History
Professor Jesse Macy, of Grinnell
college. Iowa. also spoke.
A large number of prominent Kan
sans. including Chief Justice Johnston.
Frank Sanders, president of Washburn
college, Topeka, and Henry Waters,
president of the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college, Manhattan, were here 20
meet the visitors
AT noon an informal luncheon for
Ambassador Bryce and Professor
cellor Strong. The guests included the
faculty members of the departments of
history and economics at the univer-
s1ty. Last evening a formal dinner was
given by Chancellor Strong for the two
distinguished visitors, the regents Of
the school and a number of the most
prominent local politicians.
This morning Mr.. Bryce addressed
the students Of the university on 1.-The
Educational Advancement in the
United States The address follows:
Ambassador Bryce's Address.
Ambassador Bryce paid special trfb-
ute to the universities of this country.
saying that there was nothing in this
country which he noted with greater
pleasure than the continued advance OF
the American colleges and universities.
The last 30 years, Mr.. Bryce said, had
seen the establishment and develop
ment by the state legislatures of a large
number OF state institutions of higher
education, to which annually liberal
grants of money were made. This wit
Eessed to the enlightened wisdom and
zeal of the state authorities, who right
ly thought that nothing better could be
6<A1an p0,- 90 ffn foRo hon
to place before them the amplest facih-
ties for prosecuting every kind of
study. The appreciation of such faciH-
ties was shown, he said, by the large
and constantly increasing attendance
not only at the universities and techni-
cal colleges supported by the states, but
also at the colleges of private founda- |
tons.
Mr. Bryce said he lover the American
he admired the earnest |
LesS which the teachers threw into their |
work, often insuf1fciently remunerated. |
He expected great results from the diff |
fusion of knowledge among all classes
of the people, and believed that many |
men OF natural gifts who might other |
wise have been left without adequate |
training would be thus enabled not only i
to succeed in Hfe but also to render |
admirable service to the community as |
writer's and teachers and workers for |
the public good There was, he be- |
lieved,. no other country In the world |
in which so large proportion or the |
young men and women were now re-
ceivfng education of the university type
as here in the United States. The am
Dassador expressed the opinion that the
United States possessed now,t thanks |
to the Ynunif1cence of the states and of
private benefactors, all the Institutions
IF that kind that would be required, and |
hat what was now needed was to de-
velop the efficiency of these institutions
by increasing the teaching staff. and
Id Ia ri nc n
secure the ablest men that could be
had, and to develop the teaching of
those subjects which were less likely
to he popular because they did no.
were essential to a well
equipped university and truly I1perai
education.
It was not only the applied sciences.
Mr.. Bryce thought, that ought to be
provided for such as agricultural
chemistry and engineering, but also the
theoTetic sciences such as chemistry and
physics and biology. There was an
even greater danger today In all coun-
tries, in Europe as well as in America,
Of neglecting the literary or humanistic
subjects such as philosophy history
and phi1ology.
Therefore, the ambassador said, he
would remind the students that in their
college years they had to prepare them
selves not only for their special voca-
ion in life, be 1T commercial or pro-
eSSiOnal burt also TOT Lie nSGlI. Iney
lad to acquire those interests and
astcs which would make the enjoyment
# their after years. They must learn
o love literature and history; they
must learn to think about those great
hings which had occupied the human
mind in the past a--d were treated OF
n the works of the most famous men
f older days. Let them never be
fraid to spend time on studies which
eemed remote from our own times.
from the ancient writers of Greece and
rome, from the great poets of later
lines such as Dante and Shakespeare
nd Milton, there was still to be gather I
d such fruit as did not grow on any +
rees today. And let them remember !
n every study, be it scientific or hit t
rary and historical. the essential thing t
vas to be thorough, to face and mas 6
er every difficulty, to be sure that I
THAT one knew was known accurately. I
"Three-fourths of the mistakes that i
man makes are made because he +
oesn't really know the thing he thinks r
e knows said the ambassador
The habit of sound and careful and 1
thinking, he went on to r
ay, was the best intellectual quality I
young man could start with in his r
ourney through life. THAT. and the
1ve of truth, are what university
ught to teach. One of the highest
ributes paid to your universities was n
ately paid by a great German profess
oy- vbop he said that what he most