The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-06-14
THE. GODDESS
MINERVA SAT-
BESIDE HALLS
Corwi1 and Larimore Halls
Of Wesley College Formally
Dedicated Today.
IMPRESSIVE AnD SCHOLARLY
CEREMONIES MARK EVENT

DR.. Thomas Nicholson Delivered the
Dedicatory Address In an Eloquent
Manner, His Theme Being Education
and Life-Large Crowds Attend.
This afternoon at 3 o'clock there
! occurred the dedication of Corwin and
's-imore halls on the campus of Wes-
college, the assembly room in Cor
Nm hall being the place wherein the
exercises were carried out.
Previous to the dedication exercises
there was a general inspection of the
two buildings, after which the party
gathered in the assembly hall.
Corwin and Larimore halls we're
constructed during the past year and
q half. Larimore hall is valued at
about $4,000 while Corwin hall is
valued at $4,000. They form prom
inent part of the Wesley college cam
pus plan, which is gradually being
worked out.
DR.. Thomas Nicholson gave the ad-
dress of dedication, while Bishop Nc
Intyre' offered the dedicatory prayer.
Education and Life" was the subject
of the address by DIR. Nicholson.
The services throughout were most
impressive and scholarly, and marked
the completion of another most i'm
portant epoch in the growth of Wes-
ley college.
In his address on Education and
Life," DR.. Nicholson said in part:
No greater question can engage
human thought than that Of the true
meaning and conduct Of life. Not how
long one lives, but how one lives!
Not what things a man owns. but
what the man is! are the supreme
questions. Better an ounce Of gold
than wagon load of stubble! Bet
ter forty acres in Iowa or the Gene
see Valley than thousand in the
Desert of Sahara! Better fifty years
of Europe than cycle of Cathay!
Better thirty years Of Paul than the
nine hundred and sixty-nine of
Methuselah! Better one George
Washington or one Abraham Lincoln
than a hundred Neros or Henry the
Eighths, or Louis the Sixteenths!
Better one John Wesley than a mil
lion Abe Reufs, or Harry Thaws!
| Education is the potter's wheel
shaping the cup. 1t is the jewelers.
tool cutting away the useless impedi-
ments that the diamond may display
it's beauty and its perfection. Educa-
tion changes the actual into the pos
sfble man as the ideals and the skill
of the sculptor transforms the marble
into the form Of angel or of demon; as
dorado Taft moulds the same clay
into a lissome Vivian or faithful
Enid. The earliest sculptures present
the figures of beasts combined with
the forms Of men. They are the
glorification of brute force and animal
instinct. As man becomes the cap
tive of nobler idealism, brute force
and animal passion grow less and
less, and art. literature and science
develop. Andrea Del Sarto may un-
may manipulate the mathematics of
folm with faultless precision; but 1t
takes all these plus the aspiring soul
and the lofty ideal to produce a
Raphael or Michael Angelo.
Whenever the ideals of the worth of
human life depreciate. then the value
of man, as such, deteriorates.
| When the boy belonged to the state
simply for war, as in Sparta, we had
little that was Of any permanent
value When woman was degraded
and enslaved, as in India and China,
moribund civilizations developed.
When logical processes were uncer-
tain; when men had no settled can
ons. of thought; when they failed to
test their conclusions by facts ac-
cording to we'll defined principles ap-
proved by reason and experience, then
was superstition rife, witches were
burned. fairies and goblins inhabited
valleys and forests; sacrifices Of hor-
rid form and cruel spirit placated
these supposed demons which came
from sky and sea; theology was sub
jective, dwarfed and dwarfing; nature
yielded no secrets and plaques raw
aged the land unchecked. Men were
helpless before the superstitions.
demons and fancies which were the
creation Of their own brains.
When life and virtue are things Of
human caprice. left to depend on the
unframed and uncontrolled animal
impulses. the product is Johann
Hoch, numbering thirteen wives; or a
Stanford White. with all his revolving
animalisms. when man is a bundle Of
selfishness. whose chief business is
to get all he can, to keep all he can,
and to minister to his physical whims
and, his animal passions, then come
graft, lust. greed, cruelty and mur-
der; but great poems and great works
Of art do not then appear. When
man was conside: ed a material atom:
when every individual was left to be
q law unto himself, a creature to be
governed by his natural passions and
impulses, these passions ran riot and
we had the terrors Of French revo-
luton. Not until we recognize man
as a creature of God. not until we
think of life as a divine mission and
a supreme trust: not until we insist
that man Is to let the ape and tiger
die; that he Is to purge out the brutal