The San Francisco call., 1910-08-23
HEAVY ENROLMENT
AT The UNIVERSITY
Nearly 3,lOO Students Register
for Work for the Fall Term
on First Day

bLANhhl~E L, aug Zz.-Inree tnOl-
sand and ninety-one students had reg
istered at the university up to 6 o'clock
tonight and all enrolment figures at
the institution have been broken by
the gain of nearly $50 students for the
year. The increase in new students is
80; in old students 1S6 and in gradu-
ates ". a year ago the number regis
tered on the first day was 1899, and in
gain each year, with the tremendous
jump this year, shows marvellous
growth of the university
The enrolment Will greatly crowd
many of the classes and the need of
more room will at once become appar-
ent Tomorrow instruction will begin
in all classes.
The purpos& of getting an educa-
tion is to escape slavery declared
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler in his
first address to the freshmen in Har-
mon gymnasium this morning. Doctor
Wheeler was given an enthusiastic re-
cepton by the students, who filled the
building TO its utmost capacity.
Continuing his address, the head of
the university said that q slave was a
piece of machinery which served the
purpose of its manipulator He said:
We can not ever expect totally
10 escape slavery; habits and
prejudice and ignorance, do the
best we WILL must always leave
part Of our action mechanical, but
the purpose Of education is to
wrest the field of action as far as
we may from blindness and bring
lightened reason.
This conquest is achieved, in
hrst instance, by learning to know
the cylinders and gearing of the
seat at the wheel; and, in the sec
ond instance, by learning to judge
for ones self the directions and
the ways in the outer world of
US. We shall never learn all or
any great part of the detail of
mat world about US and must often
have recourse to maps, but we
must know how to use the maps
and how to interpret them, how
they are made, what their iimita-
tions are and how to supplement
them, He is still a pitiable slave
who, knowing not where he is go
ing, nor how to find out, knows
only that he's on the way:
1t is ignorance first of all that
makes man slaves. An educated
man must know how the phenom-
ena of the world about him came
to be, or be prepared to under
tions he must understand or be
prepared to understand how their
phenomena are historically condi-
toned; as concerns those of ma
ture he must understand their laws.
knowledge in one field of human
institutions prepares man read
lily to understand in others; train
ing in one natural science almost
always carries with it prepared
ness to understand another. and to
a certain extent, also. each of the
two great branches of study helps
to the appreciation of the other.
Education means furthermore
liberation from prejudice A man
whose action can be guided by an
of party name or shibboleth has
merely responded to an external
stimulus, like a machine or star
fish. and is not an educated man.
He is an easy slave to the dema-
gogue and the trickster.
An educated man will not be
gossip and rumor. Human herds
sometimes stampede like cattle,
but one chief reason why we. are
taking pains to educate men is to
eliminate the stampede.
One of the chief dangers of the
republic is the stampede. It's chief
hope and safeguard. looking to the
future, is the body of 200 900 stu
dents occupied today in its col
leges and universities.
An educated man having learned
now to base action upon well aScer-
tained facts assembled in the light
of history and law will not easily
surrender his supreme right of ra-
tional judgment and submit to die
tation and take orders when ex-
ecuting an office where he is pre-
sumed TO be an Independent judg-
ing personality.
An educated man can not be, if
true to his calling, mere tool;
he may join in action, but he can
not merely take program and cast
his vote after the manner of a
phonograph.
The educated man must be ex-
pected instinctively to protest
against all unreason, against all
violent and arbitrary procedure,
and against all suggestion of doing
things or getting things or giving
things for no good reason. "EX-
changing favors and using in
f1uence" represent the doing of
things for false reasons. To get
by influence and favor a position
one has not earned or deserved will
not appeal to the taste of a man
trained in reason and reasonable
ness. Exchanging votes, as in the
case of voting for a mans measure
in consideration Of his voting for
yours, represents a trade in in
Commensurate quantities and is
what is worse, it involves the OBJ
tanning of private favor at
public cost; and public and private