The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-14

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in whatever way at work upon the ma
lions life, alma mater sends them
greetings and acknowledges their mes
sages with pride and appreciation. L
have here great sheaves of kilograms
that have come to me and to the au-
thorities Of the university. sending
congratulations and greetings and good
Will TO the university from its alumni
Since 1870. ladies and gentlemen, the
colleges and the universities Of this
country, and the country itself have
made themselves over. reorganized
themselves to new age and to new
needs. This involved, as its fundamen-
tai condition, a certain physical recon
struction of all American universities
We have passed, in our administrative
life, from a S10O,000.00o Congress to g
sl,0o0,0o0,U0o Congress. We have
passed from d rural civilization to an
urban civilization. We, have passed
from medical school of one years du-
ration TO one of four years We have
passed from law school OF one year
TO one of three years. We have passed
from All era Of didactic teaching TO an
era OF laboratory. Now this has, per-
haps. empha sized talk about money too
much, and the thought Of money and
talk of money and regard for money
may have become too much the centre
Of consideration, so that the president
Is supposed to announce, In modest
and restrained way, on such occa sions,
large gifts of money, unless the occa-
sion is somewhat fiat Well am
going to confide in you that this occa-
sion, on that basis, Will be flat. l have
no large gifts OF money to announce.
We have not been preoccupied With
getting money. We have never been
preoccupied with getting money, eN-
cept as what money stands for in the
normal and vigorous growth of a vital
institution. 1t was happiness to me
o receive the other day a check for
SIS, 900 from Lambert Tree, an eminent,
old alumnus left to us in his Will. The
purpose Of the check rather than the
amount of 1t, interested me, because 1t
was to be perpetual endowment for
the university library. and that is the
beginning. l think, of such a sum as
will one day place the library beyond
all thought and care
Attendance During Year.
Now, there have been enrolled this
year at the university 724 students in
the college and professional schools.
and 1875 in the summer school. max
ing a total Of 1871 human beings TO
whom this university has given In
struction during the year This is a
decrease @of seventy-eight students.
The college and graduate schools show
sa tisfa Glory increases all Of the de-
crease occurring in the professional
schools of law. medicine and engineer
ing, owing to two causes: First. a
change in structure Of the law school.
demanding more preparation and more
time and, secondly, an increase in the
standards for admission to those
schools and for achievement of the
goals of those schools Now, My am
btion is that there shall one day be
about 1000 properly prepared men at
this university. y college or univcr-
sity is like an army in this respect.
An army cannot be made by just mass
ing masses of individuals and calling
it an army, but the masses of indi-
Viduals must be soldiers And q
university cannot be made BY massing
names: it must be made by bringing
together men prepared for the student
life and for the scholars goal The
re- &c for numbers and a certain super
hcialty which follows inevitably that
rage, have been the two most dis.
quieting symptoms OF American educa.
tion for the past generation. This uni
VerSity has been unSpotted by either,
and proposes so to continue.
Uctrnyu! of Duty.
THE most serious result OF this un-
limited competition for students has
been that in many states the state
university has been led into q betrayai
Of its duty 10 the secondary school sys-
TEN. There is no bligation which In Il
state supported university is more
I clear and more important than that
OF nurturing and developing the sec
onolary schools The only method by
can do this is to maintain for Itself
honest and reasonable standards Of ad
mission and 10 SO respect the field Of
the high scnooi as not to trench upon
it. The State university which itself
undertakes TO conduct secondary school
work--unlcss as a temporary measure
in a period OF educational adiustme
is hindcrins the Development OF a true
secondary school system.
THE university helps the secondary
school best when il sets up fair stand.
ards and cnforccS them; when ii holds
the high schools responsible for good
results, not when it undertakes to do
the high schools work for them: when
ii gives the secondary school system
wise. fair and sympathetic scrutiny
and leads it into increasing thoro,lgii-
ness ana cthclencS one decent high
school at a county seat IS worth moro
10 that county in the way Of intcller-
tumi stimulus than Il fcw scattered
students sent up to a secondary school
maintained by a weak knecd i,niyer.k
}sity. No man has called greater at.
tention TO that than President,
Pritchett, in his study Of this problem
In which he has shown that in this
matter the state Institutions have
sometimes found themselves undc,
stronger temptations than even the
privately endowed colleges.
+ The strongest appeal To the legis-
Ia has hithcrto hcop M ,,oro