The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-05-09

New President Of Oklahoma University
Given Big Banquet BY People
Of Boston.
Dean Monnet of the State Univer-
sity has received from the committee
in charge at Boston program Of the
complimentary dinner rendered to DR..
Stratton D. Brooks. the newly elected
president of the University of Okla
homa. The dinner vas given by his
friends on April 25th at the Hotel
Somerset in Boston on the occasion of
his retirement from the superintend-
ency of the Boston public schools TO
become president of the University of
Oklahoma. There were present be-
tween 500 and 600 guests and friends.
Michael E. Fitzgerald, president of the
Boston School Mems Club, was the
chairman, and President o. Lawrence
Lowell of Harvard University was the
toastmaster of the evening. The
speakers were Eugene ... Foss, COVER
nor of Massachusetts, Rev. Thomas /.
Gasson, president of Boston College,
Frederick P Fish, chairman of the
state board of education, James P.
Munroe, chairman of the committee on
education of the Boston Chamber of
Commerce, James J. Storrow, chairman
of the Boston school board for several
years, David A. Ellis, present chair
man of the Boston school board, and
other distinguished speakers, the re-
sponse of the evening being by DR..
Brooks. Music was furnished by the
Boston Festival Orchestra and by the
Boston High School Masters Quar-
tette, and splendid nine course dim
ner was served. There is printed on
the program of the evening the follow
ing beautiful ballad by Frederic Alli-
son Tupper:
"a New Ballad of East and West"
ITO Stratton d. Brooks)
The Eastern Land to the Western Land
sent message of import high:
From your prairies vast, from your
rivers grand, from your mountains
that seek the sky.
From the freedom of your unreined
winds that sweep untrammeled
past,
From the broad horizon of your sky
SO lofty, and so vast,
From the teeming wealth of your fer
tile farms, from your noble cities
send
A man who in himself all these har-
moniously shall blend"
And, so, he came to the Eastern Land,
he brought the stir Of the West,
The eager love of progress and the
passion for the best,
The soul that spares nor toll nor
thought. if but the work is done,
And the high ideal and the real are
harmonized In one.
The Western Land to the Eastern
Land sent message of import
high
q lent you my son, because my love
for you can never die,
remember the thousands you sent to
me, the pioneers Of the West.
T~cherish the memories of them all in
their sacred, glorious rest.
My son has heard the Atlantic dash
on the wild New England shore,
He has left the breath of the Eastern
wind with its hints of the days of
yore.
OF the fiotsam and jetsam of Europe's
thought through thrice an hundred
years,
Commingling with the ideals high Of
adventurous pioneers.
He has seen the Cradle of Liberty, but
wherever his steps were bent,
He has learned the mystic power of
the past in a land of precedent.
And now l have found him another
task in this great, free land OF
ours.
To mingle the best of East and West.
where Oklahoma flowers
In the glorious pride Of sisterhood, in
rivalry pure and high
With Massachusetts, the Old Bay
State.-he loves her and so do T.
"Oh East is East and West is West, .
but East and West are one
In the proudest land and the greatest
land that greets the glowing sun;
great is he who wins the praise
Of o{flaor Eoct or Wacf