The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-22

~fluences. or some unknown cause
have stopped the course of evolution.
1t has been necessary that nature
should make a big jump, pass through
a tremendous upheaval, in short have
a death and resurrection so hat life
can go onward and Upward towards
the goal of perfection.
1T is often so with the life of an
institution. 1t reaches a certain point
of development and a go no further.
1t is necessary to bring about a COM
plete change and start anew so as to
follow h law of evolution and offer
larger opportunities for culture to
meet the demands of modern life.
Il shall not, however, undertake to
solve the problem, but leave it for
maturer minds and ripper judgments.
| offer one sentence of advice. 1t is
might to Weakness
Honor Where Due.
when we have paid due honor to
all those citizens who dreamed and
wrought to bring this university into
its present state Of usefulness, we
must turn away from them and look
towards another group, the men and
women who have been the real back
bone of the university since it was
born in the state of Montana. The real
responsibility for the growth and de-
velopment of this university INTO an
institution of higher education for the
youth of the state of Montana has
fallen on their shoulders.
Il refer to the presidents and the
members of the faculty of the Uni
versity of Montana. They have car
fled the burdens in the struggles that
mark its history.
Those n these men and women
have been the ones who have had the
real care and worry for the growth Of
this institution for is long years; they
made the real sacrifices for alma
mater; they have had the visions and
the difficult tasks of carry
ing those visions into practice.
They have not only marked out the
courses of study and taught the stu
dents who ave come to these halls
of learning, but they have %journeyed
up and down presenting the opportun-
illto VI AilS ulllN tISlly u TIE youth
and carrying an influence for sound
learning into every secondary school
of education in his state.
"They have appeared before legis-
and pleaded the cause of edu-
cation for the young men and women,
not only of this generation out of gen.
to come; and when they
asked for bread they have sometimes
received a stone, but they never
sWerved from their duty.
"They have ver kept before them
selves the vision of a hall of learning
which should grow and expand to
meet the demands of the future, and
they have given their time, and all
their best ~endeavors, and themselves
to the accomplishment of the tasks
vision has demanded.
Mustard.
ct has often seemed to the UNI
that some of the people in
this state have been content to let
the university run itself. They have
been perfectly willing to let the Of
ficials nave the visions and perform
the tasks so LONG as they in no way
with their political and
commercial plans. But whenever a
student happened to have a slight pain
somewhere, and ran and told the man
Of affairs he had contracted a pain
out at the university, the man of af-
fairs, instead of putting a mustard
on the pain, has sought out
the most prominent member of the
and tried to put it on him,
)r cover the whole university with so
much mustard that it has been diff
cult to decide whether he considered
his institution a university or a a C
for one of the 81 varieties.
"When we think of the consecrated
the presidents and faculty
nave given this university, and then
see how their visions and tasks have
lot always received the best of appre-