The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-28
WILSON DELEGATES
METHODIST COLLEGE
Says Fighting for Ideals Of
Scholarship Is Most
Worthy Work.
TWO BUILDINGS FINISHED
New University Represents 25
Years Of Uninter-
. rupted Toll.
TWO BUILDINGS FINISHED

WAsHrNGToN. May 27.--The American
University. representing the efforts OF
more than twenty-five years Of uninter.
rupted toiI on the part OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church In the United States
and built from the combined contributions
OF Methodlsts. rich and poor. from one
end OF the land to the other. WAS dedi-
Gated here to-day before a distinguished
assemblage. which included the President.
the Secretaries OF State and the Navy
and five Methodist Bishops.
The new university occupies q magnif.
cent site on the high hills northwest OF the
city. Already two handsome buildings
have been completed. a han OF history
and hall Of philosophy. both OF white
marble.
The ceremonies OF dedication included
addresses by the President, Secretary
Bryan. Secretary Daniels. Bishop Mac
Dowell of Chicago and Bishop Hamilton
Of Boston. The Marine Band played be-
tween the speeches. President Wilson
delivered his address as the Stars and
Stripes was hauled to the high dome OF
the new hall Of history. The President
said In part:
There is a sort OF imaginative excite
ment about witnessing the inauguration
OF a great adventure OF the mind. AN ad-
venture Of the immortal part Of us which.
II II do it's work as II should be done.
may leave its mark upon mankind for all
time. Universities may be older than
any nation and their product IL not
marked by the movements of parties or
the changes OF politics
u do not know OF any night which Ii
more heartening than fighting for the
ideals OF scholarship. have never pre-
tended that in college you could make a
scholar In four years Yale friend OF
mine said that after teaching for twenty
years he had come to the conclusion that
the human mind had an Infinite BODY Of
resources for resisting the introduction of
knowledge and II takes considerably more
than four years TO break down the de-
fences and begin the high enterprise OF
scholarship, but I have at least fought
to have the opportunity TO BEGIN II and
TO awaken the mind to the seriousness OF
the undertaking.
1T Is knowledge properly interpreted.
seen with vision of insight. that II
uniting the world-the spirits OF the world.
Charles Lamb made a remark once which
seemed to me to go pretty deep as n hui
man remark He was speaking very III
OF some man not present In the little
company In which he was talking and
one OF his friends said: Why. Charles.
didn't know that you knew him. He
said: I--I-d--d--don't. I--I--can't hate
| n man I-I-know.' How profound and
how human that is7 There are races
whom we despise. and II generally turns
out that we despise them because we do
not know them. We have not found the
common feeling Of humanity with which
to touch them and deal with them.
81 hone there may no lecturers in this
university who can interpret life. I have
not met many but hone YOU will catch
some Of them Carlyle had fancy
once OF an old professor who was the pro-
fessor OF things In general; and I do not
see how anybody can be a successful
professor OF anything In particular unless
he is a professor also OF things In gem
eral, because unless he knows. and knows
with real vision. how that thing Is re-
lated to all the rest no does not know
| anything about IT,"