The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-09

more fair and wonderful than the fifty
years through which you have
passed. said Walter H. Rollins, pres
ident OF Paramount college, who
tional fellowship. Tine one thing
that stands out in the American col
leses is the implanting of Christian
character in the lives of young men
and women striving to equip them
selves for citizenship"
Dean John y. Bennett of Doane col
lege, who spoke in behalf of the ''col-
legeS of the INTERIOR stated that in
the next fifty years the ideals will be
worked. He said there would be less
doing" than in the fifty years just
closed
DenominationaI for Best.
DIR. Wilburn \. Mason, president of
Baker university, brought greeting
from the Kansas colleges. The de-
nominationaI college stands for the
best in education he said. The man
going to college receives moral and
spiritual impulses to bring that en-
thusiasm into life which comes in it's
best form from the conviction that
come through religion. Sacrifice is
the rule of all high and holy living
w. D. Ross. state superintendent of
public instruction, gave his hearers
food for thought. He represented the
state department..
Wish for Rettcr-Ross.
I'VE have reason to be proud of our
past in Kansas he said, ''and we wish
for better things in the future.
Fifty years ago the average length
of our school term was 13 weeks; it
is now 81 weeks: but several other
states have longer terms. Half a CEN
fury ago we We're paying our teach
ers $50 a month. but are now paying
one and one-half times that amount:
but twenty-four states are paying still
more. In 1855 Kansas had $122, 900
N tod in S-nIon Il IN,
1914 26,0OO.OOO: but twenty eight
other states had more
Greetings from East.
DIR. Laura f. Lockwood of Wellesley
college, brought greetings from the
eastern college. she told of the con-
servatism in the east and how the in
Stitutions of that section of the coun-
try come to the west for new ideas
ITO Washburn college and *. u
Il wish 20 express my appreciation
of your beautiful campus" said DR..
Lockwood. and your buildings that
look as though they were built for the
centuries.
From Professor Carruth.
DIR; William H. Carruth Of Leland
Stanford Junior university, and for
merly of the University OF Kansas.
brought greetings from the west. He
expressed the wish that fifty years
from today Washburn college will
continue to be in the front ranks OF
how one finds the spirit of democracy
to be more marked as one travels west
Greeting From Churches.
The Rev. Milton 5. Littlcfield, dis
trict secretary of the COngrega tiOnaI
Sunday School Publishing society,"
brought greetings from the churches.
''The church has arrived ut the stage
where she has a right to call herself
educator, said the speaker Ed
ucation :. the process of putting the
individual INTO possession OF himself.
1t is the process of achievement
Singing by the Washbu~n college
choir under Dean Horace Whit ahouse
WAS pleasing feature of the morning
exercises. A -'Commemoration Ode
written IN competition By Arthur j.
BohnSer. was read by Prof. E. d.
Schonberger. The Invocation was pro-
nounced by Dr. Arthur S Henderson.
A luncheon was given for the
speakers and guests of honor at the
residence OF Dean d. L. McEachron.