The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-16
News From All Sections Of Virginia

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intellectual character that have mark
ed this year:
First. the old faith set by the
! founder that In freedom and respon--
sibility our student life would issue in
honor and dignity. has been kept TO
the letter.
Second. there has been worked
out, largely by the students them
selves, a degree of .fineness and moral
ity in our athletic life that is a source
of pride and strength, not only to the
athletic world but to the w,aole uni
yersity.
Third as a result of close and
rigid attention to high standards.
closer articulation between the uni
versity and the public high schools
of the state has been brought about
to the end that for the first time in
our history the number of students
from the public high schools exceeds
those from the private high schools
I'm the field of material or con-
structive development ! may mention.
first, the addition of a department OF
forestry here; second, the building OF
a great laboratory for chemistry in
Suring ua continued leadership in that
great basic science in our industrial
life; third, an addition to our hospital
of a new wing containing laboratory
and others features rounding out the
growth Of our hospital--perhaps the
greatest single undertaking carried on
within our limits; fourth, depart (
ment of education, seeking to do three
things: to give public consciousness TO I
cultivated men; TO afford technical
guidance to communities without our
walls: and to draw skilled men Sfor
public school administration in the
States life; fifth, the development OF
the library; sixth, addition of loan
funds and the following scholarships; /
Ryan. Green. Herndon and Folkes.
Third, And now for the future
three dreams for our advancement .
take leave again to bring before you:
First. School of ecomics and
commerce; a development of our pres
ent school of economics and political
science so that there shall issue train
ing for business men in Southern and
American lite, grounding knowledge OF
languages. peoples. governments.
Second. A study of the ethical
aspects of busiess as well as its
technique and administration to the
end that the business man may come
to enter not a war, but a service. Al
increasing number of our young men
seek to enter business as career and
the time must come when it will he
business men as well as great soldiers
and great statesmen.
Proposes New Magazine.
Third A magazine solidly based.
thoughtfully and wisely managed and
controlled distinct from our alumni
publications, not seeking to give news
but to become a great serious puhlica-i
ton wherein shall be focused and SET
down the very best thought OF. first
University of Virginia men wherever
they are: second. OF Southern men
wherever they can be found third
of men everywhere in the nation and
the world. on vital questions In the
fields of economics, politics, ethics
literary Interpretation, and historical
analysis Yale University has the
finest example. | think. of such pub
lication in the Yale Review / mean
something on that type. but with our
own personality and it's own distinc-
ton. The South is fitted for interpre-
tation. 1t has itself undergone and
triumphed over the most searching
experience of any country in the word (
and we face an era when the bases OF
things will have 70 be renewed, demo- .
cracy reasserted and rciety, in a
measure, steadied and transform ed /
/ believe this is the academic spot out I
of which should issue publication re-
f1ecting rae calm thought, in all these
fields. of the best men, and that II
this end can be achieved nothing will
add more to our usefulness and fame
Fourth. A school of Journalism
seeking to train men to become true I
leaders and teachers of democratic /
public opinion.
Centennial In 1919.
I'm 1919, four years from now, we
shall celebrate the centennial OF our I
continuous life. Let us do this with
dignity and reverence. We shall need
the cooperation of our alumni; and
plans are on foot now TO he submitted
to them for their criticism and discus /
sion.
I'm these days of depression and
apparent eclipse of civilization, Ii
find my mind recurring again and
again to certain sayings of Edmund
Burke who faced, without pessimism
just such an uproar and breakdown
of society. You will recall his noble
definition of the state as a partnership
between those who are living, those
who are dead and those who are yet
to be born. This is Just as good a
definition of a university as of a state.
The memory of the great deal does in.
deed guide and steady us here. The
vital array of the present, whom you
see before you. and whose representa-
tive has so well expressed, for whom
/ honor shines and duty calls. and hope
beckons. stimulates and drives us on,
while above all those who are yet to
be born and those Just reaching up
into life a majestic throng--absorhs
us wholly 1t is our doom to live In
TIE future, and that necessity gives Us
vision to plan and courage to endure.
attentiveto all counsel and suggestions,
but unswayed by opportunism or any