Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-10
JAMES WATSON CAMPBELL, NEW
PRESIDENT OF SIMPSON COL.
LEeE, TAKES OFFICE.
GOVERNOR CLARKE SAYS
PUBLIC GOOD HAS PRIORITY
Urges Youths Be Taught That Personal
Interests Are Secondary-Many Col
lese Men Present to Participate in
Exercises-Campbel Outlines Ideals
of Christian College.
ecial to Times Republican.

lndianola. Oct. l0-In speaking at
the inaugural exercises of James Wat
son Campbell as president of Simpson
college at Indianola today Governor
Clarke declared that youth should be
taught that the public or common
| Eood should be placed absolutely above
and prior TO every consideration Of
self. He said that personal interest
must invariably yield. no matter what
the sacrifice, TO the public welfare.
The governor declared that personal
good or advancement can not. must
| net, proceed in conflict with the COM
mon good That neither can one pro-
| mote the good or personal advantage
| OF another in conflict with the public
: ood or advantage and that every pub
| lie question must be tried with refer
ence to its relation to all of the people.
| He said the youth must be taught
that there are no underground or
devious ways TO the interest of the
| public and that these ways at once
cast suspicion and that the light
shines always on all right ways"
The governor responded to the sub
ject the college and the state. He
| congratulated the college on it's in
creased endowment and on the oc-
casion.
of course the great moral forces Of
life are the fundamental underlying,
uplifting, preservative forces of the
state and nation he said They are
almighty in their power and value
Armies and navies can not equal them.
Decay and ruin follow in the wake of
their absence. Nothing, said Burke
is politically right which is morally
wrong 1t is Righteousness that exalts
nation and it is Righteousness that
exalts and glorities a mans life. Where
can the state turn for the incubation
Of these forces upon which her life
must rest if not to colleges like Simp-
son, founded and supported by a great
church, consecrated 10 the moral and
religious awakening and uplifting Of
men"
Strong Program Given.
Unusually strong programs were
| carried out today in the inaugural
| ceremonies. DR.. Campbell delivered
MS inaugural address at 1890 in the
morning. The governors address was
gwen at the noon luncheon. Dr.
| Charles Wesley Flint. president Of
| Cornell College, presided at the
luncheon. IN addition to the governors
address responses were made as fol-
lows: The President and His
Trustee" DR.. Lemuel Herbert Murlin
! president OF Boston University; The
President and the Faculty" DR.. Will
| liam H. Crawford. president Of Ale
gheny College; The President and the
Students" Dr. Alfred Z. Craig, presi-
dent Of Morningside College; The
College and the Public School" Albert
| NJ. Deyoe, state superintendent Of pub
| tic instruction: Colleges Of the State"
DIR. Walter Albert Jessup. president Of
the State University of Iowa; The
College and the Church" Dr. Elmer
Ellsworth Higley, pastor of Grace. NJ.
f, church. Des Moines; The College
and the Alumni" Mrs Martha Stahl
Beall. Mount Ayr.
Dr.. CampbeII's Address.
DR.. Campbell, in his inaugural ad-
dress. spoke on the subject, Some
Ideals of a Christian College" These
re outlined as an interpreting and en-
phasizing Of the moral principles;
training in the practical affairs Of life:
development of the spirit Of good will
and helpfulness; the maintenance OF
ar atmosphere consenial to moral aims
and friendly to the building Of Chris
tan character: an intellectual de-
velopment Is natural and harmonious
as physical development; to teach the
student to think and to meet and
handle the problems of life as they
now are.
The christian college will not have
finished its task until its students are
persuaded that life itself is mission
| committed to their fulfllment and that
its end is not happiness. but achieve
| ment progress, victory-a contribution
. human welfare" he declared.
One of the gravesI dangers now
! threatening our country is the pas
| sion for pleasure regardless Of cost
| in money or in character" he con-
t;nued The church. the Sabbath.
| even the interests Of business are sac
| T feed in order that the American
people may have a good time. II a
modcum Of the wealth poured out for
| frivolity were devoted to philan-
| thropy and education it would place
health and culture at every mans
| door.
| "I will not be suspected of Puritan
ism when I advocate a policy of col
| lege government that tends to pre-
pare students for participation in the
heroic and self-sacrificing tasks Of the
world. Many Of our American youth
] have shown what magnificent quail
ties are wrapped up in them by the
manner in which they have won i'm
mortality and the gratitude Of one
half the world by their sublime
| heroism in the hospital and red cross
service, and in the aviation corps OF
the European battle fields.
THE resources are here If we but
knew how to call them forth. Men
| will respond to the challenge of duty
and danger If the bugler knows how
10 sound the call This is the SUI
preme task Of the christian college.
"Of infinitely greater Importance is
| it that a college should elevate the
tone and fire the ambition OF its
students than that it should surfeit
their minds with facts and figures that
can hardly be retained until examina-
| tons are past This does not mean
| the lowering Of scholarship. It means
rather the elevation of scholarship to
| ends of more worth TO the world than
| ignorant piety. learned imp6ety. or un-
| consecrated efficiency. It means full
r. unded. finished life. applying itself to
the service Of the world and the re-
demption OF the human race. This Is
the task Of the christian college and
the ideal which I set before my fellow
workers"
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