Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-13

title of DR.. Carl Gregg Doney's schol-
church this morning as a formal accept
ance cf the seventeenth presidency of
Willamette university. Masterful and
earnest the address reviewed the edu-
eational field problems with swift and
clear strokes and left the great audience
much impressed with the fitness of
Presidc.t Doney to further direct the
dcstinics Ot the historic Methodist insti-
tuition.
The speaker said in part:
Excerpts From Address.
"There is nothing which more engend-
ers a strong hope for humanity than the
definite and determined pursuit of
learning. A mental picture of the devel-
opment of the means for acquiring
Knowledge with the prehistoric individ-
ual who gazed inquiringly upon the phe-
nOmena of simple experience down
10 the present time when one-fifth of a
nation Is total population is wholly COM
mitted TO the task of teaching and learn
ing is one quite sufficient to thrill and
awe. Add to this the willing expenditure
of kingly treasure, the rise of uncount-
ed buildings the founding of libraries
and laboratories, the multiplication of
societies for research and one finds him
self in the presence of an overwhelming
marvel To this picture there is yet to
be added the steady effort of the mil
lions of men who haev quilted their
formal education and yet, while follow
ing their vocations, are still pursuing
the quest for knowledge. The world
with al! its throbbng years has seen
nothing quite equal to this. Man may
well emulatingly challenge the higher
powers and say: See if we do not beat
thire angels yet.
"lt is time for a revision of educa-
tional values, FOR prevailing judgment
which will say that life should be trans
lated into higher terms than that of the
material. The college is the maker of
the men who make the age. Only here
and there does leader com from tn
shops or the studio and in no period
have they been more than the merest
friction when the numbers in shop and
studio are compared with the product
IF the college of liberal arts.
GA lot of students educated in spots
are paying for the sins of their enthus-
iastic fathers. For student to build
his professional career upon a small
educational foundation is unjust to him
and to society.
"The free elective systems invites a
preparation which is unbalanced and
devoid of the higher satisfactions of
life; it affords ready opportunity for
indolence. The college should bear the
blame for not saying clearly and with
authority that there is rational sequence
of studies and that the difficult course
may be the very one most essential. We
do not seek the idle pleasures of life,
but the achievd pleasurs, the joy which
comes from worthy mastery, the victor
les over mental laziness and self-indulg-
enee; and college which fails to do
this for its youth should write 'Icha-
bod on its great seal.
"Education needs to set before So
eiety new valuation of power. The col
leges are the makers of mighty men and
theirs is the responsibility of so edu-
eating them that they will acquire a
sense of responsibility commensurate
with their ability to accomplish. ] am
very sure that college fails in its
task if it graduates men who are in the
unrestrained grip OF self-interest.
"The most distinguishing thing in the
world is the thing which man wants
more than any other thing. 1t win WOO
him to it like gravitation; and if be a
man of power without the controlling
spirit of goodness he becomes jugger-
naut crushing everything in his path.
He does not work towards the people
but away from them; and humanity has
its most ruthless revenge for the man
who does not value men more than
things. 1t is the revenge of the dis
honored and disowned; and the revenge
which he inflicts upon himself is that of
the remorse of a prostituted glory.
"The useful and high careers of Will
lamette s alumni are the best evidence
of first wisdom and abundant reason
for not straying after false goods, : A
college can best serve the world by
keeping itself unspotted from the
world Willamette dotted the entire
Northwest with radiant stars when the
night was black. She produced leaders
when there was no other college to help.
Considering the needs of this vast terri
tory and its overwhelming Importance