Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-10-11
UNIVERSITY ARIZONA AUDITORIUM JANMED
 AT FIRST ASSEMBLY

udy iHOIHlhS, oepl. No, "iiSh tiiC III oe Assembly of the term was held. Af- ter introducing the new members of the faculty, and commenting upon college traditions, President von KleinSmid gave most inspiring ad' dress to the student body, part of which follows:
 S"The arrival upon the campus of a large body of students marks not only an unusual opportunity for large number of American men and women but throws upon the shoulders of eN- perience and years heavier burden than they have ever been called upon to bear.
 This applies to the educational in stitutions of America in a peculiar way. We have been allowed to work along in the paths beaten smooth thru the years while our sister institutions of France, England, Italy, Belgium and even the Central Powers were not so fortunate. The very fact that 1t has been given to the American insti- tutions during the last three or four years of world conflict to hold tena- ciously to and keep inviolate the tla- ditions and accomplishments of edu- cation in America puts us in peculiar position to serve young America as young Europe cannot be served this year. But the reflexes of the up- heavals in Europe are definitely and deeply felt in America. We have opened wide the doors of American institutions to our brothers and sis ters from over the seas, from across the northern boundary of our Union, and from across the Mexican line. The American schools and colleges are going to serve as we'll as they can the needs of the thinking and striving-to- think world. It is, however, not with out some danger that the institutions of America are flooded this year, not only with American students-we think we understand them and can serve them-but with large numbers of foreign-born students, into whose lives there have not been ingrained during the long decades the principles of Democracy and the appreciation of frank and open interchange of thought and sentiment. We here in the South west will hardly feel as they will, probably, on the eastern borders of our country, the full force of this change in the nature of the student body. It is given to us to help those of the eastern institutions, of the Mid .dlewest and Pacific Coast schools and colleges, still to hold firmly the things which are of most worth in American life.
 Scarcely will an address be given at the opening of our educational institu- tions this fall that makes not some reference to the unsettled condition of the country. am not so much inter- ested in that this morning, important tho it is, as 1 am in indicating few of the sources from which we may eX- pect the dangerous influences which may in time undermine the valuable principles for which free education in America stands. The first of these is the growing feeling of importance oe the individual in society. Individual ism is pre-adolescent characteristic. Children are individualistic, and the instinctive tendency to fight, the in- stinctive tendency to preserve life at any cost, the instictive tendency to grasp the world for self, is preadoles- cent. Adults have arrived at the point where they see others in a light of importance rather than themselves and consider not only the rights but the wishes of other folks. Adolescen- ce begins the relating of self to all with which it comes in contact, object flying many things which in earlier years were understood only in sub jective way. The altruistic motive in society must more and more impress itself as the chief end in all our ed ucational institutions. It is to what is best for me. as I see it personally, but what is best for the group and what is best for humanity. We, how ever, still hear the note of individual \ism sounded from almost every quar- ter of the globe.
 l listened two weeks ago to friend who occupies high place in American literature-John Kendrick Bangs-we all know him for the hours of delight he has afforded us. He is man who from the year he has spent abroad and in the camps with American soldiers has obtained new viewpoints from which to regard life. As we sat talk ing, he said to me: "I do not know what teaching may be offered at the University of Arizona, but have not visited one college or university since my return from the battlefields of Europe where I did not find preach ed some species of Bolshevism." Not the Bolshevist doctrine that blares in the face of sacred things-not the Bol- shevism of destruction that seeks to manifest itself in force, but the insid- ious BOlshevism that has come to be known as the parlor variety. This in