The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-10-24


about 10 days, delivering a number
of lectures in the southern part of the
state, and returned on the evening
train at five o'clock He was called
by telephone and asked to come to
the administration building on a
matter of importance that had come
up during his absence. He hurried
to the administration and learned
that during his absence his office had
been moved into its new quarters in
| the northeast corner of the building.
| He was escorted into the new office
| by member of the staff and the
switch turned on, flooding the room
with light and revealing the faculty
members who had been standing in
the dark awaiting the arrival of their
president The room had been taste
fully furnished and in prominent
position stood a handsome leather
Upholstered rocker, gift from
faculty members to the president. DR..
Ldndley was taken SO completely by
surprise that, strange as it may seem,
he was almost speechless. Before
he could recover Dean f. A. Thomson,
head of the school of mines, stepped
forward and presented the handsome
Cndlr WlLn U1G lOllOWlllS dQuI6SS.
Dean ThOmson's Address.
We are gathered here this evening,
Mr. President, to do honor to you as
our leader and chief and to assist as
it were in the dedication of this, your
new office, to the high ideals of adj
ministrative policy which we know
you hold and endeavor to practice.
We recognize too, dear friend,
much as we miss you from the
campus during the ardous journey
ings which carry you forth from your
home and the comforts of your own
fireside where you would fain rest,
that these pilgrimages about and
around this great mountain state of
ours, are daily endearing you and
you endearing this univer
sity in the rearts of the people whose
institution and instrument it is. We
recognize that every time you, as
president of the University, stand
before an audience in this state lustre
is shed upon this institution so dear
to all of us, and your hearers are led
to see that it is to the State Univer-
sity that they must look for intel |
Iectual leadership and that to it their |
sons and daughters should come if |
they aspire to future leadership in |
their own state.
We recognize that, great as is the |
wealth producing capacity of our
stores of mineral, our farm lands, our
'orests and our grazing lands and in
as is their development,
hat all these are as naught unless
We can raise up from our young peo-
ole true and noble citizenry of man.
rood and womanhood and we believe
hat by example and precept, you and
his university under your leadership
ire destined in the future as in the
,ast to make a most significant con-
ribution
We rejoice too in the fine fearless
less with which you have gone up
md down the state preaching the gos-
,el of an honest days work for an
lonest days pay, recognizing the
lights of labor but recognizing equal
Y the duties and obligations of labor
0 industry and to public welfare.
We are fully cognizant of the re-
narkable tradition of autocracy with
which the American college president
as been surrounded for the past so
ears, and we rejoice that in you we
ave leader not Kaiser, co-work-
r whom we delight to honor, not a
ing to whom we are expected to pay
omage, and it is in the spirit of
in a great task, task
han which there is no greater, the
ask of moulding the future destinies
f this commonwealth through the
ducation of it's finest and best, that
re are gathered here this evening
nd in this room in which doubtless
history, educational his
ory and state history will be mould
and made.
We are confidant that we shall al t
ears, abundant sympathy, wise
ounsel and noble leadership, and in
1e comradship of service we desire I
} present to you this token of our
steem. May you find rest in it when I
cary, and inspiration when in search 9
noble thoughts, and may it remain Q
reminder of the confidence and 10y
lty of your friends on the campus in I
very capacity of service, united in 1
1pport of their chief, Ernest Hiram I
indley.
President Responds
President Lindley was so COM 4
etely by surprise and the kind 4
'ords of Dean Thompson affected =
i'm so greatly that he responded I
ith difficulty, but he told the dean
i'd the faculty members how deeply
, was touched by this unexpected
anifestation of their affection and e
,od feeling toward him and he o
anked them much more deeply ]
an he could tell, for the gift and s
e thoughts that prompted it. III
Then Came Another Invasion h
Hardly had President Lindley 8
ased speaking when the hall door Il
ened and there was another tin G
sion of neutral territory when a o1
mber of Moscow business men with fl
cir wives walked in. Judge J. H.
'rney, who has been so closely iden-
led with the history of the univer- h
y from its earliest foundation, was P
have made an address but failed to Il
rive in time and A. H. Oversmith b,
Is chosen to tell President Lindley pl
the faculty how the Chamber Of p