The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-20
RI'M0UTH
CELEBRATES
Students and Alumni Hear
Justice Wendell P.
Stafford
AS HE DEFINED
THE COLLEGE SPIRIT
Exercises Were Held in
Connection With 15Oth
Anniversary

Hanover, N. H., Oct. 20.-Students
and alumni of Dartmouth college, gath
cred in a large tent on the campus to-
day to celebrate the l50th anniversary
of the college, heard Justice Wendell
7. Stafford of the supreme court of the
District of Columbia define the college
spirit as "a bold and hardy determine
ton to cultivate and discipline our
powers with the aid of all that men
have learned before us and then to
pour the whole stream of our power
into the noble tasks of our own time"
Justice Stafford spoke on "The Col
lege Traicing School for Public Serv-
ice" After eulogizing Daniel Webster
and other great sons Of Dartmouth he
continued
eve now stand face to face with a
new riddle of the sphinx. The ques-
ton it propounds is one that we must
answer if free government is to sur
yive. That is how are the masses of
men and women who labor with their
hands to be secured out of the products
of their toll what they feel to be and
viii be in fact, fair return? Until
we can answer that question we shall
have no peace, and if we fail to answer
it, we shall have revolution
"The question is not that faces
America alone, it faces Britain, it faces
France, it faces Italy, it has torn Rus
STA into pieces. Let us hope that our
own country may be the one to find
the true solution of t1e riddle, and
thereby bring safety and freedom to
the people of all lands
"Our safety can only be found in a
policy that treats all men as brothers,
all equally to raise themselves as high
as possible, each in his own place, with
out doing wrong to any of the rest. 1t
is the spirit of justice and fraternity
that must be our guide. And where
are we to look for leadership not in
institutions such as this?"
Pres. Hopkins Address.
President Ernest Martin Hopkins of
the college said that this anniversary
was "a time for definition of purpose
rather than an occasion for self glorif-
cation"
ut sometimes seems to me" he said,
chat the ways in which things shall
be done loom too important in the
minds Of all of us that there can be
only with the greatest difficulty any
CONNIE rate interest in what the
achie ent shall be- / am quite clear
in my conviction that the first obliga-
tion of the college is as markedly as
possible to level up the mass of select
ed groups which it accepts rather than
to give sole consideration to a refined
process Of distillation, by which small
modicum of ultra-excellence shall be
produced, at the cost of vital effort
and wasted time for the great major
ity.
THE function of the college is not
TO develop intellectualism
but intelligent men, and this purpose
is not observed if only consideration is
given to the mind, and the soul, and
the body are left to the whims of
chance. While accepting the magni-
tude of its obligations to develop men
tality of strength, the college must, as
essential corollaries of this, safeguard
the physical and moral standards of
collective living and offer individual in
spiration for the development of spir-
itual excellence"
President Hopkins alluded to "the
great delusion which has peryaded the
college world, to it's loss, that record
of research of sufficient profmdity
more than compensated either for in
manhood or for incapacity or
indisposition to recognize the real pur-
pose of the American college, and, he
added
81 believe that the time has come
when we should free ourselves from
the cant and sophistries that still per-
wade college circles at such points as
these. We should at least be as watch
fully SOLICITORS to avoid the evils of |
professionalization in our college in
struction as we are in our college
athletics"