The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-09-21
FORMAL OPENING Of UNIVERSITY INSPIRING OCCASION

honesty and sobriety, in such way
as you would teach children. The
worth of man depends upon the work
there is to do. The worth of a man
is the measure of his ability to rem
der service
THE measure of the worth of a
man today in famine-stricken Russia
would be the fitness of the man, not
to preach religion, not to write
treatises on agriculture or meta
physics, but to feed the people. Next
year the worth of a man would be the
measure of his ability to teach the
peasantry to till and seed the land.
The year following it would be
measured by his ability, to encourage
an interest in government, and the
following by his ability to teach the
people to run railroads, or mills, or
mines, and have community interest
in health, and schools, and religion.
Or have | gone too fast? Instead of
steps a year apart, would we substi-
tute decades, or shall it be centuries
"That which separates US from
Russia is largely of our own making.
Close up your public schools and uni
versities and other institutions of
learning, wipe out your churches,
abolish liberty of thought and ex-
preston and to these, other evils
would add themselves so that in an
other generation the pitiable plight
that has befallen Russia could befall
America.
'The preservation of the individual,
the preservation of the home, the pre-
servation of society, the maintenance
of our race, strong, virile, stumbling,
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these are the challenges to the man
for human kind
''The worth of a man is the measure
fhis fitness to render highest ser :?
vice and the measure of his ability to
carry on in all truth where duty lies
Stanley Easton, member of the
state board of education presented the
Elizabeth Kidder Lindley scholarship
cup to the Kappa Alpha Theta sor-
ority, who won first place among the
women's organizations competing.
The sorority received an average of
$3.50 on a basis of 6. The grade
better than "A This is the
second year that KAPPA Alpha Theta
has won the cup and, as the cup has
been awarded but two years, it is the
only group that has gained the hon
or. When won three times by any
it goes to them for per-
manent possession.
The Burton J.. French scholarship
cup was awarded to the Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity who had an everage
of 4.718. This is the first year the
cup has been given. Mr. French made
the presentation.
Following this, President Upham
conferred the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws upon Mr.. French.
Dean j. G. Eldridge rad a summary
of Mr.. French's life since he enrolled
in the university. tracing his many
activities while in college and then
the RAPID strides he had made in pub
lie affairs.
President Upham then introduced
the other prominent visitors. They
were: DR.. H. Foster Baine, director
of the U. S. bureau of mines; DR.
Thomas Y Reed, editor and chief of
publication of the u. S. bureau of
mines; DR.. E. A. Bryan, state COM
missioner of education; Robert o.
Jones, secretary of state and promi-
nent among university alumni and 0.
M. Elliott president of the Idaho
normal school at Lewiston.
The assembly closed with the sing
ing of America" the benediction by
the Rev. w. S. Crockett, and the RE
cessionaP by the university orches-