The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-02-01
NEU7 PRESIDENT OF
CLARK UNIVERSITY
DR.. Wallace Walter Atwood Was In
augurated at Worcester,
Mass, To-day.

Worcester, Mass, Feb. Seventy
five educational institutions OF the
east and middle west sent representa-
tives to the exercises attending the IN
auguration of Dir. Wallace Walter At
wood as president of Clark university
o-dav. President Atwood, who has oc-
cupied chairs OF geology and physlog-
raphv at the University of Chicago and
Harvard university and for many
wears has been connected with the
United States geological survey, IN ms
inaugural address announced that here
after Clark university would special
ize in the providing of facilities Tor
the study Of geography in ITS broad
est sense.
Pointing out the need of thorough
knowledge of geography in connection
with commercial and industrial prob
lens, he said:
1--WE shall offer to teachers, to men
entertaining large business enterprises
especial international trade and TO all
those who wish to enter consular or
dippIamtic service. special facilities in
the study of geography We must look
forward to the developing an institu-
ton which will be great bu
raau of information regarding the
present conditions in this and distant
lands. We shall welcome special stu
dents. explorers and authors, who wish
to make Clark university library their
headquarters while they are preparing
manuscripts for publication.
"This nation has closed the period
Of isolation and become one OF the
great world powers. We must from
now on have at our command a knowl.
edge Of the geography of the world.
The exercises were opened with in
vocation bv Rev Maxwell Savage.
President Charles II Thurber OF the
board of trustees told of the founding
Of Clark university by Jonas Gilman
Clark as an institution of advanced
study and research and of the provi-
sion i'm his will for the founding OF
Clark college with separate faculty
but using the same buildings and man
aged by the same trustees ''to make
easier the road for worthy and ambi-
tious Young men who needed college
training"
DR.. Thurber said that with the pass
in years the line Of demarcation be-
tween the two institutions had become
fainter and that the simultaneous res
ignation Of President G. Stanley Hall
Of the university that he might PIE
pare for publication his accumulated
treasures of scholarship and research
and Of President Edmund G. Sanford
of the college to return to his profes
~ional duties resulted in the decision
to bring the two under a single head.
'The history Of education in Ameri
ca he said ''records many curious and
interesting events, but nowhere does IL
mention an instance where one man at
the same moment has been inaugu
rated as the second president Of uni
versity, the third president Of a col
lege and the first president Of both.
President Atwood was installed by
Chief Justice Arthur p Rugg Of the
Massachusetts supreme court Ad-
dresses followed by William J. Higgin
son on behalf Of the students and by
Clarence =. Shedd for the alumni
DIR. William H. Burnham. bringing
the greetings Of the faculty. said the
kew word. Of Clark university were
"the .r'ent f. method. rescarch. lib
crty. indi. idual autonomy
''Some 81 the wise he said. fear
that the problems Of civilization to-
day are too big for the human intel
lect. In recent years We have devised
metal tests and an elaborate machin-
cry for measuring human intelligence,
but We find alarmingly fttle intelli-
gence 60 measure To raise the meas
urc ~ human intelligence j. AT best a
slow process The scientific method.
however. offers hope for a combined -
fensive movement that viii save uur
eiN ilizajiou
Addrc--es hv President Harry Pratt
hudson II the University Il Chicago;
DR. Frank Morley - johns Hopkins
university and Governor banning II.
Cox of Massachusetts followed and
then President Atwood delivered his