The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-09-04
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ah. Then rose the little lady, daugh-
an author of some note, and bowed
her Acknowledgements
Then Mr.. French referred to the
beginners of the University of Ida
no, and said it had been so much
mentioned as the University Of Mos
cow he wanted to emphasize the
fact that it was the University of
Idaho and hoped the press represent
atives would try to think of it and
speak of it in that light rather than
as north Idaho ir(titution. In
the third of century of it's service
it may have seemed like a distant
almost a foreign institution to peo-
pie in the southeast who had to cross
three states to get to it, but now
that the new thoroughfare was open
ed to travel it would never again
be so far from us. 1t had bound the
state together by ties more sacred
than most of US knew, for when the
Spanish-American war began, the
student body looked the situation
squarely in the face and enlisted so
many that when the inscriptions
were made on the roll of honor for
supreme sacrifice it left a great gap
and a halo in the sacred memories
Of the classes of 1S9899 and 1900
And he introduced survivors and
graduates of those early years who
reviewed the stirring scenes and ex-
pressed again the lofty purposes of
those whose activities made land
marks in the work of the institution
away back in the days when it strug-
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the time when in 1906 the principal |
building burned down and left the |
work Frustrated by the blow. But |
out of the ashes rose the spirit of |
the students and the men and wo-
by their devotion to great purpose,
difficulty. They ex-
pressed regret that such large per-
centage of the young men and wo-
men of this state go to universities
If other states and form associations |
hat bind them socially and profess
,ionally and by all those dear ties of
school days to the people of states
ar distant from their own. BY that
means they are ushered into their
active careers far from their most
)rized associates and not endeared
Is they should be with one another
n Idaho. The man or woman who
las to travel to Oregon or California
,r Nebraska or Michigan to attend
he annual reunions of his alumni
Usually misses them and soon loses
ouch with its members. College
ife is one of the greatest forces for
,ood, and the power thus maintained
n state is one of the finest forms
Il patriotism and levers for good
This power operating
n the university offered solution
4 the problem growing out of the
World war to build a memorial to
he soldier dead. 1t formulated its
Ian which was and is to join all
orces to raise quarter of a mil
ion dollars for the memorial and
hen erect a fine gymnasium and
rmOry on the campus at the uni
ersity to be used for the physical
raining and instruction of Idaho's
Outh, to constitute q repository for J
he army and navy records of this
tate, Hall of Memories to COM
1emorate the deeds and sacrifices
I those who gave up their lives
4 the flush Of youth when life was
eautifu1 and full of promise; the
ames of all to be inscribed In
rome in the great halls of the
uilding which will be kept per-
etually sacred for this purpose.
his building to be in the care OF
ne state and the American Legion
s a priceless heritage.
Somewhere in the series of speak
rs, Prof. H. C. Dale was asked to
resent his charts showing how ex-
ensive the university is-what part