Show PROF JKISGSBDRYS ADDRESS It was Adopted as the fcentJments of the Alma II Slater To the toast Our Alma Mater highly appreciate the honor conferred upon me to respond I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity this evening to address ad-dress my remarks to my fellow students to professors under whom I have been a I student to my fellow professors and to I students with whom my close relationship is just being severed As far back as 1850 on the 2Sth day of February tho legislature of the provisional provis-ional government of the territory established estab-lished the University of Deseret The following November under the charge of Dr Cyrus Collins too university was ready to receive students for tho first time Nothing however of importance was accomplished until March S 18 < i9 when the university with Dr John H Park as president was organized as ar institution in-stitution for classical scientific and normal nor-mal instruction In lbS4 the university was given definite power to confer degrees and issue diplomas diplo-mas Although the university at the time I Dr Park was appointed president was placed upon a basis ABOVE ITS IJIETIOUS CONDITION I I was yet in its very incipiency There was nevertheless some good work 1 done for the young men of I Utah many of whom are prominent citizens citi-zens and hold responsible positions today I After the acquisition to its faculty of Professors Pro-fessors Toronto Howard aud Paul and their associates the university partook moro of a collegiate character than ever before Besides others the university then offered a lair scientific course Most of the work done in this courso was equal to that accomplished in more pretentious institutions Students from the University of Deseret made creditable records in institutions in-stitutions of the east For instauce in I graduating in the scentilic course here they were able to pass up on more than I half of a four years course philosophy in tho University of Michigan ono or the loading universities of our country and furthermore it is stated on good authority that our students entered this institution I with as much credit as students from most other universities Other instances could be related as evidence that tho University of Desoret in tho past has done and was capable of ofD0 DOING SOME GOOD WORK That this much be said I have considered it due to those who have struggleJ hard in tho past to promote tho welfare of our Alma Mater It is very true that the number of students stu-dents in the collegiate department was but few still those few had opportunities given them equal to those offered to stu dents in a number of universities in other places of the United States Through the incessant work and untiring industry of these professors tho university was put upon a good solid footing One among the important things instituted by these men was that of the alumni association of the university organization of which is due more than to any other One person to our friend and follow graduate professor now Dr Orson Howard Since the organization organiza-tion of the alumni association the university univer-sity has taken upon Itself a now life it has fortified itself with a new power it has been launched upon the unbounded ocean of perpetuity Through this association the power which is TO BOO the perpetuation of our territorial institution of learning I TUB UNIVERSITY OF UTAH is to become the beacon light which I shll guide tie affairs of state in our commonwealth com-monwealth The university has now passed into the hands of now professors pro-fessors with better times and fairer prospects There are many young men and young ladies throughout the length and breadth of our territory who can testify to the good and efficient work done by the retired staff or professors profes-sors It is to be bop ad that the same testimony tes-timony in the future can be offered for tee present staff Time alone can be the true and exact test of the ability and character of these mono Now it may be said but yet 1t is true that in the main the good and the bud together to-gether of the past fall into oblivion Time honoreth no man no deeds except those which by chance become tho impor ant few The humble man makes sacrifice after sacrifice the bad is committed a thousand times All these may be thrice repeated ten million times but yet not an echo is heard not a sound resounded as a memento of these forgotten deeds In this connection might well be asked who knows Who ever thinks Where is an iota recorded of the sacrifices of health of time of brains made for tho univeisity for the people of the territory by one of the most fertile minds wltnm this intermountain inter-mountain region 1 The unassuming attitude atti-tude of this person HIS UNPRETENTIOUS LIFE Leaves his work unknown his ability ana capabilities unappreciated except by a very few who know him nearly as well as be knows himself Usually men with one half the intellect fertility of bruins of our friend and capable professor aro estimated intellectually at twice us much as Professor Joseph B Toronto The university uni-versity of the past with the exception of a few important events connected with it will sink into total oblivion It is there fore to the future we must direct our attention at-tention With the future the University of Dcserot < becomes by name tho University Univer-sity ofrUtah and it is to be guided by SOlO power be managed and continued by some unseen hand I perceive if this guiding power this unseen hand be unwise unjust unfair an oblivion for our institution But i it be wise just and fair I perceive the University to rise in importance and to become an indispousablo factor in future Utah But why doubt for a moment as to the hands into wbich it will fall The alumni will cherish with too kindly feelings feel-ings their alma mater to submit for a moment mo-ment to any indignity being heaped upon it The university belongs to the territory to the whole people of the territory and their sons and daughters educated within its walls being best acquainted witn its conditions and the conditions of the territory terri-tory will know best regarding its needs and how far the territory is capable of providing for those needs I is to be hoped that the alumni will allow al-low no president no professor no instructor in-structor to remain within its walls who has not tho interests of the whole people at heart whose aympathies cannot extend to all classes and whose mind is not broad enough to LEAVE UNNOTICED TRIFLING ATI URS and feel that his people is the whole poo plo It is to bo hoped that the alumni will require that in the university professors shall know no creed no sect and no c ass but rather that they sball be truly American Ameri-can i not cosmopolitan Men of the highest character should alone be permitted within the walls of learning to come in contact with tho youth of our territory Far minded honorable and capable men imbue the younc with a spirit of sobriety liberality and morality They ingraft upon their minds all tho higher qualities of man and place them upon a higher pIano in life Tho future policy of the university I should bo that of concentration Its forces and means should bo usod within a smaller compass and thus effect better results Let us consider this matter for amoment The reputations of men are made not by the doing of many things but by the doing of one thing well The great and lasting benefits accomplished for mankind have been through the great concentration of powerful intellects through the efforts of profound thinkers and investigators like Galileo Copernicus K > pler Newton Napier Aristotle Archmeues Euclid and Leibnitz In these men there was a concentration con-centration of power of mind which has revolutionized the world made it possible for you and for me to live in comfortable homes and to enjoy THE LIBERTIES OF A FREE COUXTrTV and generous government But let us here diverge for a moment A free country coun-try sometimes undergoes changes In the annals of tho world wo see governments have been overturned tyranny has succeeded suc-ceeded liberty misery followed happiness What is to become of our free and Democratic Demo-cratic government EvPrusidcnt White of Cornell university maintains Cornol our government gov-ernment will bo perpetuatel only through tho influence of general and liberal education educa-tion of tho people He looks forward to the wealthy men of our land endowing institutions in-stitutions of learning and thus using their means for the growth and spread of knowledge knowl-edge In this way large numbers from the masses will have an opportunity to receive r Intellectual training of the higher order The numbers that tie original work will bo increased The wealth in part of the nation I na-tion thus being spent rather than for political po-litical purposes and the number of thinkers think-ers and investigators in this way being increased I in-creased freedom of thought and liberty of action will be maintained I THE FRIENDS OF OUR UNIVERSITY I must see that its powers are concentrated th t they are employed in the most effective I effect-ive manner that what is done within its walls is prosecuted with 1 vigor and is done well The great benefactors of mankind I man-kind are those who haw plied their minds to original investigations These investigations I or investgatons gations in many instances have been prosecuted I pros-ecuted in universities Certain degrees I have been and are conferred only upon the completion of original worK This kind of work must bo encouraged Tho greater pan of the work in a university must be elective the importance of which is becoming recognized in all our loading institutions Utah must not be in the rear but sho must keep abreast with the onward tide of progress Her university must be in sympathy with progress must provide means for original research for students upon tbeir graduation No professor in the university should presume to teach or to control more than one heavy branch or subject EVERl MAX SnOULU BE A SPECIALIST This we must demand sooner or later in order that our university keep pace even with some of the church schools established estab-lished in the territory and maintain any kind of dignity and respectability whatsoever whatso-ever That this may be effected we will have to limit our work and must of necessity neces-sity do so In providing moans for effective work wo should have suitable rooms apparatus books and a faculty sufficiently large th tits t-its professors will be able to specialize and work up well their several departments By limiting the breadth of work preventing prevent-ing the distribution of what forces our territory ter-ritory is capable of commanding for the university depth by which wo accomplish the most can be given to our university work Vo must not attempt to do too many things with tho limited resources of the territory terrtor v I to this wo strictly adhere in our university uni-versity affairs we shall be able to get suitable rooms apparatus book and a sufficient number of professors which will make it possible to give the youth of the territory an opportunity when they are so inclined to do this most effective of all kinds of work original research TO ACCOMPLISH THIS END it will not require by a judicious use of tho means appropriated for educational purposes pur-poses an amount beyond what our territory terri-tory can afford There are no doubt as many erroneous ideas in regard to education as there are respecting other matters pertaining to the welfare of a people or nation We sometimes some-times get uild concerning what ought to be done educationally and in regard to tho effects that certain educational departments depart-ments will produce We often overestimate over-estimate the very things in education that do us the least good and under estimate those which will do us the greatest good Language mathematics physics and chemistry are the foundation studies Let a student be well informed in those and he will have a foundation upon which he can build any kind of a superstructure inc U1UU11U1 S11OU1U see LU Ib VUUU liUUir alma mater is kept within the line of progress pro-gress and its forces are dissipated that there is no fanciful superficial displays but that good solid work be done With of respect to this one is struck with a feeling COMMON SENSE AND GOOD JUDGMENT on entering the laboratory buildings of the John Hopkins university one comes in contact with the rough coated walls suitable suit-able rooms and the magnificent supply of apparatus Everything partakes of solidity solid-ity and nothing of superficiality Let us maintain that the amount of preparation for the coliegiato courses be ample so that students on entering the university will be prepared to make tho best of the opportunities opportu-nities therein offered I may be stated hero that Judga Harkuess represeutio the regents did all 1 he could at the last legislature leg-islature to obtain other quarters for the doaf mutes so that it would be possible to separate the preparatory students from the university studqnts a thing that must most emphatically bo done before our university can have the dignity to which it is justly entitled In responding to the toast Our Alma Mater I reluctantly refer to obstacles placed in the way to the onward progress of the university I tho past but in justice jus-tice to all concerned I am compelled to do so I has been beset on every side Throuch tho njisnpprehensions of our friends it has lived under great disadvantages disadvant-ages It has been looked upon with suspicion sus-picion by ono class and ignored by the other I has been denounced as bad and sacreliprious on one hand and as too fanatically fanatic-ally religious on tho other too much I infidel by one party and too much of the dominant church by the other THUS HAS OUR UNIVERSITY BEEN HANDLED by the good people of the territory without the least particle of knowledge concerning the truth Notwithstanding all this buffeting buffet-ing in the past through misunderstanding the university of Deseret now the university univer-sity of Utah still exists But that it I I could exist under such conditions there I must have been some guiding genius carefully i I r care-fully watching and directing all its movements move-ments Tho university has been like mtnts lke a ship launched upon the surging waters of I a thousand sandbars icebergs and rocky I shoals baffled on every side but being I steered by a brave pilot and 1 steady hand I I it bus been brought into quiet waters and unobstructed seas i Now by your land indulgence for a few moments more I shall relate to you an event in the history of our alma mater an event which is sad and yet one that will awaken a combination of the highest feel idgs of sympathy and joy Alas now that the ship is safe his been extricated from tho rocks ice bers sand bars which havo threatened her on every side now that she has been savcd from a disastrous wreck and has been brought into the smooth seas stranded the watchful guide the reserved re-served and courageous pilot wearied with constant strain and close application sees place fit to givo up the woru of years and to THE OLD SUP INTO NEW HANDS What honor due to this pilot what respect re-spect should be done him what gratitude tao rlslat generation of thin territory owe him will be batter realized in years to come when the people of our territory will fully understand the true forces which have I lifted them from conditions of slavery from religious agony and put them where they could comprehend the American Ameri-can principles In a position where they could command the respect of their fellow j citizens be on mite same footing with their fellow men and where they shall not all bo consigned to become hewers of wood and drawers of water Over twenty years of revolutionary work inaugurated by this veteran has been going on tho minds of the youth of Utah There has been no spasmodic spas-modic change in tie minds ot tho people or Utah This change of condition of affairs talked about at the present time has been a work ot years and more than to any one man or to ary sot of men do we owe this changeof conditions to the person who has held the position of president of our university univer-sity so long TO HIM IT IS DUE that tho young men and young ladies of our territory have arisen through education educa-tion to a position whero the air inspires them with sterner manhood where they can recognize the echoes of freedom liberty lib-erty independence constantly coming forth from every crag peak and nilltop of our rugged mountainous homes and where they can fully understand the murmuring songs as uttered by the streams of our deep cafions gorges ravines of unbounded liberty to all the sons and daughters of Utah Loner may this veteran live and ever may the great good he has done for the people of our territory be cherished up and stored away in the minds of everyman every-man woman and child 1 Let every one shout with a loud voice of gratitude and praise to this veteran pilot to our retiring and much esteemed president DH Jous R PAm |