| Show his simple style won appreciation of the japs couo oct 18 4 D m W J bryan had an audience of about v thousand people present when ha gjoke today at the bageda university count okuma WAS in the chair the subject of mr bryana remarks was hints to the public at ita conclusion treat inar on belt help and helpfulness to others hig simple style and clear aaion made his speece intelligible to even the younger students judging from the appreciative remarks of the students as they were leaving the hall mr bryan spoke for forty minutes he subsequently lunched with count okuma the municipality of this city extended to mr bryan an invitation to attend s public reception which would be given in hia honor but hl time i would not permit him to accept INAUGURAL ADDRESS I 1 of dr edmund james of the ty of illinois champaign oct 18 dr edi ed i mund janes james was today formally installed as president of the university of illinois in his address he said the most important educational fact in the recent history of the united states Is the marvelous mar veloas growth of he state university according to a table recently pub lashed of the six largest american universities four are state universities of the twenty three having an attendance of over one thousand twelve are state institutions the six largest state universities of the west had last year an aggregate attendance exceeding by two thousand the aggregate attendance of the ax leading eastern institutions these figures are pot altogether trustworthy they represent to some extent different things they may be criticized criticised from more points of view than one but they serve to throw into a clear light an undisputed fact namely that the state is growing rapidly in relative importance now what Is the state university destined to be and to become in the near future what will be ltd peculiar field what contribution may we hope from it to our educational life and progress the stale university following its practical tendencies Is destined to become great group of professional schools preparing its students for the various occupations of life for which an extended scientific training based on adequate liberal preparatory training is necessary or desirable it will abolish the old fashioned american college as one of its departments relegating a part of its work to the high school and absorbing another part of its work in the university proper it will cut off the and sophomore years letting the high school and college take them while it will consolidate the junior and senior years with the graduate school into a general university faculty of arts and allence it will be a place for training men and women and not boys and girls as la so largely the case now the idealism which many people fear will be lost with ahe disappearance of the college will be found anew in the training tor tho profession itself which will receive a new position of dignity and power through tho scientific which will thus be secured for it in the enlarged ana liberalized erali zed university it will embrace not merely tbt old fashioned learned professions law and medicine it will prepare for engineering and architecture in all their various ramifications it will go atall further it will in ita general faculty ot arts and science bo professional school to prepare men and women for teaching 1 in secona dary and higher schools it will thus give a scientific training to the teachers 0 gilr high schools auch as few 0 them possess at present and no great number will ever obtain except through the enlarged and improved state university it will prepare for the many callings in applied science auch as chemist physicist bacteriologist ceramist etc etc nay it will the great field of scientific and business and commerce in all lt diversified forms its acey note will be training for a specified calling based on adequate liberal preparation by its requirement of adequate preliminary preparation of a general character it will ho distinguished from the technical or liada school grade by its scientific training frame to develop the original it will be distinguished from the ordinary cram show now known as the professional school in a word tho slate university most fully performs its function tor the american people will stand simply plainly unequivocally and uncompromisingly for training for vocation not training for leisure nor training for scholarship except as scholarship is A necessary incidental to all proper training tor vocation or may be a vocation in itself but training to perform an efficient service for society in and through some calling in which a man expresses himself and through which he out som lasting good to society such a tiala ing for vocation should naturally and would inevitably if he training be of the proper kind result in the awakening of lucli ideals of service ai would permeate refine and elevate the character of a student it would make him a scholar and thinker a patriot and an educated n aleman |
