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Dr. Francis Stevenson Hutchins, who came from China to follow in the educational footsteps of his father, William J. Hutchins, was inaugurated November 25, 1939, as the fifth President of Berea College. The inaugural ceremony was held in the presence of official representatives from more than two hundred colleges and universities. Phelps-Stokes Chapel, well filled with college students, faculty members, workers, and friends of Berea College, was the scene of the event. Dr. W. D. Weatherford, assistant to the President of Fisk University and vice-chairman of the Berea College Board of Trustees, presided at the ceremony. In his welcome to the delegates, Dr. Weatherford pointed out that ninety per cent of the students of Berea are from the Southern Appalachian Mountain region. Berea, he declared, is dedicated to the dignity of labor, explaining that every student must work with his hands two hours a day. This labor takes the place of high powered athletics. He referred to Berea College as an institution founded by plain and simple people. Dr. Stewart W. McClelland, President of Lincoln Memorial University, delivered the response for the delegates of the educational institutions and de- clared that Berea is a great institution with a great future. The future of Berea will remain intact under Dr. Francis Hutchins. In the main address of the day, Dr. Frank Porter Graham, President of the University of North Carolina, discussed the economic and educational inequal- ities of the South. Referring to Berea College as one of the temples of American freedom, Dr. Graham said that freedom can be protected by the advance of equality of opportunity. Liberty can be raised to higher levels by the widening of social security. Dr. Hutchins, who served in China for fifteen years as teacher, and later representative of the American Board of Yale-in-China, was presented by William Dean Embree, New York attorney and trustee of Berea College. Dr. Albert Buckner Coe, Pastor of the First Congregational Church of Oak Park, Illinois, pronounced the benediction. Immediately following the morning ceremonies, a luncheon for the delegates was held in Boone Tavern. Dean Thomas P. Cooper, of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, presided at this luncheon. Speakers were Dr. Donald J. Cowling, President of Carleton College, who discussed The Support and Control of Education, an d Dr. Clyde E. Wildman, President of DePauw University, who spoke on Higher Education Faces the Future. The inauguration was brought to a close on November 26 with the inaugural sermon delivered by Dr. Edwin McNeill Poteat, Pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio. His subject was Prophet or King? Trustees present for the inauguration included: Richard Bentley, Chicago; Barry Bingham, Louisville; Dr. Albert Buckner Coe, Oak Park, 111.; Thomas J. Davis, Cincinnati; William Dean Embree, New York; Allen Foster, New York; Joel E. Goldthwait, Boston; Louis J. Karnosh, Cleveland; C. N. Manning, Lexington; Carl T. Michel, Kansas City; Seth Low Pierrepont, Ridgefield, Conn.; Charles Ward Seabury, Chicago; James L. Stuart, Pittsburgh; A. E. Thompson, Medina, Ohio; and W. D. Weatherford, Nashville.
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DR. FRANK PORTER GRAHAM President, University of N. C. All who have gathered in this room this morning are interested in education for one reason or another. Some of us are involved in administration, engaged in research or actual teaching, some are students seeking an education, and others are admiring or critical friends of our institutions of learning. To return from a foreign land and investigate the colleges and universities of the United States, is to recognize with pride the achievements of our country. A visitor from abroad might spend many happy months visiting our libraries, laboratories, classrooms, gymnasiums, and dormitories. While we always show visitors our campus, as educators we are even prouder of our faculties, their ability in discovering new truths, their ability to lead the thinking of students. We rightly believe that the faculty is the crux of the entire educational pro- cess. It is our hope that we may provide these men and women with the requirements for their best work, libraries, laboratories, and freedom. We wish these men and women to instruct and stimulate their students, to lead them to a basic, sound under- standing of our world and its culture, to aid them in forming attitudes of minds which will enable them to meet courageously the situations of life. We are very proud too of our students. We select them with discrimination, we nurture them as carefully as we can, we graduate them when they hive fulfilled certain requirements. Viewing the beautiful campuses of American colleges and universities, noting the faculties with their highly degreed quality, thinking of the million students in institutions of higher learning (some nineteen thousand in the State of Kentucky alone), may we not then face with complacency the world, with the conviction that nothing is going to happen, that everything is all right? May we not hold the belief, that all that we need is more college graduates? Will not the problems of our world be solved, little by little? Shall not we enter then upon a new high plane, not only of economic prosperity, but also moral well-being and spiritual growth? We know that complacency is not for us. Anyone who has roamed from his home country will have noticed the constant intermingling of ideas, culture, and goods from one nation to another. » In spite of this world-wide exchange of ideas in which our colleges and universities take a leading part, in spite of the economic net work thrown over the whole world, we find that nations are today fighting, or preparing to fight. There are aspects of our own national situation which cause us the greatest distress. No one would think of blaming the public educational system for these situations, nor the colleges and universities. No American would advocate less education as a means of solving these problems In accepting the Presidency of Berea College, I should like to formulate, in general terms at least, what appear to be guiding principles for the present. In coming to Berea one finds certain assumptions basic to Berea ' s way of life: 1 ) Berea ' s doors are open to young men and young women from the Southern mountains. This is in keeping with the history of Berea. Conditions have changed rapidly in recent years, but there is no indication that this particular restriction has been outlived. 2) Labor is not only a part of the economic life of our students, but it is also a distinctively edu- cative process. 3 ) A third assumption is that the finest education in this country should be available to the young men and women of the mountains, regardless of geographic or economic handicaps. 4) A final fundamental assumption is that a vital relationship with God as exemplified in the life of Jesus Christ, has a place in the foundation of our individual and corporate life. The Preamble of the Constitution of Berea College begins with these words: In order to promote the cause of Christ . . . On these foundation stones Berea College stands. With these assumptions in mind as basic to the life of Berea, I would propose no radical scheme which might by its novelty be applauded. Berea must keep close to the real needs of the region she serves. —(From the INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT HUTCHINS)
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