Drexel University - Spartan Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE OPENING OF THE CONVOCATION DR. Honms Gonrlncv: It was twenty-five yea1's ago that the Institute opened its doors for regular work in the classes, lJ01'l1 of a great vision of a great mind, the mind ot? a citizen devoted to the ideals of citizenship. It was among the tirst to realize that a first and primary duty of the citizen is the capacity to earn a right, independent living. It was among the lirst to recognize the new world, the world of industry, as industry is a part of the State, and now, after twenty-live years, we meet to honor the memory of Anthony J. Drexel in time ot war, in the time when all education, when all citizenship, is put to the test, and from that acid test education is emerging as never before. IVe have come to realize through these awful years that any training which does not make t'or the fl.1llfltlll10l1ttl.lS of citizenship is vain. We have come to change our concept of what educa- tion means, but we have not lost i11 any way our fundamental belief, nor has the vision of that man whom we honor to-day, as we honor him every day in the Institute, been untrue in the slightest deg1'ee. NVe do not feel that in this time ot' war we could spend the time of our distinguished guests, of our many guests, in a matter which has to do merely with ourselves. lVe be- lieve that we can honor our founder by making our celebration a part ot that great dis- cussion which is before every college i11 the land to-day, lVhat service can we give? 'l'hat is the question. That is the question that all ot' us are trying to answer, and as we sat to-day and heard the inspired word during the day's session of those who have done so much to answer the question, we realized that we had come through trial to at least a point where we were coming to delinite aims in education, and wc knew that we had a basis for our belief, our common belief. And so we conseerate this meeting, this meeting in honor of a great citizen, by bringing it to the pu1'poses of citizenship, and our meet- ings are with that thought devoted to our common purpose in time ol' struggle for liberty and for democracy, and to-night the United States is represented by its otlicers. Ameri- can education is represented by the otticers of colleges and unive1'sities, literally from the Pacific to the Atlantic and from the north to the south. The learned and the pro- fessional societies are here, and we have as the speaker of the Convocation to-night one of the most distinguished of our Canadian brothersg as the Iirst of the speakers to-1nor- row another, and so the border li11e has been blotted out in our common purpose for educational ends, and all the old state lines, and all those former lines that divided us sharply, are blotted out because of this great wa.r. It has brought us at least one great and mighty thing, the power to think together and to act together, for great, common ends. XVith that word I declare this Convocation, celebrating the foundation and the founder and celebrating his spirit and the whole spirit of citizenship, open. f Singing of America. J 14

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THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE DREXEL INSTITUTE-OCTOBER 19-zo, 1917 On l 1-iclzly, Of-tolu-1' 151 nt 10 A. M. our inviil-cl g'ncs1's, illllCl' llilYlllQ' lu-4-n gniclcal aronml ilu- Inslilntc by ilu- Slll1l0lllS, L1'2llll0l'Cfl in the 2lllllll'0l'llllll znul lislm-m-cl to mlilrvssvs on flu: iS'er1:1'r'a nj' Nm Walleye tin llw b'Lr1le. Dr. fllollls Gmullrcy, ns ljl'CHlil0llt oif 'l'lu- D11-xl-l Inslilnlv, nnulo ilu- ml1l1'L-ss ol' wol- conu-. 'l'l1c rc-sponsos wa-ro nnulc by ilu: ollir-1-1's ol' ilu- Univm-rsily So:-lion ol' llu- Uonnnil- tm-c on -l'lll,U,'lllCC1'lllg' nml lfhliu-nl'ion of ilu: lxflVlS01'j' Connnission ol' ilu- l onm'il olf National Defense, Dr. Sannm-l P. Uzllu-n, l-lxl-1-lltivu Svc-1-1-l'z11'y, Uniim-cl Slnlcs l5ll1'l'2lll olf l-l4liu'n- tion, nml Dr. l'l.l'l'llCI'lI'li U. l'lCl'1'y, S001'l'l1ll'j', lJ1'l'Sl1ll'lIl olf llannilion Collgo. Dr. lla-nry Suzznllo, l'u-siclc-nl ol' ilu- University olf xV2lSlllllg1,'lUll, Dunn l . li. llislump ol' ilu- Uniw-rsily oi' PltlSlllll'g'll nml Dr. Guy Stanton Fowl, Connnilloe ol' llnliliv 1nl'oi'n1:llion, also spolu-. Al om- o'vlm-lc in ilu- Pivinrv Gzllln-1'-V, il lnm-lu-on was St'l'Yl'1l lo our gm-sis. ln ilu- allcrnoon llu- disc-nssion was t'0lllllllll'1l lay Dr. John U. .llilnlu-n, l,l'l'SlKll'lll ol' Prim-4-lon University, Nr. -lilfilllli Vznulurlip :xml Dr. Pllilzlmlc-1' l.'. Claxton, flUlllllllSSl0lli'l' ol' lflcln- Clllilllll. Fronl llnw-0 to six, Mrs. llollis ll1ull'l'1-y L'llll'l'l2llllC1l tlu- gm-sts znul 1':u-nlly all I1-:1 ill, 1101- hqymg in Uynwycl, Pal. Al 1-iglil lililc-1-n, :ll llu- Ac-mlm-lny ol' Mnsiv, Ili-ozul Sll'1'0l, oc'- l'lll'1'Cll ilu: fl!l'Ml'llf5flI'fl1IL. 'l'lic spm-ulcers :it lliis 1-ololwnlion wi-rc-: Sin' llolu-rt' ,l'lIlll'4llll'l', President ol' llue University ol' 'l'oi'onlo, llon. illlil1'l0lll2lQ'll0 'll0Wl'1', Al0llllJl'l' ol' the llonrcl olf 'l'1'nslL-vs olf Drcxc-l lnslilnlv, :xml Dr. llollis fiUlll'l'l'-Y. Following' ilu- l'om'o4-ation ilu-re was n !4lll0lH'l' for ilu- invill-cl 51114-sis ni' ilu- Ai-1 Club. S2ltll1'Clily, 0l'lfUll0l' 20, :mln 10 A. M., in llic Amliloriinn ol' 'I'lu- Urn-xcl lnslilnlm-, llu- 0'0llC1'2ll nsscnililv olf nll 1-'lu-sis lllc l'zu'ultV zlml ilu- wliolo slmlc-nl luulv look pl'u-0. 'l'lu- rw . ri 1 - . ' lln'eu spl-ulcers wore: Dr. lloluert J. All-y, l'1'c-simlm-nl ol' Maxim- UlllYUl'Sllj', lJi'. .losa-ph U. Nulry, Prosiclcnl ol' l'lU1'llll2llll Collm-gc, znul l'J1'. llrm-0 'l'nylor, Sll170l'lllll'llIll'lll ol' QIIUUIIS Collogc, 'll01'Ulll0, znul Vlnlplzlin of lllc -lilsl f':nnuliun Vlllg'lll2lll4l01'!-5. 'l'lu-so slim-ing' :ul- cl1'z-sscs will ovc-1' lu- 1'ClllCllIlJ0l'01l lay all who were so l'01'lllll2ll0 ns to lu-an' llu-nl. Following tlu- morning session n Hi'0lUlll'illlUll lllllt'lll'0ll', was sl-i'x'1-fl in ilu- lmluonil-s of llie court to eight llll1Nll'0ll gm-sts. In the evi-ningr, on llic lloolf Galrclc-n off tlu- lim-llcvlu--St1':ilfowl llotol, llu- minivc-l'sni'y dinner took plzufe. This was ai. lll0SlY s:1tisl':u't01'y cmling to our twenty-lil'll1 ZllllllX'Cl'S2ll'j' coleln'nl'ion. 13

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THE SPEAKERS FOR THE DREXEL INSTITUTE ADDRESS BY DR. HOLLIS GODFREY President of Drexel Institute There a1'e few maxims which a1'e sounder than that old saying of the schools, I know of no way in which to judge the future save by the experience of the past. In- volved as we are to-day in a tremendous change, it is still worth our while to trace to some degree the past, to see in education whence we came, to recognize that first Oxford and Cambridge extended to these shores an influence which bore fruit in Harvard in the North, and in William and Mary in the South, and in all the other schools that came from that first university experience, to follow the denominational schools, the colleges that sprang up like Yale, like Brown, like Fordham, that came from first denominational ends, those that came through state aid and through ordinance, like the great state uni- versities, like Michigan, Indiana, and Illinoisg those that came out of the wraek and trial off the Civil War, a.nd came into being with the Morrill act, with the great agricultural colleges, those that came alone from municipal effort and those that came through the private endowment and vision of individual citizens, such as Rensselaer, such as Cornell, Armour, and our own Drexel. It is by such means that we come to place the institution in its history and to see that all those now standing make for the citizenship and for the service of the state, which is our theme to-night. For a year past I have been watching what has been happening under that great phrase, that comprellensive phrase, The Mobilization of Industry , and I have been concerned with its translation into a mobilization of civil power, a. mobilization of civil power in which education should bear a great part. For I believe, as all of us must believe, that true doctrine, that high purpose, that spiritual ideals, come through edu- cation, and that we have seen too much of Il1tlllSt1'lRll and of material ends unleavened by those spiritual forces that ou1' education stands for in their highest forte. And so to-day I see industry and education coming together. Through all those hurrying, breathless, service lines, the lines that are rushing through, the lines that are rushing on, the lines that are rushing all the supplies up to line of battle, through those lines I see the same spirit that sent the men from all the old universities the moment there was a cry of warg and I see spreading over it that splendid spirit that is welding our whole nation into one: One, with one purpose, to serve and to serve others, and to serve in such a way that education may leaven all those ope1'a.tions of industry. But if we are to leaven aright all those operations, we must make our education so effective, so rightly directed, that we can have important, effective, forceful result in the 15