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1 I ,, .A-f V - Jimwj - J ' - i or ' years ago, were taken under the fostering care of Pennsylvania College, and later .on sent out by her with her blessing upon us as her sons, to meet the struggle awaiting us, know and think of her by no other name . Speaking to the President-elect, Justice Brown said: To you, sir, in whose hands as the keeper of a great trust, the keys of the College will be placed in a X ,- V. A the friends of the Institution if Y wi- . V , V, 'ff ,5I .lfi.?ff?5it and its Alumni hopefully -,AJ . s Y. I S. i 1 Q 4 r i 7 X s, all H' Y XVIJYN-,Fil , 3:55, h 4,3 , , . ,s ,N , , - s,Af'f,,QA.. 53, turn for the accomprs - if f f- 1. 1 225 - V 1 V. 5 I X . .rig 1 -Q . pt-,,, N, gt ment of great things. That -4. ff va . ,V .I - 1-. 1 , 1 Q yfvgft - tg - U14 'Jr I , M . - i 'Q :-' ,,.f, fj-fe ' f i? , E2 you may take heart in the 's s '.. - ' 'S -' ,- 1- fr . f.49i.J A -r':4,v11. .it ' ,ff vm , V- V, if gy-. A 54.154.15.155 A pil-gs work before you, know that ' ' ,A 'G .-,-f 2 'jf ' ' 7, f-iff: f' fi' i,i,f.'i2., 1 i 1 5537- - ' 'E T'?.j:A7i I 51 ,-.IJ Z 31 jf-'ff you enter upon it with the tx i .i 2- ,xiii if A' Ei' abiding confidence of those - My , ti.. iv! '1g-ip,4.- , tip- 5545 d I . d . 5, rgqi , V N- Lf ,gil ,mA.A.A, iT,g,i,,5e.. ,-ge, most eepy intereste in G ' L' il the College: that its Board im, . 'A , C' ix - f 1-' ef' f .AM 2-. -f 'sf-if 'V f T t t d l EJ . J 0 'rus ees ac e -wise y in 41523,-111 rwgitgveggfwsasIggfiicfs-Eafaiffrif '4f.::1:,i 555,-g placing you at its head, 112:77 .WY ,s..,,, , H ,Y . . V, i YV 4 g Kgs. . M., ., H- ,,,..,,s, -,,Q,E:iQL.s,l. LQQQQL .,', and be assured that Your hands will be upheld in every effort you may make for the increased usefulness of the College, and to give it greater renown among the Institutions of the land . After the singing of the hymn, Now Thank We All Our God , the induction of the President by Hon. lVlcC. Swope, '72, Vice President of the Board of Trustees, took place. The speaker declared that No more important and sacred trust can be confided to any man, or accepted by any man, than the education and training of the young manhood and the young womanhood of one's country. I want ' C' 'fi 4ff,,:.' if you to know that this great ' trust, with its responsibil- ms! gf ities, is fully appreciated by your Board of Trustees. Dr. Granville was not W chosen President of Penn- sylvania College hurriedly. But only after the most careful inquiry and the most thorough examination of the whole available H ,i field. And I am glad to iv!! Q A i V i V H W tell You that when he was QQ! Lirii--I-Qgzf' '. . 'Y chosen, he was chosen without a dissenting voice. And when we all learned that he would accept the trust, there was inspiration and great promise in the way all of us, Trustees, Instructors, Alumni, Stu- dents and friends, verily threw up our hats and shouted for joy . Page Twelve N
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,,. al rf W' NM M S?ECTRttM mg rt with telling effect Countless electric lights artistically placed rendered the stately Old Dorm more mayestic in its whiteness On Wednesday evening as a preliminary a concert was given by the musical clubs of College assisted by the Harrisburg Orchestra Thursday morning witnessed the real ceremonies of the occasion At ten o clock the Proces sion which had formed back of Recitation l-lall began to move Chief Mai shall ohn F Dapp lead mg Behind him came the Board of Trustees the Professors of College Pre paratory department and Seminary These were fol towed by the Delegates and friends the Officers of College and the President elect lqhus far all in the procession were attired cademic garb with the insignia showing their xarious de iees and the hoods indicating by which Institutions the degrees had been conferred lmmedately after the President-elect came the Alumni the students of Seminary and finally the students of College. Slowly solemnly quietly the procession advanced along the campus walks to the huge tent which had been erected south of Brua Chapel. When the procession had entered and the great number of waiting guests had been admitted Dr. . A. Sing- master 73 of Seminary pronotmced the Invocation. After a hymn giving x- pression to the thanks-giv- ' ing and trust of so many -N confident and enthusiastic hearts, the address of salu- tation was delivered by 1.1 I , Justice Hay Brown, 54. '67, of the Supreme Court .. a' -if of Pennsylvania. The es- f' .- sence of this speech was a plea for our name, Penn- sylvania Collegenz On 'Tie e1aa:p,4'. ..,. . A 4-Lf. . , ,,,. hm. ft .,.n,,.f, ., ,ie-1.1,35-gm.,-,if-5..i,:4sc,: -gags--3., 4 J.. 2' 21--2.-iesuniaata.:.r.fusaa' .- the day of its birth the State named her latest child 'Pennsylvania Colloge', and since then she has not changed its name. It is still Pennsylvania College: its home only is Gettysburg. The State knows no one of its children as 'Gettysburg College', and those of us who, nearly fifty Page Eleven
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WS Tj-it Sttttarrri M12 Having recerved the Charter Seal and Keys Dr Granville took the oath of ofhce Thereupon the students sang Domrne Salvum Pac Praesrdem Nostrum The next event was the presentation of the Honorable Delegates and Guests in at tendance followed by greetings from the Honorable Delegates the Faculty the Alumni and the Students In presentrng the greetings from the Honorable Delegates Secretary Anson Phelp Stokes of Yale delivered an address which called forth the approbatron and admrratron of all He said rn part I congratulate you most heartrly upon the selection of Dr Granville for your President and on hrs acceptance of the hrgh trust There are two fundamental things upon which the success of hrs admrnrstratron must de pend The first is the emphasis on the hrgh st standards and the second rs the sprrrt of co operation You will get all of the students that you need as soon as your standards are the hrghest and large numbers of themselv s will nex er attract one single student that is worth while l ask you to emphasize co ooeratron co operation of sprrrt rn standing be hind your President to help hrm to decide upon the wrsest course rn each emergency and when the decision has been reached co operate gladly and heartrly with hrm rn executing the plans of the College In presenting the greetings from the faculty Dr l-limes said None of us can claim a long acquaintance wrth you personally but your reputation as a scholar and Gentleman precede you and thrs with our few months experience of your fair mrndedness leads us to offer you our hands rn hearty congratulatron You have bestowed gratifying words of prarse upon smaller colleges This we understand will not interfere with the endeavor to make our own greater and stronger. It will however prevent the struggle for mere numbers an opening of our doors to an untrained mob in non-academic courses whose low ideals make an atmosphere of culture impossible. With the fullest confidence in your ability and purpose we clasp hands with you in the forward movement accepting your familiar motto with the change of but one word. For God for Country and for-Gettysburg . Following Dr. l-limes, Prof. Smith, of U. of P., expressed the greetings of the alumni: ln the name of my fellows, I offer our hearty felicitations, our cordial sym- pathies, and our willingness to co-operate in the work before you. We ask that you preserve the sturdy traditions of our alma materg that you continue to instill the prin- ciple of sound Christian manhood and womanhood unto our boys and girlsg that you teach them the littleness of superficial polish and the true greatness of honest effort, that they may look beyond the outer adornment to the inner soulg that you instruct them to the end that they realize and value their privileges of citizenship in the great American republic which owes its preservation to the happy outcome of Gettysburg's battleg that you infuse them with the idea that four years of college life do not complete education, but that all life is given us for fuller, wider learning . Representing the student body Mr. Bowman voiced the sentiments of all with the words: To every student it is a source of extreme satisfaction to welcome you, and Page Thirteen 'W ,. ., 4. - A - ' , J V - r
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