University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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. The Thixlinal (9i5 President J. C. Fi’trall

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4)alTu (Cliutnu iFutrall (ultn is labnring so strenuously for a greater l ntbersity, toe respectfully beMcate tins, the ei hteeutli holiuue of the “Carhiual”

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University Ideals {Extracts from President hntrall ' s address to the students at the opening of the eollege year, September, 1914.) “Arkansas has often been spoken of as a state of great na¬ tural resources, but the most valuable asset this state or any other state possesses is its young men and young women. The chief function of a university is to develop these young men and young women, or rather to assist them in working out their own develop¬ ment, to the end that they may he of service to their state and to humanity. It is not what an institution can offer to the student in the way of fine buildings and fine eciuipment that counts. Nor is it an encyclopjedic knowledge of facts stored away in his head. It is the development of natural ability and char¬ acter that is worth more than all else put together. “. hundred years ago, education, even of the elementary kind, was thought to be for the elect. The great masses of the people had no part in it. It is only within the last twenty years that the idea has grown up that even higher education might he carried to thousands of those who are prevented by age or by cir¬ cumstances from enrolling in a college. The development and the putting into practical o])eration of this idea has been the great contribution of the universities of the Middle est to the cause of education and to the national welfare. The University ol Arkansas should ioin in this movement to a greater extent than ever before: and with harmonious action and enthusiastic work on the ])art of her faculty, her students and her alumni, she can and will take her place among the foremost ol them all. “The peoi)le of . rkansas have their eyes on this University as never before. Their attitude is friendly. They are watching and waiting to see what we will do. Our aim should be to make clear to the i)eople who sui)port this University that we are work¬ ing, not for selfish pur])oses, not simply to create an institution that may reflect credit on you. its students, and on us, its faculty, but that we may build here an institution that will do the highest ])ossil)le service to the state: an institution that will he worthy ot the noblest ideals and the highest a.s])irations of a great people.” I-