University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Qzbyrapbzbal. speech. It was not in any specific thing which was said, but in the power and spirit of the man. All that the successful years have brought forth were fore-shadowed in that address. It is impossible to quote single passages which shall represent the weighty thought of the whole address, still more impossible to indicate upon the printed page the force of words made vital by the voice, the presence, the living earnestness of the speaker, Presialent .vOI'lIH'U1I'5 Present Home, corner ol'Tc11tll Avenue nm! Sixth Street S. 15. He said: Real education is something more than the mere acquisition ol' knowledge. It is the appropriation of knowledge in such a way as to produce power. Real education is sell' education. It is the result of work done by the student and not for him. 1 am not indifferent to the acquisitions of students, but I am far more concerned in their growth. I am not indillerent as to what students shall study, but I am more concerned as to how they shall study. , The University ought, doubtless, to throw some light upon the future path ol' its seholarsg but it ought also to keep the culture ofits scholars as broad as possible to the very last moment of their student lifeu 22

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During the early part of this period while he was editor of the New Haven Palladium, he had political aspirations, and was regarded by the wise in political circles as a sure winner of public favor. But fortune had better things in store for him. He was offered in 1863 the chair of Rhetoric and English Litera- ture in Yale college, and for twenty-one years devoted himself with great success to the exacting duties of that professorship. When in 1884- the popular professor of Yale was called to be the Prcsiclcnt NortI1rup's Birthplace. President of the University of Minnesota he found his true sphere -a difiicult and responsible position, for which few men in any generation are really fitted. In assuming this position and in winning his way at once to the front, his power as an orator stood him in good stead. Few who heard his address at the inaugural ceremonies, which were deferred until commencement in '85, will ever forget the promise to the University which opened to them in that 21 yyzbyfaplzzbal.

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A very common demand at the present time is that education shall bei'practical'-a very just demand, indeed, if by 'practical' is meant 'llSCllll,'-lJl.Il1 a very degrading demand, indeed, if 'practical' means merely 'money-making! This country is prosperous enough, Minnesota is rich enough to give an education to her sons and daughtersg and if through over- valuing wealth or undcrvaluing learning, this education is not gained by the youth ofour commonwealth, a most terrible mistake is made. The life is more than meat: thc man is more than his environment. 7lu nhore is Il scene tnken from the Hrrm npon which President .Yorthrup was horn. The education ofthe students in the University will be but a part, and not necessarily tl1c larger part, of the good which the University will do. Its iniiucnce ought to be felt not here alone in the academic building, but in every school in the whole state. It is not the common school which pushes up the Universityg it is the University which pushes up thc common school. lt does this by setting up a higher standard of excellence in scholarshipg by opening wider and more interesting fields of studyg by creating a better and more positive taste for learningg by holding out inducements to every scholar to pursue his studies longer and avail himself of all the advantages of education furnished by the stateg and by stimulating scholars and teachersalikc to do good and faithful work, by the prospect ofreward in admission to the higher work ofthe University. 23 Qzbyrapbzbal.