University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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dent holds the University in his hand, how hearty and absolute is the confidence in him of regents, faculty, students and employees, because all are affected by the strength of his personality. The most difficult trait to explain is the happy humor of President Northrop. Every under-graduate can well remember the good laughter and tumultuous applause produced by the Presidentls wit as he introduced some speaker or commented upon some current activity. One of the best examples of this was his address at the Semi-Centennial Anniversary Celebration of the University of Michigan, in June, ISS7. His genial spirit completely and perfectly expressed itself from the opening, in which he responded to President Angell,s flattering remarks by saying: I am mere- ly a man, made a little lower than the Angellsf, to the exceptional mingling of humor and pathos in the end: I congratulate all friends on the prosperity of the University, and, as we shall follow in the dim distance behind you, without any soreness of heart because you are in advance of us, we shall hope, before the day closes and the night shuts in, to get so near to you that you can hear our voice bidding you God-speed as you go forward, and we can hear your voice bidding us God- speed as we come on.', One cannot forget his strong, rich religious life which he always expresses and exhibits in his earnest, fervent prayers at chapel exercises or in addresses before religious gatherings. We have plainly reached a point where Sinai fails to terrify. We have not yet reached a point where Gethsemane and Calvary fail to move the hearts of men whenever they are presented by those who show in their spirit that they are the true followers of Jesus Christ. lf, therefore, the church shall show the spirit of love, of benevolence, of unsellishness, of interest in the welfare of others that Jesus displayed, it will be sure to advance in a triumphant course, for it will present in its own life and work the very best exemplification of the love- liness of character produced by faith in Jesus Christ. The central power in the religious thought of the age today is the life of Christ and in the great conflict in the world, and especially in this country, belief and unbelief, the central power wielded by the church must be the life of Christ, lived over again by the Church in the same constant course of bless- ing to mankind. The church must not be a mutual admiration society, nor a ,f ff .f f Z if , ,f r ,W ,..,- 18

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