University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER THE TWENTY-NINTH UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY GYMNASIUM, 9:00 A. M. Dean Earle J. Babcock, B.S., College of Mining Engineering, presiding Music, University Band Invocation, Reverend Father E. J. Conaty, St. Michael's Church Address, 00The Training of the Teacher, President Albert Ross Hill, Ph.D., The University of Missouri Address, nThe Teacher and His Preeration,n President Luther C. Freeman, D.D., Morningside College Soprano 5010, Mrs. Arthur C. Stanton Address, The College Man in Business, Mr. Howard Elliott, President of the Northern Pacific Railway; Member of the Board of OVCrseers of HarVard University Music, University Band AT UNIVERSITY COMMONS, 12:00 M. Faculty Luncheon for Delegates AT THE UNIVERSITY GYMNASIUM, COMMENCING AT 2:00 P. M. Procession of delegates and official guests, trustees, faculties, alumni, and repre: sentatives of the students Installation exercises, Honorable John Burke, COVCmor of North Dakota, presiding Hymn, Seventy-eighth Psalm Invocation, Reverend Charles C. Creegan, D.D., President of Fargo College Scriplre Lesson, Reverend Mr. J K. Burleson, M.A., Pastor St. Paul's Church Presentation, Honorable N. C. Young, President of the Board of Trustees Response, Frank LeRond McVey, Ph.D.. LLD. Bass 5010, Mr. William W. Norton, Director of Music Inaugural Address, uThe University and Its Relations,n President Frank LeRond McVey Hymn, Alma Mater Benediction, Reverend A. J. Hulteng, D.D., Pastor Zion Lutheran Church AT THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE, 8:00 P. M. Official Reception tendered by President and Mrs. McVey to Delegaies and Ochial Guests

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For .the North Dakota Public Schools, Honorable E. J. Taylor, A.B.. Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction RolI-Coll of Delegates and Presentation of Memorials Music, The University Glee Club Address: hhThe Umfcation of a State,s Educational Forces, President George E. MacLean, Ph.D., LL.D., The University of 10am Automobile Ride and Luncheon at Club Rooms, 1:00 P. M., courtesy of the Grand Forks Commercial Club AT THE UNIVERSITY GYMNASIUM, 3:00 P. M. Dedication of Teachers College, Honorable Walter L. Stockwell, A.B., Superin- tendent of Public Instruction, presiding Portugese Hymn .................................... Henry Ware, Jr. Invocation, Reverend Barend H. Kroeze, D.D., President of Jamestown College Presentation of Building for the State, Honorable John C. Cunderson, Exquresident of the Board of Trustees Acceptance for the State University, Dean Joseph Kennedy, A.M., Teachers College Baritone Solo, Mr. Norman B. Black Address, hhThe State University and the Commonwealth, President Edmund Janes James, Ph.D.,LL.D., The University of Illinois Address, HThe Future of the Northwestf, Mr. James J. Hill, President of the Board of Directors of the Great Northern Railway Tenor 5010, Mr. Volney L. Mills ; Benediction, Reverend Edward P. Robertson, D.D., President of Wesley College Banquet at the Auditorium, 6.30 13'. M., courtesy of the Grand Forks Commercial Club Toastmaster, Honorable Tracy R. Bangs Toasts responded to by Honorable John Burke, Governor of North Dakota Mr. James J. Hill, President of the Board of Directors of the Great Northern Railway Mr. Howard Elliott, President of the Northern Pacijte Railway Honorable Charles F. Amidon, judge of the United States District Court, District of North Dalgata Honorable Victor Wardrope, Member of Board of Trustees, and Repre- sentative 0f the Alumni President Frank LeRond McVey, University of North Dakota

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THE COLLEGE OF ARTS I see in the college the most characteristic expression of the American genius, the most important condition for the healthy development of the national life. The college is the soul of the American nation. It was my growing acquaintance with the college life that gave me ever new inspiration to tell my countrymen the story of American idealism.n These are weighty words from weighty authority, and they become the more significant, when it is realized that the demand for education industrialized, vocationalizecl, and professionalized, such as is no wbeing made, means impliedly, at least, a demand to have the American college relegated to the background, or completely abolished;uprooted, in fact, and cast into the fire, like a dead tree which is only an encumbrance to the ground. MUNSTERBERG, perhaps the most profound thinker in America today, has said: 55 51 5E 55 55 545 5h 55 34 3!- $ A5 Though feeling genuine sympathy with what has been achieved, one may well View with terror any menace of such change as would substitute workshop or even laboratory for the humanities, or that would dethrone these latter from their rightful place of im- memorial sovereignty. In doing homage to these, the college as such stands, at least in theory, for that quintessential principle of education and indeed of all fruitful thinking and doing: disinterestedness. Arithmetic, Plato affirms, is an excellent preliminary to philosophical study, llif pursued for the love of knowledge and not in the spirit of a shopkeeper. For that spirit of disinterestedness which is the antithesis to this shopkeeping spirit against which Plato warns, the American college stands, and therefore it is worthy of our utmost support and loyalty. 35 a: -$ 55 5F 55 95 A5 55 55 55 5!- I am glad that it is still possible to utter the words llAlma Materf, with thankfulness, not because she gives us a trade or profession, but because she gives us a soul; because, when going forth from her halls we seem to hear her voice, like the voice of the angel of old to the faithful within the church, saying: iiBehold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. A door that will shut at no man,s bidding, but stands always open to the inflooding apocalypse of infinity,-that is the true meaning of being an alumnus.ame the Inaugural Address of Prof. C. E. Hull.