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FORMAL INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT HENRY SUZZALLO h EFORE an audience composed of great educators of the country, leading citizens of the Northwest and college men gathered to do him honor, Henry Suzzailo, son of emigrants from the shores of the Adriatic sea, on the afternoon of March 2 1 , dedicated his life to the tremendous service of making the University of Washington a vital force in democratic America. The inaugural ceremony was impressive and unique in the annals of the Northwest. When faculty, regents, alumni, students and citizens pledged their loyalty and support to the new president, rising to their feet and remaining standing to indicate their homage. Dr. Suzzailo received an ovation such as had never before been witnessed on the Wash- ington campus, and has few equals in American academic history. America ' s future is safe only in the degree in which the public mind can be put in the mood to invest in serviceable men. Such Americans as behold their immaturity must unite their numbers to achieve the nation ' s strength. Americans must think particularly of their country ' s part in all history that is yet to be made. With these words as his keynote. Dr. Henry Suzzailo thrilled the audience packing the huge auditorium of Meany Hall with a sturdy appeal for the continuance of that idealism which has made America ' s patriotism broad enough to include the whole world ' s good. Speaking on the question of leadership, the newly-installed executive emphatically
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declared that the fine humanistic qualities within America can only be perpetuated by protecting the integrity of the state that fosters them. For this country to go down, proclaimed Dr. Suzzallo, in the competitions of commerce or war would be the saddest tragedy that history could record. The development of expert service is the first step in adding efficiency to our modern social life, Dr. Suzzallo asserted ; and the second requires its utilization. The rampant individualism of America was regretted, notwithstanding its good side; and the bringing out of leaders was declared to be as much a necessity in a democracy as anywhere else. Dr. Suzzallo dedicated his life and work to making the University a virile, forceful and dependable agent in the efficient and democratic America that is to be. He bespoke the cooperation of the Faculty, Alumni, regents, students and citizens of the state in upholding the University ideal. To Henry Suzzallo, ' 99, a regular fellow. This was the principal toast Monday night, March 20, offered by Judge Kenneth Mackintosh, who spoke at the College Night ceremonies at the gymnasium, on behalf of the Alumni of Leland Stanford Junior University. While his new friends proclaim him a university president, Stanford graduates give him a laurel wreath bearing this inscription, said Judge Mackintosh. The gymnasium was filled to overflowing with fifteen hundred Alumni of Wash- ington and other institutions, and the members of the senior class. From an institution for the promotion of scholarship alone the American university has been transformed at the hands of the democracy to an institution for the promotion of scholarship conceived in terms of the highest human service, declared Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, in an address delivered at the inaugural exercises. The University of Washington, he said, will stand through the ages as the creation of the people of this commonwealth in order that scholarship and the zeal for scholarship may be kept alive and cherished, and in order that generation after generation of Americans may be taught to see life steadily and to see it whole. 4 TRANSITION FROM TERRITORIAL TO STATE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Edmond S. Meany. HERE is but one man whose name is listed with the Faculty now and who was also a member of the Faculty during the last years of the Territorial University of Wash- ington. That man is Orson Bennett Johnson, Professor Emeritus of Zoology. In the last Territorial catalogue he appears simply as O. B. Johnson, LL. B., Natural History. Professor J. M. Taylor, who then held the chair of mathematics, served through the transition to statehood and until 1897. He is now principal of schools at Newcastle, King County. I was a preparatory student in the University in 1878 before either of those veterans had joined the Faculty. Graduating in 1885, there was a gap of nine years before I joined the staff as secretary in April, 1894. During those nine years my closest contact with the institution was through such services as were possible as president of the Alumni Association and as chairman of the University committee in the Slate Legislative sessions of 1891 and 1893. Out of the friendship with the two men named and with others who have gone and out of my own memory, I will try to sketch briefly a record of that important period of transition. fe l
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