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own cap and gown (the Faculty did not wear them) were always loaned to some senior and they graduated regularly until the gown came to grief at the hands (no, the feet) of a short fellow who walked all over the hem of the garment and tore it to shreds. As the years sped by many changes came about in the University membership. The number of students increased in a notable degree, and class spirit became strong and dominant. Students were drawn from everywhere and not alone from the shadows of the institution. The enrollment became cosmopolitan and no longer provincial. The high schools had an amazing development and the students entered the University younger in years and at the same time better prepared for college work. Games and sports came to their own as the institution waxed strong in numbers, and out of it all has been evolved the present elaborate series of intercollegiate contests of brawn and muscle. In my twenty years of daily association with the Washington student I have come to know him thoroughly and it is with genuine pleasure that I take this opportunity of giving him a word of tribute for his many fine qualities. As I have found him he is unusually versatile — rich in profitable experiences — ready to meet every emergency; he is an honorable contender — undismayed in defeat — magnanimous in victory; he has -in intense pride in his institution — faith in himself — and optimism unbounded for the future; he is sincere in his desire to learn, and is determined to make ample preparation to do his share of the world ' s work; he is chivalrous — brave — eager to make sure that his ' scutcheon has no blot; he believes in the nobility of character, and the best traditions of the purple and gold v ll always be safe in his hands. One is said to show the shelf-mark of Time when he delights in reminiscences or indulges in retrospect. I will admit that judged by years alone or by the natural span of a life-time I have reached a place where my shadow falls a little to the eastward. But in hope, in enthusiasm, and in everything that belongs to the spirit I wall not admit that the winged years have left a single furrow. At Washington we have found the fountain of perpetual youth and a time of old age is unthinkable.
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When I reported for duly a few days after the term had opened, I was assigned a small room as yet unfurnished. With the help of willing students we rustled a few boards for seats, a big box which I used for a desk, improvised a blackboard, and started on the rocky road to some knowledge of geology. Naturally 1 asked for an early intro- duction to the pay-roll, when I found that in seniority I was number eleven on the teaching staff. The faculty was so small that we held our meetings in a semi-circle around the President ' s desk. I was immediately impressed by the enthusiasm, the earnest- ness and the hopefulness of my colleagues. Those were the days of frequent changes. New teachers were rapidly added, and one by one the older ones withdrew. I desire to mention a few of the earlier instructors who are yet in service, and to give in a word a tribute of my appreciation of their inestimable value to the institution. In the order of the catalogue list the first is Professor Meany — eloquent, gifted, tireless, wholly unselfish, extremely helpful to student and colleague alike, and consumed by his burning zeal for Washington; Dean Smith — judicial, scholarly, a stimulator of vigorous thinking, coura- geous with no knowledge of fear, and a seeker after the everlasting better; Professor Ober — esteemed, enthusiastic, gracious, patient and kind, beloved by her students, and greatly respected by her colleagues; Dean Fuller — courteous and conscientious, capable, modest but vigorous, possessed of a fine professional spirit and filled with high ideals; Dean Condon — forceful, indefatigable, public spirited, insistent upon work of the highest quality, practically the founder and since its beginning the head of a law school of great value and influence; Professor Byers — intrepid, talented, a close student, foe of the slothful, exacting but warmly sympathetic, possessing a gruff exterior but all heart within ; Professor Kincaid — brilliant, tireless, inspiring, forever youthful, the lamp of genius always aglow, he has done more than anyone else to make Washington widely known. I ha ve mentioned only those instructors who were members of the Faculty within the first five years of my service and who are known to this generation of students. If space permitted it would be a joy for me to speak in a similar manner of my associates who have joined the staff in later years. The student makes a great mistake who does not break through the reserve of the class-room and become well acquainted with the real men and women who are to be found within the teaching exterior. You will find them companionable, inspiring, interested in you, and intensely human. They are placing their lives of service at your command, and the friendships you form with them should be among your most valued possessions for all future time. In the five generations of students that I have seen pass through the halls of the University it would be strange if I had not obser ved marked changes in them in a host of ways. The average student of today may possess limited means, but twenty years ago substantially every student was well-nigh penniless. Instances of students living in cheap quarters and cooking their own meals were common. Courses were elected where there were no laboratory fees and where the text-books were the least expensive. Books, cadet and gym suits and other things, used by students were generally passed along from person to person as long as they would hang together. It was a time when stern necessity compelled the simple life. It was a time when dress-suits, banquets, box parties, taxicabs and such things were words in a foreign and alien tongue. And yet the students were wide-awake and enthusiastic. They were eager to learn from their teachers of the ways and habits of students in other institutions. Many were the efforts to launch a tradition or a custom at once and under full-sail. One of the early classes decided to wear caps and gowns at graduation and this was continued for a few brief years. I recall that my
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