University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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infant State historical society. Now hundreds of thousands of volumes are housed in a magnificent fire-proof building. And all this in fifty years. I u NVisconsin in some ways is educationally a peculiar State. While it has several colleges of liberal arts, it has only one University. Nor does there seem to be any immediate llkelihopd that another University will be here established. Thus our institution must do the Uuniyersity work for the entire State. At the present time there are about two and a half millions of people in the commonwealth. How many millions there will be fifty or one hundred years PRE-JUBILEE BANQUET hence, no man knows, and it is certain that the University of W'isconsin will grow in greater proportion than the population, for as the wealth and prosperity of the State increases, a larger percentage of the youth of the State are enabled to take advantage of its opportunities. Therefore, it seems to me that the chief function of the Jubilee is to warn those who are responsible for the control of the University, to have constructive imaginations large enough to foresee the future, and to plan not with reference to the years just before us, but with refer- ence to the centuries to comeg to plan a University of a breadth and height commensurate with the teeming millions who will occupy this regiong to plan to make the University the great leader of the State both materially and intellectuallyg so that the substances and forces of nature may be wisely handled with reference to the future, that political and social problems may be solved and peace be among us, and finally so that the intellectual and spiritual life of the entire people may be on a higher plane. CHARLES RICHARD VAN HISE. IO

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STUDENT ACTIVITY IN IUBILEE service it has rendered to the people. This recognition from outside the State has been an important influence in leading the mass of the people of the State to appreciate their Univer- sity and to increase their pride in it. The jubilee has also had a far-reaching influence in enhancing our reputation abroad, for our guests universally expressed surprise and delight at the superb location of the University, at the extent and excellence of the buildings and equipment, at the size and vigor of the faculty, and at the large number of earnest and enthu- siastic students. Thus the jubilee has been a great benefit to the University in giving to the State an adequate idea of the service the insti- tution 'has performed for it and in extending the reputation of the University abroad. But it is with reference to the future that the jubilee has most deeply impressed rne. Consider for a moment the wisdom and foresight, the faith in the future, of Chancellor Lathrop and his associates who planned University Hall and four other buildings when The Hill was an unbroken wood, when the infant institution had substantially no funds, and when the State had only about one-eighth of its present population and a still smaller fraction of its present wealth! With the achievements of fifty years, yvith the present wealth and population of the State, with the deep-seated determination of the people that the youth of the commonwealth shall have the highest educational opportunities, all before us for consideration, what shall we say of the future? I scarcely dare put into print the vision which arises before me of the University, as it shall be at its centennial, lest it be ridiculed as the fancy of a dreamer. And to picture the University as it will be at its bi-centennial is beyond the imaginative power of this generation. But certainly he who doubts that the Univer- sity of fifty years hence will be immeasurably broader and loftier than the present institution is not worthy to have a part in shaping its policy. He who lacks faith in the future should go to the museum of the Library building to see a little case which half a century ago contained some fifty books, largely public documents, the only possession of the FORM.-XTlON OF ACADEMIC PROCESSION 9

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C Academic Procession Music Thursday, June 9, 1904 ommencement Exercises Address- The State University and Research Dr. Thomas C. Chamberlain, Former President ofthe University Music Address- The Unity of Learning Music Dr. William Peterson, Principal of McGill University Conferring of Baccalaureate Degrees Conferring of Higher Degrees Music Conferring of the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws Music Address to the Graduating Class . President Charles R. Van Hise Music FORMATION OF ACADEMIC PROCESSION II