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

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V L Few sons of the Uni- versity have had so dis- tinguished a career as Dr. Paul S. Heinsch. As an author, in sub- jects relating to world politics, delegate to Pan- Americancan.gresses,am- bassador to China, and later as adviser of the Chinese government in ' ' America, he has well earned a lasting place in American history. -Burr W. Jones. N THINKING of old Wisconsin, memory reverts with special love to the men whose personalities as teachers impressed themselves most deeply on us. William F. Allen, the first leader in the modern development of Wisconsing Frederick Turner, whose eyes could say more than most men's oratoryg Charles Haskins, then a youthful prodigy of astonishing knowledge and memory powerg Richard T. Elyg William A. Scott, Alex- ander Kerrg Moses S. Slaughterg John B. Parkinson, and the Presidents Chamberlain and Adams, all left theirimpress. PresidentVan I-Iise I knew as a student,chiefly as aman of sci- ence, who was always ready to talk with us debaters about any question under the sun, social and economic, and from whom we always went away full of new ideas. The dearest memories cluster about the associates and activities of our everyday life. Athletics had not yet become so prominent in those days. We blew off all our surplus energy in shouting for debating teams and competing orators. The debating societies at that time were the real center of student life. But the greatest and most profound influence that we felt was that of the common- wealth Spirit of Wisconsin. Wherever I have gone in later life, I have been helped by the inspiration of the new life of a great commonwealth which became conscious of itself in those last years of the nineties. The broadening view of human relationships, the idea of the State as a big family, the devotion of the best talent therein to work for the general good, the testing of all rights by their just subservience to human welfare, these aims so clearly expressed in the Wisconsin Idea, helped me beyond words in facing the diffi- culties and responsibilities of an arduous time. I 44416 1 , Page Thi ty 0 e

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Page Th irly 1 w r ' 1 l Reared in lhe air Qf freedom, and schooled in the precepls of democracy this sturdy son of im- . i . . migran pioneers is an illuminating example of high American achieve- V ment.-Julius E. Olson. S ONE Who graduated almost forty years ago, a Word from me on the Wisconsin Spirit may seem out of place in view of the fact that in those days of small things the University consisted of only six buildings, inadequately equipped, and a student body of less than four hundred. And yet the spirit of which We are now all so justly proud was then as manifest as it is today. The truth is that the Spirit was born in those and the earlier days, born in the minds and hearts of teachers and students who were the pioneers or sons and daughters of pioneers who through great travail laid the foundations of a mighty state. Times Were hard, money scarce, and students were not of those Hwho had all the luxuries and some of the necessities of life but of those Who, as a general thing, had to struggle for the bare necessities. But one of the dominant forces which evoked and intensified the morale, the esprit de corps, or what we now call the Wisconsin Spirit grew out of the character, learning and personal influence of the late President Bascom and the professors of his day. Bricks and stones and a sightly place do not of themselves make a university, but men and Women of power and vision, gifted With enthusiasm to teach. ' To us of the former generation it is a matter of great joy that the present generation has not only preserved but greatly broadened and intensified the 'iWisconsin Spirit and opened up larger possibilities for victory in the expanding fields of human effortg that as of old so now and hereafter in what We undertake We have the confidence that fight and we will win this game ! Truly 'lthe spirit maketh alive. I

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Daughler of lhe Iowa 5 , iw prairiesg maulder of ?j'. ,,,v ,, public opinion. on vital 'IQ issuesg wriler of charm- . . ing slories: aulhor Qf ag? books lhal have delighled multitudes of people and Q-:f Q of arficles on lopics qf ' great social impol-lance: ediloli ofa dislinguished and mfluenlial journal. -NI. Vincent O'Shca. OU ask me what the Wisconsin Spirit has meant to me, what it ought to mean to the undergraduate. What a diflicult question! For nearly all the things that loom as immensely important in student days become immensely and immediate- ly unimportant in after life! Nobody cares a great deal in the great competitive world whether or not you are college bred. No editor, if you are asking him to buy a story you have written, asks you whether you are from Wisconsin or Harvard or Northwestern. Yet. the set of stand- ards that were given you when you went to college will make or mar you in your life career. And these standards, these values, were formed quite unconsciously during your four years on the campus. While you were torn with excitement over the possibility of your being elected to a Greek letter society, your inherent bent toward democracy or snobbery was being crystallized. While you were concentrating on how many or how few hours a week would win you your degree, your standards of work. of your service obligations to life, were being quietly evolved. While you were ,groaning under the weight of the collateral reading for History I or English Il or Economics III the standard of your cultural demands on the future was taking its fixed direction. And in the after years, when you have almost forgotten whether you are a B. L. or a B. S. or a B.A., an editor of THE BADGER asks you to say something about the Wisconsin Spirit and you realize that your angle toward life, your demands on life, your interpre- tation of life breed back to those four heedless, happy years on the campus at Madison. And you rise up and call those years the most blessed and important' of your life. Page Thu ly- Two