University of Idaho - Gem of the Mountains Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

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Hail and Farewell At the request of the editor I pause to look back upon the past of the university, as far as I have known it , and to say to the students a word of farewell. It is but a little way to the birth of the institution, a matter of less than twenty-nine years; and of that time I have been here nineteen years. Yet the period, brief as it is, has, been quick with incident and development. A period of beginnings in the life of a university is always fraught with importance, for in it the character of the institution is determined. Such years, therefore, must surely count double the slower years of maturity, as the spring counts double the mellow fruitage of the summer. One of the most significant and encouraging statements that have been made by our new president is that he soon became aware of the fact that always there has been a little group of men here who have. stood for sound scholarship. The state- ment is encouraging in a two-fold way. It reveals the fact that the respectable standard of scholarship we have maintained has molded the character of the insti- tution, and made an impress upon the students, in a way that may not only be dimly appreciated but definitely recognized by any stranger who has eyes to see. And it makes known to us that in our new chief we have a man who is interested in scholarly standards. Of all the achievements of our university, this stamp it has succeeded in placing upon its students is incomparably the greatest. And therefore the men who have done this work merit, in the fullest measure, your support. “I have come that you might have life”, said the greatest of all teachers, “and might have it more abun- dantly”. And the teachers we have here, who have sought to discipline you into en- during ‘strength, who have striven to help you to feel the ample grandeur of the destinies with which you are charged, may they not-also share in this proud claim? They have had no part in the contemporary tragedy of applying the quantitative rather than the qualitative test of excellence. It is you and they who constitute the university. Not in the buildings, not in brick and mortar, nor even in administra- tive officials who reside in places remote from the campus, shall you find your Alma Mater, She is to be found only in the warm hearts of your fellow-students’ and your teachers, in their intellectual and spiritual reciprocity, Those two things, the student and the teacher, are the only true and indispensable parts of a college. Everything else, however useful it may be, is merely ancillary. It is our teachers who, from the first have made our university vital and have put it in the sure way to succeed, And if the teachers fail of support at the hands of the students, where else shall they find it? If the past supports the present, so the present must jus- tify the past. You are here to be made fit for the great work of this time of social readjust- ment by your Alma Mater. Seek not her fame in numbers only, nor be content with victories won on gridiron and track. Give to her, in addition, the name of a school of inspiration and duty. Let her children be known as men and women who. per- form well the homely and necessary tasks that make habitable the land, who carry successfully the honorable burdens of civic enterprise, who do their full share in making life happier and more worth while in our state. Let this be, while the years flower and fade, the crowning and perennial tradition of Idaho. EDWARD MASLIN HULME. Ss — a —— See = = — Ss —— Sagem Sa = = Goon it jolie —— — $ $—=—$—$ Page Twenty-one

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DR ALFRED H UPHAM President of the University of Idaho Page Twenty-two