University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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SPONSORS MAYOR and MRS. WM. B. HARRISON DR. JOHN L. PATTERSON MR. MR. MR. . and MRS. . and MRS. . and MRS. . and MRS. . and MRS. . and MRS. MR. MR. MR. MR. MR. MR. and MRS. and MRS. and MRS. and MRS. and MRS. and MRS. and MRS. and MRS. and MRS. C. T. TRUEHEART A. T. FARNSLEY T. K. HELM HENNING CHAMBERS G. BREAUX BALLARD ALBERT L. BASS PETER LEE ATHERTON ARTHUR ALLEN J. C. SHIVELY CHARLES A. HAEBERLE jc. KocH H. T. NICHOLS BERT STANSBURY B. H. FARNSLEY FRED W. KEISKER MRS. SPALDING COLEMAN MRS. S. THRUSTON BALLARD MRS. J. WASHINGTON E. BAYLY MR. JOHN B. PIRTLE DR. and MRS. IRVIN ABELL DR. and MRS. ADOLPH O. PFINGST MR. WILLIAM B. SPEED Sixteen

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Inaugural Response—Continued. University and Community Idealism In the address which he gave last evening, President McVey defined the functions of a University to be: 1. Teaching, 2. Research, 3. Publication. I heartily endorse this statement. In doing so I trust that no in- justice will be done in laying stress upon the spiritual leadership which an institution of higher education owes to its constituency. It is necessary that such an institution have material support. To receive an adequate amount of such support it must make an appeal which will bring the proper response. Community service of the kind pointed out earlier will help greatly to this end. But after all, these are only means to an end—an end far more important than anything material or merely educational. Permission has graciously been granted me to quote from a letter written by one in whom Louisville takes just pride—from a letter written by Mr. Justice Brandeis to his late brother Alfred. ‘‘Money alone cannot build a worthy university. To become great a uni- versity must express the people whom it serves, and must express the people and the community at their best. The aim must be high and the vision broad; the goal seemingly attainable, but beyond the ° ° 9 immediate reach.”’ Extract from a letter written by Mr. Justice Brandeis to his brother, Mr. Alfred, under date of February 18, 1925 This cogently expresses what I have tried to say. It also suggests what I personally believe, that the kind of a university that we should have will not come by imposition from without. It must grow from within out. It must as the Justice says, “express the people and the community.” Mr. John Dewey says of Theodore Roosevelt that he was America’s “living embodiment rather than its representative.’ He was the gauge of the aspirations of the people of his own day. In him “‘the people recognized and greeted the collective composition of their own voices.’’ See John Dewey—Characters and Events, p. 87. Onl ly by the operation of a similar principle can a great public insti- tution be made. Only by appealing to the best in ambition and in spiritual desire will this university reach its goal. It can be no bet- ter than you, its patrons, wish it to be. But all that you hope for your sons and your daughters, the best that you think the future can bring to your community, all this your university can and will be if you really desire it for yourselves and your posterity. “To your noblest vision of what it should become, I here pledge my undivided service.

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SPONSORS ALEX GALT ROBINSON MRS. CHARLES T. BALLARD MR. and MRS. E. S. JOUETT EDMUND F. TRABUE DR. and MRS. WALTER DEAN MR. and MRS. CHARLES HORNER