Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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XTX ...J ff mat M-If ,,,,,,,,f conhned by its enemies throughout the state and sometimes, but V61 y seldom bv tiauois within the school itself These are the things that make the task hardest the things that weai a man down befoie his time But, while making the task ha1de1 these conditions of battle have made its achievement gieatei Fiom all his battles he has emerged tiiumphant H has won appropriations fO1 the college, he has won friends T01 it in all pai ts of the state he has won a la1 ge and enthusiastic student body he has won recog niiion for himself as tl1e foremost educator of the Northwest, he has won SKU . . . , .Y . -....,..,..,...a., Wa. . . AQ ii',,,,HQ7A,,W . ,V wtnw p ,Q gf-if A A . P , . 1213, f 'x 1 in 'rx ik., ,gy ,gif ,iw 1 ,wx,,w2,Q,,v,.,,,Qg,2 4 1,,, 1 me-, ,,f,1.g..- 1-, .4 , . , A ,. r , iq ,. , gg, ff 1 ,, ff 1 , , psf w ,Q W- ,, W - f M1 4-1111111 '- .4 Q . .ig 'ff 5? Wifi 1 1 , S., 1 2 1 .rw .zz ff ff 1 '- 1 r .. ' ff V 1 MMM f, , 11:1-14 M if fm -' rn 1 1' f fa: 1 is ' 23, 'Q9fU4'fjf -- --.fs 1 - vi. -- ff, 1 wwf--f-.1, ,mf mar, Vg, , M , A A 1- 1. ., , 1 1 mu .1 . fu -f,ss...fm..f- ae: .ew--2' - -.Lf 1 ' fwiffjvzzfi ff ,151 .f- .f vf 1.1-11 ?f. . if ,xi ms: , ,, if ,- -' - 5 f 1 f1g.11,Qza1:'.41214..Amr.::1,ggfQ,gi.::2x71L1:7:,z,t.,.,:W:c.nsga.-a...ffyum'.,,t+,azQ:fM1:.:,x.f1g,:.1iw:'-.gmwrza ,gQ,45',,,, MW+1-M-w-M-f- 'fw1+111 -1 1- 11: M 1 y ,, ., 1 A Q - ' 1 1 . , 3 1. I 0 - . A X . 4 ' 4 L u . L ' . j l V - . . - . , ' ' e . , , iecognition T01 the college and foi the splendid woik it is doing, not fiom the Northwest alone, but throughout the entire United States. You can hardly consider a man apart from his work, andthis is President Bryan from that side of his life. After we have enjoyed the blessings of college life here we o-ft-times pause to consider the man who has made all these blessings possible for us. It has been the work of his best years, and we alumni would have our president know that it does not go unrecognized by them or unappreciated. 1 But there is another side to our president that we alumni like to dwell upon. Breadth, insight and practical judgment have made his work possible. Those qualities we admire. VV e admire his grave strength and patience, his calmness in good fortune, his sureness when fortune wavers. We have revered him for his impenetrable justness, his lofty ideals, for the inspiration his life has been to us. Wfe have loved him for his interest in us as students and alumni, for his never-failing courtesy, for his helpfulness. Never has anyone found President Bryan too busy or too tired to listen to the story of a student in trouble, to advise him, to encourage him, to help him. Wliat an inspiration he has been to us in our lives we can never fully estimate, what he has given of his life' fortus we can never know, what we feel for him we can never put into words-we can only assure him of our highest admiration, our truest loyalty, our deepest love. A The words I have just spoken, President Bryan, are a part of what every alumnus of the State College feels for you. The larger part of what we feel must always go unsaid, for it lies deeper than words. VVe can do but little to show our appreciation. That must be shown by living as you would have us live, by doing the work in the world you have trained us to do. One little thing, however, we can do, so I beg you to accept this cup from the alumni as an emblem of their regard. Its inscription says, To Enoch Albert Bryan, from the Alumni of the State College of Wasliingtoii, as a token of their affection and in recognition of his great work in the upbuilding of the State College, and the whole body of the alumni wishes me to assure you that you will always hnd it overflowing with good wishes a11d love from every one of us. we

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a to - . . ' . . - ., VN K0 ,.,,.,-.-. . -- :A A va- .plpviz wg 5: ,--':, 3 ': -f.,,- ::: :-: :sf -L5,g,.,i4vL n I, 'ML' nj ', 'ii -'...T1.- -1:1-,NA:t,LL.,..-a -- ..ff - 'lr L: jfs ' ' - I ks, ,,1, '-. '. -l'r f ,. '- ' ' T -.,-g 5 Xl'-nv of us know the discouraging conditions which faced President Ilrvan when he first came here, seventeen years ago: Two rude . bugd- Enqsa Su,-I-,mndeql by a cabbage patch, the most elementaiy couise of situ y, but few students, no faculty, the former president and board of iegents ciased flown a hill and through a wire fence at the bottom by students with rotten eggs: and most serious of all, a bitter political f1gl'1l1.COUt11'l1,18.llY being waged 'll 'llllSf the few who dared to call themselves the friends of this college zdea . mr . l . I , here, for a college at that time it waslnot. No organization, no money, no faculty, no friends, but many and active enemies-what more unpropitious circumstances could well be imagined for the upbuilding of a great college? But. as we alumni know best how unfavo-rable those conditions were, so do we know best, with the proof -of the years before us, that the Man was stronger than the conditions against him. President Bryan threw himself into the work with his characteristic energy and with a determination tocreate something, and he made a great college. Courageously he faced the difficulties in his path, unflinchingly he set himself to the task of overcoming them, magnilicently has he builded. r In accomplishing' this his task was inconceivab-ly harder than if he were to begin in 1910. Seventeen years ago technical and scientific education were comparatively new things. There were no well defined courses to be found in such subjects anywhere. There were not even text books to be had in many of the subjects now studied. All the work of developing our college as it now is had to be conceived in the imagination, planned along a definite line of thought as to what the function of the institution was eventually to become, and afterwards modified in detail by experiment in its practical workings. Thus. with scarce a guide post to mark the way, a true course had to be found through an almost wholly unexplored educational domain. It was not a work of days and weeks, but months and years. Gradually standards were raised, a faculty was gathered together. new courses were introduced and the great conception of the college was slowly but surely evolved. Its relation to the ccononnc needs and resources of the state was determined, and its breadth and sc- :pe established upon a sure and lasting foundation. O-ur president has made it a great college. It stands today as a monument to his enterprise and cf-uragc, the great gift of his life to you and to me, and to all sons and daughters of our fair state. A I ne accomplishment of this, the building of the college, were stupendous tasks. cren il every condition had favored it. But such was not the case. ll had to be won by lighting and by suffering. President Bryan had to !ll?5.ilJHllC necessary work to Fight-for money for the college, to struggle with rCQ'lSl:iru1's. to explain and explain and explain to ignorant narrow-minded pflnicrans not broad enough to understand educational needs. Nor was this plrcQp51ipsE.umI hcgip'g1giSEh1gll1a1igLle3',tc1'imifial-npnclend politicians to- be met with SUHIUI. 3 I 1 . I C o ent ure tie Jittei hostility of -such small- t men, iac to endure the mud-shnging of their paid newspapers, He llzi A ' ' ' - , , - Q . l l- U' llQlll T01 the college at cr ery foot of the way, hampered, cribbed and 18

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