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of prosperity on every hand. This is due as you all know to the ability and worth of Chancellor Snow, and to the able corps of professors, who compose the Faculty, and who have contributed so much to the glory of this University. I am proud of the State of Missouri, but I am also proud of Kansas. Proud of her history, proud of the splendid record she has made in the years that have passed, and I am proud that I was even permitted to spend one short year in Kansas University. There seems to be something in the beautiful landscape of Kansas, in her fields, residences, and homesteads, in her hills and valleys that inspires her young men and women with a hearty love for culture and knowledge. It is well that Kansas can boast of such a University as this, and I trust that the people of Kansas whatever may become of them or befall them in the future will not forget their University. I am a friend of this institution, for it is on the universities and schools of the country that we must be dependent for the country's strength in the years that are to be. They are the places wherein the poor man may find means to prepare himself for a useful life, to be a deliverer of his country, to make himself the equal of his fellow men. He should never forget the universities and schools of his country.
Today in this new world all things are open to man; this is an age of wealth, culture and refinement, and this republic gathers tribute of the harvest. Here in Kansas is a mighty representation of the world's wealth. A good story is told of a Kansas boy. A good brother was holding a revival, and at the end of his sermon he called upon those who wanted to go to heaven to stand up. Every one in the room stood up except the little boy. He then asked all those wishing to go to the other place to stand up. Of course all kept their seats, the little boy with the rest. "What is the trouble with you my boy?" asked the preacher. "Oh! Kansas is good enough for me," was the reply. And what has made Kansas what she is? Why, it is the schools, from the University to the little school house on the plain. Cultivate that feeling of love for the University and the schools in the children of Kansas and she will prosper in the years to come. Progress in the University, progresss in Kansas; onward and upward. May Kansas people come here until the University at Lawrence will be known far and near as the greatest university in the west, and this can be done largely by people of wealth and influence contributing of their means towards its uplifting and development.
Why is it that today, England, with her parliament and queen, with her peerless student homes, with her mind, her heart, will not begin to compare with this great republic? The answer is to be found in that increasing intelligence of the masses of the people in this country. With increased knowledge, what wonderful possibilities may not we hope to see realized in the years that are to come. Cursed be the hand that would destroy the schools of our country.
"Oh royal mind cease not thy flight
While suns and stars dispense their light,
And roll in grand array,
And when those orbs shall cease to shine,
When suns decay and stars decline,
Let onward progress still be thine
And upward hold thy way."
Geo. T. Fairchild; "The Plough and the Lexicon."
When that card was poked at me with those ominous words, "the Plough and the Lexicon," I felt somewhat like Pompey in good old Kentucky. His master was a great hunter, and loved to relate tales of the deeds he did on his expeditions. He was telling once how he shot a deer, the shot going right through from the heel to the ear. Turning to Pompey he asked, "Is not that so?" Yes, Massa, Yes," said Pompey; you see gentlemen just as the trigger was pulled the deer stooped to scratch his ear," remarking afterwards to his master, "For Gawd's sake, Massa, get it a little nearer together next time." So I too wish that these two, the plough and the lexicon were a little nearer together. But I recognize the fact that they are both tools. The lexicon is a good