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glory of the church. In this country, as in every other country, there have been such problems to solve. We have problems of all kinds, social, religious, scientific, political, and the time is fast approaching when we have got to solve these problems, and have got to solve them rightly.
The church and the university find themselves co-operative and reciprocal. Lastly, the problems that have to be solved by the help of the church and the university are co-eternal in their results. You cannot cultivate a mind and help it to attain to more careful working processes without helping it to understand more of God, reading him, looking from nature to nature's God, from history to the God of history. It is said of Napoleon that an unbeliever once said to him, "Are you so foolish as to believe in God?" Napoleon replied, looking up at the stars, "Who made these?" A man who has a carefully trained and cultured mind must have a God to look up to. Bishop Vincent, in his delightful children's stories, has the following about a little boy called Tom: Tom sees on the dining room table a dish of beautiful peaches. He stretched out his hand to take one. His mother asked him what right he had to touch the peaches. He said, "I thought they were mine." "But," said his mother, "what right had you to think they were yours?" His reply was, "Well, mother, if a boy has a thinker has he not a right to think?" And just so a man may have a thinker, but without the training that enables him to use his thinker aright, he may miss the thought that leads him to eternal life. We must live broader lives, look higher, be stronger. Just in proportion as we are cultured and symmetrical, profiting by all the truths of religion, the nearer shall we be to that completer manhood and womanhood for which we are striving. When the church of Kansas sends to this University her sons and her daughters, we place them here in trust, and I am proud to believe today, Mr. Chancellor, that you and the faculty appreciate very largely the fact that it is not merely a problem solved, that we send our boys and girls to you to have the mind cultivated, but that we want them
sent back more symmetrical, stronger, truer men and women.
B. W. Woodward. "Off with the Old and on with the New."
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Chancellor:—Let me say that when in a little neighborly conversation you imparted to me the other evening, Mr. Chancellor, that, having sent out your venire all over the country, you had already secured a panel of twelve good men and true—and a few lawyers—to try this case this afternoon, I little dreamed that I should come to be summoned as a talesman.
"Off with the old and on with the new!" I cannot say that I am wholly in sympathy with that saying, as far as parting with the old is concerned, for I am a part of the "old" myself. I am not quite ready to be shuffled off—I am not after a felo de se, or any other fellow of that sort. But while I look back with regret on the past, I know that the steps of progress must always be forward, upward and onward, "that we must rise on stepping stones of our dead past to higher things."
Anyone who listened to that address this morning knows that this subject was treated most exhaustively; hence I shall not avail myself of the opportunity to borrow from the speaker—to make a transfer, so to speak, of some of his ideas—though he is well able to afford it. I would, therefore, simply offer congratulations upon what has been so happily accomplished here. The great development of this University has been fully indexed at all times, and especially at this time by the grand development of the library which is so essential and integral a part of an institution of this kind. Only a few years ago, as it now seems to me, and this library consisted merely of a shelf of books. Then slowly and painfully followed an increase to one, two, three thousand books, until in these latter days it has reached the grand total of thirty thousand volumes.
The crisis of any library is in its early years, until it reaches say ten to twenty thousand volumes; after that it will be an easy task to reach one hundred thousand and more.