The Courier=Review.
Vol. I.
LAWRENCE, KANS., OCTOBER 18, 1894.
No.2.
Report of the Speeches made at the Opening of the Spooner Library, Oct. 10th, 1894.
To a large audience in the University chapel Chancellor Snow introduced the chief speaker of the day in the following words:
"Ladies and Gentlemen:—We have invited many friends to be with us on this occasion and help us to celebrated the completion of the new library building. We have many of these friends present with us today, and many more are absent; so I thonght you would like to hear the messages of some of these friends. There are so many of them that I must defer the great majority of them until this afternoon, but there are two or three that contain words that I want this great audience to hear."
(Here followed the reading of several letters full of congratulations and regrets for absence.)
"Without further preliminary I introduce to you the speaker of the morning, Dr. Northup, of Minnesota."
Chancellor Snow, Ladies and Gentlemen:If I had come here this morning from Boston to address you, I should feel very much ashamed of myself, not because I came from Boston, but because I had come so far and had so little to say. I never go on a long journey to deliver an address without feeling that the result is out of all proportion to the expenditure of force, and I should not stand here with the pleasure that I do at this moment had I come under any such special conditions, but your excellent and justly honored Chancellor has arrested me