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he gong was assembled in building, filled the Upon the Upton theicated Gov. the regents, members of the citizens of known men earnest and v. Page, v. of its was intro- sis a member Judge Otis upon the past of the Units' growth ere nothing, educational in- States. He hy as it was as a member four years fond existed. was whether remain at a college for to be ex- extil it was for Michigan Univer- The is to Be, and in carried out the University. building was department was the pharmacy finished. The for a hall of appropriationiversity. It is honor a pro- be honored. without limita- to the que- sess with that ap- to that mag- Hall. Mr. Otis future course. It was their would attend studies now en- called up upon education to residence was the chancellor private cor- twenty-four property valued, without t he kind in con-
Regent Otis, and Prof. Snow,
who was to introduce Prof. Cope. Prof. Snow was received with great applause, it being several minutes before he was able to make himself heard. He thanked the audience for their kind greeting. He described the University as he found it twenty years ago, when he first was appointed professor. He thanked Gov. Robinson, who was on the rostrum, for having accomplished his appointment at that time, and thanked the board of regents of 1886 for appointing him to the chair of natural history instead of to that of Greek, as he desired. He described his letter of acceptance of the chair of natural history, in which letter he accepted the chair only on condition that as soon as a chair of Greek literature should be established he should have charge of it. After describing the methods by which the specimens had been collected, and thanking the students who had so faithfully assisted in this collection, he closed his short address by introducing Prof. E. D. Cope, with a short account of his work in natural history.
Prof. Cope is a very easy and graceful speaker. He speaks in an ordinary conversational tone, and directly to his hearers. Although speaking very rapidly, yet every word is articulated distinctly and freely. Throughout his long address he held the closest attention of every person in the audience. He spoke directly from notes, having no manuscript. We are sorry we cannot give his lecture, especially that in regard to evolution and materialism. Fowards the close of his lecture he gave many encouraging words to those who contemplate making the study of natural history a life work.
DEDICATION EXERCISES PROPER.
At the close of the address of Prof. Cope, the audience was invited by the chancellor and Regent Otis, to take part in the dedication exercises proper, which were to be held in the west room, first floor, of the new building.
A line was formed in the lower hall and the assembled guests marched from the northwest door across the campus to the building to be dedicated. Gov. Martin and Chancellor Lippincott led the line of march, then following was Prof. Snow, hoisted on the shoulders of four students, then followed the faculty, the guests and the students.
Arriving at the building, the company gathered in the hall designated. Prayer was offered up by Rev. Waters, of Topeka.
Gov. Martin being then introduced, made the following address, delivering the building to the regents and the University:
In the stirring poem read by our Kansas poet at the Quarter Centennial, it is said:
"States are not great, except as men may make them.
Men are not great, except they do and dare.
But states, like men, have destinies that take them—
That bear them on, not knowing why or where."
The wonderful growth and marvelous prosperity of Kansas, unprecedented in the history of the American States, is not alone due to soil, climate, resources and typography. Other states have soils as productive, climate as healthful, resources more varied, and landscapes as lovely as ours. The unexamplied development and prosperity of Kansas is the logical result of her splendid citizenship, and of the intellectual and moral forces this citizenship has set at work in every township in the state. Our
pioneer settlers laid the foundations of a school-house and a church by the side of their first rude homes, and from that day to this, the idea thus planted has grown and spread and flourished with the development of the commonwealth. The people of Kansas may have been parsimonious in some things, but they have never stinted their expenditures to provide for all the children of the state the most ample educational facilities.
A few days ago the oldest and most richly endowed college in this country celebrated the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its foundation. For more than two centuries Harvard has been the pride of the great state within whose borders it is located, and yet it has not received from Massachusetts as much money as the young state of Kansas has appropriated during the past twenty-five years to establish an support this University.
The Older generations of Kansas, however, hold a divided allegiance. They love and are proud of the state of their adoption, but memories of the fields and hills and streams of their birthplace are still singing in their hearts. The young men and women who come up to Mount Oread to be equipped for the battle of life, will be, as a rule, natives of the state, and attached to it by the undived ties of childhood's memories and the pride and faith of maturer years. Generation after generation of these sons and daughters of Kansas will be inspired within these walls, with higher aims, nobler motives and larger and broader views of human life and endeavor.
We meet to-day to formally celebrate another step in the growth and progress of the State University—to dedicate this beautiful building, the home for all future time, of the department of natural history. Very properly this building is to bear the name of the learned, devoted and enthusiastic teacher to whose energy, industry and zeal the state is indebted for treasures that are gathered within its walls. I discharge a very pleasant duty, gentlemen of the board of regents, when in the name of the state I commit to your keeping this stately edifice. See that the purpose of the legislature, in ordering it, is fully carried out. Study the needs of this great educational institution, and make them known. Strive to keep it, in all its departments, fully abreast with the growth and progress of the state. In this endeavor you can, I am confident, rely on the cordial and generous cooperation of the intelligent people of Kansas, and the hearty support of their chosen representatives to the legislature.
The chancellor, on behalf of the regents, accepted the building, as follows:
It is an extreme embarrassment, Mr. President, and the more so at so short notice, to stand in the place of one whose eloquent sentences are an ever fresh delight to all who are fortunate enough to hear him speak. At the last moment Mr. Peck telephoned me that it would be wholly impossible for him to be with us.
Small was the beginning, hopeful has been the progress, of that department of the University work which to-day receives such a distinguishing mark of the generous confidence of the state. Promising, too, is the future. It will be found, I doubt not, repaying the commonwealth a hundred fold for all it shall have received.
I believe we may go farther, and predict an equally brilliant future for every department of the University work. There is no jealousy here. Every professor is proud of the success achieved in the department of every other professor, taking the utmost progress of one as a measure of the final triumph of all.
We see before us what twenty years of devoted, patient, unselfish labor may accomplish. Fortunately for the University of Kansas, for the state and for science, this department has been in the hands of one man since its beginning in 1866, and that man has combined genius of no ordinary degree, with tireless, devoted labor; (applause) yet that which to-day is realized here, is but a beginning of what shall ultimately be accomplished here in the lines of natural history.
Speaking for the board of regents, you excellency, I accept the new building, which the state, speaking through you, presents to the University. Devoting and dedicating it to research in natural history
and to the instruction of our classes in the same field, we pledge our utm endeavor to make such use of it as that the object of the donation by the state shall be fully realized.
Resolved. On motion of the chancellor,
Hon. A. G. Ous in the chair, that the natural history building now in the course of erection, be named SNOW HALL OF NATURAL HISTORY, and that the secretary be authorized and directed to communicate this action to Professor Snow. (Great applause)
An extract from the minutes of a meeting of the board of regents held October 7, 1885, may with singular propriety be read in this presence:
Now, therefore, acting under the instruction of the board of regents of the University of Kansas, and by the authority vested in me as chancellor of the University and as president of the board, I declare that henceforth this building, generously presented by the state, shall be known as
SNOW HALL OF NATURAL HISTORY.
(Applause.)
Furthermore, in the name and by the authority of the board of regents, I do solemnly set apart and dedicate Snow Hall to the uses of the department of natural history as a part of the general work of the University of Kansas.
After the completion of Dr. Lippincott's acceptance of the building, Hon. T. A. McNeal, a member of the legislature from Barbour county, was called upon for a few words. He made one of his characteristic humorous speeches, which was well liked and well received by the audience.
Thus, at about one o'clock, was completed the dedication of Snow Hall.
The entire building was then thrown open and an invitation extended to everyone to examine and inspect the building and specimens. Most of the assembly availed themselves of this invitation.
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