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like New England, too, in appearance of comfort and prosperity. Kansans are like New Englanders in their intellectual ability. Nothing is so much of an inspiration to a speaker as an audience able to appreciate what he may say. The speaker was, he explained, under contract to speak for an hour and he felt that his audience would be sure to see the point if he should happen to make one.
The speaker recounted the story of his early contribution to the making of Kansas what it is. When Cyrus Northrup was a Junior in Yale, the Connecticut colony, which settled shortly before the war in Wabaunsee county, was equipped for their trip. At one of the meetings held in New Haven for the purpose of raising funds, a voice cried out; "One rifle from the Junior class of Yale." The owner of that voice is now Professor Tyler of Cornell and Dr. Northrup paid for the gun. For this reason he felt an especial interest in Kansas.
Edward Everett Hale once apologized for coming from New England to deliver the address at the opening of a library in St. Louis, with only this message to give; "Books should be read." Dr. Northrup had the same message, he said. He came to extend the most hearty congratulations of a sister university upon the completion of the most important building that is now, or ever can be, upon our campus. It is the heart of the University. Thither all intellectual currents flow for refreshment and thence comes the vital fluid of the institution.
The feeling of the State universities toward one another is most friendly. There is no jealousy between them. Indeed the advance of one helps all by kindling state pride and a spirit of generous emulation. Yale, Harvard and Ann Arbor-the last though a state institution, is so old as to be
more like the great eastern schools than like the state universities-pride themselves upon the width of territory from which their students come. The pride of the state university lies in the degree to which it serves its own state by educating the youth thereof. The duty of a state university is to make the expenditure upon it pay, not five per cent, not six per cent; but infinitely more
When Dr. Northrup was a student at Yale the library was in the third story of the chapel and was open only a part of the time. If a student wished to look up any subject, he took out a book on that subject and read it, swallowing whole all its statements and conclusions Now the student is not content with one work. He uses many, he goes to the original documents, he compares conclusions, and then forms his own. The modern university library is to those branches of learning dealing with things which you cannot see and handle immaterial things—what the laboratory is to the physical, material sciences. Under the new method of education the boy knows something. Under the old, he thought he knew something. The new gives knowledge; the old, power. The old gave him power to think but nothing to think about. The new is in danger of paying more attention to giving him much to think about, at the expense of the power to use it.
The speaker spoke very forcibly in regard to the necessity of letting the students get at the books. Books are worth five times as much when students can get at them as when they can be had only through another person's hands. If some books do disappear through carelessness of students, let them disappear! Books are to be used, not kept.
The great need of Kansas University is new books. Yale has over two hundred thousand volumes. Harvard has