| |
| |
Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.
EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:
University Organizes 299 forming the decorations. Letters were received from Governor Oglesby, Richard Yates, C. B. Lawrence, B. N. Stevens, John A. Logan, S. M. Cullom, S, S. Marshall, and Green B. Raum, who were unable to be present. Addresses were delivered by Dr. Newton Bateman, state superintendent of public instruction, and the regent. Dr. Bateman in his address ably reviewed the steps in the struggle that had culminated in the establishment of the land grant universities. He had known Jonathan B. Turner for over thirty years, was his near neighbor for twenty of them and a student under him for four years. Mr. Turner it was who gave to the ambition and the determination of the inarticulate toiling masses a voice. He was definite, eloquent, determined, and inspiring. He never, as is the mistake of so many leaders, confused himself with his cause; always he saw that his cause was greater than himself and when it demanded he stepped aside. Dr. Bateman quoted a passage from Turner that takes up one of the reasons for failure in previous attempts to establish industrial colleges and strikes at its root so directly that it must be quoted here: " * One. capital and fatal error has been the idea that we should send a boy to school to learn to WORK, and not simply to learn to THINK; thus absurdly attempting to teach, by public endowment and munificence, the little arts of PERSONAL MANIPULATION, instead of the magnificent SCIENCE of UNIVERSAL SUCCESS. Nothing could be more fatal. When I have taught a boy merely to hold a plow, I have only taught him to be a two-legged jackass twin brother of the team in front of him. But when I have taught him truly and scientifically all the mighty mysteries of seas, stars, oceans, lands and ages that are concerned in that act of plowing, I have made a man of himj —had we not better say, an angel? Art, in the sense of mere labor, mere servile imitation alone, is only animal; the common property of asses, dogs and monkeys. But true labor, inspired by universal science and intelligence, is not only characteristically human, but also Divine. {What could be more absurd than to take a hundred boys, in their teens, away from their parents, the year round, and set them to dabbling with a hundred teams,
| |
