Caption: Book - John Milton Gregory Memorial Convocation (1898)
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(-M\ i RSI H Ol Ml INOI doors to women. They had in their m ,.-.. of , h- r , „. mdof magnificent scholarh n«l. .vm in I !><•. I I libraries of which they wen justly proud, thoui.h more ft,-, thes< wc:r. I h had asso it ions and < on lv open at designated intervals. memories tending wonderfully to fost< r I l-cget u telle tual refinement and strength, But they had no laboratories worthy of m ntion. I hen < was no opportunity for, nor spiril of I i h other th n in books and manuscripts. Modern s i n < < < in none titudinous forms by which modern life is now f tin mulpO' nth touched and so significantly viviti. I. had ned pra entrance. In the fifties, and alm< as truly forth was impossible for a student -o inclined to gain an 1 it hinj. beyond elementary instruction in any Ameri an collegi cour j in chemistry, physics, physiology, bo! ny. ZOO log . geology astronomy except upon the math matical side, political - ience economics—in sociology not at all—engin ering in an of its branches except again the mathematical applications, architecture, agriculture or anything closeK related thereto, and in many other somewhat kindred branches nov. consid red important in courses of collegiate instruction. T h e r e was no institution on the American continent, or an number of insti tutions, in which a score of professors now en i ed in the work of this University could have pre pan . themselves t r the duties they were severally railed upon t nan a: the beginning of their services here. To study s • nee in these early days of our half century one must | n o m . abroad ! perhaps with little purpose, or must have don V Hits e f college walls and college helps. T h e r e was little r no 1 -en in choice of studies. The undergraduate—there was ,,• ti ally no graduate instruction offered-mighl choose it mav be one of two or three general courses which, when ch sen h, must pursue from beginning to end laid down the first concession to individual needs and person d • I aptitudes, and it sometimes strained severelv th..' "V'V of the institutions to grant so much as they did it UMU,K impossible that they should offer more in this udui , r T*I ii r . . . clu)ii rhe call for new institutions of higher 1 „•„„„ largely increased endowments to meet th, n, ..
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