: ¥ % i bo fonds i Ea er fof b thing purposes. Deora Wala Bellefonte, Pa., November 25, 1904. P. GRAY MEEK, - - - Ss — TERMS oF SUBSCRIPTION.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : Eprtor Paid strictly in advance.......ccouunennns $1.00 Paid before expiration of year.......... 1.50 Paid after expiration of year............ 2.00 ——The WATCHMAN goes to press, this week, several hours earlier than usual in order that its employees and managers may have an opportunity to enjoy their turkey and cranberry sauce, and time to thank the good Lord that they get a square meal oc- casionally and that their work isto dis- seminate the truth. Shortest Session Likely. The coming session of the Legislature is to be the shortest on record, according to the Hon. WARD R. BLiss, of Delaware county, chairman of the committee on ap- propriations of the last House of Represen- tatives and certain to be a conspicuous member of the next House. Mr. BLISS doesn’t take the public into his confidence sufficiently, however, to give a reason for this purpose of the machine. Still no great perspicaciby is required to accurately guess the cause of the proposed short session. If is in order that reform legislation may be the more certainly prevented. There are abundant reasons to believe that the demand for legislation in the in- terest of honest elections will be pressed with =zuch vigorand pertinacity on the com- ing Legislature as to make it difficult to resist the force. A personal registration law will be asked and the iniquitous pro- vision of the present law which enables the vote briber to take his creature into the booth and mark his ballot will be attacked with equal vebemence. New apportion. ment bills will be demanded also,and laws for the equalization of taxes will be pre- sented and pressed with much earnestness. Of course the machine will resist all such legislation to the full measure of its power and there is no method of fighting reform so effective as a short session. Billscan be held in committee a good while if there is any danger that Senators and Representa- tives are likely to be forced by public opin- ion into supporting them in the open ses- siou. Then the ordinary processes of legis- lation can be made to move slowly so that with an early adjournment fixed in the beginning it won’t be hard to stifle the spirit of reform, however assertive it may be inside or out of the body. Proposed New Judges. We learn from the Philadelphia Press that a number of bills are to be introduced during the coming session of the Legislature creating new Judicial districts and adding to the number of judges in the State. One of these will provide for an additional court and three new judges in Philadel- phia and a new court and the same nam- ber of additional judges in Allegheny coun- ty will be the purpose of another. The scheme to give Cambria county an addition- al judge will also be re-introduced and pressed and quite a number of others will be considered. Now as a matter of fact there is just about as much need for new courts and additional judges in this State as there is for two tails on adog. In Philadelphia for example, the judges of ‘the four courts which were in existence previgus to the creation of the Fifth cours during the ses- sion of the Legislatore in 1901, were unan- imously of the opinion that the new court was absolutely unnecessary and conse- quently an extravagance. Since then, however, the courts of that city have de- generated into political spoils and the chances are that the next Legislature will be importuned to give them more help. The creation of courts and the multiplica- tion of judges have become political meas- ures, however, and the chances are that every Republican in both branches of the Legislature will vote for every one that is introduced unless the people express their condemnation in advance with such empha- sis as will command attention. That he- ing true the people of this country owe it t0 themselves to speak out in protest against every new court and judge hill that is introduced. The expenses of such laxuries are paid out of the State treasury and every citizen of the Commonwealth is concerned in the matter. Let us Have the Best Possible. i It is the thing for Centre county Demo crats to do now to consider who, among themselves in the different election districts will make the more active and influential worker, as a county committeemen for next year. The members of the new committee will he to be named the first of January, and as next year’s county ticket is to be an exceptioually large one we will have a most important campaign on then. To elect that ticket work should be he- gun now the work of organization. We have just experienced what a good organization can do. Next fall we will have fully as much work to doas was done at the late election, although not under such adverse conditions, and it is only taking ‘‘time by the forelock’’ by being fully prepared for the work when it comes. —Ducks can’ be easily reared without ovided they have a trough of wa- They are, how- ever, more expensive when kept in that <manner, as they procure a large part of their subsistence when running at large and having access to ponds. ——— Exercises as well as the ° Friday of last week, November 18th, was a big day for the Pennsylvania State Col. lege. It wasa big day because it was one of the most prominent milestones in the epoch of ber progression. State College is no longer in the chrysalis state but is going by tremendous upward leaps into the ranks of the first and best universities in the country and none now realize this more surely than just those who were present last Friday to witness the observance of ‘Pennsylvania Day’’ and the dedication of the new $150,000 Caruegie library. And a more 1epresentative crowd than that of last Friday has never before been gathered at the college. The crowd numbered from twelve to fif- teen hundred people and among the prom- inent guests present were Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mr. and Mis. Charles M. Schwab, Governor and Mrs. Samuel W. Pennepacker, deputy attorney general Fred W. Fleitz, state librarian Thomas L. Montgomery, major general Chas. Miller, Congressman S. R. Dresser and a number ANDREW CARNEGIE. of State senators and members of the Legi® lature. The Carnegie—Schwah party went up over the Bellefonte Cential railroad, Thursday afternoon, in Mr. Schwab's pri- vate car, ‘‘Loretta,’’ while Governor Penne- packer and party came up over the Lewis- burg railicad, Thursday afternoon, and were driven to the college in carriages. All the prominent guests were entertained at the residence of Dr. Atherton, where they were serenaded by the college band, Thurs- day evening. After their arrival Thursday evening and before the exercises Friday morning Mr. Carnegie, Mr.Schwab and Governor Penne- packer, as well as the ladies in the party made a pretty thorough inspection of the college and its various departments. Fri- day morning's trains took a large crowd up from this place and immediately upon their arrival at the college a half hour was spent in a general inspection of the build- ings. The ‘‘Pennsylvania Day’’ exercises were held in the new auditorium, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Schwab. They were seb to begin at 9:30 o’clock bat long before that time the spacious gallery, the only place open to the general public, the main audience room being reserved for the students, was well filled. Promptly at 9:30 o’clock the lower doors were thrown open by the student cadets on guard and the student body marched in in two double files, almost eight hundred strong, enough to very nearly occupy the entire seating capacity of the spacious room. Imme- diately following the student body came Dr. Atherton and the prominent guests and members of the faculty, all of whom oc- cupied sents on the platform. During the entrance of the students, the visitors and the faculty the college orchestra played a very pretty processional march. The exercises of the morning were opened with an invocation by Dr. Ben- jamin Gill followed with <he Lord’s prayer, chanted by the college choir. Dr. Atherton, who presided, made a very brief talk in which he defined the purpose of observing one day in the year as ‘‘Penn- sylvania Day’’ and then intrednced as the first speaker Mr. Thomas I.. Montgomery, state librarian of Pennsylvania, who made an appropriate and very opportune address on ‘Pennsylvania Libraries in their Re- lation to Education.”” Mr. Montgomery told of the changes instituted at the State library in Harrisburg whereby auy books and documents therein were not kept on the shelves to mould and rust in a litter of dust, bat were given out, even sent to any part of the State, to any responsible person desiring to make research of their contents. The speaker also told of the starting and growth of the traveling library system and closed with the hope that ere many years there would be a free public library in every town and hamlet in the country. Following Mr. Montgomery’s address the college glee club sang ‘‘The Lost Chord,” Mr. F. J. Saunders carrying the solo parts. Dr. Atherton then introduced deputv-attorney general Fred W. Fleitz, who made an address on ‘‘Pennsylvania.’”’ To attempt to give even a brief synopsis of Mr. Fleitz’s address would result in utter failure as the address throughout was so replete with good things that it ought to be read in fall by every man and woman in the State and itis the WATCHMAN’s purpose to try and procure the manuscript and print it in full in next week’s issue At the conclusion of Mr. Fleitz’s ad- CARNEGIE LIBRARY DEDICATED. A Large and Representative Crowd Witnessed the Dedicatory ‘Pennsylvania Day’ Exer- cises, at State College, Last Friday. Brothers, Raise the Song,’”’ the words and music being written especially for State College usage, a very appropriate piece, inasmuch as the Governor was the next speaker on the program. In introducing Gov. Pennypacker Presi- dent Atherton spoke as follows : ‘We have the great honor of having present with us this morning one whom we all respect for his high official position as well as for his personal character. “The Governor of the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania occupies a position of more influence, in some respects, than did the President of the United States at the time when the constitution of the United States was framed in Philadelphia. The State of Pennsylvania alone has twice the number of inhabitants that all the thirteen colo- nies then had; it has many times more wealth than all the colonies; it has a variety of industries that were then unknown ; it 1as millions of mul- tifarious activities that were then not conceived of and the complex web of modern civilizition, with all its myriad strands, interwoven of the vast and swift activities of modern life, is typified in the activities of Pennsylvania more than in any cther Commonwealth, so that the Governor of the Commonwealth touches more varied inter- ests than the Governor of any other Common: wealth in the United States and touches them more directly than even the President of the United States. “It has been said that in Pennsylvania publie life is corrupt; that the officials are corrupt. One distinguished gentleman went so tar as to say that appropriations were made to charities and to education for the sake of the plunder there was in them for individnals interested. I want to say in this public way that the State College of Pennsylvanian has never paid or been asked to pay one cent of money for securing, or helping {o secure any of its appropriations that it has re- ceived from the State Legislature of Pennsyl- vania. (Applause.) I want to say, further, that no public man of Pennsylvania has ever tried to secur the ap- pointment of any man to the faculty of the Pein- sylvania State College on political, or personal, or social, or religious, or any other gronnd, ex- cept absolute merit, and that the leaders of the publie life of our State have never, directly or in- directly, so far as I know, tried to influence an Appelntment in the State College. ord that I think not the State College alone but the state of Pennsylvania may be proud of, and I cite it simply as a fact which helps to kindle my indignation at the unjustifiable slander thai is often thrown upon the fair fame of Pennsylvania, their own purposes to subserve by that course. Governor Pennepacker made an inter- esting address in which, among other things he said: ‘‘The contemplation of Plato and Socrates have heen toa lage extent for- gotten, and the thought of man is given to the rush of the locomotive across the broad prairies, to the erection of great bridges, to the construction of factories where at one end is put in the naked ore and at the other end comes out completed steel work, wire fences and all the appliances of machinery.”” In closing the Governor said he must confess that he was surprised at the magnitude of State College. That while it had been liberally provided for the last few years, so far as he was able he promised it just as liberal treatment in the future, a promise that drew forth pro- longed applause. The next and last That is a rec- | even by her own sons. when apparently they have | if you will realize that your social status is the same and will use the same application, the same assiduity, youare bound to eclipse him and bound to succeed. Now I have taken my five minutes, I thank you very much for your kindly reception and be- fore closing, I want to thank you, the students, for Mrs, Schwab for the kindly testimonial which you so generously presente representatives, last year, and above all, for the kindly, sentimental way in which it wes done. We thank you all. (Great applause.) At the conclusion of Mr. Schwab’s speech the entire audience joined with the, college choir in singing ‘‘America’’ and before ad- journments the students gave their **Penn- sylvania! State!” cry for each individual prominent guest present. At noontime luncheon armory to more than seven hundred in- vited guests. Owing to the limited time toasts and responses thereto at the luncheon were dispensed with, as everybody wanted to get through in time for the Carnegie library dedicatory exercises, which were held in the new libiary and which began promptly at 2 o'clock. ‘lhere, as at the auditorium, the public were admitted ouly to the gallery, the students occupying and entirely filling the floor space—being then packed in like sardines in a hox. Dr. Atherton, Mr. Carnegie and Gen. Beaver had seats onthe platform, which is of limited capacity, while the other promi- nent guests weie seated at the cides and in front. In intreducing Mr. Carnegie, the principal speaker of the afternoon, Dr. Atherton, iu part spoke as follows: I have great happiness in this day It is not my part to speak, because speaking is, in a sense, superficial, while feeling is deep, and, in the times of deepest feeling, speech is inade- quate. No speech could express the sense of deep and abiding gratitude that I fee! today, and have felt for a long time, toward the donor of this beautitul and usefu! building. 1 feel a deeper sense of gratitude, if he will not think it nnap- preciative, for the times in which we live which make «11 this possible and for the light of civili- zution handed down from generation to genera- tron which is preserved to a greater extent in Looks than 1m any other single institution. Just as come men flare up into a bright light and disappear, some men shoot like the meteor across the skies and are heard of no more, while others burn on steadily like the planets, so the great intellectual and spiritual forces that move the world run in the deep and silent, the forceful and ever compelling streams which draw togeth- i er the best in humanity that we call civilization. | There are books evanescent, there are books that ! have their brief day, which perhaps cause a smile or a blush or a tear to pass across the face of hu- manity and then are forgotten, but the great books which embody the great soul of humanity are handed down in libraries and, therefore, our guest and benefactor of today may well be happy that the inspiration came to him in due time to identify himself for all time with that great stream of human thonght and human influence that not only preserves the best of what the world has done but furnishes the guiding model and the guiding authority, as it were, for the genera- tions to come. Here the young men who are very soon to join the ranks of those who are begring the burdens of life may participate in this benefit and be brought into contact with that great flood of life of which we form a part. It was at first thought that $100,000 would be adequate for the erection of this building but lat- er, on finding from a very slight inquiry the rowth of the institution and its promi-e for the uture, Mr. Carnegie voluntarily added to that without condition $50,000 more, saying that he would hold the College responsible for the right expenditure of it and for the right use of it, and I on like, if time permitted, to show you how all this has been adapted to use without any sac- rifice of beauty and how we have tried here to look upon this as the great working laboratory of the ee soul of the institution. We hope that it will be a laboratory in the truest and highest her, through her | was served in the | place but let us pay a tribute to the ancient clas- sics, because, if it hadn’t been for the ancient classics we conld never have gotten into the ear- lier universities anything but theology and meta- physics. That was the medium through which , our knowledge of literature was obtained. Of course they have been elevated away beyond | their deserts, because we had nothing else. Now I want to say how proud I am, standing here today, to hail the State College of Pennsyl- vania as one of the pioneers in the reform of edu- cation. Your President tells us that the English course is unusually complete and thorough and that that may be taken as the general character of the educat on of this institution, and he says io us, ‘we teach the American literature first.’ That is right, toteach American history first. (Applause) and it is proper to follow that with the literature that your own race has produced wher- ever the English tongue is spoken. But what is all this teaching us? May I quote two things that are not cyclopedia either? Oxford has re- | cently, by a majority vote of its faculty, agreed to dispense with Greek. Cambridge has just done | the same thing. You will find that movement wherever yon go and nowhere have I found it more pronounced than this, I would rather criticise all the prophets of the Old Testament than Homer—you would receive less eriticism— but here we are face to face with the new de- mands of the age and | congratulate the State College that it appreciates that fact and that it is Bok to be left behind. It isan up-to-date Col- ege. But, gentlemen, before I said that, I wished to say to you this : I wanted to speak of my feelings upon this occasion, Old memories have been stirred. If my foot be not upon my native heath this moment, it yet stands upon the first soil where, with my parents, 1 found a home in this Republic. (Applause,) The Governor of this mighty State, this much loved State, could have said nothing half so sweet to me as when he hail- ed me this morning as a Pennsylvanian. I like your ‘‘Pennsylvania—State, State, State!” (Ap- plause.) If Scotland be my mother-land, then 1 tell you Pennsylvania is my wife-land by mar- riage. (Applause.) It was an early marriage, I wouldn’t advise any of you students to be so rash. {aushier.) I was only eleven. (Laughter.) ut I tell you, gentlemen, I am not at all con- cerned about the question of divorce that is agi- tating the Episcopal church just now. I never mean to be divorced from Pennsylvania and I never mean to let Pennsylvania divorce herself from me. I wish to congratulate you, Mr. President,upon the presence of the Governor here today. I judge that he has been tleeping as I was (Laughter) and that he has awakened to the tact that ofall the appropriations that he approved none is capa ble of performing more lasting good for this State than that to the State College, to which he has hitherto stood a friend. (Applause.) And now, Mr. President and gentlemen of the faculty, one word more of deep and sincere con- gratulation te you and the faculty. If the teach- ers of mankind be right from Homer to Washing- . ton, then the only solid foundation upon whic can be erected a society marching ever upward and where the rights of democracy can be main- tained, must rest upon the universal education of the people. How noble then your vocation and that of your fellows; that you are laying well and deep the foundations npon which human society alone can rest, that will march ever upward, ever onward, always improving, a march to which no end can be assigned. In conclusion, before performing the cere- mony, I wish to say a word about libraries. The iibrarian referred to the speech of the President, in opening a library in Washington, in which he said that he liked my idea of getting committees to maintain them. He made this remarkable statement, ‘I'he man who always wants to be carried is never worth carrying.’ That is the language of the President of the United States. Now may I venture to suggest delicately to the Governor that I gave the money to build this library and our dear President here and Gov. Beaver assured me that there would be a Gover- nor of Pennsylvania who would see that enough money was voted year after year to maintain it. I think that the Governor who will do so has ar- rived. (Applause.) It remains for me to perform the ceremony of handing over the library to you, Governor Beav- er, as President of the Board of Trustees, and this I do, in the earnest hope, nay the confident belief, that year after year it must be of greater and greater usefulness to the students of this University, with the hops that in communing with the teachers of mankind you may not only become educated men but there may be here implanted within you the fruitful harvest of high ideals from which, gentlemen, we expect you to ever press upward to the truest of all wis- dom, the best, and what is the test of the hest: That one may render precious service to his fel- THE CARNEGIE NEW LIBRARY AT STATE COLLEGE. speaker of the morning, introduced by Dr Atherton, was Mr. Charles M. Schwab, who spoke as follows: MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : When Mr. Carnegie invited me to come up to- day with him, I accepted his invitation without any intention of speaking in this. hall or even of making any address upon this occasion. I do want to say that it was a great disappoint- ment that ill health prevented our being here last year at the dedication of this hall but that the pleasure of hearing from your good President of its utility and value has quite made up for the disappointment at our inability to be present. You have heard this morning much of learn- ing with reterence to the history of Pennsyl- vania literature, the possibilities of Pennsyl- vania, ete, and I will not encroach upon your time to speak of any of these things. I promised Dr. Atherton not to take more than five minutes todav and I just wish to repeata few words and to add a few new thoughts to that of which I spoke to you some two years ago. Pennsylvania is great by reason of her indus- trial achievements. The boys of the Pennsyl- vania State College are the men of the future, upon whom devolves the duty of maintaining Pennsylvania supremacy. (Applause.) I want to say to you, as one who.has had experience, that it is a pleasant oocupation. Tu me, who has seen some of the various sides of business life, there is no greater pleasure than the conceiving of a machine, or a project, or a process and the building or carrying out of the same. As our good old friend, Capt. Jones, expresses it, ‘No music so sweet in the world as the whir of the mechanical wheels.” You will find far greater pleasure my dear young friends, especially these engineering friends in this, than in the making of all the money in the world, even though your fortunes be as great as Mr. Carnegie’s. (Laugh- ter and applause.) Iam sure thatthere aie none of you, even if you do reap as rich and as great a fortune, who will not be just as generons with it after today as he has been with his. (Laughter and applause.) It is always with reluctance that I speak of him, especially when he is present. He has spoken so often to me, and I place some emphasis upon the to, (Laughter) but it has never been for any oth- er purpose than the good to be accomplished, Now this remindsme of a thought that Mr. Car- negie and I discussed much yesterday. The brightest minds in the world directed in one single chanuel will never accomplish very much but, when rubbed up against a great many people, these bright minds take the best thoughts from all and the best results are thus attained. I hope this hall wiil be the central meeting place of this great student body, where an inter- change of ideas will result in the ultimate devel- opment of all. Even the geniuses will be im- proved by the contact of their less favored breth- ren, (Laughter and appiause,) There is one more idea that I wish you students would never forget poy having had the advant- age of such an edneation as you are having here, { realize its importance—and that is that the man who is a graduate of a great institution of this sort is in no higher plane =ocially than the boy who has received his education in the practical dress the college choir sang ‘‘Come, university of the world, the ork hop. (Ap- plause.) You have the advantage of the hoy who has been in the university of the workshop but, sense and [ now have the greatest of pleasure and honor in presenting Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the donor of the building. (Great applause.) Mr. Carnegie said : MR. PRESIDENT, YOUR EXCELLENCY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—LAST, BUT NOT LEAST—AND STUDENTS oF STATE COLLEGE : Permit me toindulge in afew words, giving you my impressions, before we proceed to this other matter. It is twenty years since I was here and I feel like Rip Van Winkle after he had slept 20 years, (Laughter and applause) to come and see what we have seen today which has impressed Mrs. Carnegie and myself so deeply. This isa great evolution. This High school for farmers—Farm- ers’ High School —(Laughter and applause) I find has now nineteen courses, embracing all subjects of human knowledge. Twenty Joe ago I found 170 students here and now I find between 700 and 800 and the cry is, ‘‘still they come.” (Laughter, applause.) I rejoice, amidst the great changes we see, that one thing has not changed and that is this gentleman here (pointing to Dr. Ather- ton.) (Applause.) I rejoice to see him support- ed by his life-long friend, General Beaver. (Ap- ause. P One word to the students. I wish you would take down the Encyclopedia Britannica, if you choose, and read up Universities, I come here just crammed with knowledge on the subject. (Laughter.) 1 could speak to you for an hour and you would say, what a man that Carnegie is ; (Laughter.) I know all aboutthem. The evolu- tion which education has undergone is very striking, You gentlemen of the caps and gowns know all about that. The pagan schools were swept away and the monastic and cathedral schools arose in their place. The one taught how to be monks and the other taught how to be priests and that was about all that civilization thought worthy of teaching in those days. "That passed away. Then came the era of the univer- sities. They got into trouble. Metaphysics and logic you know set the universities of the world Shine there was a perfect warfare between them for two centuries; the realistics held sway in Paris and the nominalists in Heidelberg, and so on. Then came the Italian Universities ;— Gentlemen, that is all encyclopedia (Laughter, applause.) Don’t forget to read that encyclo- pedia and get it off, you know. The result of it was, however, that they got into quarrels on metaphysics and that was the one thing then; all Paris was simply mad in the twelfth century on that new idea. Very well, you find traces of that today. There are two gentlemen that [ know in Britain. One of them is the prime minister, Bal- four, and the other is Mr. Haldine, both high up in metaphysics. One of them wasted his time in preparing lectures for St. Andrew’s Universi- ty, of which I have the honor to be lord rector and, of course, he wound up in a mass of words and left the subject just where he began. Mr. Balfour has told us that we know nothing and what we do know we don’t know that we know. (Laughter, applause.) Gentlemen, you get a good thing from a Scotch- man now and then. (Laughter, applause.) Here is the definition of metaphysics. “Edwin,” the voung shepherd said to the elder, “Edwin what is metafeesics?’ “‘Saundy, metafeesics is when ya man is trying to tell ither man all ahoot a subject he canna’ know onything aboot himsel'.” Now, gentlemen, we have gotten out of meta- physics, we have relegated that to the proper ' lows, to his state and to his country. i General Beaver, I hand you this key. Take it, , sir, from one who loves Pennsylvania, who loves | State College, who loves the people of the United : States and who would serve them all well. | (Great applause.) ! In response, Gen. Beaver spoke in part as follows : 4 Mg. CarNEGIE :—Pardon me, amid these schol- astic surroundings, may I not give you your scholastic title, Dr. Carnegie: (Applanse,) On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Penn- sylvania State College, your colleagues, I am deputed to say a few words in accepting this magnificent gift at your hands. It is not the first of your gifts. There is a little case containing Stevens’ fac-similes which you gave us years ago. I suppose you have heard— if you haven’t you ought to have heard—our vand. (Applause.) I will tell you about it. A few years ago the students sent in a petition to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, asking for instruments for a brass band. Whilst we had not the money to appropri- ate for it, Dr. Atherton and I raid, we will start the brass band fund with $50 apiece and another gentleman who heard of it sent me acheck for #1 0. Under those circumstances, I wrote to Mr. Carnegie, told him of the. movement and asked him for his check for $100. In reply I received the following letter: 7 r- “My dear Governor: 4 Please let me furnish the music for the college boys. I have directed my cashier to send you a Sheek for eight hundred dollars.” (Ap- plause. : You have heard, sir, on the platform in the auditorium today what impetus was given to the music of this college by that donation for a band. I believe it was the foundation of what I regard as one of the great elements in a complete edu- cation—the knowledge of music and the ability to express that knowledge in song.’ More than that, Mr, Carnegie, you do not know, you never will know, how many fellows when they came to a hard place and when fifty cents a week woula put them through to the end of their term, have come to Dr. Atherton and he has helped them to the fifty cents a week out of the fund which you were always ready to give him for that purpose. The fellows never knew it. you didn’t know who they were, but they are do- ing their share of the world’s work today, be- cause Andrew Carnegie knew where they came from and ot what they were capable. And so, sir, we do not come {o you today, ae- cepting this gift as if it were the first of your benefactions to the State College; we have had them for years and they have been continued and continuous. In fact, we hail you, sir, as the patron of art and of literature of this institu- tion. GH T can’t stop to tell you—bhecause my time is limited—what the gift of thi~ library meant to the Board of Trustees. We were facing justsuch an emergency as we faced when our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Schwab, came to our relief with the gitt of that magnificent auditorium. We found we must have a library. I'he Legislature, ready to do for ns the practical things, said, ‘That can wait.’ We couldn't wait, and you came to our rescue. You can’t imagine the feelings of the Board, when that announcement was made. Rut I want to speak from the standpoint of these seven hundred young men who stand be- fore you. What does it meanto them? Ruskin has said that the greatest thing a human soul ever does isto see something clearly and tell what he sees in a plain way. This library is the ally of our department of English. We “believe in the study of the English language and we be- lieye that the engineer who has a clear thought in his mind does a great thing when he tells his fellows that thing in a plain way, so that they can understand it; and this is to be the vehicle, the medium through which they are to acquire, in connection with their studies in the depart- ment of English, the ability to tell what the soul sees in a plain way. I can only say, Mr. Carnegie, that, with a full appreciation of your munificence, with a full ap- preciation of the heart that is behind it, with a full appreciation of the mind that is behind this gift, we accept it at your hand, because we know it comes from the heart and its foundations are laid deeply, according to your own ideas of what a library ought to be. It is to be administered in the interests of these young fellows and their successors coming, as you see, in increasing numbers. So far as you young men are concerned, so far as your general reading and your scientific re- search are concerned, here is your laboratory; there are your special laboratories, these secien- tific laboratories and these seminars which are dovoted to personal research and to personal in- vestigation. I needn’t say, make use of them. You have been waiting for them, you have heen longing for them, and here they are. They ought to help you and will help you to do the thin that dn said was one of the great things of ife. _ I need not enlarge upon that, as time is pass- ing, but all that is in my mind and all that is in my heart goes out to you, Mr. Carnegie, for your magnificent gift which I accept, on behalf of the Trustees of the Pennsylvania State College and the insignia of which I pass over to Dr. Atherton, the President of the Institution. under whose ad- ministration all this wealth of learning and of munificence is to be expended in behalf of you students who are here on this floor and {hose who are to come after you. (Applause.) Dr. Atherton in accepting the key spoke as follows: “Mr Carnegie, Mr. President of the Board of Trustees, on behalf of the college faculty and students, Iaccept this key, as a symbol of the trust reposed in us by the donor and by the Board of Trustees, and I am happy this day to be able, as I will indicate presently, to pledge this whole college family to the wise and conser- 4 CHARLES SCHAWB. valive and progressive administration of this great gift. “We were perplexed with the problem which meets all libraries—how to have all the resources of the library open to every one, without the ne- cessity of espionage and policemen. Every library has to encounter more or less difficult, with the thieving of books; sometimes it is seri- ous, sometimes very trifling; we have had a com- paratively limited amount. The faculty believ- ed, Mr. Carnegie and Gen. Beaver, that the time had come when this library should be thrown open to the use of the students, that they should be permitted to go to the separate alcoves, to the separate departments, to go into the stack room, take down the books, handle them themselves, compare the tables of contents, take them out to the light and look at them, come tothe desk here and receive instruction or criticism or Belp, and all that on the basis of a common standard of honor and common fellowship in safe-guarding the trast, I submitted that question to the student body. I didn’t ask them for a vote; I asked them to think it over. Yesterday morning in the audi- torium, the senior class said, ‘We have vowed unanimously that we will stand on that platform and maintain that system.’ (Applause.) The spokesman of the junior class said ‘We have vot- ed unanimously that we will stand on that sys- tem.” The sophomore class had already sent in a written communication to that effect. The Freshman class had not taken formal action. A representative of the class arose but I said, no man can speak for them, if they have not taken action. I then asked the class, if they were in favor of pledging themselves to that action, to arise, and every man arose. I called upon the sub-freshman class in the same way; and thus, Mr. Carnegie, you have put this great trust not into the hands of the trustees alone, nor of the faculty but into the hands of the student body for all generations, to come, to be administered on the basis of honor. And I dedicate this building, of which this key isa symbol, to the propagation of truth and of honor among men and the advancement of a those influences that uplift humanity. Having formally dedicated the building Dr. Atherton presented to Mr. Carnegie a set of resolutions of thanks, adepted by the board of trustees, engressed on parch- ment, enrolled in the college colors,enclosed in a silver casket which reposed in a mahog- any box. The casket was appropriately in soribed and on the top bore a medallion- likeness of Mr. Carnegie. That gentleman accepted the gift of appreciation in a brief and feeling speech. Dr. Atherton then stated that the stu- dent body, knowing that the trustees had adopted and would present Mr. Carnegie with resolutions of their appreciation, wished to be represented in a distinct way th emselves; that they wished to make ex- pression of their appreciation to Mrs. Car- negie. and that Mr. F. J. Saunders, ’05, had been selected to represent the entire student body. Mr. Saunders came for- ward and, in a most appropriate speech presented to Mis. Carnegie a handsome silver loving cup, especially designed and made, as well as fistingly engraved for this occasion. In presenting the cup Mr. Saunders spoke as follows: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : ; \ Possibly jealous of the part allotted to their ‘faculty and others on this dedication day and not content to rest merely as onlookers, the students of the Pennsylvania tate College wish to show, i ‘ay, their appreciation as shar- ‘ be. reaped from the gift of our benefactor. ealthy in worldly goods, we cannot show our will and delight on this occasion by hands heavy laden with rich and costly gifts but, as we lack in this, so much the more do we wish to add to the spirit that marks our movement. We would have that spirit be- speak manliness, culture, trath and courage, so that our mead of tribute, though small in ma- terial worth, may be large as an expression of gratitude. Asa body of young men, eager for the possi- bilities of life, we have studied Andrew Carnegie’s life; we have learned of his start as a humble weaver's helper and telegraph messenger, from which position, by the streagth of liis indomit- able courage and perseverance, he rose to the pedestal upon which he stands today, a lender of men. His influence has been felt in every part of our country. Our business industries, in their development, have felt the tonch of his hand. Vast, almost incomprehensible organizations have grown and lived under the stimulus of his keen brain and enduring will. Our nation itself, a potent factor in the civil and nseful arts of the world, owes him a tribute for the part he has played in her industrial growth, Having attain- ed his power, he sets aside the temptations to selfishness and personal comfort and gives to humanity a vast share of his resources and weaith, At the same time he furnishes us, and every American, young and old, a brilliant ex- ample of generosity and fidelity to mankind. In the trinmph of the man, v5 know that his loving wife and helpmeet has borne a part. © know that her mind, hand and steadfast faith have had an influence in this work of human lov= and, as we stand here today in this building,
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