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Bellefonte, Pa., November 25, 1904.
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——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,