:i 11 this teaching us? May I quote Uvo
things (they are not encyclopedia eith
er)? Oxford has recently, hy a majority
vote of its Faculty, agieod to dispense
with Greek. Cambridge has just done
the same tiling'. You will find that
movement wherever you go and no
where have I found it more pronounced
than here. I would rather criticize aII
the prophets of the Old Testament
than Homer —you would receive less
criticism —but here we are face to face
with the new demands of the age and
I congratulate the State College that
it appreciates that fact and that it is
not to he left behind. It is an up-to
date College.
“But, gentlemen, before I said that
I wish to sav to you this: I wanted
to speak of my feelings upon this
occasion. Old memories have been
stirred. If my fool be not upon my
native heath this moment, it yet
stands upon the first soil where, with
my parents, I found a home in this
Republic. (Applause) The Governor
of this mighty Stale, this much-loved
State, could have said nothing halt so
sweet to me as when he h.tiled me this
morning as a Pennsylvanian. I like
your ‘Pennsylvania, State, State,
State!' (Applause.) If Scotland be my
mother-land, then I tell you L’onnsyl
v mi,i is my wife-'and hy marriage.
(Applause) It was an eariy mar
riage. I wouldn't advise any of you
students to be so rash: (laughtei) I
was only eleven. (Laughtei) But I
tell you gentlemen, I am not at all
concerned a bon t the question of di
vorce that is agitating the Episcopal
Church just now. I never mean to be
divorced from Pennsylvania and I
never mean to let Pennsylvania di
vorce herselt from me.
“I wish to congratulate ton, Mr.
President, upon the presence of the
Governor liete to day. I judge he has
been sleeping its I was (lunghtei) and
that he has awakened to the fact that
of all the appropriations that he has
approved none is capable of perform
ing more lasting good for this Stale
than that to the Slate College, to
which he has hitherto stood a Iriend.
(Applause).
“And now, Mr. President and gen
tlemen of the Faculty, one word more
of deep and sincere congratulation to
vou all. If the teachers of mankind
ii: right, from Homer to Washington,
then the only solid foundation upon
which can be erected a society march
ing ever upward, and where the rights
of Democracy cm be maintained,
must be the universal education of the
people. How noble then your vocation
and thatof your fellows: to be laying
well and deep the foundations upon
which human society alone can rest
that will march ever upward, ever on
ward, always improving, a march to
which no end can be assigned.
“In conclusion, before performing
the ceremony, I wish to sav a word
about libraries. The Stale librarian
refeired to the speech of the Presi
dent in opening a library in Washing
ton, in which he said that he liked my
idea of getting communities to main
tain them. He made this remarkable
statement, ‘The man that 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 deli
cately to the Governor that I gave the
money to build this Library and our
dear President here, and Governor
Beaver, assured me that there
would be a Governor 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 lias arrived. (Applause)
“It remains for me to perform the
ceremony of handing over thi* library
to you, Governor Beaver, 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 Institution with
the hope that in communing wiili
teachers of mankind you may not on
ly become educated men but that here
may be here implanted within you the
truthful harvest of high ideals fiom
which, gentlemen, we expect you to
ever press upward to the truest of all
wisdom, the best. And what is the
test of the best? That one may render
precious service to his fellows, to his
State and to his Country.
“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
Stales and who would serve them all
well.” (Great applause)
GI!N. BRVVBtt'S RU3PSM-1R
In response, Geu. Beaver spoke in
part as foil ows:
“Mr. Carnegie,—p irdon me, amid
these scholastic .surroundings, miv I
not give you your scholastic title, Dr.
Cai negie. (Applause)
“On behalf of the Board of Trustees
of The Pennsylvania Slate Cdlege,
your colleagues, I am deputed to say
a few jvords in accepting this magiii
iicent gift at vmir hands. : .
“It is not the first of your gifts.
There is a little ca ,e containing Ste
vens’ facsimiles which you gave Us
years ago. I suppose you have heard
—if you haven’t you ought to have
heard— our band. (Applause) I w'ill
tell you a bout it.
“A few years ago the students sent
in a petition to the Executive Commit
tee of the Board of Trustees, asking
for iiislrumeiits for a brass band.
Whilst we had not the money to ap
propriate for it. Dr. Atherton and I
each said, we will start the brass baud
fund with $50.00 and another gentleman
who heard of it sent me a contribution.
Under those circumstances, I wrote to
Mr. Carnegie, told him of the move
ment and asked him for his check for
$lOO 00. In reply I received the fol
lowing letter:
“ My dear Governor:
Please let me furnish the music for
the College boys. I have directed my
cashier to send you a check for eight
hundred dollars.’ (Applause)
“You have heard,sir. on the platform
in the Auditorium to-day what impel
us was iveil to the music of this Col
lege 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 education—the knowl
edge of music and the ability to ex
press 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'haul place and when fifty cents a
week would put them through to the
end of their term, have come to Dr.
Atherton and he lias 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 doing their
share of the world's work to-day, be
cause Andrew Carnegie knew where
they came from and of what they
were capable.
“And so, sir, we do not come to you
to-dav, accepting this gift as if it were
the first of your benefactions to the
Slate College; we have had them for
years and iney have been continued
and continuous. In fact we hail you,
sir, as the patron of art and of litera
ture of this institution. I held almost
said patron saint. (Laughter) The
canonization hasn't come yet;
(laughter) (applause) but I will tell
you what I believe—the man who is
doing the most for the uplifting of his
fellows is doing the most for the high
est glory of God and, it that is so, the
canonization will come in due lime.
“I can’t stop to tell you—because my
time is limited —what the gift of tins
library meant to tile Board of Trustees.
We were facing just such an emer
gency as we faceil when our friends,
Mr. and Mrs. .Schwab, came to our
relief with the gift of that magnifi
cent Audiloriuiii We found we must
have a Library. Tue Legislature,
ready to do for tis the practical things,
said, ‘Tout can wait.’ We couldn't
wait, and you came to our restate.
You can’t imagine the feelings of the
Board, when that announcement was
made.
“But I want to speak from the stand
point of these seven hundred young
men who stand before you. Want
does it mean to them? Ruskiu has
said that the greatest tiling- a human
being ever does is to 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 believe that the Engineer who
has a clear thought in his mind- does
a great thing when he tells his fel
lows that thing in a plain way, so
that they can understand it ; and this
Library is to be the vehicle, the medium,
through which they are to acquire, in
connection with their studies in the
department of English, the ability to
tell what the soul sees in a plain way.
“Oh! it means so much to us! It has
meant so much to us! You can't ap
preciate it, I fear, and we can’t ex
press ,what we feel and what we see
in a plain way or in any other way.
As Dr. Atherton has truly said, ‘the