Page Four COMPLETE TEXT OF PRESIDENTS ADDRESS **nt** ;iml none of '■> extensive courses of "tilJ lo*;»rs (lie mime of college. Xo radical changes an* SmoiVvU. atm g.-aduatc school just as - Uii-rt- ar- it** insurmountable ob.-tacl.-s, pnherdly Worthy of IN'nnsjlvalihi r.m ho adequately supported. To meet j : , -hh.-r 1-gal or s-ntim-ntal. I: tlt-r*. «s . ’ u»» needs of tin* st»t«% wo should have inn arivihin- in th- ••onsj-tnUon <-r .-true- if p, ansylvania is to have a unlv-r- s<*hoo! of Kdlinitlun. a him* mid t,,,",. Th- ivrinsylvainn Sint- ‘'■•il-gc >ity acknowledged as an integral part , „f |,.;»ri»rr training. Over Aim \vh..-li in th- jadgm-ni *»f tli- people **f It.- i*t:l»li<* school system. it must ••• „ ‘„. rS( , t)S W Hln*ul college degrees . Ml j V sdiould b- alt-1.-I if that it f»>:iy worthy of Pennsylvania, worthy of the ;(j> > m( . v , j„ the public high i ( Tin- p.mnsvlvania State »'niv- yotnh of this Commonwealth. worthy (lf j v„„ S vlv:inia. P*.v 1--ol p n ; -rsitv. th- insritnf.on so far •'« li-s ~f this slate of imperial domain. bless- VX I~ she uuaUfi'TitiouH for time •.Vithiti its p-.w.-r stands r-udy j-day to ...i in natural wealth above all others 3 , ry teachers hi the public tfr • mak- th- n--ss::y ■ -liana-. Th tail- in the nation, whoso coal is of greater ' sl . h , l( , H ,; f , h ,. H!nt) . will ho imtahly ml- high at.l- t.tl- to its .* S, plant is vain- than all tin; gold of tin* earth. v;i[l . ~4 [ 'Hus institution should do its'stud: jilr-adv in til. 1 *ojii!ti"tiw-:iltii. This whos- iron and st-el is the greatest. j,. irl 5,, offering courses for coll-ge rent: raiMjiu* and these huildincs Shonld b« . >industry in the world, which has in su , :u ,d extension .-ours- httv regarded a- truly tin- properly of the . a gr-nter diversity and a larger foJ . mm - teaching who desire ■ t li«* vHte ax the .state at HarrWmrir. „f industry than any other common- (n ~n mi l u, m Si as well as in ...„l :it ,v declaration or other instm- wealth ami at the same time is exceed- , tßl]njM|f who will he needed fori ( . rn from our trust-** is ms ,~sary to ed hy only one in Us rural population.; m . w pns|UonB> | lt that *-ml. it will 1— forthcoming on do- ;if Pennsylvania is to have a state un- wf} nj . (> t j,j Si W e must increase! f, Inaml. Some of our trustees are now . j V e r s:ty. It must he worthy of the most, ]ar „ oly OU) . a4r<: nmirmdations for women j|„ t chs t*il hv airri' iilturai ami criyineerinir nohle history and traditions of , a 1 students. Pennsylvania has htirdly j so. ieti.s.'a methyl which, when it vvas mighty Commonwwilth.—of lUi;l,n : bccn fnit* to her daughters in public | i all( d*-vis‘-I. was l«*lsev<-l to insure public Penn and IP-njamin Franklin and Al- ; h j Klu>r education. T should like to see | h ;: control. The pi-sent Hoard is able, t, C rt Gallatin and Thatldeiis Stevens, j Qn lh{s cainpHS a Home Economics ' ti harmonious, representative, and etficient, nn d of the sacred memories of In ”°* : inimratory the equal of any in the!' hut if any change jjj method of sele<-- pemlenrc Hall and Valley I'orge and rotjn | rv an( j n jr ro up of homos for wo- 1 tion is m-eessaiy or desirable to assure : (Jettysburg. We must either do a big men enabling us to multiply several the people of this Commonwealth that i thlnu or nothing fit all. It would he; t j JO nu , n ppr now In attendance, this institution is absolutely under their l most ignoble to project as the cap-: Ti lf! heart of any college or univors coutroi and s-nsitiv-ly resiK.nslve to : stone r*f education in Pennsylvania an {(y |g Uf? HcJl{ml of nimral arts. The their wishes, that change will he made. ; institution narrow in scope, meagre in : slU( ] ont of etiglneerlng. mining, or ag are not only willing to make it. 1 faciiiti**. or cheap find tawdry in build- r j { . u jture. the tnan who will go directly but lam sure I speak for every Trust- jugs find equipment. The dignity Sim *! j nto business, not Jess than the man, ee and for every alumnus when I say the honor of a magnificent Common-, w j lo | n tends the study of the law or that we are eager to make it. The mo- wealth are at stake, ami the i m od!cino, needs strong Inspiring enurs ment we discover that smh change is worthy ambition and goal is si umv- j n m PrJl turc. history, mathematics, desired or thought wise hy the people ersity second to none in this nation eronntni{l3 philosophy. and political of the state, we could not be true to in the excellence and beauty of Jj* sc f enco . j n (he technical college or our past, to the memory of Pugh and plant, in the calibre and scholarship un j vors uy these departments need to I Atherton and Heaver, if did not of Its faculty, and in the nobility ami n jj jhe stronger for tile reason that stand ready to do anything in our worth of its ideals of service. students have less time for such atud- j lower to assert am! maintain the full jf Pennsylvania Is to extend public. *phe manhood and the culture need ami absolute ownership and control <>{ J (.duration {<, include the higher grades, fu | f or t j le ( >,hicated man of any calling; this institution by the Commonwealth j t should he In one state university,' rannn t he secured through a few ele of Pennsylvania. not more. In no state which supports men tary courses in language and From Thadileus Stevens to State tvvo state institutions Is there general mathematics in the Freshman year. I University satisfaction with the result. In every lVo uld find place in the Junior and Sen-, state which has Imth a. state univers- j or years of every technical course for ity and an agricultural college there required studies in political science and ' arc fewer agricultural students in pro- economics, conducted hy the most eu pnrtion 10 the population than In stat- tbusiastlc and inspiring teachers who es in which (he agricultural college is can i, e found. N’ine-tcnths of a man’s an integral part of the state university, reading after he leaves college is on The counsel of experts Is unanimous subjects related to these departments.' and positive against dividing the of* n nd it is essential that he lie master of fort of the state In higher education, the fundamentals. A state instituion I/itor experience has only given added should almve all things educate good force to the observation made by citizens, and the studies fundamental President Pr..icheti a few years ago. to good citizenship should be strongly that ’The greatest weaknesses in the represented In Its curriculum, maintenance of good standards hy the • We V!ilumt ,jo justice by libera) aria state universities have been exhibited untn wo , na p t ‘ large additions to our in those stales where the state instilu- •pbo building, the provision tions of higher learning are conducted f( , r m .‘ u . ~o (, ks. and that for admlnis in 4 wo or more colleges instead or being nrp „n inadequate for tlic In united Into a single Institution. In s , llnt{o n wo have'today, such cases it has almost Inevitably happened that au unwise competition has sprung up, demoralizing alike to tlie Institutions themselves nnd to the. public school system. Oenerally, thei rivalry appears in the form of a com- 1 petition between the state university | and the state school of agriculture and mi*ehanic arts. Duplicate courses arc established at the two institutions, ami low standards of admission, ami log-rolling with the legislature, are the natural outcome.” April 11. 1535. in the House of Repre sentatives at Harrisburg. Thaddeus Stevens of Uineaster. an emigrant. from my own green hills of Vermont, against a hostile House, instructed by j their constituents to the contrary, by. the sheer might of his eloquence and his heart of love for the humble and the poor, burned into the conscience of Pennsylvania the principle that the common schools should be free to the children of all the people. In course of time, by natural development, the free public schools have been extended to include the secondary grade, and to day there is a path to the free public high school for every child of the Commonwealth. Prom out Its poverty and meagre resources, in days of mis understanding and cruel criticism, at one iHtflnd without a penny from the treasury of the Commonwealth for nearly a score of years, its buildings mortgaged, efficient leadership nowhere to lie found, this college of the humble beginnings has kept open through all these dark years one door through which the youth of this state could enter freely' to secure an education of the highest grade as provided by the state. Over and over again the door has been too narrow, and we have Ik*oi» obliged to say to many that there is no riHim For many y«ir» the privil-l egos provided were too meagre to lm worthy of Pennsylvania, and even yet In many respects they arc not worthy. Hat now wo offer all we have, and all oar strength and devotion, that Penn sylvania may complete her system of free puhlle education by a university when* the humblest tuny have like privileges with the most favored in the the best Hint American education can provide. State University As Crown of Public School System la this day there run he no argu ment that no state educational system Is complete without a free state univer sity as Its apex and crown. That docs not mean thaj the state university is to dominate and control the lower schools, still less other institutions of higher learning. It means merely that free public education shall not stop with the high school, but go on tc college grade. It means that it is the conviction and will of the people of the state that the higher reaches of educa tion, education unto leadership and for the professions of which the public has need and which lend to the most ample reward.?, shall not he the privilege of the few but the right of all. Not until public.education is crowned by a free public university is democracy sincere in declaring that all men are created equal and that the doors to the high est service and the noblest* personal at tainment ave open to the humbiest who can show himself worthy to enter them. It is too late to dispute the doctrine that* all the resources of a state are liable for the education of ev ery Inst child in the state. It is too late in free, democratic America to question the obligation of the state to summon its ambitious youth to free and equal opportunity In the most atn|>le learning America can afford. We are dealing today with no trifle of the name of art Institution. A state univ ersity means a cull to the heights to every lust child In the Commonwealth, and an Increase of self-respect and dignity In every ci'tlzon. It means a WELCOME HOME, ALUMNI § We are here to serve you and try to please you in every way. MEALS SANDWICHES OF ALL KINDS ICE CREAM HOME-MADE PIES A SPECIALTY Strictly fresh eggs used. lififti, sin A, B. DIETRICH Penn State, 1920 imlrtor ami worthier estimate* of man- ini? yearn hy tremendous sacrifice nml agricultural » lhe valuo of in everv home in the Common- lal-w. We must strengthen ov.-ryj tiu- silo arid how to spray jKJtatoes, we-ilth U means that we shall mens- school w.- already have, the largest ns and how to in> '»vaso the* profits of the man In Pennsylvania, not hy what well as llu* smallest, playim? a- favor- I Hut tin *>’ l * 3 <‘h »»Hc*h more, la* joav learn as a child, but hy what he ites and asking only when* is the , Tle-y are tnukiiVt rentiers talk ehem . v -teou'iv when the treasures of ”v :*test need and where is the greatest : j Stl y ami imbuM'K the masses of the I.V-e-- and s- iem e are -.pen to him pnss.hllity of service to the state. For I j with p*k for the man of in' uisfall manhood power. ih -ala* of every »*hu»l we should add s Due. the man wh knows. As an in • of high* a* learning, we glory this work. A .V?/ years ago at the ■miration of 5 New Fugland rit. it was sa id: "Now a now •rienn ideal ha r. arisen in the state .ersities of the \v\est. tlo-n as now i..ate, hetero; jeim'.ns sprawling. showing the wori'd for tho first e in history the* spectacle of an un people strivi air to give itself a her education, proclaiming that the lies which in < niter lauds and other uiri.-s wen* lit > Inxuri.vt of the fow e now heeom c* tin* m*cessities of entire dem< leracy.’' Otadly we ce ourselves tit .the side of the west i state universities ns thus defined. Is hi mir heart, far as iv« arc able, iraeli sill know’ktlfre lo all men with the field assigned In us. It is our ed that the stnidics which in other tds and other' centuries were tho —cries of the few are now the necessi ties of an entire (toinncrany. And in pur suance of this nemvietlnn. we arc eager to “sprawl" if tUnt lie the proper term for the carrying of educational advant ages to the homes of tho people. If so privileged, wo will “sprawl” to the remotest valley In this Commonwealth will) the science which Armsby nnd p.riPcock and Dorset have illuminated in the laboratories of agricultural col leges. We will “sprawl” into the shops and factories, into the homes of min ers. and coke-burners and steel work ers. and teach them the facts of .science underlying their work and more effici ent methods in their labor and ways of accident prevention. There has been only a beginning nf adult education in America, and the mv«test future of the public institu tion of higher learning Is this country is in educational extension. 111,001) Students There are now nearly 9,000,000 people in tills state, ami if the came propor tinn were to seek higher education as are now in attendance in universities and colleges in the entire country, there would' he 50.000 college students In this state. Certainly the youth of Pennsyl vania are not less ambitious for higher education than the average of the na tion. 'll may he fair to assume that four-fifths of this burden wilt be un dertaken by the private and denomina tional universities and colleges. It is reasonable to' expect the Common wealth in its own institution to make provision for one out of five, especial ly when it is considered that there are fields such ns agriculture which on the ground of expense or for otiicr reasons private., institutions Will not care to enter. >'ot In ambition for numbers but In consideration of tts obligation to the Commonwealth tills .Institution should anticipate expansion to 10,001) resident students. Already that nuni lier has been reached by institutions In other states which Pennsylvania should sirivc to emulate. The Trustees have taken the Initial steps in the preparation of a building program for an Institution of that size. On this most Iwnutlful site, at the, ex act center of the state, with ample spae«*s for development, and with the worthy buildings already in place, it should In* possible (o eonsjxuri an edu cational plant of dignified and Inns .smnHiircr, which should fitly ex press their clvle character, and which the <-iii7.ens of the Commonwealth would bo proud to own, an object lesson of the place that education holds in the hearts of the people, and emblemat ic of the strength anil wealth of the Keystone State and of the Intelligence and character of its people. Educational Program If we are lo have a university worths’ of Pennsylvania, we must preserve ev ery portion of the magnificent educa tional program already h) force, evolv ed with rare foresight by tho lenders of the past and preserved through try- SHORT ORDERS OYSTERS IN ALL FORMS If we are to heroine the State lltilv* erslfy of Pennsylvania, we must large ly Increase our facilities for research. The citizens of the state are familiar with tin* great benefits that have been derived from Hie researches conducted by our School of Agriculture. They have added millions to the agricultur al wealth of the slate, and have brought new life and enthusiasm to agricul tural pursuits. Those Investigations have been supported largely by the federal appropriations through the llateli nmUAdams funds. The slate: lias added almost nothing to them. The generous provision of the national gov ernment for agricultural extension is bringing lo the college more questions than we can answer. There is not too much extension, but there Is not en ough Invftrtfgfffion going on fo support the extension service, Most Inviting fields of investigation are open, not only in agriculture, but also in every school and department of the collage. Problems press for solu tion in engineering, in mining, jn chem ical Industry, the study of w'hieli would Infuse new life into the laboratories, and the results of which would bo of untold value to the people of tho Com monwealth- Peiinsjlvaiila cannot pi, ways retain Its prermnliipncM jn in? dustry by virtue of its natural rusmtre? es. The work of the scientist am! fjm expert Is necessary to the continuance of onr prosperity, and money spent. In tiipir encouragement will return ninny fold. Extension Through its agricultural extension staff of |27 workers there flow? put from lids campus to .every .corner .of the state a> steady stream Hf Jnfllipnrp toward better agricultural methods, and toward worthier and ampler life in the. farm homos. Those missionaries of j THE Pt'fj’N STAfG COLLEGIAN Tnn IVnusylvunlu Afford a Stale Uni- 1 have tried to show that the field and work of u state university of the western type are natural to this insti tution. ami to outline some of the de velopments necessary on the basis of our present plant and program. I am aware that the undertaking is a large one. even though the development of The Pennsylvania State Collopo for sl>:ty-five years liur boon toward an In stitution of this typo. The rural popu lation of Pennsylvania is larger than that of the six New England states with their six agricultural colleges. The Pennsylvania State University would have a larger total population to serve than the three prosit state univ ersities <»f Michigan, Minnesota nmJ Wisconsin combined, or than all tlio universities of Canada* Hitt nut Pennsylvania afford a state university! 1 answer that no state In (lie union rail Itelfrr afford It. Her ag gregate wealth ts - more than fifteen billions of dollars, The value of her farms alone exceeds n billion ami a /{Wirier. She pays oW'-sJxib of Iho In come luxes of the United States. Her mnmtfaeturcrs exceed two ami one-half billions a year, more than one.tcnth of Ihc country. Taxes In Pennsylvania are lower flinn In any other sfufe In Hie North. The state could build the lamest university In the union and pro vide for Its maintenance accordingly, ami her luxation rale for purposes Qf the Commonwealth would stll) ho lower than that of any other state north of Mason and Hjxon’s line. Tin- state could htilld aud maintain her /rtyn imirerwliy without*# dollar of additional expenditure with the money now* bellowed us sulwddcs to private charitable and educational institutions. It Is a wrong principle to grunt public funds fpr private work. JE the Work is public, the public should support it en tirely, gml control It absolutely. If the work is private, or if it belongs proper ly to a lessor political entity than the Commonwealth, the largess of the state only serves to remove responsibil ity from whom it belongs. The stqle will ipjver do its duty by its poor and unfortunate by the hlt-opitnifui method of subsidy wherever private Initiative happens to bo active. That method Is Insufficient and unscientific, and its continuance for tunny years has prob ably done more than anything else to injure the fair name of Pennsylvania among philanthropists and social work ers in other commonwealths. In mltllUou <(> fin* furrlblo objections lisrfnlfv brnfifrlij iiK|iln?t |j|ls nrj|ct|co, 1 would nttrn tiipt tile imicttee of sub* sidtximr private institutions Is uticco* nornicnl for fho gtuto. It robs f!io pub* Hi! of tlio on mini capital increment of! cams r»r admission. citizens of Penn its npuraitrbilluns. When public money j sy H,-,nln. n tl.rn.snml n venr. We are is appropriated to a private institution.: , , , . there Is n eertatn teiniuirnry return . ‘-Itf-Ki.iK the Bruwth ot departments ot tin- public in the service rendered. If : hivcstigallon and instruction which are it is an educational institution, tile re-: of incalculable value to the industries turn is in students educated, teaehers of Pennsylvania, That must not be. trained, or similar work, lint there is. This college must. go forward and go a permanent value ‘from the public ; tornnrd iicmv. IV« ctiunat atilt. Delay cif'. and a‘very great one. whirh does; means denial of opportunity to hoys nm aerrue to the public, but which In- who will never have another eltam-e. ores to the private corporation eon- I We most go to the next legislature with trolling the institution. That is the • a oioa.t popular moveiiient In-hind us in ivim-nt of strength in general good- 1 wiiicii will force aside alt obstacles amt wMI. increase- of seientlfie ivputuLinn. s challenge U»e people of Pennsylvania alumni loyalty, and other iniangihio as- ! to place tills college where it should lie sets of great value, which are lost to; among the stale universities of Ameri the state whenever either p.irly ills- ’ ‘a. .\tnhiutf wmtM better evidence solves tin* partnershii). What the stale ; «..<•»! a movement tliau the erection oti fosters and builds. that should be tile ibis campus of buildings sorely tueded, property of the state. Think of what ■'•such as residences for both men amt states like Michigan. Illinois, and Min- I women, a hospital, a gymnasium and nesota have today in their mugnifi- j recreation building, which in a suite 1 cent state ' universities. They own' institution can appropriately be built them for any public educational service l from private gifts. Alumni of a state which the will of tlie people demands. • 'institution tire not released from obligu- Thoy cannot lose what they have put lion to their alma mater, and a great into them at the whim of a corporation democratic piddle service Institution or an alumni association. How much hkc ours may well appeal to generous poorer would those states be if they citizens as an appropriate object of had spent equal money in helping the ueiievulenee. How can one better ex work of n half-drißon private colleges! -press his patriotism titan by gifts to Hut instead of asking whether Penn- 1,10 institution °f bis slat© where the sylvnuhi can afford a stale university, mosl ambitious youth have free and we should ask rather, Can the great '‘‘l l ' s ** opportunity in education unto the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania afford not to have one! ('tin -we afford to say to Hie youth of this slide, If you had lireu horn In Ohio or Wisconsin, you might have attended a magnificent mi llers!!} provided by the slate. If you were a citizen of Utah or Arizona, your own state university doors would swing open to you. Hut you had the misfor tune to lie horn In Pennsylvania, and Ptwiisylmnfa was foo poor to follow the example of twenty-three other sta tes and develop Its land-grant college Into n real slate university. I cannot believe that II Is the will of the people »f this great Commonwealth that such mswer should be returned to Its nmhl- lloos youth. Kchdlnn to Ollier Institutions Wo ask today the good-will of nil sister institutions and the co-operation of all citizens of the state in tiu* expan sion of Uds college into The Pennsyl vania State University. In this step j we intend no hostility or injury to any' other institution of the state, small or i largo. There is a field for each, ample, and Inviting. The large-university tin-j dor private control, free to fix its own! policies, free from political pressure,: is In enviable position by virtue of its! perfect liberty in the selection of spec-j lai fields of learning and research and its freedom to maintain Its traditions and its hlstorlo genius unmindful of popular demands. The small college also, particularly tho college which fo cuses the Interest of a religious de nomination In higher education, has conferred inestimable benefits upon this tuition, and In thorough scholar ship In the fundamental branches of higher education and in peculiar op portunity for tlie development of char acter In Its students, tho small college will always have its own nttvneUve field and will render service of greatest val ue. This should bo a day of co-opera tion Ip education as In business. The prosperity of one Institution is the sti mulus of all. An adequate state univ ersity at this central point of the state would In* a lumefli to every other In stitution lit iho state. Appeal to Alumni *al to the alumni of Penn State • I heir faith In Its future by the college proportionate to ipes. S2.SS"i.OOn was asked of nt Legislature for buildings lir needed— 1\ sum very much too uisidorlng that we are ten years institutions in other states, but •ived only $250,000. To accept ult Is to stand practically still > years. A state Institution i* lie built by tho state and we it relax our efforts until Penn* . has placed mi this campus an mal plant adequate to the work !to do. But an emergency eon is. Wo are turning away uppli- I appe: to show gifts to their ho tho roeer gently n small eoi behind h we revel that rest for two ought to must no) syl vanla educathu we have fronts uf •highest service? I propose therefore an endeavor to secure $2,0(1(1,000 as an Emergency building Fund to he ob tained from alumni and friends of the college, and to be used for such build ings us arc proper to be built from pri vate lands in a state institution. The times are unfavorable, but the needs an.* great, and wc must meet them now. Nothing will put the might and con viction of iJjo people behind us like a successful effort to help ourselves, and tlie harder tlie times, the greater the honor ami reward of success. Difficulties and Encouragements 1 am not unaware that the program l have Sketched is exceedingly large ami difficult. Tlie building of an ade quate and worthy slate university in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Is a tremendous undertaking. My friends, I cannot build such a university. The Trustees, ami Faculty and Alumni of this state college hnvo not the power and ability to build It. If %ve could, it would mu be The Pennsylvania State University. This university must be built upon the conviction and by the will of (he nine million people of this Commonwealth. If It be their desire and judgment that on the foundation laid by a handful of eurncst farmers sixty-seven years ago an institution ol the people and lor the people shall be erected to crown the free public edu cation »f the Commonwealth, nothing cun .prevent It. Whether such be the will of the people of the state, I do not know. But these things are clear. *1 hero has been a steadily deepening conviction on the part of the people of Pennsylvania for many years that the state should compiote Its system of public education by a university owned by the Commonwealth and en irioly under public control. Plans for tho erection of such a university by SiuzDiiNiiiiitiamiiiitiiixeiiiiiiiiuiiuiitiiitimiiEiiuiiiiiMiiEiiuiiiiiiiiicijiunNitiicaiiiiiumuEiuiuiiuitiotimiuiitidiiuimmicimmmiucO | See Yourself in Action Three Years Ago | | 2000 Feet of Film of the -28th and 80th Divisions I | 4000 Feet of Filin of Several Other Divisions I 5 in Action Overseas = g C s All Genuine Action Pictures Taken by the U. S. Army Signal 1 | Corps will be Shown Under the Auspices of the § | American Legion Nittany Post 245, | | STATE COLLEGE, PA. | | Oct. 17 and 19, Afternoon and Evening | | Admission 25c and 50c, including tax. | | Ex-Service Man—You Cannot Afford to Miss It | | Anybody—You Will Enjoy It | | (REEL) AND (REAL) ACTION | | iiiniiii[iiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiniii[!iitiiii(2iiiiiiii!iii(]iiitiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiinimiiiii[titi!iiiiiiiiiiiaiiniiuiiiitiiiiuiiiiiiipiiiiiuiHiiutiiumnit(Q Friday, October 14,1921 other means (ban the expansion of this college already owned by the state him* not met with favor and have been abandoned. The normal schools of the state have ceased to be private enterprises, and are united under the control of the Commonwealth for the training of elementary teachers. The (-late UeiKirtment of Public Instruction has been greatly strengthened, effj. elcnily organized, and with remarkable unanimity the people have rallied to ius generous support. An nhit-aLiutial program adequate to the needs of (he state In ait except higher education has been undertaken with enthusiasm. The Supreme Court Ims rendered a decision precluding further state appropriations to sectarian institutions. This state college, founded on the model which has developed state universities in twenty-three other cunmumw«ilths. protected of Almighty Bid through a half century of penury and adversity such as almost no other American col lege has endured, has advanced stead ily. and in recent years rapidly, jji at _ tendance and influence, and In the good-will ami confidence of tlie people of the state. Kvcrywhcrv It is spoken of as the people's college. It lma stu dents iri numbers from every county $n Pennsylvania, far and away the most representative .student attendance of any college in the state. The youth of Pennsylvania believe in It, and* besiege us with plena for admission. The farmers believe in it. tlie business men believe in It, the people generally be lieve in it. Its courses of study are more complete than those of many stale universities now existing. Its educa tional program requires but few addi tions to make it one of the best round ed state universities in the nation. It : needs only the change of one word in its name to take its place with the most noble product of American democracy —tile American state universities. I have taken today the only position ns to tlie future of this institution which can be taken consistently with tlie spirit of its founderg and the steady advance of the college to Its present power and Influence- Tho guiding of providence and the steady push of events. In other institutions not less than our own, have been toward the establishment of Penn sylvnnln*s University here. Humble before the opportunity and responslbll- Ity, wv tender nil we have and our ut most effort In tlie future to the good people of this state, and loyally await their will. J. C. SMITH & SON General Hardware Agent for Detroit Vapor Oil Stove State College, Pa.
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