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Occidental College 
 
 BULLETIN 
 
 No. 1 
 
 NOVEMBER, 1906 
 
 PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY 
 
 OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE 
 
 LOS AKGELES, CALIFORNIA 
 
THE 
 
 INAUGURAL ADDRESS 
 
 DELIVERED BY 
 
 John Willis Baer, LL.D 
 
 WITH OTHER 
 
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 ADDRESSES AND MESSAGES 
 OF CONGRATULATION 
 
 COLLEGE CAMPUS 
 
 
 Qttober Twenty-sixth 
 1906 
 
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UNIVERSITY 
 
 ADDRESS BY 
 
 David Starr Jordan, LL. D., 
 
 President of Iceland Stanford Junior University 
 
 we get through this morning, we are going 
 to inaugurate Dr. Baer as president of a, Califor- 
 nia college. We are going to put him securely in his seat 
 in one of the noblest of all professions in the affairs of 
 all lands, under the most gracious skies, iru the midst of 
 the most noble scenery, with plenty of elbow room, and 
 among red-blooded people. 
 
 He has a great and ' v noble task before him. As one of 
 the two talking men of the California universities of the 
 north, I am to represent both of them 1 in a way, in giv- 
 ing Dr. Baer the right hand of fellowship and the left 
 hand of advice. 
 
 It is customary nowadays to divide our colleges into 
 two classes, the large college and the small college. 
 The large college is the one that has aspirations to be 
 a university. The small college has not as yet such as- 
 pirations, although they may very easily be cultivated 
 when a man comes along with the right sum of money. 
 The small -college has had its advantages and its dis- 
 advantages, its opportunities and its perils, discussed a 
 good many times; and it has plenty of all these things. 
 
 Now, your college, Dr. Baer, for the present at least, 
 is a small college. Whether it is large or small, there 
 is one important consideration. The question is what 
 you are going to do with it, how useful you are going 
 to make it. A small college is a very noble thing. 
 Once there were among English speaking colleges only 
 small colleges. Oxford and Cambridge yet are collec- 
 tions o>f small colleges. In England, the university is 
 an outgrowth from the co-operation of small colleges. 
 In America, the small colleges have blossomed out into 
 large ones, and the large ones have grown up into the 
 university. The aim of the small college is to do good 
 
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work along- chosen lines, and select the things it can do 
 best and do them well. The university is an institution 
 that reaches out in every direction that it is able to 
 reach. It does work in a great many lines. A college 
 is necessarily, in a way, conservative. Its work .lies 
 along the line of drill and routine. A university is es- 
 sentially radical, because its work is carried on through 
 lines of investigation. We may compare, in a way, a 
 university to a large hotel, with a very extensive bill of 
 fare of various things. You read down through this and 
 select what you want. A college ought to have only one 
 set of dishes, It should be like the menu or bill of fare 
 of a good boarding house; and a good boarding house 
 may have just as good a bill! of fare as a great hotel. The 
 only question is, are the things well chosen, are they 
 well cooked ; and the questions with the small college will 
 be, are the subjects which it chooses to teach well 
 selected, and are they well taught. 
 
 Now, the small college has a good many perils ; but 
 the chief ones are that it may pretend to do what it can- 
 not do, or that it may pretend that the things it cannot 
 do are not worth doing. So long as it is genuine and does 
 well the things it tries, the question of large or small size 
 is very incidental. 
 
 Tliere are other perils of the small college, and one 
 is that of striving to catch the eye in one way or an- 
 other. Some small colleges, for instance, have had great 
 foot-ball teams which were carefully selected and careful- 
 ly hired in the surrounding country. Now, it is im- 
 possible to teach ethics, impossible to teach morals and 
 religion, in a college that has a dishonest foot-ball team. 
 Sometimes the small colleges will adopt those standards 
 simply for the sake of numbers; but numbers don't mat- 
 ter you will have all the people you deserve. If you 
 make this institution what it ought to be, even though 
 small, an institution in which the thing-s that are selected 
 are taught in the very best possible way and by the very 
 best possible men, then all the students you deserve will 
 come to you even though they have to come on foot 
 across the mountains. You should not expect a student 
 
to go to any college, if he can do better somewhere else. 
 The small college must do certain things better than they 
 can be done anywhere else. On that basis you will surely 
 have, and must have, all the students that you deserve. 
 
 Another danger of the small college, too, is in cheap- 
 ening its men not giving them enough to eat, paying 
 them small salaries in order that there may be money 
 enough to hire men for a good many departments. It is 
 better that the small college should 1 pay generous salaries. 
 In fact, the object of the small colleges would be realized 
 if they paid as large salaries as the large colleges, and 
 were able to take men from the large ones. There is 
 no special virtue in bigness, or in being* in an institution 
 that has a great many people with it. The question is in 
 quality what the student gets out of it. The advan- 
 tages of the small college ought to be worked' for all 
 they are worth. One of them is concentration, the pow- 
 er to throwi the whole energy of the institution along cer- 
 tain very definite lines. If the oM classical course is 
 the best line of work possible for you, then teach Latin 
 and Greek in the best possible way with the other ele- 
 ments that made up the classical course of study. If you 
 find you can do better for your student in teaching other 
 things, select those other things. But it is not necessary 
 for you to have a professor for every subject that may 
 be mentioned. It is not necessary for the small college 
 to look like a university in its prospectus, for it is not 
 a university. It is not necessary for you to have any more 
 teachers than you can pay for; let those you have be so 
 good that a single one of them is worth the time of the 
 student so they will be remembered as the students used 
 to remember Mark Hopkins. There have been many 
 such men in our small colleges, and there may be many 
 more; you may have some of them in Occidental College 
 now. If not, it is your business Dr. Baer to bring them 
 here. 
 
 Another point is this, the small college can have the 
 enthusiasm of youth. The professors in the small col- 
 lege, as things are now, ought to be young men men 
 in the making. It is part of the business of the college 
 
president to get acquainted with the young" men of the 
 country and to select those that have a future select 
 those that have enthusiasm and energy. Those who are 
 going to make something that are going to be the strong 
 men of the next decade. As soon as your young men 
 become noted, as soon as they raise their heads high and 
 make their mark, Stanford and the University of Cali- 
 fornia will doubtless take them away from you, and then 
 it will be your pleasure to go out and hunt for more. 
 I can imagine nothing, more delightful than the work of 
 the college president in going out and hunting for more 
 good men to take the place of the other young men who 
 have been carried away to other institutions to the 
 universities. 
 
 The small college has the great advantage that you 
 can know all the students by name. Knowing them by 
 name means knowing them by character, knowing 1 what 
 they need, knowing how you can help to 1 make true men 
 of them. It is a very great advantage to be able to get 
 near to the students. The value of any teacher dimin- 
 ishes as the square of his distance increases, A very 
 great man may be of very little consequence to* the stu- 
 dents if his distance from him is SO' great that the square 
 of his distance has diminished their knowledge of the 
 character and 1 nature of the man. Knowing students by 
 name is an advantage, a very great advantage of the 
 small college. Concentration, enthusiasm and nearness 
 to the student those are the great advantages that you 
 have, Dr. Baer, over Dr. Wheeler and myself; and we 
 are doing our best in the larger institutions to equalize 
 these differences in order that we may be on a level with 
 you in our relations to our students. It is yours, Dr. 
 Baer, to give Occidental College its color, and tone, its 
 touch of personality. This is the function of the college 
 president. This is because it is his duty to have an 
 ideal, a plan, a theory of the future, and to select men 
 that make this ideal good. You must know what men 
 can do to bring their best work. That is what a college 
 president is for. It doesn't make any particular differ- 
 ence whether you, as "talking man" o*f Occidental Col- 
 
lege, talk very well or. very ill. That is a very minor 
 question. It doesn't make much difference whether you 
 write much or little. Those things may have a certari 
 value to the college or to the public, but the main ques- 
 tion lies with the activities of the men you choose as 
 the college faculty. What do you know about men, and 
 hows can you size up these enthusiastic young fellow^ 
 east and west and get the very best work that is possible 
 out of them? It is for you to know men and to know 
 their powers. It is for you to be patient, and locking 
 beyond the conditions of this year and the years that 
 are to follow cl'osely, to plan a long time ahead. It is 
 for you to foster freedom and to check folly. It is for 
 you to develop a sound moral tone. Giaracter building- 
 is the main business of^every college and university. It 
 is the business of every college and university to do 
 things as they ought to be done, to think things as they 
 ought to be thought, to act straight, because they think 
 straight. For the rest, it remains for you to arrange 
 these elements in your college so that the building up of 
 a sound character, a sound citizenship, and the attitude 
 we call God-fearing, will be the final result oi all your 
 work. 
 
ADDRESS BY 
 
 Benjamin Ide Wheeler, LL.D. 
 
 President- of the University of California 
 
 T SUBSCRIBE to every word that President Jordan has 
 said, and I lay my hands on top of his to give the 
 blessing- to the inducted president of the day. But I do 
 want to give you just a word of greeting from your 
 State University. The State University welcomes addi- 
 tions to the list of good colleges, and development in 
 the life of any of them. It welcomes colleges where sub- 
 jects are soundly and sanely taught, where teachers are 
 men of character, cleanness, and loftiness of spirit, and 
 where the fear of Godi is regarded as the beginning of 
 wisdom. 
 
 We know at Berkeley, just as well as you know, that 
 a man who does not live the religious life does not hal'f 
 live, and' the man that is not religiously trained is not 
 half educated. 
 
 The State University, as a type in this country, is 
 turning toward the development of the higher work. 
 The sure goal of the State University is the fulfillment 
 of its high purpose to set standards in the midst of the 
 community and to advance the cause of finding truth. 
 Therefore, the State University, which is sure with the 
 years to devote itself more and more to the cultivation 
 of research and the encouragement of special lines of 
 education, like engineering, architecture, agriculture, wel- 
 comes with fullness of heart such work as such institu- 
 tions as this are sent to- do and can best do. 
 
 There is at this time, throughout the whole country a 
 tji'de setting strongly toward the development of the 
 small colleges. We believe, those of us who have had 
 experience with them; that they have the opportunity, 
 more distinctly than the large institutions, of recognizing 
 howi truly education is a matter of the life and the spirit, 
 how truly the progress of learning throueh the civil iza- 
 
tions is a handing on of the torch from man's hand to 
 man's hand, how truly teaching is the conveyance 
 of personal inspiration. Let this be a place where men 
 shall teach who shall inspire lives and make character 
 in handing on the torch. 
 
 I am here today to congratulate you on your new 
 president, and to pray in your presence and with you that 
 the blessing which maketh rich may descend upon Occi- 
 dental College and the work within it of President Baer. 
 
ADDRESS BY 
 
 Rev. George F. Bovard, D.D. 
 
 President of the University of Southern California 
 
 r\ N THIS red-letter day for Occidental College, I bring 
 to you cordial greetings from the University of 
 Southern California. 
 
 The University being located in the same city is 
 Occidental's nearest neighbor and friendly rival. 
 
 The institution I represent does not undertake to do 
 work beyond that of high grade college work, except 
 in a few; things. The larger universities, with their 
 more extensive equipment, have a field of research and 
 investigation into which we do not pretend to enter. 
 
 I congratulate Occidental College today because it has 
 succeeded in bringing Dr. Baer to its presidency. For 
 this act it merits the hearty thanks of alii lovers of truth 
 arid high ideals of life. My congratulations, therefore, 
 are not limited to Occidental, ' but extend to the entire 
 Pacific Coast, and to Southern California in particular. 
 
 We are accustomed to congratulate ourselves when a 
 man of large means and public spirit selects our city, or 
 our part of the country in which to invest his millions 
 of dollars. We appreciate the power of money, wisely 
 invested, to develop a country. We could not well get 
 along without our broad minded, public spirited, enter- 
 prising men of means. 
 
 President Baer comes, not to invest large sums of 
 money in commercial enterprises, but to give himself to 
 an institution whose sole object is to develop character, 
 to fit young men and young women for the widest fields 
 of usefulness. He brings to this coast a wealth o-f ex- 
 perience in leadership among young people, the influence 
 of which will not be confined to Occidental's constitu- 
 ency, but it will stimulate other leaders in Christian edu^ 
 cation 1 to greater activity in this broad field of oppor- 
 tunity. 
 
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We, therefore, bid him a most cordial welcome. 
 
 The University of Southern California is as an elder 
 brother to Occidental College. It is large enough and 
 generous enough in its attitude toward other educational 
 institutions to rejoice in the prosperity that has come 
 to Occidental. And I am sure that should misfortune 
 befall any 'one of the family of Colleges and Universities, 
 the University of Southern California would regard it 
 as a misfortune to all. 
 
 President Baer, accept the assurance of my personal 
 appreciationi of you, and of the work you have done. 
 We are co-laborers in positions of exalted privileges, 
 but very grave responsibilities. Mutual helpfulness, and 
 good-fellowship should dominate our relation to each 
 other. 
 
 Again congratulating Occidental College, and all 
 Southern California, I bid you God-speed. 
 
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ADDREvSS BY 
 
 Dean E. C. Norton, Ph. D. 
 
 Pomona College 
 
 T T is a very simple message that I have the privilege 
 of bringing- you today and I know you will all re- 
 joice when I say it is a very short one also, but none the 
 less sincere and genuine. Pomona College presents through 
 me her hearty congratulations on the cominp- of this good 
 day and this good man to Occidental. We trust that ail 
 the high hopes and all the prophetic visions that fill your 
 hearts and minds today will speedily become visible reali- 
 ties potent factors in shaping for good this fair part 
 of our great state, yet so young and unformed, but with 
 possibilities of a noble Christian civilization, beyond our 
 highest thought. I like to think, and it is a thought to 
 thrill the imaginiation and move the will, that here in 
 this reserved corner of our great nation, this most beau- 
 tiful spot of all, there may yet be developed a type of 
 manhood and of womanhood better than that which we 
 have seen before men and women as joyous and sunny 
 and pure as our on southern skies ; in conviction and will 
 as strong as these everlasting hills; in their united on- 
 ward movement as irresistible as the waves of the great 
 sea by which we live. And may not this vision become 
 a reality if only the forces in control of this our South- 
 land may soon become the forces of truth and righteous- 
 ness if only our young men and maidens come to know 
 that the only higher civilization into which they may 
 enter is first of all that of the will! and mind and heart- 
 if only we can all be sure that it is simple fact our good 
 poet sings, 
 
 "The forward march of progress beats 
 To that grand anthem, calm and slow. 
 Which God repeats." 
 
 It is to teach* men and women to understand and love 
 
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to keep step with that sort of progress that our colleges 
 primarily exist. Manifestly then between institutions 
 holding in any deep and adequate way such a thought 
 of their mission there can be no room for petty jealousy 
 and envy. The great truths for which we all stand cover 
 our minor differences as the mighty ocean with its on- 
 coming tide makes one with itself the pools along the 
 shore. 
 
 So we joy in your joy today. We are glad for the 
 new hope and life and strength that come to you. You 
 can never take a forward step that shall not call us to 
 advance also. You can never win a genuine victory that 
 shall not be our honor also. You can never do work so 
 thoroughly, so honestly, so reverently that it will not 
 bring- us nearer the ideal which we set before us as a 
 Christian college. And so from the college that is near- 
 est to you, I think, in purpose and ideal, I bring you 
 today congratulations and a heartfelt benediction. 
 
 I did not intend to offer you any advice but I cannot 
 refrain from saying that excellent as were the suggestions 
 of President Jordan I trust you will not follow them in 
 one particular. You can never build up an institution 
 by letting a lot of youngsters fill your professors' chairs 
 just long enough to learn their business and then pass 
 on at the call' O'f some university. Get men of the very 
 best training- of mind and heart, but be sure that they 
 are men who have the college spirit, who believe in the 
 sort of work you are doing and believe it worth the gift 
 of their lives. Such men will resist all the temptations 
 the university may bring to bear upon them. This is 
 the way to build a college. In this one thing I think 
 I know what I am talking about. Bless you. 
 
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ADDRESS BY 
 
 Prof. Ernest C. Moore 
 
 Superintendent of Los Angeles City Schools 
 
 T T is a curious fact in the evolution of what we are 
 pleased to call the modern school system, that the 
 universities or the higher departments came into being first 
 Then after a time the secondary schools came into be- 
 ing. Then after a time the elementary schools came 
 into being. Then after a time, and it was about the 
 same time in each case, the kindergartens came into be- 
 ing. But these different parts of the educational family 
 treated each other as the members of some quarrelsome 
 families do today. They got just as far apart as they 
 could, and for many generations they stayed as far apart 
 as they could. At first the universities would have nothing 
 to do with the secondary schools who hated them most 
 uncordially; and the secondary schools had no sympathy 
 or understanding for the elementary schools ; and it is well 
 known that the elementary schools have not at all times 
 had much sympathy for the kindergartens. That con- 
 dition of affairs that disunited condition of affairs ob- 
 tained in the educational family for a long, long time. I 
 think we may say today that we live in an age of edu- 
 cational integration, an age in w r hich we are beginning to 
 form a solid front, an age in which kindergartens, ele- 
 mentary schools, secondary schools, colleges and univer- 
 sities are coming together, in order to bring about the 
 prophecy of the Master of us all, that when men should 
 know the truth, they should at length be free. 
 
 And so I have great joy this morning in welcoming 
 Dr. Baer on behalf of a much more indefinite constituency 
 than any man on this platform represents, I think. I 
 know not in whose name I speak. I speak in the name 
 of small children in far-off villages, behind mountains, 
 shut off from railroads, in California. I speak in the 
 name of teachers and pupils in distant district schools. 
 
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I speak in the name of boys and girls who are having 
 a hard time to get an education in secondary schools. 
 I welcome you in the name of thousands of them. I 
 wish I might take you even into the city of Los Ange- 
 les and show you the extent o*f the educational undertak- 
 ing and the size of the educational family there that you 
 might know, as you never knew before, perhaps, what 
 a serious and what a tremendous and what a great 
 and wonderful and far-reaching thing this education that 
 we stand for, is today. I wish I might have the children 
 in the elementary schools of Los Angeles even, not in 
 the schools of California,, but even of this one commun- 
 ity of the state, moved before you in procession. There 
 are thirty-four thousand of them. It would take a long 
 time for you to see them, and yet the work that they 
 are doing, and the work that the thousand teachers who 
 are instructing them are doing that work is improved, 
 is bettered, is helped, is ennobled, is dignfied, by the com- 
 ing to California of such a man as Dr. Baer. 
 
 It is said in the good Book that there is much joy 
 in Heaven over the conversion of one sinner. There is 
 also much joy in the educational family, when a good 
 man, and a strone man, joins forces with us; and on 
 this educational feast-day, it is indeed a pleasure to 
 welcome him here and to congratulate Occidental Col- 
 lege, Los Angeles City, Southern California, and the 
 great state of California upon his presence; and I think 
 if I spoke all that is in my heart at the present time I 
 should go a bit further and say we congratulate Dr. Baer 
 on having cast in his lot with California, 
 
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ADDRESS BY 
 
 Rev. Warren D More 
 
 Moderator of the Synod of California 
 
 T T is no perfunctory duty but a great deli Hit, and 
 one that I esteem as a great privilege, to bring you 
 the greetings of the Synod of California and in the name 
 of the Presbyterians of California and Nevada to extend 
 to you a most hearty and cordial welcome. As you 
 have heard, there are more than thirty thousand of this 
 family scattered over the territory of California and Ne- 
 vada, and these people of this Presbyterian family have 
 had their vision, a vision that is necessarily associated 
 with yourself, and is dependent very largely upon you 
 for its realization; and that vision is nothing less than a 
 Pacific Princeton, that shall shape and mold the thought 
 and the life, moral and spiritual, of this whole coast 
 country. 
 
 Improving an opportunity that came to me very re- 
 cently in the meeting of the Synod, I took occasion to 
 ask many of our leaders what they thought of our 
 president. The question that I asked them was this, 
 "Why are you glad to have Dr. Baer come to the coast 
 as president of Occidental College?" And there was a 
 decided uniformity as well as heartiness in the answers 
 to that question. Out of those answers there were three 
 that include, I think, the whole; and the first was this: 
 "Because of the expectancy in the hearts of our young 
 people." Now, I suppose this is true because of your 
 magnificent record as the secretary of the World's Union 
 of Christian Endeavor. You have laid' our young people 
 under tribute to yourself. I know it is within the lim- 
 its of truth to say that our young people lie at your feet, 
 sir, and that it is your privilege to touch them and lift 
 them up into shapes of honor and righteousness. 
 
 And, secondly, the answer was, "Because of the con- 
 fidence of our fathers and mothers in Dr. Baer." This 
 
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is .a compliment, Dr. Baer, to you for your own sake. It 
 comes from the fathers and mothers of the Presbyter- 
 ian Church, because both of your record as the secretary 
 of the World's Union of Christian Endeavor and your 
 splendid work as one of the 'secretaries of the Board of 
 Home Missions. The fathers and mothers of our church 
 are looking toward you with large hope and confidence 
 today. 
 
 And, thirdly, all agree that they were glad because 
 of the marvelous opportunity that now lies open before 
 you because of these two preceding conditions. That 
 opportunity is such as a king might envy, I honestly be- 
 lieve. And I can say to you, Dr. Baer, it is your privi- 
 lege to knock at the door of the hearts of our people and 
 to pull at their purse strings with the assurance that you 
 will have a hearing and a glad entrance. 
 
 It has been my privilege in the past to see you stand- 
 ing o-n the platform before ten thousand of our young 
 people, notably at the great conventions of Cleveland, 
 and Boston, and Detroit. And I well remember the 
 thrill that your words sent through the hearts and red 
 blood of those multitudes of young people; and it was 
 because, sir, you had that marvelous faculty of holding 
 up before the young people lofty ideals, and of urging 
 them most earnestly and successfully toward the attain- 
 ment of those ideals. Well do I remember the wonder- 
 ful thrill with which again and again your lips have 
 sounded forth those words, the motto of the World's 
 Endeavor Society, "For Christ and the Church." 
 
 Now, Dr. Baer, the Presbyterians of the coast ask you 
 to make good, in the lives here on the coast, that splendid 
 motto, and to write upon the plastic hearts of these people 
 in large and living characers, with the very crimson of 
 your own earnest consecrated heart, this same motto, 
 "For Christ and the Church." 
 
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ADDRESS BY 
 
 Mr. William Shaw 
 
 Boston, Mass., Treasurer of the World 's Christian Endeavor 
 
 Union 
 
 T COME representing the largest constituency in the 
 largest training school in the world today The So- 
 ciety of Christian Endeavor, world wide, with the motto 
 of which we have just heard, with a faculty that includes 
 the loving, sympathetic pastors in more than sixty dif- 
 ferent denominations, our president the Great Teacher of 
 all, and our fieM the world, through the church of Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
 I bring to you also the loving personal greetings of 
 the president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union, 
 Dr.. Francis E. Clark, the man who in the morning of 
 your life, saw the promise that has been so gloriously 
 realized in your high noon-tide. Would that he might 
 be here today to have a part in these exercises, and to put 
 his hand on your shoulder, as he did fifteen years ago 
 when he called you unto the work for the young people 
 of trie work!'. His heart is here; his loving greeting^ 
 are here; his benediction is with you as you take up 
 this work; and he glories not simplv in the honors that 
 are yours, but in the opportunity for service that you 
 have before you in these coming years. 
 
 I bring you my personal greeting this morning. The 
 twelve years that we worked together brought us so 
 near that I am going to give it to you. by the wireless 
 message from the heart and not by word of the lips, 
 Our experiences were too tender and our service was 
 too close to permit me to speak. You have seen into my 
 heart before, and you know what it means. I bring you 
 today the greetings of four millions of Christian Endeav- 
 orers, and four millions more who have graduated from 
 our ranks. Oh, hear them! They come from the sun- 
 burnt plains of India, from the jungles of Africa, from 
 
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beneath the Southern Cross, and from our own beloved 
 country. Oh, hear the greetings of millions of young 
 hearts that bless God for the influence of your life and 
 for what you have been to them ! Would that you might 
 hear their voices! Would that you might see into their 
 livs! Oh, hear them today, as they unite in blessing 
 God for the life of this man, our secretary ! I want 
 you to understand that although he will be president of 
 Occidental College, in a few moments, he is still the 
 honorary secretary of the World's Christian Endeavor 
 Union, and will always hold his place on the throne of 
 the hearts of the young people of the wide world. 
 
 Young men and women of Occidental, see the stretched- 
 out hands of the millions in the Orient and the O'ocident 
 who want and demand the investment of your life in 
 theirs, that by and by all the young people the whole 
 world around may see the vision of the up-lifted Christ 
 may lift him up in their lives, and may go out in the 
 world 1 in the spirit of world-wide Christian Endeavor, 
 with a citizenship proud and lofty, and with a vision of 
 Christ demanding and claiming the best that we have. 
 
 God bless you and prosper you,, and out from your 
 hands may there, go men and women who shall stand be- 
 fore the world fashioned unto the likeness of Him who is 
 like unto that of the Son of Man. 
 
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ADDRESS BY 
 
 Prof. John A. Gordon, D. D. 
 
 Representing the Faculties of Occidental College and Acadejny 
 
 HpHK telegram that announced that Secretary Baer had 
 accepted the presidency of Occidental College indi- 
 cated very clearly and distinctly what would be the pol- 
 icy O'f his aministratiori. The concluding words were 
 these: "We pray that God will help us in making Oc- 
 cidental College increasingly a power for righteousness 
 on the Pacific Coast. " President Baer wants this col- 
 lege to be a power house, an agency for developing to 
 the fullest possible extent in the student the power to. 
 know, the power to do, the power to exercise self-con- 
 trol and to influence others. And his heart's desire and 
 prayer is that the students of the school may be so trained 
 that they will exercise this power wisely and earnestly 
 for the advancement of the kingdom of God and not 
 only so, but that the influence of this institution may be 
 far-reaching, extending throughout this great Pacific 
 Coast, through our land, and into other lands, and grow- 
 ing, as the years pass on, until the kingdoms of this 
 world shall become the kingdom 1 o<f our Lord and his 
 Christ. I repeat that closing sentence, "May God help 
 us make Occidental College increasingly a power for 
 righteousness on the Pacific Coast." 
 
 And then in the first address which Dr. Baer, our 
 President, gave to the faculty and the students, he pro- 
 posed this motto for the school, "Christ, co-operation, 
 conquest." 
 
 The greatest of mere men said this : "For me to live 
 is Christ;" "the preaching of Christ is the business of 
 my life; the love of Christ is the power of my life; the 
 innate of Christ is the crown of my life; the will of 
 Christ is the law of my life; and' the glory of Christ 
 is the end of my life." 
 
 Christ is the Word, the Revealer of God, the Revealer 
 
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of all truth. He is the light of the world. Nature, hu- 
 man history, the soul of man, the inspired word all 
 these are His revelations. He is not only the author, He 
 is also the chief subject of these revelations. He said 
 of Himslf, "I am the truth." The glory that shines 
 through the works of creation and providence and that 
 irradiates the pages of Scripture is His glory. That 
 great scientist and philosopher, Kepler, one of the great- 
 est thinkers that the world has ever known, speaking 
 O'f his studies in nature said, "Lord, I thank Thee, that 
 I can think Thy thoughts after Thee." In every college, 
 every university, teaclhers and students are studying 
 objects and events that tell of Him of whom are all 
 things and by whom all things consist. 
 
 It gives me very great pleasure to- bring to you on 
 this occasion the cordial greetings of the Faculties of 
 the College and the Academy. We beg to assure you 
 that we are in hearty accord with you in your desire to 
 make this school 1 increasingly a power for righteousness, 
 a school in which Christ shall be honored, trusted, loved, 
 obeyed, and in which teachers and students shall faith- 
 fully and earnestly co-operate with Him, and with one 
 another in the great work of making the kingdom of God 
 prevail throughout the world. 
 
 The chief means of promoting righteousness is the 
 teaching of the Word of God. The supreme revelation 
 of the Christ is that which is contained in the Holy 
 Scriptures. As an expression of this belief, and with the 
 earnest desire that the Inspired Word may always hold 
 the first place among the subjects of study in this school, 
 and may exercise a controlling influence in the lives of 
 its teachers and students, we present to you, with our 
 greetings and best wishes, this Bible. May God bless 
 you. 
 
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ADDRESS BY 
 
 Rev. E. S. McKitrick, D. D. 
 
 Representing the Board of Trustees 
 
 \/T Y address, you will probably be glad to know, has 
 in substance, already been made two or three 
 times, and so I pass that by. But, though the others 
 could make my speech, they could not well pive the greet- 
 ings for the Board of Trustees. This, at least, remains 
 for me, and to this I shall confine myseM. 
 
 It is a pleasant duty to extend welcome to one whose 
 coming gives us satisfaction, and such a pleasant duty 
 belongs to the trustees of Occidental College today, in 
 whose' behalf I am commissioned to speak a, word of 
 greeting to> the new president. And the very word, it- 
 self, "the word "welcome", which has been the key note 
 o>f this happy occasion, is suggestive. As doubtless you 
 know in its literal meaning it referes to one who< comes 
 so as to please another's will, and is applied to one whose 
 coming is gratifying to another. And surely the com- 
 ing of Dr. Baer to Occidental College is gratifying, and 
 gives profound pleasure to the Board of Trustees. The 
 Board of Trustees believe that Dr. Baer's coming means 
 the development of the work of Occidental. College; that 
 it means a blessing to the Pacific Coast in strengthen- 
 ing the forces that make for righteousness ; that it means 
 the sending out of 'large numbers of young men and 
 young women from this institution who shall be round- 
 ed out into completeness of education, educated in heart 
 as well as in head not merely sharpened in intellect, but 
 so developed and ennobled in character that their lives 
 will be a blessing to all with whom they come in contact. 
 
 It would be very singular, indeed, if the Board of 
 ^Trustees were not ready to welcome Dr. Baer most heart- 
 ily today. It would be very inhospitable, for he comes 
 at the invitation of the Board, an invitation backed, we 
 are sure, by the cordial wish and sentiment of all the 
 
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patrons and friends of the College. We are glad that 
 he has come, and we greet him today as an invited 
 guest. In all that belongs to Occidental College to do, we 
 believe that he will be a faithful and efficient leader. We 
 did not invite him unadvisedly or without consideration. 
 It was done after careful thought and earnest prayer. 
 And the members of the Board of Trustees believe that 
 they were led to send for him just as truly as the centur- 
 ion of old was led to send for a certain Apostle to open 
 to him the doors of the kingdom. And so we can say 
 to Dr. Baer today, as the centurion said to Peter, "Im- 
 mediately therefore, we sent unto thee, and thou hast 
 .well done that thou art come/ 1 
 
 In all that, goes to further the true interests of edu- 
 cation; in alii that contributes to make this institution an 
 increasing power in Southern California and on the Pa- 
 cific Coast, and indeed, throughout the country and the 
 world (no man can limit the influence of such an in- 
 stitution,) in all that tends to build up the best char- 
 acter and to keep before the young men and the young 
 women of this College the loftiest ideals, we pledge you 
 
 our cordial and earnest support. 
 
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THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS BY 
 
 John 'Willis Baer, LL. D. 
 
 President Elect 
 
 \/F Y fingers grasp these keys, sir, with intense enthusi- 
 asm and with integrity of purpose. A past of 
 thrilling interest, saturated with a spirit of sacrifice and 
 heroism is represented by them. Occidental's eighteen 
 years are fragrant with the work and worth of true men. 
 The hands that have fitted these keys to their locks have 
 bled and blessed. The trustees have given to the faculty 
 full academic freedom, and the founders and benefactors 
 with generous hearts have insured Occidental's finan- 
 cial future, by providing a liberal endowment fund and 
 the erection of new buildings. Borrowing Whittier's 
 lines, I sing their praises: 
 
 "Not vainly the gift of its founders was made: 
 Not prayerless the stones of its corner were laid ; 
 The blessing of Him whom in secret they sought 
 Has owned the good work the fathers have wrought." 
 
 Occidental's faculty, a welded, compact body repre- 
 senting liberal culture, and nearly the whole alphabet of 
 science, experienced in mastering the nodosity of the av- 
 erage student, merits Southern California's confidence. It 
 has enforced habits of study, believing the educator wise 
 wtho said, "that close attention, tenacious memory, and ac- 
 curate statement, are three mental virtues not unworthy 
 to be named after faith, hope and charity, the trinal vir- 
 tues of Saint Paul." That not all its members can read 
 Cuneiform script, is frankly admitted, but each knows the 
 true value of a soul beating with life blood. In other 
 words, its members put first things first, and it does not 
 require a spectrum analysis to demonstrate their ability 
 to teach. "By their fruits ye shall know them." 
 
 Much has been accomplished upon our campus by Oc- 
 cidental's donors and their money. It is, however, but a 
 
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beginning. The recent purchase of twelve additional 
 acres, is announced today. The prospects for an observa- 
 tory and a new and fully equipped science hall are bright. 
 We are pleased with our campus, and our buildings; but 
 Occidental is more than brick and mortar. Her most 
 valuable equipment is her student body. Sons and 
 daughters of Occidental, the president greets you ! Your 
 fibre is far from flaccid and your ideals are raised very 
 high above the plane of moral miasma. You seldom 
 mistake "figure for fact or shadow for substance." You 
 give your best; and in' seeking knowledge seek it not as 
 the end, but as the means to. the end. You make Oc- 
 cidental more than an ir institution ; you make it an influ- 
 ence 'an influence to be traced around the world, for 
 good and for God. 
 
 Call me Occidental's" president if you will, but regard 
 me as her pastor agnorum. If I can attain to the high 
 calling of the latter, the summit of my hope and ambi- 
 tion will be reached. You are invited to magnify my 
 office by transfiguring the word president into shepherd. 
 Let me here and now banish conventional formalism and 
 honestlv declare that the insignia O'f my office will not be 
 lens, metre, or balance. Those instruments of precision 
 are found here, in the experienced hands of others. A 
 sheoherd's crook more appropriately represents my triple 
 calling, "to nourish, to control, to lead." 
 
 The dawn of a new day marks another advancement 
 in Occidental's history. With it comes added responsibil- 
 ity growing out of our perils and opportunities. That 
 responsibility demands infinite wisdom, generous co-op- 
 eration, adequate equipment, and capacity for illimitable 
 service. With fierce joy we begin the new mile of duty 
 and privilege, and solemnly aver that sound teaching, 
 pure living, and unswerving loyalty to- Jesus Christ and 
 God's word, are the tri folium of our inspiration to lead 
 Occidental's hosts ever onward and upward ! 
 
 Ours is a Christian college, under Presbyterian control, 
 enjoying broad interdenominational' fellowship, we fos- 
 ter self-respecting denomiinationalism without permitting 
 narrow sectarian supremacy. Welcoming a spirit of 
 
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friendly rivalry with other institutions, we are here to 
 supplement and not to supplant. Founded upon the idea 
 that a college of liberal arts has a mission distinct from 
 a university, we do not make a specialty of providing ad- 
 vanced and professional work for graduate students. As 
 a college we stand between school and university, and ap- 
 preciating that the demand for college-bred men and wo- 
 men is in excess of the supply, we give our students a lib- 
 eral education fitting them for every walk in life. Our 
 courses of study compel accurate scholarship. At the same 
 time, our curriculum is not considered a catholicon for 
 life. By moulding character ark; impressing high relig- 
 ious ideals, we are proving that an education in a Chris- 
 tian college is not a toy, but ' tool for the farm, the 
 workshop and the counting-house as well as for profes- 
 sional life. 
 
 With keen interest, the president is studying the cur- 
 ricula o>f successful colleges in tlie hopes of elevating Oc- 
 cidental's standards, This is being done with an open 
 mind, unfettered by precedents or prejudices. He is anx- 
 ious to be shown the changes that should be made of the 
 right kind and to be prevented from making those of 
 the wrong. This college must have a standard for schol- 
 arship second to none, and we are determined that noth- 
 ing shall keep us back from having it. Every step taken 
 in that direction will be maintained as we ever move to- 
 ward our goal. Day and night will we strive to strength- 
 en our position in the educational life o>f the Pacific 
 Coast, as we covet only the best gifts. Your president 
 is ready to go back to the days of Athenian glory and 
 resurrect from the sepulchre of Socrates, if need be, the 
 seed of any educational life that will take root and bear 
 fruit in this day and age. He is quite as willing to- con- 
 sider on its merits, the latest ideal o>f the least known 
 faculty member of the most obscure college, if happily 
 he may find methods which mav better meet the educa- 
 tional standard of greater Occidental. He believes also 
 that however it may be with the University, the courses 
 of study in a college should be made up in the main of 
 
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required subjects definitely prescribed, and that freedom 
 of election should be restricted to the more mature stu- 
 dents of the upper classes. 
 
 This is neither the time nor the place to introduce ex- 
 tended argument for or against the elective system, as a 
 system. 1 cannot resist touching- just the borders of the 
 subject, though in doing that, I may, as did Sisyphus 
 of old, push the stone up hill only to have it roll back 
 upon me. I am content, however, to affirm that neces- 
 sary as the elective system is to successful university 
 work, it is only proportionately essential to college train- 
 ing; and we do well to have less, rather than more of 
 it in our plan, for we claim to be a college and make no 
 pretence of being more. 
 
 For fear I may be misunderstood, let me share with 
 you President Hyde's -recent definition o>f a college, and 
 you will better understand what we claim for Occidental. 
 "A college is an institution where young men and young 
 women study great subjects under broad teachers in a 
 liberty which is not license, and a leisure which is not 
 idleness with unselfish participation in a common life, 
 and intense devotion to minor groups within the larger 
 body, and special interests inside the general aim ; con- 
 scious that they are critically watched by friendly eyes, 
 too kind to take unfair avantage of their weakness and 
 errors, yet too keen ever to be deceived." 
 
 Rejoice with me, too, that we are not too large in 
 number to interefere with individual training, while large 
 enough to give needed stimulus to healthy competition. 
 Quality before quantity is our watchword. The students 
 are encouraged to believe that mastery of "detail, drudg- 
 ery and duty" is the sure road to* real success, and that 
 academic honors are valuable only when obtained as re- 
 wars for love of learning and truth. Classical, culturing 
 and disciplinary is the training of Occidental's class-room. 
 We are developing latent talent, and giving a practical 
 turn to classical education. That, augmented by the self- 
 reliance obtained by students from contact with class- 
 mates outside of class-rooms, in the natural and spontan- 
 
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eous life of the college, stamps Occidental's learning 
 as sound. 
 
 Sound learning is good, pure living is better; sound 
 learning and pure living that is best. By precept and 
 practice, pure living is inspired in our students. High 
 ideals are inculcated and Occidental's graduates are sent 
 out into the large school of life, prepared to blight greed, 
 to purify citizenship, to deepen the spirit of patriotism 
 and to inspire love of country. 
 
 "For what avail the plough or soil 
 Or land or life, if freedom fail?" 
 
 Culture and citizenship: let Occidental fling out that 
 banner and assure the Cornmonweath that its influence 
 is potent for good. This commonwealth, favored far be- 
 yond many others, rich in mineral resources, only begin- 
 ning to comprehend the possibility and rewards of irri- 
 gation as water transforms its own and tributary arid 
 acres into gardens of wealth and beauty, must be de- 
 veloped by cultured citizens imbued with the principles 
 of pure living. Occiental must give to the nation men 
 and women thoroughly grounded in all the standards that 
 are fundamental to honesty in business and purity in the 
 home. To an unusual degree the undergraduates of our 
 universities and colleges are the trustees of cur country's 
 prosperity. Within our walls, love of countrv means 
 much more than that we should die for her when duty 
 demands it. Here we are taught to live for rnr country 
 as true men and women and to believe th?t some men are 
 as truly called of God to make important sacrifices, and 
 become leaders of righteousness in municipal, state and 
 national governments as other men are called to enter 
 the gospel 1 ministry. This college, keeping in mind Free- 
 man's statement, "History is past politics, and politics 
 present history," shall encourage the study of politics and 
 the duty and privilege of g"ood citizenship. Its young 
 men will cast their first ballots in the fear of God, and 
 their standards of life will be a menace to the brothel, 
 the gambling den, the saloon, and everv cesspool of ini- 
 quity, private or public. My pulse quickens as I think 
 
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of Occidental's influence upon the state and nation. Cali- 
 fornia has a valuable asset in the product of its institu- 
 tions of higher learning. And that leads me to say in 
 passing, the commonwealth is our debtor and the day 
 should be near at hand when the state will not levy a 
 property tax upon its own dividend producing assets. 
 Fair play and a square dead! demand a change. 
 
 To return to the influence of the co-liege upon the 
 commonwealth, let me remind you that the map of the 
 world has changed in the past few! years. The Pacific 
 ocean .has become an American lake and the Occident 
 and the Orient meet on California's shores. Boston is 
 no longer the "Hub," the Pacific Coast has become the 
 world's center. Have you ever thought what brilliant 
 foresight Timothy Dwight displayed when in 1794 he 
 wrote, 
 
 "All Hail! Thou Western World! by heaven designed 
 
 The example bright to renovate mankind! 
 
 Soon shall thy sons across the mainland roam 
 
 And claim on fair Pacific's shores a home, 
 
 Where marshes teemed with death, shall meads unfold, 
 
 Untrodden cliffs resign their stores of gold, 
 
 Where slept perennial 1 night, shall science rise, 
 
 And new-born Oxfords cheer the evening skies !" 
 
 Alongside of this prophecy of over one hundred years 
 ago, put this extract from an address by none other than 
 Dr. Horace Bushnell given before the American Mission- 
 ary society in 1847, fifty-three years later. Said Dr. 
 Bushnell, in the hope, no doubt, of rousing- the East to 
 take a larger interest in the problems of the West. "There 
 is no literary atmosphere breathine throueh the forest 
 or across the prairies. The colleges, if any they have, are 
 only rudimentary beginnings and the youth a raw com- 
 pany of woodsmen. These semi-barbarians, the immi- 
 grants, are continually multiplying their numbers. Ere 
 long there is reason to fear they will be scouring, in 
 populous bands, over the .vast territories of Oregon and 
 Calif orina, to be known as the pasturing tribes, the wild 
 hunters and robber-clans of the western hemisphere, 
 
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American Moabites, Arabs, and Edomites." What a dis- 
 mal picture for so' good a man to paint. It is difficult for us 
 to believe it ever could be true and we turn from it with 
 a smile and with pride point to Berkeley, Stanford and 
 other institutions of less magnitude and declare the pro- 
 phecy of 1794, fulfilled. Timothy Dwight had a vision 
 of educational extension the realities of which we are 
 enjoying. California is growing in wealth by leaps and 
 bounds. The rush for gold, begun sixty years ago, has 
 not abated in fact though it has in form. We rejoice with 
 grateful hearts in our prosperity. At the same time we 
 are sobered by the thought that unless our ethical, social 
 and religious life keeps abreast of the ever rising tide of 
 commercial 1 prosperity, all the advances of years may be 
 swept aside. California needs todiay more than ever, 
 "not more men but more man." This college aims to 
 supply that need and is turning into the life of the com- 
 monwealth, men and women with non-materialistic ideals 
 and with purposes infinitely loftier than the desire to ac- 
 cumulate money for money's sake. Once again, I say, 
 education, in a Christian collegre has civic and social value 
 of an inestimable degree, "No* man liveth unto him- 
 self." 
 
 How swiftly we move today. Our pace in 1860 was 
 represented by the pony express. Two years later the 
 first telegraph line crossed the plains; sevens years later 
 the last spike was driven uniting the east and west by a 
 transcontinental railroad. Contrast the early days with 
 today, and bless God for the stride of civilization which 
 is fast forming a great empire on this coast. How easily 
 that word "great" slips from our lips. Everything in 
 this state is measured by it. The land is great. The 
 population is great. The climate is great. The features 
 are great. The treasures are great. The need is great. 
 Only the supply of distinctively religiou's teaching is not 
 great. Stop! Listen! Shall Business be King? His 
 reign, dominated by modern methods, unless subordinated 
 to the Prince of Peace, is full of peril. This common- 
 wealth must maintain its rightful place in the national 
 family, and the loyal support given to this and kindred 
 
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institutions is evidence that there are men and women 
 who desire to see Christian education keep step with Cali- 
 fornia's irresistable progress. With some of our bene- 
 factors, this desire is a passion. They have a right to 
 demand that the students who go from these halls shall 
 be a credit to the commonwealth. The problems of capi- 
 tal and labor, class hatred, and political independence at 
 present absorbing public interest, are waiting for level 
 heads and ready hands to apply the Golden Rule, and can 
 be solved only in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount. 
 I am an optimist and believe the good in the world is 
 surely, though all too slowly, gaining over the bad. I 
 must admit at times, when the war is 'aggressively waged, 
 it is difficult to discern the victor through the smoke of 
 battle. Our colleges and universities are valiently aid- 
 ing in clearing the clouded atmosphere, as each year a. new 
 and 1 noble influence arises from them like incense from a 
 sacrificial altar, or like 
 
 "The tital wave of deeper souls 
 Into our inmost being rolls 
 And lifts us unawares." 
 
 Let me now in closing, emphasize the last division 
 of Occidental's trifolium unswerving loyalty to Jesus 
 Christ and God's Word. From the advent of Christ and 
 the founding of the Christian religion up to this day, the 
 church throughout the known world without a faltering 
 note has resolutely stood for education, though for centur- 
 ies, amid much confusion and imperfection, it stood alone. 
 In our own land the first step provided for higher educa- 
 tion was taken by the church. Harvard, William and 
 Mary, Yale, these colleges in the order named, were built 
 upon Christian foundations. Barker informs us that of 
 the first one hundred and nineteen colleges founded in 
 the Unite States, over one hundred were children of the 
 church. There has in recent ^ears been much discussion 
 as to the relation of state schools and those of the church 
 and it would be well in this connection to heed what 
 the president of De Pauw said in his inaugural address? 
 
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''If the prophecies so often made at the present should 
 prove true and the schools of the church be killed by the 
 schools of the state, history would offer no> clearer and 
 sadder instance of wholesale matricide! But he who 
 imagines such an outcome is lacking- in vision. The state 
 schools are here and they will remain. Surely no one 
 would care to decree that all young- people must at- 
 tend an institution of private or denominational founding. 
 The colleges of such private and denominational founcl- 
 ig have given noble service to our various states. They 
 now have a right to ask for a, fair field; have a right to 
 ask that there be no< needless duplication of collegiate 
 work ; have a right to demand that there be no partiality 
 shown in the selection of teachers, principals and superin- 
 tendents; have a right to assert the glory of their mission. 
 But more than these rights they can not claim. Their 
 work must be positive and constructive ; the strengthening 
 of the various departments, the sending out of men and 
 women of intellect and character. Given these worthy 
 conditions, the schools of the church will not die. They 
 may have some serious sickness, or they may change their 
 places of residence, or they may, when proper love pre- 
 vails, marry. Our schools are the wards of a deathless 
 church.'' Better than any words of mine, are these that 
 I have just quoted, and I leave this subject bv adding, 
 that while the lines between church and state schools are 
 carefully marked, and very properly so, there should al- 
 ways be the fullest co-operation, as both without conflict 
 move into an ever-widening sphere o<i service. At the 
 inauguration o-f the president of the University of Cali- 
 fornia, just seven years ago yesterday, Dr. Gilman, a 
 former president, returned from the East to the Golden 
 Gate to 'address the thousands who had gathered with 
 Dr. Jordan to give the right hand of fellowship to Dr. 
 Wheeler. In mentioning the noteworthy changes and 
 advancements for good in/ universities and professional 
 schools, Dr. Gilman used these words : "I note greater 
 liberty on the part of religious leaders towards the meth- 
 ods of modern thought, less apprehension, more generous 
 sympathy when science, language and history speak. On 
 
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the other hand, it is equally worthy of note," said that 
 famous educator, "that intellectual men, whether they 
 be devoted to letters, science, law, or education, are more 
 and more ready to admit and to declare, that the things 
 which are seen are temporal, and the things which are 
 unseen are eternal ; that beneath all f orais of worship 
 there is true religion binding man to his Creator; that 
 the mysteries of life are just as great as they were in the 
 days of Solomon and Plato. Much more than this, they 
 believe that the discoveries of miscroscope and tele- 
 scope, the more they are prosecuted the more they reveal 
 a plan and the more incomprehensible that plan appears, 
 without the belief in one living and true God." 
 
 I believe that sentiment and teaching is to be found 
 in many of the state schools, notwithstanding reports 
 to the contrary. May God speed the day when it shall 
 be characteristic of all. May I also be permitted to say 
 that I believe the day is to come again when the English 
 Bible will be taught in the class rooms of state schools of 
 every grade from primary to university. Why should 
 that clay be deferred? It seems more than strange to me 
 that the viceroy of the Chinese provinces of Hupeh and 
 Hunan, who has issued a decree introducing the New 
 Testament into the schools of his fifty-eight million peo- 
 ple, should apparently place a higher value on the study 
 cf the Bible than is evidenced by the state schools of 
 Christian America. At present the church schools as a 
 rule have a monopoly of Bible instruction, but they ear- 
 nestly desire to share it with the state schools. Until 
 that time comes, the responsibility of the church school is 
 only the more important and our prevision and provision 
 must be correspondingly wise and adequate. While Oc- 
 cidental has increased and strengthened its teaching- force 
 in letters and science it has at the same time made a 
 larger place for the English Bible. The Bible is a text- 
 book placed in the hands of ever student in this institution 
 and its study is required. This statement may or may 
 not meet with your approval, but it is only fair to yon 
 and to Occidental, that all should understand beyond the 
 possibility of a doubt, that God's Word is the corner-stone 
 
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of this foundation. It is with nothing less than genuine 
 enthusiasm that we sound this positive note. The relig- 
 ious life of Occidental is vitalizing, never obtrusive nor 
 offensive. We cordially dislike Pharisaism, and the genu- 
 ineness and naturalness of our religious life is felt in 
 chapel, class-room, campus and athletic field alike. Be- 
 lieve me, our religious teaching is as broad as it is posi- 
 tive. We remember the Master's denunciation of prose- 
 lyting and teach our beliefs without attempting to destroy 
 those of others. 
 
 Most naturally, with such teaching, the missionary and 
 evangelistic spirit is found here in marked degree. We 
 point with reasonable pride to our alumni, now working 
 for God in mission fields at home and abroad. There 
 are many of our number who have dedicated their lives 
 to the ministry and will ere long be in the field of active 
 service. 
 
 Could any college do better service for its country than 
 to give to it consecrated men and women who, lighting 
 their torches here, will carry to those who know it not, 
 the light of eternal life, Occidental believes "our self- 
 preservation 'as a church is conditioned on our obedience 
 to the great commission. Now it is preach or perish. 
 Evangelize or fossilize. Ours must be a saving church 
 with girded loins and burning lamp carrying a lost world 
 on the heart day and night." Next week we send an 
 alumnus who is present today, to China, where he will 
 join others of our alumni who have gone before him to 
 blaze a trail for the church of Christ. All honor to these 
 consecrated men and women,. They believe the one thing 
 above all others worth having, is the opportunity to be- 
 come ambassadors of the King of kings in lands steeped 
 in error 'and superstitution, America has become a 
 world power. Whatever that may mean in the vocabulary 
 of nations may it mean a world filled with His power. 
 In our own lands there are thousands waiting for the 
 transforming power of the gospel and it is from Occi- 
 dental, volunteers are to be recruited. These people are 
 to be found in city and country districts. Keep them in 
 mind and think also of the million and more immigrants 
 
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coming to our shores, annually ! Shall these newcomers 
 remain aliens or shall they become Americans ? For one, 
 I agree with President Roosevelt, that "we can't have too 
 much immigration of the right kind and we want none of 
 the wrong." I believe every immigrant knocking at our 
 doors, who can meet the requirements of Uncle Sam 
 should have an abundant entrance, and that more than 
 that there should 1 not be racial or religious discrimination 
 of any kind. We who have lived in the East, do not fear 
 your "yellow peril." With Maltbie Babcock, I believe 
 the so-called "yellow peril is America's golden opportun- 
 ity." Occidental will not only send its sons to preach 
 the gospel 1 in the Orient, but it will open its own doors 
 wide to the sons of the Orient -and gladly prepare them' to 
 return and help in the great awakening of China and Ja- 
 pan. The alien invasion of our eastern and western 
 ports by many is considered a menace to 1 the purity of our 
 national life. It may, under certain conditions, prove to 
 be a menace. I believe it to be a mission. A mission 
 that ought to stir the heart of every liberty-loving citizen 
 and with due respect to those who differ from me, 1 
 stand ready to give each worthy immigrant a man's full 
 chance in God's country. America with all of its won- 
 derful development, is still a mission field, and- Occiden- 
 tal must contribute its quota of workers for the home as 
 well as for the foreign mission fields. 
 
 Because ours is a Christian foundation, we have many 
 other privileges and duties that center in the life of 
 Jesus Christ. There is time to refer to but one more 
 among many and that one also touches the welfare o-f 
 the world. Occidental must enlist its student body in 
 "war against war." The boom of cannon has but re- 
 cently ceased to roll in from across the Pacific. The 
 blood stains are still wet upon the soil, and it is high 
 time that in state, certainly in religious institutions, the 
 horror, the destruction, the crime of war should be taught 
 the young. To that end, text-books of history need to 
 be revised. In addition to that, the principles of inter- 
 national arbitration should be taught and upheld. Not 
 only must we stand for a purer national standard at home, 
 
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but we must help America to bring about a worthier in- 
 ternational life abroad. A famous old Massachusetts 
 statute imposes upon all teachers "love of country, of hu- 
 manity, and universal benevolence." We do well to fol- 
 low in Massachusetts' train and make Occidental a branch 
 of a great peace and international arbitration society, for 
 "God hath made of one blood, all nations of men for 
 to dwell on all the face of the earth." 
 
 There is much more in my heart to say, but I will sit 
 down, conscious that I have only emphasized a few of 
 Olccidental's possibilities. Some will wonder that I did 
 not swing away from this college and speak in a more 
 general way on the inspiring theme of Christian educa- 
 tion, reminding me that the name Occidental has often 
 been on my lips and that an inaugural address should not 
 be personal, nor limited in scope or vision. Others will 
 think that I ought to have attempted in a scholarly way 
 to dwell upon problems peculiarly academic. Mr. Presi- 
 dent, if I have sinned against conventionality, I must 
 plead .guilty, for I did it deliberately and with fore- 
 thought. Did it even at the cost of being misunderstood 
 in letter and in spirit. Did it because I am absorbed in 
 Occidental and its possibilities, and am determined to lose 
 my life in hers. With these simple and sincere words, to 
 which you have listened with patience, I accept as a trust 
 from God, the custody of Occidental's keys. My love for 
 her prompts me to wish for Occidental's sake, her presi- 
 dent had intellectual and spiritual equipment and academic 
 experience equal to his opportunity. You have accepted 
 him with his limitations ; he accepts the duties and privi- 
 leges with a teachable spirit, believing Southern Califor- 
 nia is only beginning to appreciate what God will do for 
 and with Occidental, if we are true to Him. 
 
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CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS BY 
 
 Robert E. Speer, M. A. 
 
 New York City 
 
 T N behalf of President Baer's very many friends in 
 i the east, and in behalf of the friends there of 
 this college, and oi those ideals for which it stands, it 
 is a great privilege to be here today to congratulate both 
 President Baer and Occidental College on the inaugura- 
 tion of these new relations. 
 
 I use the phrase "in- the east" with a great deal of 
 hesitation, because I do not believe in emphasizing sec- 
 tional differences in our land. There are more regards 
 in which the different sections of our land resemble one 
 another than those in which they are unlike one another ; 
 and there are no fundamental problems of any one cor- 
 ner of the land that are not the problem's also of every 
 other corner of the land. One state is great in its own 
 way, but it does not surpass the greatness of other states in 
 their way. And while there are diversities of resources all 
 over the land, as a matter of fact, our land is one land, and 
 we do ourselves injury when we attempt in our thought to 
 divide it into fragments and regard the different sections 
 of it as unlike, or facing each by itself problems distinct 
 from those which are faced in other parts of the land. 
 If this were not so, I think a man might have some hesi- 
 tation today in offering congratulations on the establish- 
 ment of this relationship. It is because in his own section 
 of the land President Baer, so far as he has been able 
 to do a man's work in the world, has faced problems 
 that are common to all the life of our land, that he is 
 fitted to come here to a different section of the country 
 and confront the problems that are involved in this edu- 
 cational enterprise. And, as a matter of fact, I believe 
 the fundamental problems of life are the- same all over 
 the world, and that the greatness of the climate and the 
 resources and the other possessions of Southern Califor- 
 
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ma do not create any fundamental problems different from 
 those which constitute the vital problems of life wherever 
 men are trying to work out the destiny of God for their 
 lives in the world. 
 
 It is because I believe this that it is possible here today 
 to congratulate both the president and the college on the 
 establishment of these relationships in the spirit which has 
 been displayed here, and in which this new administration, 
 intends to address itself, not to anything that is of sec- 
 ondary or superficial consequence, but to those great and 
 vital necessities which relate to the fundamental problems 
 of human life and Character all over the world. 
 
 Any man might stand here today with a rejoicing heart 
 at hearing the words that have been uttered by all who 
 have spoken, and at coming really to understand that it is 
 to be the aim of this institution to attempt to lay as the 
 foundations of life for the young men and women who 
 may pass under its influences, the great and unswerving 
 principles of right character which do> not alter or change. 
 
 We live in a day when men lay much stress upon adap- 
 tation, when there are many men with desire to attain 
 ends so strong that they subordinate principle to policy. 
 
 Now, the great business of life is not principally to 
 attain any ends whatsoever. The great business of life 
 is the dicipline through which men and women are passed 
 in the moral choices they make and the means they 
 choose for the attainment of their ends; and it is of 
 very little consequence whether a man or woman ever 
 attains any end. so long as he or she passes through the 
 right discipline in all the choices that need to be made. 
 
 We have around us today some educational institu- 
 tions, and some men in public life who are the teachers 
 of a different doctrine. There are many men delicately 
 poised, always apparently waiting to see the way in which 
 policy would make it prudent for them, to jump. You 
 remember Rikki-T'ikki T'avi, the immortal mongoose, who 
 could poise himself so that no* man could tell in what 
 direction he was going to fly off. He was ready for any 
 chance. There are men so devoid of principle that they 
 sustain in life just about that attitude, believe in no ethics 
 
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that are absolute; in one part of the land they are relig- 
 ious men; in another part of the land their religion suf- 
 fers an eclipse. In one set of circumstances they live 
 by certain principles; and in another set of circumstances 
 they live by other principles. 
 
 The great and fundamental necessity of education is 
 to build life on rigid and fixed principles; and our great 
 need here in the west, and everywhere, is for fixed 
 men oi fixed principles. 
 
 I was very much impressed a few days ago by a 
 letter which Mr. Morley quotes in the second volume of 
 his life of Gladstone. It was addressed to Mr. Glad- 
 stone by Mr. Spurgeon. "Mr. Gladstone," said the 
 great preacher, "we common people of England do not 
 believe in one manV integrity." And education has 
 fallen far short of its primary aim if it does not breed 
 men and women who have set themselves with absolutely 
 immovable rigidity in devotion to* fixed principles. 
 
 We need in our land today men and women who are 
 not afraid to carry ethical principles to excess. The 
 highest ethics are not ethics at all unless you carry them 
 to excess. There is no such thing, as a speaker in the 
 House of Commons once remarked, as moderate chastity. 
 There is no such thing as moderate veracity. There is 
 no such thing as moderate honesty. The man who is 
 moderately chaste is unchaste; the man who is moderate- 
 ly honest is dishonest ; the man who 1 is moderately true is 
 false. And what we need to get set right in the very 
 foundations of all our education of character in this land 
 is the great principle that our ethical convictions have 
 got to come to be conceived as absolutely hard and fixed 
 and immovable things. And if out from this college 
 there can be sent men and women who will believe this, 
 men and women who have been grounded on this princi- 
 ple, then from this college will go the kind of men and 
 women who have power to do work in the world. 
 
 There is a great old saying of Confucius in his Ana- 
 lects, "Ten thousand men cannot stand against one right 
 principle." And one can stand here with a joyful heart 
 today because be believes that the primary principle of 
 
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education in this institution is to be the training of men 
 and women into the perception of right principles, and 
 the loyalizing of their lives to right principle, no mat- 
 ter at what cost that loyalty must be preserved, their 
 whole life through. 
 
 And I congratulate President Baer, and this college, 
 and the constituency round about this college, also, be- 
 cause it is to stand for hard and established conviction. 
 We were all glad to hear President Jordan, who repres- 
 ents a great university, say that it is the great function 
 of the small college, not so much to investigate unsolved 
 problems, as to tell young men and women the things 
 that are known to be true. There is a curious kind o>f 
 tolerance in our age that extends to what men are 
 doubtful about, but not to what they know. 
 
 There is a spirit which seems to think that men should 
 not be sure of anything. In many institutions a man 
 can talk of his doubts all he pleases, but he must be very 
 careful not to say anything about his beliefs and convic- 
 tions. A man finds it very hard to have any tolerance 
 for that kind of tolerance. The kind of tolerance which 
 will permit men to speak of their misgivings but not of 
 their convictions, is a kind of tolerance toward which 
 we should be absolutely intolerant. The kind of insti- 
 tution in which- we believe, and whose ideals we are con- 
 sidering here today, stands for the things that it knows 
 to be true. While it recognizes that there is a place for 
 interrogations, and that all life is simply a raising of in- 
 terrogations, it knows also that life is wasted if it does 
 not answer the interrogations that it raises, and if it does 
 not close the issues behind it just as fast as they can 
 be closed and settled to young men and women. We rest 
 not on a doctrine of doubt as to whether anything can be 
 sure, but on the solid conviction that some things we 
 know, and that we know that we know them. 
 
 I rejoice here today, and congratulate both this college 
 and President Baer, because this new administration 
 is to stand, as he has so clearly said, for hard and sub- 
 stantial character as against weak and indulgent selfish- 
 ness. He was quoting a little while ago* from Horace 
 
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Bushnell. Now, Horace Bushnell did not only 'say true 
 things about the Pacific Coast of his day ; Horace Bush- 
 nell left his indelible imprint upon this coast. The uni- 
 versity which Dr. Wheeler represents here today is in part 
 the child of Horace Bushnell's devotion to California. 
 With old Dr. Willey, I believe, he laid out the site on 
 which the university now stands, and they two planned 
 together the great conceptions on the basis of which that 
 university was to be developed. No man has left, of all 
 the geniuses that have gone, a better mark upon this 
 coast than Horace Bushnell. Nor did any man stand 
 more clearly for those great ideals, which are the ideals 
 of this occasion. I suppose that one of the most not- 
 able of all his speeches was the address at the Litchfield 
 County Centennial, on the Age of Homespun. He stood 
 for moral frugality and honorable living, and he taught 
 men the place in character building which the nourish- 
 ment of life in fast principles must have. It was the 
 great lesson he taught to all theology and the peda- 
 gogy of his day. He stood for the hardening of all prin- 
 ciples of righteousness into* the immovable habits of the 
 life of a man. 
 
 I hope that in this institution nothing will be put forth 
 more strongly than the idea of the duty of disciplining 
 the lives of young men 'and women into the doing of 
 hard things. I hope athletic sports will never be sup- 
 pressed in this college, no matter how rough they are, 
 the rougher, within limits, the better for the young men 
 who participate in them.. I hope that the ideals of this 
 college will always hold firmly, and its modes of discipline 
 provide nourishment for, the highest conceptions of hard 
 and simple and frugal character. The great need of our 
 time is for more of this. There is too much soft indul- 
 gence in the forming of all life in our land. 
 
 I heard of a rich woman in one of our cities, who want- 
 ed a tutor for her boy. She said he was a very difficult 
 boy to handle and she would have to have a wise tutor to 
 take him in charge. She said that she had wanted to go 
 to Europe a little while before and take the boy with her, 
 but he didn't want to go. And when she insisted, he 
 
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said, "Mother, if you do, I will yell on the pier so loud 
 that it will get into the newspapers." And he actually in- 
 timidated his mother into giving up her trip to Europe, 
 lest she should see this young cub of hers howling on the 
 pier. 
 
 Now, one of the great necessities of our day is for 
 more hard and military discipline. We all hope for the 
 day when war shall cease, but much as we hope for war 
 to be discontinued we have got to get these military vir- 
 tues into our young men and women, the kind of hard- 
 ship that makes them, glad to do difficult tasks, that 
 makes them eager to submit themselves to them, and not 
 rise in insurrection and abandon them- that is what we 
 need. 
 
 I rejoice to congratulate President Baer and this col- 
 lege, because he has sounded in his inaugural address here 
 without fear, the glory of missionary service. There is 
 a great need that that ideal! should be held up before all 
 young men and the young women of this land ; and I am 
 old-fashioned enough in my educational ideas to believe 
 that a classical college like this is the best place in which 
 to keep alive the heroic ideal of self sacrifice and service. 
 I represent two universities which have never departed 
 from the old ideals o>f classical training, and which I 
 hope may never depart from them. It was urged when 
 technical education began to be largely developed in our 
 land, and the classics were cast out from the training of 
 young men and women it was urged that this new kind 
 of training in the precise and mathematical sciences would 
 breed men of firmer principles. Now, it has not bred 
 men of firmer principles. The technical schools of our 
 land have not turned out men and women who see moral 
 issues more precisely, or who live more faithfully for the 
 right things on our earth than the young men and wo- 
 men who have had their education under classical influ- 
 ences. And the influence of our technical schools not 
 alone has not bred firmer principle, but it most surely 
 has not bred finer sentiment. I had occasion a little 
 while ago to apply to several' O'f our largest scientific 
 schools for a man to go and teach mechanical and elec- 
 
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trical engineering in Northern India. Not a man could 
 be found in all those schools who would go; and the 
 president of one of them wrote quite frankly that the 
 men that came to him were not in engineering for the 
 sake of the good they could do to the world, but for 
 the amount of profitable employment they could secure 
 for themselves. I believe we are going to have to face 
 in this land that inevitable result o>f our technical edu- 
 cation. We have turned away young men and some 
 young women from the great classical ideals of self-sacri- 
 fice in fields where they could do the most unselfish work. 
 And I rejoice in the ideals that are to rule in this insti- 
 tution, because they set before us so distinctly and clearly 
 these right ideals of life not the acquisition of as much 
 as can be acquired, not the attempt to gain as much from 
 the world as possible; but the glory of paying into life 
 as much as possible out of our own lives, even though no 
 return \vhatever comes back to repayment for the work 
 that we do- for the world. 
 
 I know that the contrary ideals can be taught, even 
 in a classical institution. And I suppose there is no lit- 
 erature that will teach them more dismally than the kind 
 of literature which is often made pre-eminent in our 
 technical schools. The note of self culture, of the selfish 
 principle o<f life is common enough in all literature and all 
 too common in our own which is given some place in our 
 technical schools. Old Landor illustrated and expressed 
 it: 
 
 "I strove with none, for none was worth my strife, 
 
 Nature I loved and after nature art, 
 I warmed both hands before the fire of life. 
 
 It sinks and I am ready to depart." 
 
 The doctrine is possible in a classical college, but no 
 graduate should ever be allowed to think himself ready 
 to depart with such an autobiography. 
 
 I rejoice in the phrase which President Baer used, 
 which I think was first spoken by Mr. Henry M. Stanley, 
 and which he used in the sentence descriptive of young 
 Glave, who he said was the best lieutenant he had had in 
 
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Africa. "He was one of those men/' said Stanley, "who 
 relish a task for its bigness, and who greet hard labor 
 with a fierce joy." It is with that fierce joy and that rel- 
 ish of the bigness of a task that the young men and 
 women who <are trained here will go out if they are 
 trained in those ideal's to which this administration and 
 this college have been pledged in our hearing today, and 
 to which we intend to hold this college and this adminis- 
 tration true. 
 
 We rejoiced to hear the president a few moments ago 
 say that this college had no ambition to be numerically 
 great. Well, it is of no value to have that kind of am- 
 bition, for that kind of ambition leads not one stq> to- 
 ward its fulfillment, and not having that kind of ambition, 
 but being great, is the inevitable way to make a college or 
 a university great. This college cannot do the things that 
 have been promised here today without becoming great 
 in spite of itself. Let it be known that in one spot o>f this 
 land there is a college that stands for these ideals, that 
 actually gets these ideals embodied in all its work and dis- 
 cipline, and to that college young men and women will 
 flock from all over this land and from all over the world. 
 All you need to do is to erect somewhere an institution 
 over whose gates you inscribe, "Whatsoever things are 
 true," and be faithful to that inscription, and you have 
 made a great college, nc matter how you may try to keep 
 it obscure or small. 
 
 I think the greatest college that I ever saw, was in 
 China. It is a college which has left its marks forever on 
 that country. Out of that small college, came most of the 
 Chinese professors for the two Chinese universities that 
 were in existence prior to the Boxer uprising. It 
 was the life sacrifice and service of one man and his wife. 
 They resolved to build a college with three principles. 
 First, it was to give China, not what it wished but what 
 it needed ; second, to do its work with absolute thorbugh- 
 ness it would not attempt very much, but what it did at- 
 tempt it would be better than it was done anywhere 
 else in China; and third, it would be Christian through 
 and through, with no timidity or concealment. I believe 
 
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this institution would rest secure with some such founda- 
 tion as this. It would inevitably take its place among the 
 great institutions of this state. You would serve not one 
 state alone, but all this land and all the world. You would 
 be great, for all greatness is to be measured in the terms 
 of great service; and all great service is to be measured in 
 the terms of impact on human character; and if in this 
 place character can be fashioned so that it cannot be 
 changed when it leaves here, and set in the right principles 
 of the everlastingly true things, this institution is great 
 already. 
 
 And last of -all, I rejoice to congratulate both Presi- 
 dent Baer and this institution, and our whole church, and 
 the whole Christian church throughout all the world, be- 
 cause this college is to be religious without any timidity 
 about its profession. One of the most pathetic sights in 
 all this land is to see strong men men otherwise strong 
 in every regard moral cowards in the matter of their 
 religious convictions. There are men who are hypocrites, 
 not in the ordinary sense, because they believe more than 
 they tell the world they believe. It seems to me we want 
 more institutions in which religion will not be everlasting- 
 ly apologized for, in which it will not be compromised, in 
 which we will write it right on the front door, and be 
 ashamed that no passerby shall read it there. The indi- 
 vidual character requires religion requires it in order to 
 have a right definition of what character should be re- 
 quires it in order to have the power by which to attain 
 that rightly defined ideal; and the land as a whole needs 
 religion. I read the other day with great interest an edi- 
 torial in the Wall Street Journal. You are not wont to 
 hear the voice of the prophet from Wall Street ; but there 
 was an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, entitled, "A 
 call to piety." "What America needs," says the editorial, 
 "more than railway extensions and western irrigations 
 and a low tariff and a bigger wheat crop and a merchant 
 marine and a new navy, is a revival of piety the kind 
 mother and father used to have, piety that counted it good 
 business to stop for daily prayer before breakfast right in 
 the middle of harvest, that quit field work a half hour ear- 
 
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Her Thursday night so as to get the chores done and go 
 to prayer meeting, that borrowed money to pay the preach- 
 er's salary and prayed the Heavenly Father in secret for 
 the saving of the rich man who looked with scorn upon 
 such things." That is what we need, a return to the 
 things that are everlastingly true. Now, I have never 
 been able, myself, to sing that the old-time religion is good 
 enough for me, because I think we ought to have a better 
 kind of religion than that now, and that in this, as in 
 everything else, men and women should be moving for- 
 ward to fuller things, but we do need real religion, old or 
 new. We need in our national life young men who have 
 a clear conception of the absolutely imperative necessity to 
 our national well-being of those great streams of life and 
 power that can flow from the springs of true religion. 
 
 And when we say religion we mean just one thing. I 
 rejoice that President Baer did not attempt to cover it all 
 over with a whole lot of generalities. When we speak 
 about religion we mean Christianity. There is no use of 
 beating about the bush we don't stand as a Christian 
 college here for the ethics of Christianity divorced from 
 all else that is in religion. We do not stand for anything 
 secondary and external. When we say religion we mean 
 Christianity as a great historic power, as a religion which 
 has its roots in the past, from which you cannot seperate 
 it a religion which is also a great living force, and a 
 moulder of human life. In one word, as President Baer 
 so forcefully put it, the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 On the walls of the nation's military academy at West 
 Point, there is a very significant marble tablet. You all 
 known they are remodelling the entire academy, but they 
 will leave untouched that old and best beloved building of 
 the school. Set all around the walls are guns buried in 
 the solid masonry, and right above the guns all around, 
 there is a row of green marble tablets. Each one of those 
 marble tablets contains the name of one of the great re- 
 volutionary generals in our war with Great Britain, and 
 underneath each name is the date of birth and the date of 
 death. But there is one marble shield that has only one 
 date on it born such and such a date. It bears no date of 
 
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death. I came down through the aisle of that chapel 
 once with a group of cadets. And one of them stopped 
 before that shield, pointed up to it, and said, "That is the 
 most striking thing about West Point to me." "Well," 
 I said, "no stranger would know what it was." "Yet," he 
 said, "that was Benedict Arnold's shield." They put up 
 on the wall the shield of Benedict Arnold, 'and they wrote 
 on it the date of his honorable birth, but his dishonorable 
 death they refused to inscribe on the walls of the nation's 
 training school. I thought as I looked up at that green 
 marble tablet of the traitor, who denied his land, of those 
 great words of our Saviour, "He that confesseth me be- 
 fore men, him will I also confess before my Father which 
 is in Heaven; and he that denieth me before men, him 
 will I also deny before my Father which is in Heaven." 
 
 It is proposed in this college that there should be no in- 
 heritance of Benedict Arnold's curse. It is proposed here 
 that there should be opened up a foundation of truth, an 
 unqualified religious life and religious faith, so that out 
 from this college there will go over this state, which is a 
 great thing; over this nation, which is a greater thing; 
 and out over all the world, which is a greater thing still, 
 those great types of young men and women, which it is 
 the business of colleges to breed and send out into the 
 world, loving the things that are true, and giving their 
 lives to them for the love that they bear to all righteous- 
 ness. It is because we believe that the college will really 
 try to do this that we rejoice today. 
 
 GREETINGS 
 
 The following are a few of many congratulatory let- 
 ters and telegrams which were received. 
 
 Boston Mass,, Oct. i7th, 1906. 
 
 To the Trustees, Faculty and Students of Occidental 
 College : 
 
 I hope your cause will continue to prosper in full glory 
 like the blazing stars. 
 
 Pull together with zeal, righteousness and honest pur- 
 
poses and your battle will be won to serve our common 
 country with useful men and women from "Occidental." 
 This is my earnest wish for your success. 
 
 The Lord bless your new President with health, 
 strength and wisdom in his duties, also bless every one of 
 you, young and old in this new era of your undertaking. 
 I regret very much I am unable to be with you at the 
 inauguration. Yours sincerely, 
 
 ANTHONY BAER. 
 
 New York, Oct. 25, 1906. 
 John Willis Baer, President Occidental College, 
 
 Los Angeles, California: 
 
 Hopes and good wishes, large as all America, Eastern- 
 ly rich, westernly strenuous, Northerly sincere, Southerly 
 cordial, all yours. OFFICERS HOME BOARD. 
 
 Sacramento, C'al, Oct. 25. 
 Rev. PL K. Walker, D.D., 
 
 Regret exceedinglv that circumstances prevent my tak- 
 ing part in inauguration ceremonies. 
 
 California wishes Dr. Baer and Occidental, all success. 
 We need more such men and institutions. 
 
 GEO. PARDEE, Governor. 
 
 THE WHITE HOUSE. 
 
 Washington, D. C., Oct. 22, 1906. 
 My dear Dr. Baer: 
 
 May all good fortune go with you throughout your 
 term as president of Occidental College. 
 
 Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 
 
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