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 THE INSTALLATION OF 
 
 LYMAN PIERSON POWELL 
 
 AS PRESIDENT 
 
 HOBART COLLEGE 
 WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGE 
 
 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER FOURTEENTH 
 
 NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTEEN 
 
 GENEVA, NEW YORK 
 
The Installation of 
 
 Lyman Pierson Powell 
 
 As President of Hobart College 
 and William Smith College 
 
 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER FOURTEENTH 
 
 NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTEEN 
 
 GENEVA, NEW YORK 
 
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 LYMAN PIERSON POWELL 
 
 A n abstract from an article written for the Hobart Herald, November 
 14th, IQ13, by Dr. Talcott Williams. 
 
 Lyman Pierson Powell was born in Farmington, Dela- 
 ware, in 1866. His freshman year in college was spent at 
 Dickinson; in 1887 he entered Johns Hopkins University, 
 where he received his bachelor's degree in 1890, and was a 
 graduate student in History, Jurisprudence and Economics 
 from that time until 1892. The following year he was a 
 graduate student at the University of Wisconsin. For 
 two years following this he was a fellow at the University 
 of Pennsylvania and University Extension Lecturer. In 
 1895 he entered the Philadelphia Divinity School, from 
 which he was graduated in 1897 and was ordained to the 
 ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the same 
 year. 
 
 His first charge was at Ambler, Pennsylvania, a small 
 parish still under the care of the Bishop of the Diocese. 
 Mr. Powell found it worshiping in a small chapel; he left 
 it in a church, paid for at a cost of almost a quarter of a 
 million dollars. From Ambler he was called to succeed 
 Dr. W. T. Manning in the Church of St. John at Lans- 
 downe, a thrifty suburb of Philadelphia, where he remained 
 for five years. Here, again, he found a church worshiping 
 in a small chapel, and he raised che money for a stone 
 church which is a model of semi-rural architecture. With 
 the call to St. John's Church, Northampton, Massachu- 
 setts, in 1904, Mr. Powell's wider work began. He found 
 himself in charge of an endowed church, thronged by 
 young women from Smith College. His pleaching at 
 once drew attention. He became part of the vigorous and 
 
4 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 stirring life of Central Massachusetts. He came closely 
 in contact with the problems of college education of 
 women in Smith College, and of college education of men 
 in Amherst. He took up local problems, became a regular 
 contributor on Saturday to the Daily Hampshire Gazette, 
 and was in demand as a speaker. He returned to the 
 study of educational problems. This led to a series of 
 articles in which he defended the position and attitude of 
 colleges both of men and women upon religion, and pointed 
 out that many failed to see the strong religious life which 
 existed in colleges because they were perpetually looking 
 for it in some special form instead of accepting, appreciat- 
 ing, approving and aiding it as presented through all our 
 colleges by the generation of today. 
 
 The work which Dr. Worcester was doing in the Em- 
 manuel Movement led to an experiment locally adapted to 
 the special needs of his own parish, and he was one of the 
 few wise enough to make it an inflexible rule that he would 
 give advice in no case until he had a physician's initiative 
 or co-operation. His work in this field, his studies, his 
 research on historical and religious subjects led to an 
 immediate demand for him in many magazines. He has 
 contributed to the Review oj Reviews, The Atlantic Monthly, 
 The Outlook, Good Housekeeping, The Chatauquan, Harper's 
 Weekly, and other magazines. Among his works as an 
 author are the following: The History of Education in 
 Delaware, 1893 : Family Prayers, 1905; Christian Science, 
 A Critical Estimate, 1907 ; The Art of Natural Sleep, 1908 ; 
 The Emmanuel Movement in a New England Town, 1909 ; 
 Heavenly Heretics, 19 10; Religion in Colleges and Uni- 
 versities, 1912. He has also edited the following: His- 
 toric Towns of New England, 1898; Historic Towns of 
 the Middle States, 1899; Historic Towns of the Southern 
 
Installation of the President 5 
 
 States, 1900; Historic Towns of the West, 190 1 ; Current 
 Religious Literature, 1902; The Devotional Series, 1905-7. 
 
 In 191 2 Mr. Powell was called to New York University 
 as Professor of Business Ethics to establish the new depart- 
 ment, and it was at the close of his first year of work there 
 that he was called to be President of Hobart College and 
 William Smith College. His interest in business and civic 
 affairs is further manifested by his membership in the 
 American Academy of Political Science and the National 
 Civic Federation. 
 
 Mr. Powell has been brought in contact with the great 
 religious movements of the day ; he has shared its historical 
 research; he has appreciated the necessity of carrying 
 these questions into magazines and before audiences which 
 represent those who are reached neither by churches nor 
 by books. He has shared in the work of raising money — 
 as a man must who has built two churches ; he has known 
 the task of administration — as a man does who enters a 
 parish with a deficit and puts its finances on a basis which 
 leaves it meeting each year's expenses in each year. He 
 has come close to the organization of a college in his associa- 
 tion as adviser with President Burton of Smith and helper 
 in the task of raising a million dollars for that institution. 
 
 He was married in 1899 to Gertrude Wilson, daughter 
 of Dr. Francis Wilson of Jenkintown. Mrs. Powell is a 
 graduate of Wellesley and was for several years a teacher 
 of history in the well-known Girls' Seminary at Troy, and 
 has been active in college affairs and social life. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Powell have two sons. 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 On August eighth, 19 13, at a special meeting of the 
 Trustees held in Geneva, the Reverend Lyman Pierson 
 Powell, then Professor of Business Ethics in New York 
 University, was unanimously elected President of Hobart 
 College and William Smith College. He assumed his 
 duties as President on September first, and after the work 
 of the year was properly begun it was decided that the 
 formal exercises of Installation should be held on Novem- 
 ber fourteenth, 19 13. The Trustees appointed a commit- 
 tee consisting of Dean Durfee and Mr. P. N. Nicholas, 
 Secretary of the Board of Trustees, to act in consultation 
 with President Powell in making arrangements for the 
 installation exercises. This committee was later increased 
 by the addition of Dean Turk of William Smith College 
 and Professor Bacon. 
 
 The following were the special committees appointed: 
 
 Entertainment — Professor McDaniels, Professor Vail and 
 Mr. H. A. Wheat. 
 
 Reception — Mr. G. M. B. Hawley, Professor Woodman 
 and Professor Williamson. 
 
 Music — Professor Muirheid. 
 
 Seating — Professor Lansing. 
 
 Banquet and Decorations — Mrs. Durfee, Mrs. Turk and 
 Mrs. Little. 
 
 In arranging to extend hospitality to the guests the 
 people of Geneva were most kind and opened their homes 
 to furnish entertainment. This made an easy problem of 
 what would otherwise have been very difficult and every 
 host and hostess was delighted by the graciousness and 
 appreciation of the guests. 
 
8 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 The morning of November fourteenth dawned cloudy, 
 with showers in the early hours, and not until the proces- 
 sion was formed in Coxe Hall did it clear enough to make it 
 appear wise to march to the Opera House. As the pro- 
 cession left the College buildings it was still sprinkling, 
 but by the time the Opera House was reached it had 
 practically cleared and the rest of the day was all the more 
 bright and beautiful by contrast with the early hours. 
 The successful arrangements for the procession were due 
 to the work of Herbert R. Moody, Ph.D., Associate 
 Professor of Chemistry in the College of the City of New 
 York, formerly Professor of Chemistry in Hobart. Pro- 
 fessor Moody came to Geneva two days before the Installa- 
 tion and worked untiringly on the preparations. 
 
 The Marshals were as follows : 
 
 Chief Marshal, General William Wilson, '76. 
 
 Assistant Marshals from the Faculty, Professor Barney, 
 Mr. Harris, Mr. Barnett,* Mr. Twining. 
 
 Marshal for Delegates and Guests, Professor Herbert R. 
 Moody, Ph.D. 
 
 Alumni Marshals, Lieutenant James W. Wilson, '04; 
 Edward John Cook, '95. 
 
 Hobart Student Marshal, Harry Hamlin Hall, '14. 
 
 William Smith Student Marshal, Eleanor Gertrude 
 Casterline, '14. 
 
 THE ORDER OF THE PROCESSION 
 
 The President-elect and Reverend John P. Peters, acting 
 for the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. 
 
 The Recipients of Honorary Degrees. 
 
Installation of the President 9 
 
 Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Local 
 Clergy of all Denominations. 
 
 Delegates and Academic Guests. 
 
 Non-academic Guests. 
 
 The Board of Trustees. 
 
 The Faculty. 
 
 Alumni and Students of Hobart College. 
 
 Alumnae and Students of William Smith College. 
 
Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 MORNING PRAYERS AT TRINITY CHURCH 
 
 The ceremonies connected with the Installation of the 
 new President began, in accordance with the President's 
 expressed wish, with a brief service in Trinity Church. 
 
 A large number of the alumni and friends of the College 
 assembled in the church at nine o'clock. 
 
 The service, under the charge of the Rector of the 
 parish, the Reverend C. Morton Sills, D.D., consisted of 
 shortened Morning Prayer with special Psalm and Lesson 
 authorized by the Bishop of the diocese. 
 
 Those taking part were the Right Reverend the Bishop 
 of Western New York, who said special prayers for the 
 President and for the College ; the Right Reverend Lemuel 
 H. Wells, D.D., Bishop of Spokane, who gave the Benedic- 
 tion; the Reverend John B. Hubbs, D.D., Chaplain of the 
 College, who read the Holy Scriptures ; and the Rector of 
 Trinity Church, who intoned the service, assisted by the 
 full choir. 
 
THE INSTALLATION EXERCISES AT THE 
 OPERA HOUSE 
 
 The Trustees, Faculty and academic guests were seated on the platform 
 facing the audience. The Reverend John Punnett Peters, Ph.D., Sc.D., 
 D.D., acting for the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, presided. 
 
 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 Music 
 
 Invocation 
 
 The Reverend John Brewster Hubbs, D.D., D.C.L., 
 Chaplain of Hobart College. 
 
 Installation of the President 
 
 The Reverend John Punnett Peters, Ph.D., Sc. D., 
 D.D., 
 Acting for the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. 
 
 Response by the President 
 
 Addresses of Greeting 
 
 On behalf of the University of the State of New York, 
 John Huston Finley, LL.D., Commissioner-elect of 
 Education. 
 On behalf of the American Colleges and Universities, 
 Talcott Williams, L.H.D., LL.D., Dean of the 
 vSchool of Journalism, Columbia University, 
 Representing the President of Columbia Univer- 
 sity. 
 On behalf of the Colleges for Women. 
 
 Marion LeRoy Burton, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., Presi- 
 dent of Smith College, Northampton. 
 On behalf of the Faculty, 
 
 William Pitt Durfee, Ph.D., Dean of Hobart Col- 
 lege. 
 
12 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 On behalf of the Students of Hobart College, 
 
 Harry Hamlin Hall, President of the Senior Class. 
 
 On behalf of the Students of William Smith College, 
 Eleanor Casterline, President of the Senior Class. 
 
 Roll Call of Delegates 
 
 John Archer Silver, Ph.D., Professor of History. 
 
 Installation Address 
 
 The President of the College. 
 
 Music 
 
 Conferring of Honorary Degrees 
 
 Presentation of Candidates by Milton Haight Turk, 
 Ph.D., Dean of William Smith College. 
 
 Hymn 
 
 Benediction 
 
 Right Reverend William David Walker, D.D., D.C.L. 
 LL.D. 
 
 THE INVOCATION 
 
 Direct us, Lord, this day in all our doings, with Thy 
 gracious favour, and futher us with Thy continual help; 
 that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in Thee, 
 we may glorify Thy holy Name, and finally, by Thy 
 mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ, our 
 Lord. Amen. 
 
 We glorify, Lord, Thy holy Name for Hobart and 
 William Smith Colleges ; for the work they have done in 
 training man and women in wisdom and understanding for 
 the service of life. Blessed be Thy Name for the happy 
 memory of their founders and benefactors. Raise up 
 many friends and helpers to lengthen their cords and to 
 
Installation of the President 13 
 
 strengthen their stakes, granting unto them that wisdom 
 by which an house is builded and the understanding by 
 which it is established. 
 
 Give Thy grace, we beseech Thee, to Thy servant to 
 whom the charge of these Colleges is now committed. So 
 replenish him with the truth of Thy doctrine and endue 
 him with innocency of life, that his service for the higher 
 education of Youth may be for the making of righteous 
 men and women, to the glory of Thy great Name and the 
 benefit of Thy holy Church. 
 
 Bless, we beseech Thee, the faculty of these Colleges; 
 Grant that, by example and precept, they may teach those 
 committed to their charge that the fear of the Lord is the 
 beginning of wisdom, and train them in the way of under- 
 standing for the ministry and vocation of a useful life. 
 
 Enlighten, we pray Thee, the minds of the students with 
 the light of the everlasting Gospel, graft in their hearts a 
 love of the truth, increase in them true religion, stir their 
 wills with a faithful diligence, inspire them for a life of 
 service for others. 
 
 Bless, we beseech Thee, every institution of learning 
 represented here and keep them pure in faith and morals ; 
 save them from all error, ignorance, pride, and prejudice, 
 guide them with the Spirit of Thy truth, that by their 
 endeavors peace and happiness, purity and justice, religion 
 and piety may be established among us for all generations. 
 
 Save the State, O Lord, and grant that our institutions 
 of learning may be true servants in establishing righteous- 
 ness which alone exalts a nation. All this we ask in the 
 Name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
 
 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. 
 Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, as it is in 
 
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14 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive 
 us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against 
 us. And lead us not into temptation ; but deliver us from 
 evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the 
 glory, for ever and ever. Amen. 
 
 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of 
 God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all 
 evermore. Amen. 
 
 THE INSTALLATION OF THE PRESIDENT 
 By the Reverend John Punnett Peters, D.D., Sc.D., Ph.D. 
 
 You have been chosen by the unanimous vote of the 
 Trustees of Hobart College and of its affiliated college, 
 William Smith, President of these institutions. Legally 
 you are President, and you have been acting as such, win- 
 ning already the hearts of those with whom you have come 
 into contact. But it is fitting that there should be a 
 public recognition of your election with ceremonies be- 
 fitting the dignity and importance of the occasion, that in 
 the face of the public, in the presence of these institutions, 
 of their student bodies, and of these guests representing 
 kindred associations of learning, we should proclaim your 
 election and endue you with the customary marks of 
 office. 
 
 On behalf of the Trustees, first of all, I pledge you our 
 fealty. We are a band of busy men scattered far and 
 wide. It is difficult for us to give as much time as perhaps 
 we should to the work of this institution. All the more we 
 look to you as leader to plan out that which is to be done, 
 and we assure you that to the best of our ability we will 
 hold up your hands, supporting you with our counsel and 
 with our help in such manner as you may call for that help. 
 I assure you that you will find in us a heart to help, and, 
 
Installation of the President 15 
 
 I trust also, a helpful attitude of mind as well as heart. 
 Here, in symbol, is our birthright. This is our certificate 
 of birth from the State of New York, — the Charter 
 granted by this great State under which we act and by the 
 powers of which we have chosen you as our President. 
 It is a mark of our great esteem and trust that we hand to 
 you the certificate of our birth; to signify that we put 
 our life in your hands. 
 
 In the most ancient times it was the custom that a man 
 should signify to those not present the attestation of his 
 authority, not by signing with his hand, but by a seal. 
 That custom has been abandoned for the ordinary man, 
 but still continues for corporations. In ancient time also, 
 the name signified the very essence of the being, the 
 power by which that being might be summoned and con- 
 trolled, and the power by which absent it might express 
 itself as present. I take it that when I pass to you this 
 symbol of our seal I am signifying to you that the essence 
 of our being is in your trust. You have the right to 
 represent us — our name, which is ourselves — to the 
 community. This power, in symbol, we entrust to you in 
 handing you the seal. 
 
 And it is always customary to give to him who is 
 installed as president of a college or a university a key, 
 the mark of his right to open and close. The right to 
 close as well as to open ! That you shall close this institu- 
 tion against all evil influence; but much more that you 
 shall open it ! That you shall open to us paths of progress ; 
 that you shall open to us new mansions in the palace of 
 knowledge! It is also the key to our treasury; the 
 symbol that so far as we are able we will assist you with 
 our funds. I pass to you this symbol. And may I add 
 something which is perhaps out of the common use in 
 
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 giving the key as a symbol ? In Germany, when two are 
 married the one to the other, in the Poller- Abend cere- 
 mony which precedes the wedding, a key is given, the 
 mark of the intimate relationship by which the heart of 
 each is locked and opened only to the other. I venture to 
 give that added symbolism to this key which I present to 
 you. Such union may there be between you and us! 
 
 And now, Lyman Pierson Powell, in behalf of the Trus- 
 tees, by whose authority I act for the moment, and in 
 their name, I proclaim you President of Hobart College 
 and of its associated college, William Smith. 
 
 May the blessing of God go with you, without which 
 there is no increase, may you have His fear, which is the 
 beginning of wisdom, and His love, which is life. 
 
 RESPONSE BY THE PRESIDENT 
 Sir: As I accept from your hands these symbols of 
 the office you have so reverently designated I accept also 
 the solemn obligation they bring with them, and in the 
 sight of God and man I dedicate my life to the service of 
 Hobart College and its coordinate institution for women, 
 William Smith College, in all humility and all confidence 
 that I shall have the hearty cooperation of Trustees, 
 Faculty, Students. Alumni and countless friends the whole 
 land over, who understand the spirit of this college and the 
 purpose its promoters ever keep in mind. 
 
 Dr. Peters : We welcome John Huston Finley, LL.D.. 
 late President of the City College, New York, now Com- 
 missioner-elect of Education of this great State, who will 
 make the address of greeting on behalf of the University 
 of the State of New York. 
 
Installation of the President 17 
 
 ADDRESS BY DR. FINLEY 
 
 Mr. President : I am proud to be the first to salute you 
 as "Mr. President". 
 
 Ladies and gentlemen : I was invited long ago to say a 
 word of greeting for the great State of New York on this 
 occasion— a State which is very proud — consciously proud 
 — of this little city and its college. 
 
 I have heard some words of regret expressed this morn- 
 ing concerning the weather; but I am sure that this is a 
 special dispensation of Providence, for if the assembled 
 college presidents and professors had seen Geneva and 
 Hobart College and William Smith College at their best, 
 it would have been impossible to persuade them to go 
 contentedly back to their own places. 
 
 I was to bring a word of welcome to this mature young 
 man whom I knew in his boyhood, so it seems to me now, — 
 this young man whom at least five states, to my certain 
 knowledge, have united to produce, to nurture and to 
 perfect, beginning with little Delaware and ending with 
 that transcendental state which gives partial boundary 
 to the State of New York on the east. 
 
 These have all united to prepare him for the office. In 
 some of his aspects he seems to be interstate commerce, 
 but until the Supreme Court decides a case which was 
 argued before it last Monday, I hesitate to denominate 
 him as such. I think he could more accurately be defined 
 as a supplemental income tax laid upon the wealth of the 
 United States for the special benefit of New York State and 
 Hobart College. 
 
 But whatever the analogue may be, I represent the State 
 of New York in welcoming him only in that mood or tense 
 — and I regret that I have not been able to see Professor 
 McDaniels to find out whether it is a mood or tense — 
 
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 which used to be known as the Second Periphrastic, — 
 that is, the "about-to-be"; for I am not the "late college 
 president" as just stated. I am still a living college presi- 
 dent; but I am in the attitude of expectancy of early 
 death as a college president rather than of life as a Com- 
 missioner of Education. And so, my young friend and 
 president, I, about to die, salute you. And I am sure that 
 this fraternal word from one beside you on the arena, from 
 one who has already met the beasts of Ephesus, will be 
 much more heartening than anything that could come 
 from me in another position. 
 
 You hear — if I may without academic offense continue 
 that gladiatorial figure — you hear the applause of the 
 multitude about you today. You cannot now distinguish 
 the voices of the lions of difficulties and problems that will 
 emerge tomorrow, but they will come. They will come! 
 And I wish to say in your ear that they are not of Numidian 
 fierceness. On the other hand, I must tell you they are 
 not as placid as those lions with which Daniel spent a 
 memorable night. 
 
 I do not know what advice to give you, my friend, 
 because no two lions ever behave in just the same way. 
 Lions are as atypical as children. They submit to classifi- 
 cation only under compulsion. Mr. Roosevelt, in a very 
 interesting article on the African lion, remarked to the 
 effect, that it was unsafe with any animal, and especially 
 with an animal of such high and varied development as a 
 lion, to make any invariable rules; and this is certainly 
 true of that more highly developed lion, — the man. The 
 danger of advice is that one who has overcome a lion is 
 likely to generalize from his particular lion and assume 
 that all lions can be overcome in the same way; whereas, 
 his lion may have been a very feeble one and about to die 
 
Installation of the President 19 
 
 anyway. I remember with painful distinctness a reproof 
 from my father when I was a child because of an over- 
 emphatic and almost profane remark that I made about 
 the capacity of a lion. I was much more dogmatic than 
 Mr. Roosevelt ever was about the African lion, which 
 leads me to say that I envy the man who can be dogmatic 
 in educational matters. 
 
 But there is one bit of negative advice that I may give 
 you, sir, — one that I inherited from one of our friends, one 
 who was with us in Johns Hopkins University and after- 
 ward became a college president — given to me when I was 
 beginning to be a college president twenty-one years ago. 
 He sent me this message, "Don't give up," or rather he 
 used a more emphatic and less classical expression, one 
 that smacks of the later gladiatorial period, "Don't throw 
 up the sponge." That is negative advice, but you will 
 need it, I fancy, at times. Remember what William James 
 said, that very few of us live up to our limitations, or even 
 within sight of our limitations. 
 
 But as president of that incorporal university in which 
 all the corporal colleges and other educational institutions 
 of this state live and move and have their being, I wish 
 to say one word that will, perhaps, in time, be of more 
 help than this negative word. It is an interesting but 
 regretted etymological fact that a word which was used 
 by the Greeks to denominate the state — that is, the city 
 state — has come to have a repressive and regulative 
 significance or connotation only, — 7rdAis has become police. 
 To be sure, there is another related noun, — politics; but 
 that noun has also become somewhat narrowed in the 
 course of years, and it has become somewhat demeaned too 
 in our country. A few weeks ago, when I was introduced 
 to the greatest authority on political matters in England, 
 
20 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 my friend introducing me, explained that my new office was 
 a political office. I quickly tried to correct him, but he 
 said, "I mean in the largest sense." And so this office is 
 to be a political office, I hope, in the largest sense. Educa- 
 tional policing is necessary. It is as necessary as public 
 order, but it is necessary only that there may be the freest 
 and fullest development of the individual, of the individual 
 institution, and of the individual communities in this state. 
 And so I look upon this great University, — this invisible, 
 all-embracing university with which I shall have the 
 honor to be associated soon, if I live long enough, as a 
 constructive, most highly spiritual force in the State. 
 
 In the cosmogony of Lucretius, the poet, it was assumed 
 that every object gave off constantly images of itself, idols 
 of itself, so that the air, the atmosphere of the earth, or 
 the inhabited parts of the earth, were filled with millions 
 of these images that passed to and fro, to the senses of men, 
 and then there went out from men the images of their 
 thoughts, traversing these other images or films; and 
 finally these were all traversed by the majestic images of 
 the thoughts of the gods. I thank the poet for that illus- 
 tration, for that visualization of the thoughts of this 
 State which will come into this place, mingling with the 
 images that are given forth by this beautiful environment, 
 and the images given forth by the aspirations of those 
 who abide in the colleges. 
 
 But I cannot forget that I am a college president. I, 
 about to die, Mr. President, again salute you. I wish that 
 my discarnate official spirit, when it becomes discamate, 
 might find reincarnation in such an environment as this 
 and in such a young, active body as this. But I am too 
 late. I did not resign soon enough. The body is already 
 filled with the official spirit, so I shall have to seek else- 
 
Installation of the President 21 
 
 where. But I give you as I go a prayer, at any rate. It 
 is not, I am aware, in proper form, but I will ask the 
 Bishop — Bishop Talbot — with his ecclesiastical and liter- 
 ary skill to make it as it should be. It is a prayer that I 
 wrote many years ago — ten years ago — when I became a 
 college president here in the East, and I have been trying 
 to live it since. I shall have to make a new prayer now, 
 and so I give this old prayer over to you : 
 
 "0 Lord, help me not to put above sound learning 
 numbers, endowments, equipments, material things or 
 aught else. Help me to realize that these scores of young 
 men (and you will have to add to it young women) are not 
 merely awkwrad (you will have to add comely) — are not 
 merely awkward and comely pieces of mortal clay, but that 
 they are immortal spirits passing in these bodies across this 
 earth from one eternity to the other. Give me daily 
 strength and wisdom to lead them on." 
 
 Dr. Peters: Pardon me Commissioner-elect. But 
 remember that I was trained in the School of the Prophets 
 and in my vision I saw the Commissioner-elect of Educa- 
 tion already the President of all the institutions of this 
 great State and, hence, forgot the presidency of the college 
 which he still holds. 
 
 On behalf of the American colleges and universities, 
 Talcott Williams, Doctor of Humane Letters Doctor of 
 Laws, Dean of the School of Journalism, Columbia Univer- 
 sity, representing the President of Columbia University. 
 
 ADDRESS BY DR. WILLIAMS 
 President Powell, on behalf of the head of Columbia 
 University and all those who in one position and another 
 direct the education of men, I am directed by the President 
 
22 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 of Columbia University to extend to you the right hand 
 of fellowship in your new position. 
 
 President Powell, ladies and gentlemen: This great 
 public occasion on which an institution looks back over a 
 century and sees a new head is inevitably to me as much 
 personal as public. If you have known a man in his 
 undergraduate days ; if you have seen him as one of that 
 group of brilliant historians who gathered in the closing 
 eighties about one now gone but whose influence lives 
 wherever history is written, — Professor Herbert Adams of 
 Johns Hopkins, with what love and pride would he have 
 seen this day, if you have seen your friend come to the 
 moment in which history itself was but the larger inspira- 
 tion and revelation of the divine; if you have watched 
 three fruitful ministries, and at last stand representing a 
 great university at the culminating moment of his life, 
 you are sharing one of the few and memorable moments 
 in which the friendship of years and the mutual loves of 
 work are merged in a sense of a great public occasion as he 
 is installed, like Jacob, to lead two flocks over the Jordan 
 of education to meet the rough-handed Esau of this world ; 
 and as with the Patriarch, I note that of these two flocks, 
 the flock of the elder Leah of Hobart and the younger 
 Rachel of William Smith, that the younger is, as of old, 
 the comelier. 
 
 I stand here as the smallest of the units which create a 
 great university, the School of Journalism, endowed, as its 
 endowment runs, to make better journalists, to make 
 better newspapers, to serve the state the better. Service 
 to the State and the Nation is the basis upon which the 
 higher education of the American people was established, 
 and it remains the test by which it must be judged and 
 the result by which it must be justified. 
 
Installation of the President 23 
 
 American college graduates number today two hundred 
 thousand. They constitute about one percent, of the adult 
 male population of the United States, and women gradu- 
 ates are considerably less than one-half of one per cent. 
 of the adult women of the United States. Those who 
 today become college graduates are already forty-two 
 per cent, women, and long before the graduates of the 
 college for women associated with Hobart return for 
 their twentieth reunion, women will furnish two out of 
 three of those who receive their baccalaureate degrees. 
 
 The body of 200,000 college graduates stands as I have 
 said but one per cent, of the adult male population of 
 the United States. This one per cent, furnishes one-half 
 of those who for various reasons are recorded in "Who's 
 Who." Of the clergy, taking all the denominations, about 
 one-quarter are college graduates, and taking the three or 
 four denominations which lay stress upon the education 
 of their clergy, from seventy to eighty per cent. Of the 
 lawyers entering their calling in the last decade, twenty 
 per cent, are college graduates taking the entire country, 
 and the same proportion for our medical schools is over 
 ten per cent. If eastern institutions be selected it is 
 true of all the leading medical schools and all the leading 
 law schools that they require a college degree. 
 
 Forty years ago the proportion in law and medical 
 schools ran in the east even as low as five and ten per cent. 
 It rose twenty years ago at Harvard to forty per cent. 
 Today the best appointed medical institutions are gradu- 
 ating only college graduates. As this process goes on, 
 the overwhelming majority in. the professions, before two 
 decades have passed, will be men with a college education. 
 The same change has taken place in our courts, particu- 
 larly in the Federal courts. It has come in Congress, 
 
24 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 where the increase of college men is the most conspicuous 
 change of the last twenty years; it is apparent in state 
 legislatures ; our great business corporations year by year 
 draw from college. What is true of "Who's Who" is 
 already becoming true of the great body of active service 
 for the state, civil and corporate, professional and in 
 business. That college share of the adult male population 
 which furnishes only one per cent, of the total, supplies 
 nearly one-half of the directing force of the American 
 people. While statistics are unavailable, every journalist 
 knows that nowhere is this change more rapid, more 
 constant or more sure than in journalism. 
 
 After two centuries in which the American college and 
 university furnished a minute share of the professions, 
 the service of the state and the direction of material enter- 
 prises; our higher education in all its various forms has 
 already reached a point at which it furnishes nearly one- 
 half, and is destined to increase this share. 
 
 It is plain that the duty of the college has become one of 
 training for work rather than for mere learning — for affairs, 
 rather than for teaching. Since its graduates play this 
 part in the direction of affairs, it is evident that whatever 
 else is taught, the man who receives his degree should leave 
 schooled in the habits of assiduous, industrious, unremit- 
 ting work, devotion to his appointed task for its own 
 sake, unbroken by any distraction, and able to resist 
 every temptation to any activity outside of his chosen 
 field. 
 
 This is the key to success in the world's affairs, and 
 unless it is taught in college and acquired there, the college 
 graduate will be at a disadvantage with those who have 
 learned this lesson in office, store and factory, under the 
 stern taskmistress of industry and business. 
 
Installation of the President 25 
 
 Accuracy is the second need of success. Unless college 
 examinations secure this, they have failed to prepare their 
 graduates for this great task of public direction, for 
 accuracy is the basis of the relations of men. 
 
 But not learning, not industry, not accuracy, can give 
 this one per cent, its own half of the greater tasks of the 
 Republic, unless the college also gives to its graduates 
 idealism and confidence in the things that are unseen 
 rather than in the things that are seen, For when in "Who's 
 Who" or in any other associated list of the activities of 
 men the college graduates are marshaled, they are not 
 present as the owners of vast fortunes ; they do not claim 
 their share in the direction of material industries ; they do 
 not appear in the paths where the vaster rewards of the 
 mechanic forces of the communities are lavished. They 
 stand instead at the tasks and posts which speak to a 
 doubting and ignorant world of eternity and the life to 
 come, of justice, of healing, of mercy, of education, and of 
 the inspiration of knowledge. 
 
 It is this share which this small body, so minute in its 
 numbers as against the whole — so great in its completed 
 task and service — is called upon to discharge. And the 
 responsibility of the college and the university in their 
 training is not primarily to the man whom it sends out 
 after four happy years spent in a college like this, but to 
 the fit service of the state. 
 
 Dr. Peters: I do not think I shall be guilty of an 
 indiscretion in saying to you that he who has just spoken, 
 an old and intimate friend of our new President, is one to 
 whom we of Hobart owe much for the help that he gave 
 us in obtaining President Powell. And it was, therefore, 
 especially gracious on the part of Columbia University to 
 
26 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 designate Dr. Talcott Williams as its representative on 
 this occasion. 
 
 It is on behalf of the Trustees particularly in their 
 capacity as representing William Smith College for women 
 that I welcome here as the next speaker the bringer of 
 an address of greeting on behalf of the colleges for women, 
 Marion LeRoy Burton, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of 
 Divinity, Doctor of Laws, President of Smith College, 
 Northampton. 
 
 ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT BURTON 
 It seems most fitting, upon this auspicious day for 
 President Powell and Hobart College, to speak of one 
 phase of the administrative problem. We have come here 
 today to inaugurate an administrator. Our presence 
 indicates our interest in this rather unique field of service. 
 Because the college or university administrator touches in 
 turn the student body, the faculty, the graduates, the 
 trustees, the townspeople and the public at large, there is 
 in reality no one here who is not interested in, if not deeply 
 concerned with, the task of administration. But at this 
 hour we must limit ourselves strictly to one aspect of the 
 question, if we are to utilize properly, the brief time alloted 
 to us. I wish, therefore, to consider what might be 
 termed "The True Administrative Point of View." 
 
 A common attitude to college administration, if correctly 
 and briefly stated, may help to throw into proper light 
 what we wish to describe as the more worthy and satisfac- 
 tory point of view. It is frequently asserted that the 
 office of the college administrator demands first of all a 
 beggar. The term is clearly intended to describe a most 
 disagreeable and nerve-racking function. It is likewise 
 repeatedly assumed that administrative work kills a man's 
 
Installation of the President 27 
 
 scholarship. This statement is also based upon the 
 assumption that the noblest path of service is a life 
 devoted to scholarly investigation and literary production. 
 Again, the work of the college executive is often character- 
 ized as a continuous round of petty details which diffuses 
 one's nervous and intellectual energy. This characteriza- 
 tion is grounded upon the assumption that the details 
 of life are intrinsically bad. In short, a common attitude 
 to executive work is that it is simply a necessary evil that 
 must be endured. 
 
 Now over against this interpretation let us endeavor to 
 set what we conceive to be the only true point of view for 
 the administrator. The task of maintaining the financial 
 existence of a large institution is not an easy one. To 
 form an accurate budget is difficult, to live according to its 
 limitations is sometimes trying, but any man who enjoys 
 a problem must find some satisfaction in the solution of 
 this one which is so vital to every man in the university. 
 The heart of this financial question is that it is a joy to 
 "beg" for a college. Why should it be considered unpleas- 
 ant to have a very active part in helping men and women 
 to find the most satisfying use for thoir money ? It should 
 be counted a real privilege to have the opportunity to 
 show to a man or woman of means one of the very best 
 agencies for the transmuting of wealth into character. 
 Nothing after all is more vital than this — to effect the 
 actual release of money to serve forever the best interests 
 of truth and life. This is a task of dignity, of self-respect 
 and of soul-satisfying joy. 
 
 Again, the college president knows that satisfaction 
 born of the neat balancing of scholarship and action. 
 Mere scholarship, pure reason, unadulterated theory soon 
 reveal their narrowness and onesidedness. Unbroken 
 
28 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 activity, endless correspondence, continuous consulta- 
 tions, unrelieved hours of struggle with complicated 
 situations requiring quick and precise judgment, inevitably 
 lead to weariness and dissatisfaction. To the college 
 president comes the opportunity of combining the spirit 
 of scholarship with the work of the office. No one envies 
 more than the present speaker the college professor, who 
 can give himself unstintedly to his own field and be counted 
 among those who have expanded the borders of thought. 
 But President Thwing put his finger on the point when he 
 wrote : "The college President, who is as are most college 
 Presidents, at once an executive and somewhat of a 
 scholar, is doing the most delightful work that can be 
 done." 
 
 But this is not all. Real executive work requires the 
 highest form of constructive genius. It requires as 
 much, if not more, intellectual originality, careful, colorless, 
 scientific weighing of evidence, painstaking discrimination 
 between the various elements in a complicated situation, 
 subtle appreciation of shades of meaning, to be a college 
 administrator as it does to write doctors' dissertations or 
 to evolve new aspects of truth. The man who fails to 
 recognize this fact misses the joy of administration. He 
 has failed to see its glory! Unless his soul is gripped by 
 the appeal to solve satisfactorily the complex problems in 
 human relationships as they arise day by day in the work 
 of the college, unless he sees and feels the vital meaning of 
 it all, he is the tool and not the master of his task. 
 
 But above it all lies the noble duty of helping to create, 
 and to maintain in an unique way the ideals and standards 
 of the institution, to make the whole school breathe an 
 atmosphere which is purer, more invigorating, more life- 
 giving. It is the inspiring task of suffusing the whole 
 
Installation of the President 29 
 
 life of the school with a personal touch which replaces 
 institutionalism with human interest, and mechanical 
 organization with the power of personality. The true 
 administrative point of view is that which looks upon 
 every phase of the task and every detail of the work as the 
 part of a consistent whole which demands the very best 
 that a man has at every point, a grand totality which 
 transcends all others in its opportunities for real life. 
 
 Dr. Peters: Every Hobart man honors and loves 
 William Pitt Durfee, Doctor of Philosophy, Dean of 
 Hobart College, who brings the word of greeting and good 
 will on behalf of the faculty. 
 
 ADDRESS BY DEAN DURFEE 
 It is my pleasant duty, President Powell, to bid you 
 welcome on behalf of my colleagues of the Faculty, to 
 welcome you from a position in a great university to the 
 headship of a small college. You are yourself the graduate 
 of a great university — Johns Hopkins — from which I am 
 proud to hold my doctor's degree. You are acquainted 
 with the methods and work of the university ; the volumes 
 and studies you have published bear witness to this 
 familiarity. But you will agree with me that the heart 
 and essence of the university and the college are the same. 
 The heart of each lies in its corps of instructors and pro- 
 fessors; in the impression which they make on the student 
 bod}-. Together they are a hive of intellectual workers 
 to a common end — the illumination and the betterment 
 of mankind. You will agree, also, that the college, 
 smaller or larger, has its own distinct and important 
 function, its own niche and sphere, in the general machin- 
 ery of education. But without men, without teachers 
 
30 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 and leaders, the college or the university is a dead mass 
 of wheels and apparatus, however massive and Imposing 
 it may be. 
 
 I welcome you, therefore, on behalf of the living heart 
 of the college. I may say that we believe thoroughly in 
 our work and its importance. We believe also in you and 
 your leadership. We offer you our aid with a certain 
 confidence and self-respect — we invite you to no bankrupt 
 undertaking. We believe that our sphere is as inter- 
 mediaries between the secondary schools and the univer- 
 sity ; we believe in our standards and we hope to maintain 
 them with honor and sincerity. This large attendance 
 of expert educators is a tribute partly to yourself — partly 
 to our own worth and integrity of purpose. Many of 
 them are our friends and neighbors; they know us and our 
 work. We are willing to abide by their judgment of us. 
 
 Every college has the right to feel poorer than its 
 aspirations and ambitions, to ask perennially, like Oliver 
 Twist, for more. We fully recognize our needs in various 
 directions. It will be your first duty, President Powell, 
 to study our problems and to help us in achieving our 
 ideals. We congratulate our neighbors, Rochester and 
 Colgate and Smith, on their recent good fortune, good 
 fortune which we hope to emulate and deserve. 
 
 Dr. Peters : In this age of advancing democracy, we 
 are learning more and more that no government is stable 
 without the consent and the participation of those governed ; 
 that the work of education is not complete without a 
 hearty agreement and cooperation on the part of the 
 student body. I welcome, therefore, on behalf of the 
 Trustees, a speaker who brings a greeting on behalf of 
 the students of Hobart College, Harry Hamlin Hall, 
 President of the Senior Class. 
 
Installation of the President 31 
 
 ADDRESS BY MR. HALL 
 "President Powell: In our short acquaintance this fall 
 we have come to appreciate deeply your sympathy in 
 approaching our undergraduate problems and interests; 
 your generous consultation of out" preferences, even our 
 prejudices and your helpful friendship and guidance both 
 in our work and in our pleasures. Because you have made 
 us feel that you need them and you trust their worth, 
 our cooperation and our support of your policies for the 
 college will be the worthier. You have increased in every 
 student the sense of personal responsibility and affection 
 for the college. The motto you gave us in your opening 
 address: "Each for all and all for each," has already 
 borne fruit not only in greater good fellowship among the 
 four classes in college, but in better understanding than 
 ever between the students and the administration. As you 
 have led us to realize that you will strive with our help and 
 for our sake to make Hobart the "best small college in the 
 land," so in truth will we for your sake strive to help you 
 realize those high ideals. 
 
 Dr. Peters: We are very proud as Trustees of the 
 development of our William Smith College, of the showing 
 that its body of students makes today after so short a 
 term of existence. We welcome, on behalf of the Trustees, 
 as the next speaker, to represent the students of William 
 Smith College in bringing greetings and promise of support 
 to our new President, Eleanor Cascerline, President of the 
 Senior Class. 
 
 ADDRESS BY MISS CASTERLINE 
 With a feeling of deep satisfaction, we, the under- 
 graduates of William Smith College, are gathered here this 
 
32 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 morning to extend a welcome to our new President. It is 
 our earnest desire to make that welcome twofold — to wel- 
 come you, not with words alone, but with works. 
 
 We are a very young college, and are, as yet, in a 
 plastic state. We need the hand of a counsellor and friend 
 to mold us; to form us into an institution which may 
 embody the ideals of true womanhood. 
 
 It is our wish that the ties which bind William Smith 
 College to its President be not the ties of duty but rather 
 of understanding and love, that we become so closely 
 associated with him that unconsciously the thought of one 
 will bring to mind the other. Already we feel that we can 
 rely upon your sympathy ; already we know that we have, 
 in you, one who, with true insight, can point out to us our 
 way. 
 
 To you we pledge our unswerving loyalty. May you 
 always find us ready to work with you and for you in order 
 that those high ideals, to which we know that you have 
 always been devoted, may be fulfilled. Our respect for 
 you is very great. We deeply desire your good will. It is 
 with affection that, in the name of the undergraduates of 
 William Smith College, I bid you welcome. 
 
 At this point there were read by Professor Bacon the following letters 
 and telegrams as representative of the many messages which had been 
 received: 
 
 Letters 
 
 The White House, Washington. 
 My dear Powell : September 17, 19 13. 
 
 I wish most sincerely and unaffectedly that it were 
 possible for me to attend your inauguration as President 
 of Hobart, but it is literally out of the question for me to 
 do so. The pressure of public business here upon me is 
 
Installation of the President 33 
 
 constant. I am just in the stage of learning what and how 
 much I have to do, and so I have determined this first year 
 to go nowhere where my public duties do not plainly 
 command me to go. 
 
 I wish you all happiness in your new work. 
 
 Cordially and sincerely yours, 
 Woodrow Wilson. 
 Dr. Lyman P. Powell, 
 Hobart College, 
 Geneva, New York. 
 
 New Haven, Conn., 
 September 29, 19 13. 
 My dear President Powell: 
 
 I have your kind letter of September 27th. It would 
 give me great pleasure to attend your installation, but the 
 truth is that I am swamped with engagements, and that if 
 I would keep any of them I must not make any more. I 
 congratulate you on coming to the head of the College, and 
 I wish for you the highest success in the great work before 
 you. Sincerely yours, 
 
 Wm. H. Taft. 
 President Lyman P. Powell, 
 Hobart College, 
 Geneva, N. Y. 
 
 Telegrams 
 
 Wichita, Kan., 
 November 13, 19 13. 
 Rev. Dr. Lyman P. Powell: 
 
 President, Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. 
 Regret inability to attend your installation. Please 
 accept hearty felicitations; dear old Hobart is to be 
 congratulated; the Lord preserve thy going out and thy 
 coming in; peace be within thy walls, and plenteousness 
 within thy palaces; for my brethren and companions sake, 
 I will wish thee prosperity. 
 
 Percy T. Fenn. 
 
34 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 New York, November .1 2 , 1914. 
 Rev. Lyman P. Powell: 
 
 President, Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. 
 Matters have arisen which require my presence here on 
 Friday, regret keenly that I cannot be present at your 
 inauguration ceremonies. Warm congratulations and 
 good wishes to you and to the college. 
 
 William T. Manning, 
 
 27 West 25th St. 
 
 Utica, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1913. 
 Dr. Lyman P. Powell, 
 
 President, Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. 
 Congratulations. Sorry I cannot be with you today. 
 
 Chas. T. Olmsted, 
 Bishop of Central New York. 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 To Professor Arthur A. Bacon, 
 
 Secretary of the Faculty and of the Installation Com- 
 mittee : 
 My best wishes to President" Powell for a successful 
 administration and for a happy life in Geneva. 
 
 Langdon C. Stewardson. 
 
 The roll call of delegates was read by Professor Silver. As each name 
 was read the delegate rose in response to his name. 
 
Installation of the President 35 
 
 Dr. Peters : Do not think it strange that no addresses 
 have been provided of greeting and welcome from the 
 alumni of Hobart College. That part will be done later 
 in a more informal and personal way. 
 
 The next on the programme is that for which many of 
 us are waiting with great eagerness, the installation 
 address by the President of our College. 
 
 THE INSTALLATION ADDRESS 
 THE TRUE COLLEGE 
 
 To respond in fitting terms to the graceful and gracious 
 words to which we have been listening lies beyond the 
 province and the possibility of the hour. In all humility, 
 therefore, I hasten on to heed the counsel of a friend who, 
 when he found that this day was to dawn, bade me 
 remember that my words should come from the heart as 
 well as from the head and should reveal the personality 
 as clearly as the pedagogue. 
 
 The true college is my theme. Relatively small like 
 Hobart the true college may be, or relatively large like 
 Dartmouth. Like Hobart it may have a coordinate 
 institution for women of the type of William Smith, or it 
 may like Amherst keep open house to men alone. It 
 may in Hobart fashion trace back its pedigree almost a 
 hundred years or it may be the creation of the other day. 
 
 Like Hobart it may be beholden, as the trustees recently 
 avowed, to the church and have a Chaplaincy long since 
 endowed by a good Churchman, though welcoming all 
 types of Christians and classified by experts as in a large 
 sense undenominational, or it may follow in the tracks of 
 such as would rule out all organized religious life. What- 
 ever its history or environment, it will prove its right at 
 last to be entitled a true college by meeting every test 
 
36 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 men can apply of true religion and of true morality. It 
 will promote the highest interests of the students. It 
 will try to build up character as well as scholarships. Men 
 and women will go out from its halls stronger, better, 
 finer and more useful for tarrying an impressionable while 
 beneath the covert of its love and reverence. They will be 
 marked men, marked women, wherever they may go, 
 whatever they may do. The world will take note of them 
 that they have sojourned with the true and beautiful and 
 good, and no apology will be offered or solicitation made to 
 forget past years spent in the atmosphere of Churchly 
 culture. 
 
 This brings me to the next point I would emphasize. 
 The true college must be cultural as well as Christian. 
 The true college has no quarrel with the university or the 
 technical school. It recognizes the abundant room there 
 is in this expansive land for various types of colleges and 
 universities. At the same time, it steadily insists upon 
 a cultural background for every form of specialization. 
 It is ever ready to shiver a lance with those who would 
 eliminate the cultural college in order that men may make 
 haste to prepare for business. It is sure that the main 
 business of life is not business at all, but life. To those 
 who think the cultural college postpones the day when 
 men can make a living for themselves and also for a family, 
 the cultural college replies that it should not be made to 
 bear more than its due share of the responsibility. 
 
 There is, of course, lost motion somewhere in our 
 educational process. Men ought to be ready for life's 
 battle at an earlier age. The serious and sinister problems 
 precipitated upon us, sometimes because of the undue 
 postponement of the married life, ought in consequence 
 in large part to disappear. But the true college holds that 
 
Installation of the President 37 
 
 some improvement might be made in the grades and the 
 high school. With the University of Chicago in its elemen- 
 tary trial school reducing without hurt the eight grades to 
 seven, and with the increasing disposition noticeable on 
 every hand to end the duplication of the last year of the 
 high school and the first year in college, the time may not 
 be far remote when students may matriculate, not as now 
 in many an excellent institution, at eighteen and two- 
 thirds years, but between the sixteenth and seventeenth 
 year, and be ready for the technical training at least by 
 twenty-one. 
 
 But whatever questions clamor for an answer, the true 
 college would go on its cultural way in godlike unconcern, 
 making those committed to its loving care ready for life 
 in the large or for that technical training which marks off 
 the specialist. 
 
 Its cultural way ? What does that connote ? Certainly 
 a well proportioned course of study. In this day when 
 Greek is rarely taught in fitting schools and some practical 
 men are beginning to look at Latin with an auspicious and 
 a dropping eye, in the true college there will always be 
 a place for Greek and Latin as well as for the modern 
 languages, which never need a special plea. For if cul- 
 ture rather than immediate efficiency, be the true end of 
 the highest type of education, Greek in which the broadest 
 and best thinking of the past comes down to us, not only 
 in the classics, but also in the Gospels, requires no defense 
 before this serious minded audience. "Good wine needs 
 no bush." If true scholarship can never be content with 
 second hand impressions, Latin, too, without which no 
 one can really know English, must ever have a lasting 
 place with Greek ; for as one who knows whereof he speaks 
 has said of Virgil, "It is not easy to recall any great poet 
 
38 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 since Virgil's day who has not caught some inspiration 
 from him." 
 
 Mathematics has no cause to fear displacement. Mathe- 
 matics is unescapable. It is an exact science and yet its 
 data ever change. It develops functional thinking in 
 respect to groups instead of individual facts, and yet the 
 test of accuracy may be applied at any place. Beside all 
 this, like history and literature, it trains the imagination. 
 And who would be so rash as to claim a culture with no 
 room in it for the full sweep of imagination in its most 
 constructive mood. 
 
 The sciences also are necessary for ends of more signi- 
 ficance than those of mere technique. The scientific 
 method, whatever field of science one may choose, makes 
 in these days a contribution to true culture which cannot 
 be disputed. The specific application of a science lies 
 beyond the realm of culture. It is a necessity to business 
 efficiency. A living often is impossible without it. But 
 before one thus applies the science which he knows to 
 pragmatic ends, he must see it in its larger relationships. 
 He must have a scientific setting for whatever he may do, 
 and it is one of the many duties of the true college to make 
 sure that no man flings himself into the struggle for 
 existence without the background and the method science 
 furnishes in any of its various departments. 
 
 And as for literature and philosophy, history and 
 economics, and related subjects, brevity would cease to be 
 the soul of wit, were I to attempt to deal with them in all 
 detail. They amply justify themselves. Almost every- 
 body knows they furnish the key to unlock the problems 
 of today. They insure that every cultured man shall 
 touch life at many points. They stand between the past 
 and the present, explaining the one, interpreting the other. 
 
Installation of the President 39 
 
 They bring man face to face with the whole range of human 
 interest. They give him a grasp of present day realities. 
 No man of sound judgment would deny them a large place 
 in any scheme which culture may devise. One in these 
 days is no educated man who has not at least tasted of 
 these waters, though he runs great risk who does not 
 drink deep of them. A college is not cultural which 
 would omit such subjects from its schedule. Even though 
 the words may sound a little strange in this new connec- 
 tion I would recall to your attention the Platonic proverb : 
 "Many there be who carry the wand, but few are the 
 mystics." And I would add in faith and confidence that 
 our age with its new and complicated questions to be 
 answered demands of every true college, that it furnish to 
 the world mystics trained in this modern lore as well as in 
 Platonic groves. 
 As I have been endeavoring to picture the true college, 
 !have not been unmindful that play as well as work has 
 place in any plan for culture. Athletics have frequently 
 perhaps been overdone. Professionalism has too often 
 given a wrong twist to college sport. "Supporting the 
 team" has sometimes separated by an artificial line the 
 sheep from the goats, and in the presence of the stoutly 
 muscled, lulled to inactivity the vast majority who need 
 that all-round training which used to be summed up in the 
 trite phrase: "The sound mind in the sound body." 
 
 But the situation must be faced precisely as it is. 
 Athletics stand among the healthiest of human interests. 
 They are an occupation as lifelong as literature or eco- 
 nomics. When at play a man is often most completely 
 self -revealing. To call a man a good sportsman is to allow 
 to him the qualities of pluck, persistence, fair play, self- 
 restraint; and whatever can produce these qualities is in 
 
40 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 essence cultural, no matter what temptations may sur- 
 round it. 
 
 Let me go a little farther and insist that football, free 
 from all professionalism and played with all one's might, 
 whether victory or defeat crowns effort, or baseball with 
 every play thought out and executed as it is these days in 
 and out of college, makes a demand as urgent on the mind 
 as on the body. Many with no natural gift for classroom 
 work find in athletics the mental training, as the Univer- 
 sity of Wisconsin dares admit, which they never find else- 
 where, and when they go out into life, go to do justly and 
 walk humbly as surely as their fellows who may indoors 
 have excelled them. No man with a knowledge of the 
 educational situation can be blind to facts so obvious. 
 No one with the higher interests in view of the true college, 
 would dispute the statement. The duty, therefore, is at 
 least to understand the situation and to act upon it, and 
 athletics under the same sane direction as other academic 
 interests and by all participated in, ought to have, and will 
 at last receive, the precise recognition they deserve in the 
 scheme of the true college. 
 
 There are many other things one would like to say. 
 To attempt, however, to say them all on this occasion, 
 would, I fear, give a local application which as host, I have 
 no right to give to that passage in the Odyssey which 
 informs us that Ulysses in bringing together the materials 
 for the building of his bed around the olive tree "bored 
 them all." 
 
 But there are a few things which I must say. The true 
 college has in it more than students, even though the rest 
 of us exist for them alone. I would plead for the teaching 
 staff, that they have a freer hand to do their best for those 
 committed to their care. By more than one of our dis- 
 
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 tinguished visitors a new note has of late been struck 
 in education. Instead of raising money to extend those 
 "incredible acres of technical apparatus" which Arnold 
 Bennett found this whole land over, two presidents here 
 today (and perhaps more) have been leading in securing 
 large sums to increase the salaries of those on whom the 
 burden at last rests to keep an institution true to its high 
 calling. They have made it easier for other colleges to do 
 what everybody knows ought to be done. They have 
 blazed a way which others in increasing numbers will be 
 taking with the passing years. 
 
 It is to the credit of teachers in schools, colleges, and 
 universities, that they seem willing to allow their salaries 
 to remain low while the cost of living steadily increases. 
 For sacrifice is beautiful, and the Father of all prefers it, 
 we are told on Scriptural authority, to incense and burnt 
 offerings. But it is hardly creditable to those of us who 
 do not teach that, like the little ones overheard whispering 
 to their weary mother, we should by our indifference to the 
 needs of those who usually know our childern better than 
 we know them, habitually appear to say: "We do not 
 care how much you suffer, provided you will only live." 
 
 I plead, then, that the time has come to consider the 
 teacher before the material equipment and the buildings of 
 the college, and that this whole land over there should be 
 "one common wave" lifting compensation to the point 
 at which teachers, like bricklayers and chauffeurs, whose 
 interests are safeguarded by unions, may live normal 
 lives, may marry and have children of their own to teach, 
 may buy books without always stopping to count pennies, 
 may travel with a care-free mind, may mingle freely in the 
 social circle without undue strain on income, and may give 
 of their best to one another and to students with no thought 
 
42 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 for the morrow. New occasions do teach new duties, and 
 if this word, which every trustee within my hearing heartily 
 endorses, I am sure, should even imperceptibly accelerate 
 anywhere the movement which has been magnificently 
 started elsewhere, it will well have been worth saying. 
 
 With one word I would close, and that word shall be 
 spoken altogether from the heart. In the presence of 
 God and this company, the thirteenth President of Hobart 
 College has dedicated himself to the service of Hobart 
 College and its coordinate institution, William Smith. 
 Thirteen is regarded by the superstitious as an unlucky 
 number. To make it lucky requires more effort than one 
 man can exert. Luck comes with cooperation. Its 
 other name is team work. The new President of Hobart 
 College and William Smith College bespeaks the coopera- 
 tion of all in any way concerned. Trustees and faculty 
 and students are already giving it in generous measures. 
 Alumni have a peculiar responsibility, which they surely 
 will not disavow. Friends everywhere of Hobart College 
 will join us in renewed appreciation of the blessed heritage, 
 preserved throughout the years by twelve good men and 
 true, and handed on to me by a distinguished predecessor. 
 They will help us make our college, now two-fold and 
 placed with singular felicity in this charming little city, 
 the true college it may in all respects become. 
 
 President, trustees, faculty, students, alumni, friends 
 will do their best for the college of their love, — never once 
 forgetting that "except the Lord build the house, they 
 labor in vain that build it." 
 
 The candidates for Honorary Degrees were then presented by Professor 
 Turk. The President conferred the degrees, using the following words: 
 
 For the reasons already stated and by virtue of the 
 authority vested in me by the Board of Trustees of 
 
Installation of the President 43 
 
 Hobart College, I hereby confer on you the degree of . . . 
 and admit you to all the rights, honors, and priv- 
 ileges appertaining thereto, and direct that your name be 
 forever enrolled as an alumnus of Hobart College, (or al- 
 umna of William Smith College. 
 
 The words of introduction were as follows: 
 
 For the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters I present 
 to you Miss Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, Professor of 
 History in Wellesley College, Bachelor of Laws and Master 
 of Arts. Already the author of several volumes on 
 English History, Miss Kendall has recently published a 
 brilliant account of an intrepid journey in remote China. 
 Hobart College is happy to welcome her and to confer upon 
 her the second honorary degree given in the name of 
 William Smith College. 
 
 For the degree of Doctor of Science I present to you 
 John Nolen of Cambridge, Bachelor of Philosophy of the 
 University of Pennsylvania, Master of Arts of Harvard. 
 While others have busied themselves with "manners, 
 climates, councils, governments," Mr. Nolen's care has 
 been the "cities of men." Realizing how greatly in our 
 day the town makes the man, he has wedded science to 
 art in the service of municipal good-living. His compre- 
 hensive plans for model cities are now being worked out 
 in all parts of this country. We voice today the gratitude 
 of every trainer of youth to one whose name in an especial 
 sense is enshrined in the homes of his countrymen. 
 
 For the degree of Doctor of Science I present to you 
 Charles Harrison Frazier, Dean of the Medical School 
 of the University of Pennsylvania, Bachelor of Arts and 
 Doctor of Medicine of that University. By his exhaustive 
 studies on the physiology, anatomy and pathology of the 
 brain and nervous system Dr. Frazier has brought under 
 
44 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 control deep-seated diseases hitherto regarded as incurable ; 
 while as a foremost citizen of Philadelphia he has led a 
 crusade for civic betterment and public health. As 
 surgeon, teacher, student and writer, Dr. Frazier has 
 already earned the description which this college now 
 confers as a degree. 
 
 For the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology I present 
 to you Kerr Duncan MacMillan, President of Wells 
 College, Bachelor of Arts of the University of Toronto, 
 Bachelor of Divinity of Princeton Theological Seminary, 
 who has gained distinction as a teacher of Semitic Language 
 and Church History at Princeton, and as an effective 
 writer in his chosen field. Having recently had the 
 pleasure of welcoming Mr. MacMillan to this neighbor- 
 hood as the head of a large and charming academic family, 
 Hobart College now asks the privilege of receiving him 
 as an adopted son. 
 
 For the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology I present 
 to you the Reverend Thomas Benjamin Berry, Warden 
 of the DeLancey Divinity School, Master of Arts. With 
 the arduous duties of a city rectorship, to which was ad- 
 ded no small amount of voluntary missionary labor, Mr. 
 Berry has joined a steadily increasing devotion to schol- 
 arship in the field of Theology. In 1909 he was called 
 to the Wardenship which he has held to the great satis- 
 faction of his students and to the equal gratification of 
 his neighbors and fellow teachers in the faculty of this 
 college. 
 
 For the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology, in absentia, 
 I present to you the Reverend Hugh Latimer Burleson, 
 Bachelor of Arts of Racine College, Secretary of the 
 Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protes- 
 tant Episcopal Church. Mr. Burleson is one of four sons 
 
Installation of the President 45 
 
 of a devoted missionary who all have followed their 
 father's calling. Three are alumni of this college; the 
 eldest we now adopt, rejoicing to take to ourselves, so 
 far as we may, his worthy record as a preacher, editor, 
 missionary, and director of missionary work. 
 
 For the degree of Doctor of Canon Law, I present to 
 you, the Right Reverend Lemuel Henry Wells, until 
 the present year Missionary Bishop of Spokane, an alum- 
 nus of the class ofi867, Doctor of Sacred Theology. Bishop 
 Wells came to Hobart College from three years' service in 
 the War of Secession, having already received from Trin= 
 ity College the honorary degree of Bachelor of Arts con- 
 ferred upon those who left their studies for the war; he 
 maintained here the position of leadership for which his 
 unusual experience had prepared him. Since then, through 
 forty years of missionary service on the Pacific slope, he 
 has labored truly for the bodies, minds and souls of 
 men. From the great harvest of the West, where many 
 sow but only the strong may gather, he now returns to 
 Alma Mater, bringing his sheaves with him. 
 
 For the degree of Doctor of Laws I present to you 
 Talcott Williams, Dean of the School of Journalism of 
 Columbia University, Bachelor and Master of Arts of 
 Amherst College, Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Laws. 
 This college, having already recognized by an honorary 
 degree the position of Dr. Williams as a journalist of 
 international reputation, is happy to receive him again 
 as the representative of a great University to which we are 
 attached by ties of sympathy and admiration. Hobart 
 College now records once more in this way her signal 
 esteem for an extensive and accurate scholarship which 
 furnishes but does not fill a mind devoted to the broadest 
 interests of the common weal. 
 
46 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 For the degree of Doctor of Laws I present to you 
 Marion LeRoy Burton, President of Smith College, 
 Bachelor of Arts of Carleton College, Bachelor of Divinity 
 and Doctor of Philosophy of Yale, Doctor of Divinity, 
 Doctor of Laws. A brilliant career (which must have 
 begun in extreme youth) has brought Dr. Burton through 
 many phases of success — as teacher, preacher, adminis- 
 trator — to a proud eminence as the head of the largest 
 community of college women in this country. Hobart 
 College pays Dr. Burton today a tribute merited already 
 by a splendid record and high position, but likely, we 
 believe, to be more amply justified by the future services of 
 a man of keen interest in educational problems and of 
 great persuasive and executive power. 
 
 For the degree of Doctor of Laws I present to you 
 John Huston Finley, Commissioner-elect of Education 
 of the State of New York, Bachelor of Arts and Master of 
 Arts of Knox College, Doctor of Laws. As a student of 
 political science, as Secretary of the State Charities Aid 
 Association and as Professor of Politics at Princeton, as a 
 magazine editor and writer in prose and verse, as President 
 of Knox College and of the College of the City of New 
 York, President Finley has completed a tale of services 
 long enough to fill the lives of most men. It is our 
 privilege, however, to welcome him today as head of the 
 educational system of this State. And we welcome him 
 not only as an officer to whom we pay a willing allegiance. 
 Of the good religion of friendship Dr. Finley has long been 
 an unconscious but happy priest. For the various institu- 
 tions which he will seek to unite in effective public service, 
 he will be himself a bond. 
 
Installation of the President 47 
 
 Dr. Peters: Nothing could be more fitting than to 
 close these exercises with the singing of the hymn "O God 
 our help in ages past, our hope for years to come," to be 
 followed by the benediction by the Right Reverend 
 William David Walker, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D., Bishop of 
 Western New York, after which the procession will form 
 and proceed to the luncheon room. 
 
 HYMN 
 O God, our help in ages past, 
 
 Our hope for years to come, 
 Our shelter from the stormy blast 
 
 And our eternal home : 
 
 Under the shadow of Thy throne 
 
 Thy saints have dwelt secure; 
 Sufficient is Thine arm alone, 
 
 And our defense is sure. 
 
 Before the hills in order stood, 
 
 Or earth received her frame, 
 From everlasting Thou art God, 
 
 To endless years the same. 
 
 A thousand ages in Thy sight 
 
 Are like an evening gone ; 
 Short as the watch that ends the night 
 
 Before the rising sun. 
 
 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, 
 
 Bears all its sons away; 
 They fly, forgotten, as a dream 
 
 Dies at the opening day. 
 
 O God, our help in ages past, 
 
 Our hope for years to come, 
 Be Thou our guide while life shall last, 
 
 And our eternal home. 
 
48 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 Bishop Walker: Unto God's gracious mercy and 
 protection we commit you. The Lord bless you and keep 
 you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be 
 gracious unto you ; the Lord lift up His countenance upon 
 you and give you peace, wisdom and grace, through Jesus 
 Christ our Lord. Amen. 
 
LUNCHEON AT WILLIAMS HALL 
 
 Luncheon was served at one o'clock in Williams Hall. Covers were 
 laid for over three hundred and fifty guests and the Hall was filled. 
 Seats had been arranged on the running track and the students of Hobart 
 College and William Smith College occupied these on opposite sides of 
 the Hall. During the luncheon they sang the songs of the respective 
 Colleges. There were also seated in the gallery many who availed them- 
 selves of the opportunity to listen to the unusual array of speakers. 
 
 Grace was said by the Right Reverend William D. Walker, D.D., 
 D.C.L., LL.D., Bishop of Western New York. 
 
 Mr. Henry A . Prince of the class of '82, also member of the Board 
 of Trustees, presided. 
 
 Mr. Prince : My friends, I wish again to bid you wel- 
 come, and I trust my voice will carry that message to you 
 all. 
 
 We are met together today to celebrate among ourselves 
 and with the presence and assistance of our welcome and 
 honored guests what we might call the confirmation 
 service wherein our President has taken upon himself the 
 responsibilities and vows that, in a sense, have up to this 
 time been made for him by others. 
 
 We have a college here that is older than some of your 
 colleges that are larger, and it is larger, perhaps, than some 
 that are older, but younger than most that are larger. We 
 have, however, a feeling that we may claim a place in the 
 family of educational institutions whose ideals are the 
 production of the highest type of citizenship, the best 
 individuality, the highest ideals and the true culture. 
 The scheme of the founders of the college has been nobly 
 carried on through prosperity and adversity. At times 
 it has depended, as of late, upon the splendid devotion, 
 faith and vision of such men as Dean Durfee. In the 
 
50 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 past it has been true, as it is today, that — I am able to 
 speak of the past — that we have sat at the feet of prophets 
 and we have caught from their devotion to their tasks in 
 this small college something of the vision, something of 
 the breadth of view, I trust, that made their lives an 
 inspiration to the men who sat under them. We have 
 met with the disappointment of the loss of a president 
 whose achievements were great during his incumbency, 
 and the college has been carried through a period of 
 uncertainty until we have succeeded in obtaining the man 
 whom we desire. There are those present who have 
 known the college through all these vicissitudes, and I am 
 going to ask you to listen to the first one of those in the 
 person of the Reverend Elwood Worcester, of Boston. 
 
 ADDRESS BY DR. WORCESTER 
 After all the eloquent and noble words we have heard 
 today, my words will be few and simple, especially as I 
 have no idea they will be heard anyway. 
 
 I imagine that perhaps hardly anybody here has more 
 reason for pleasure and satisfaction in the celebration of 
 this event than I have personally. It is always a desire 
 of ours that our friends should also be friends among 
 themselves. All my life long I have felt a friend toward 
 Geneva. How my friendship began I could not exactly 
 say. I remember being brought here first as a child about 
 twelve years old by my uncle, Mr. MacDonald, who 
 thought that Geneva was in many respects the most 
 attractive town he had ever seen in America. 
 
 Although my relation to the college is only that of an 
 adopted son, in that I hold the degree which I have always 
 very highly prized, I have had a friendship of many years 
 with the president and different members of the Hobart 
 
Installation of the President 51 
 
 faculty and trustees. Hobart has been very fortunate in 
 this respect: there are very few small colleges in this 
 country that have commanded the services of such men 
 as you have, and those small colleges have not kept such 
 men very long. They have them for a few years until 
 other people find out about them and then they take them 
 away. You have been extremely fortunate in that 
 respect, having men of greatest eminence not only as 
 scholars, but also as teachers, whom on account of some 
 charm of the life in this town you have been able to keep 
 for generations. 
 
 My friendship for Mr. Powell is also a very personal one. 
 I have known Mr. Powell as a brilliant and a versatile 
 writer, as a devoted clergyman and preacher and pastor, as 
 a friend and helper ; but in whatever capacity I have ever 
 known Mr. Powell I have always found him to be at all 
 events a little bigger than his job. Most of you have 
 known him for a short time and during those few weeks 
 you have found much to admire and much to love in him; 
 but I can assure you that as the years pass you will find 
 more to admire and more to love, because the foundations 
 of Mr. Powell's character are genuine foundations of 
 modesty, sincerity, truth, and an unbounded love for his 
 fellowmen. 
 
 Nor would I stand here even for a few moments without 
 remembering that this is the third president's inauguration 
 at which I have assisted, and I hope that it will be the last. 
 When we met here a few years ago to celebrate Dr. 
 Stewardson's inauguration we did not have these beautiful 
 buildings, nor was William Smith College in existence at 
 all. And let us, while we are joyfully looking forward to 
 the future, also look back with gratitude to the past, to 
 the noble, unselfish labors of Dr. Stewardson and to what 
 
52 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 he has done for this college. Dr. Stewardson's work was 
 very largely an educational work. It was to deepen, to 
 broaden and to diversify the courses of instruction which 
 were given in this college and to add to its material and 
 physical plant. Dr. Stewardson was very successful in 
 both those regards, and, in fact, I think it would be safe 
 to say that there is a larger proportion of professors and 
 instructors to the number of students in Hobart College 
 than is to be found in any similar institution in the United 
 States. I do not believe that such a ratio as that could 
 permanently be maintained, nor do I think that our appeal 
 to the church or the country will ever be what it might be 
 until we are able to show a larger return in the application 
 of our means to human life and in turning out a larger 
 body of useful men. That is one of the things to which I 
 confidently look forward in the administration of Mr. 
 Powell. 
 
 Mr. Powell is a man who has a positive genius for 
 friendship, as is proved by the gathering from which we 
 have just come and the gathering which we are now 
 engaged in. In fact, I know very few men in the United 
 States who could have brought together the distinguished 
 body of men who have graced the occasion today, and I 
 feel that with Mr. Powell's genius for friendship and his 
 conciliatory character and the ideals that he holds, we are 
 now about to enter into a new period of growth and 
 development for the college in which we are all so deeply 
 interested. 
 
 Mr. Prince: When I came up on the subway from 
 Fulton Street to Brooklyn Bridge yesterday, my neighbor 
 on the right was reading his Italian paper from left to 
 right ; and when I rode on from Brooklyn Bridge to Four- 
 teenth Street, my neighbor on the right was reading a 
 
Installation of the President 53 
 
 paper with other characters on it from right to left; and 
 when I rode from Fourteenth Street to Forty-Second Street 
 where I left the subway, my neighbor on the right was 
 reading in characters up and down; and I wondered if 
 there was a bit of prophetic suggestion on the eve of an 
 occasion such as today's in the evidence of the ethnic 
 indigestion that exists so acutely and obviously in New 
 York. I took it for granted that there was a suggestion 
 to me that I should say to you that I believe it is for 
 agencies such as this small college and the other larger 
 colleges that are represented here by our guests to struggle 
 against this poison which, while it is more acute and 
 obvious in New York, nevertheless, I feel pervades to a 
 certain extent the cells of the whole organism, and we shall 
 secure, perhaps, a more perfect metabolism if we struggle 
 the harder in institutions such as this. 
 
 We have in our neighborhood institutions that are 
 doing exactly the same kind of work that we mean and 
 try to do here, and we meet them in a spirit of cooperation 
 generally; sometimes we meet them in a spirit of sharp 
 rivalry as we expect to meet one of them tomorrow after- 
 noon in the field in front of us. And I am going to ask 
 that we have the privilege of hearing, as a representative 
 of one of these institutions here, President Rhees of the 
 University of Rochester. 
 
 ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT RHEES 
 Mr. Toastmaster, President Powell, and ladies and 
 gentlemen: Rochester is very proud of the privilege of 
 participating in this function, and I may say its pride is 
 touched also with something of caution from the con- 
 sciousness of the fact that if anything rash is said those 
 
54 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 young gentlemen in the gallery will have an opportunity 
 tomorrow to make reply. 
 
 I was a little bit perplexed by the introduction of your 
 Toastmaster, wondering just what the application of that 
 ethnic indigestion might be to the remarks that he expected 
 to get from me. It reminded me, by the way, of a lay- 
 man's confession at a convention that I attended not long 
 ago, that he never yet had found occasion to be sorry for 
 anything he had not said or had not eaten. Possibly that 
 may be the way out of this ethnic indigestion. Certainly 
 I think it is a way out of after dinner indigestion. 
 
 There is another thought that comes to me as a possible 
 explanation of that somewhat cryptic introduction, and that 
 is the fact that both Dr. Powell and I are immigrants. I 
 came, Sir, from Massachusetts into western New York, and 
 I desire to say to you that you are the subject of congratula- 
 tion for having come as a citizen into this part of our 
 glorious country. I say I came from Massachusetts, 
 described this morning as that transcendental region that 
 bounds part of the eastern corner of New York, and now, 
 after thirteen years of residence here, it is possible for me 
 without fear to confess that I came with some apprehension 
 that I might be leaving the confines of civilization and 
 going on a missionary enterprise. You will have a mission 
 — a high and exalted one — but not that which is ordinarily 
 conceived under the category of missionary endeavor. I 
 cannot think of a more wholly charming community in 
 which any man's lot can be cast than that which you have 
 here in Geneva, in so far as I am able to forecast that 
 which you will find here by that which I have found in 
 Rochester. There is something peculiarly gentle, pecu- 
 liarly sincere, in the hospitality of this western New York 
 country. I think it is begotten of an interesting blending 
 
Installation of the President 55 
 
 of strains in our population. There is not a little from the 
 southland that has come up here ; there is a great deal from 
 New England that has settled here ; and there has devel- 
 oped from the blending of these strains a simplicity of 
 sympathetic hospitality that I don't know to be matched 
 anywhere in this land. 
 
 Will you permit me to say further that I think you are 
 to be congratulated in your task? When I went to 
 Rochester I was rash enough to make the remark that I 
 was very glad it was a small college, and the gentleman to 
 whom I said this smiled and said, "That is all very well, 
 but wait until you grow;" and I infer from some words 
 that Dr. Worcester spoke that there is anticipation that 
 you will cease to be the president of a small college. God 
 speed the day, sir! 
 
 But there is something that is a genuine subject of 
 congratulation in the lot of the man who has to deal with a 
 relatively small number of students and relatively small 
 faculty, in which the problem of education is relatively 
 simple. 
 
 Now, remember my friend never had any cause to be 
 sony for anything he had not said. I shall speedily seek 
 to emulate his good experience. But one word more 
 would I venture to speak, and that is that Rochester looks 
 toward Hobart today with the most perfect sympathy of 
 congratulation. You build on worthy foundations, sir. 
 It has been my fortune to know but two of your predeces- 
 sors. I have found them men of the most sincere friendli- 
 ness and earnest strength of character and devotion of 
 purpose. It has been a great joy to me today to hear the 
 words that have been spoken with reference to Dr. 
 Stewardson, a man whose singleness of mind, earnestness 
 of purpose, and perfect equipment for his task it would be 
 
56 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 difficult to surpass; and I am confident that in coming 
 into the place which he filled you are entering on a heritage 
 which will be most auspicious. 
 
 I think it may not be out of place, in spite of the presence 
 of one whose name I know you delight to honor, for me 
 to say that in looking toward Hobart with congratulation 
 today Rochester hopes that through Hobart College there 
 may be perpetuated in the educational life of this country 
 that sincere devotion to fine culture which has been 
 incarnate amongst you in the persons of Professor Nash 
 and Professor McDaniels. 
 
 Mr. Prince: We have with us honored guests today 
 the representatives of a number of the prominent colleges 
 for women, and we here at Hobart have a college for 
 women likewise. I use that word "likewise" advisedly 
 because of the distinction that was pointed out on the 
 witness stand by 'Rastus, who had given damaging testi- 
 mony for the prosecution, and was taken in hand by the 
 attorney for the defense, who had observed that he 
 sprinkled his testimony with the words "also" and "like- 
 wise", and said to him, '"Rastus, I notice that you used 
 the words 'also' and 'likewise' all through your testimony." 
 
 "Yes, sir." 
 
 "Well, do you think you know the difference between 
 'also' and 'likewise' "? 
 
 "Why, I 'spect I does." 
 
 "Well, 'Rastus, you tell the Court the difference between 
 also and likewise." 
 
 Now the examining attorney had been a Justice of the 
 Peace and was by courtesy often given the title of judge. 
 Erastus thought for a moment, and he pointed to the 
 Court and he said: "Well, there is the Court. He is a 
 
Installation of the President 57 
 
 judge, and you — you are a judge also, but you ain't no 
 judge likewise." 
 
 We have a college of which we are proud and our dearest 
 hope for its alumnae, who are yet young, and for its under- 
 graduates is that they may achieve the distinction that is 
 evidenced by the representatives of our sister colleges who 
 are here with us today. And I am greatly pleased at 
 having been permitted to call upon President Vivian B. 
 Small of Lake Erie College to address us. 
 
 ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT SMALL 
 Mr. Toastmaster, President Powell, and Friends : Last 
 spring there appeared in one of our dailies a cartoon, 
 in the center of which were two guests at a banqueting 
 table, with comrades on either side. One of the guests 
 radiated the atmosphere of conviviality. He seemed to be 
 sociable with his neighbor. He appeared to be enjoying 
 the pleasures of the banquet. He looked genial, happy, 
 contented. The other seemed to have lost his appetite. 
 He looked morose. He appeared not to be sociable. He 
 appeared to be wishing for "a lodge in some vast wilder- 
 ness." And below the picture one read: "Who is the 
 next speaker?" 
 
 I have been looking about among these people trying to 
 discover who might be the next speaker, but I see no 
 evidences of anxiety whatsoever. That is because on an 
 occasion like this we cannot be anything but joyful. We 
 are all longing for an opportunity to bring our congratula- 
 tions and our felicitations. If we are women, perhaps we 
 are longing to get in a word ! 
 
 There is one duty, President Powell, upon which I think 
 you have not, as yet, been congratulated — one duty which 
 is also a privilege, and that is the joy of attending inaugura- 
 
58 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 tions. We all love to go to parties. We all love to wel- 
 come into our fellowship the one who probably is going to 
 solve all the problems which we cannot solve. So I con- 
 gratulate you upon the pleasures of attending inaugura- 
 tions. Sometimes we think that the answer to the 
 conundrum, "Why is a college president?" should be, 
 "To help inaugurate other college presidents?" 
 
 And I congratulate you also upon those lions which 
 President Finley brought so vividly before us this morning. 
 They never were so numerous or so formidable, especially 
 where women as well as men are to be educated, as they 
 are today. You are fortunate that there are so many with 
 which to prove your prowess. 
 
 In the Western Reserve of Ohio, from which I come, we 
 have represented the three types of education which the 
 higher education for women has followed throughout these 
 many years. We have the coeducational college at 
 Oberlin; we have the coordinate college in Cleveland; 
 we have the separate college for women in Painesville. 
 You have also here in the lake region of New York State 
 the same kind of trio. It has been my privilege recently 
 to spend a day at Cornell, another at Wells College, and 
 another here — coeducation, the separate college for women, 
 the coordinate college for women. I have not yet visited 
 Rochester, but if I should go in that direction I should 
 find another one and then I should have to call it a quar- 
 tette. 
 
 I wish to add my congratulations, President Powell, 
 to the many which you have already received upon this 
 charming six-year-old William Smith College, and I wish 
 especially to congratulate you upon the fact that your part, 
 your contribution, to the education of women is to be in a 
 college of the humanities, if I may use that old-fashioned 
 
Installation of the President 59 
 
 term. I suppose if I should follow the words of Professor 
 James I might say that a college for the humanities is a 
 college which is engaged in establishing standards by which 
 to judge any kind of a human job, whatever it may be. 
 We are thinking too much in these days, I believe, about 
 educating for the business of being women and for the 
 business of being men. We are getting somewhat astray 
 from the heart of the matter in our plans for educating 
 people for the power to earn a living. Let us not forget 
 to educate in the supreme art of living itself! President 
 Burton's point was well taken when he reminded us that 
 we are educating human beings; and while we are edu- 
 cating our girls as human beings, let us try, all of us — in 
 the Western Reserve, in western New York, all over this 
 great country, to bring back, if we can — she has not quite 
 gone, but once we feared she had— her who was called in a 
 magazine article not long ago, the "vanishing lady!" 
 She was a lady who had a mind to understand the needs of 
 her generation and a heart with which to meet them; she 
 looked well to the ways of her household and thought it a 
 shame to do otherwise ; she drew her social lines not by 
 what people had but by what they were; she believed 
 ostentation to be an impossible vulgarity ; she established 
 and maintained in her family standards of taste and of 
 reverence which have borne the test of time. 
 
 Lake Erie College, the separate college for women in the 
 Western Reserve of Ohio, joins hands with William Smith 
 College today across that very little bit of Pennsylvania 
 which comes up between us and pledges to you, William 
 Smith College, Hobart College, President Powell, its 
 cooperation and its friendship. 
 
 Mr. Prince: Throughout its career from the very 
 beginning, Hobart College has been fostered not only by 
 
60 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 the communion with which it has happened to be more 
 closely affiliated, but also by other communions, and 
 especially in the city of Geneva. And I have great 
 pleasure in calling upon one who represents those friends 
 of Hobart College in the city of Geneva, the Dean of the 
 ministers of Geneva, Reverend Doctor W. W. Weller. 
 
 ADDRESS BY DR. WELLER 
 
 Mr. Toastmaster, President Powell, Ladies and Gentle- 
 men : It is a real pleasure to join with you in celebrating 
 this auspicious event, sanctioned by the Episcopal Church 
 which I highly esteem and greatly venerate. There is 
 not such a wide difference after all between the communion 
 to which I belong — the Presbyterian Church — and the 
 Episcopal Church. We perpetuate our minor differences 
 here at home, but on the foreign field that is impossible. 
 For instance, you will recall that not long since one of 
 the Bishops of the Episcopal Church, in speaking about 
 this impossibility, said that in China when they try to 
 translate into Chinese the term "Presbyterian Church," 
 which is, the church of the ruling elder — all they can make 
 out of it is "the church of the bossy old man" ; and when 
 they endeavor to translate into Chinese the "Episcopal 
 Church", which is the church of the Bishop — the best 
 that they can do is to render it "the church of the kicking 
 overseer." 
 
 It has been my privilege to enjoy such a delightful 
 association through all these years with the alumni, the 
 trustees who reside here, the faculty, and many of the 
 students, that I claim, although I have not the honor of 
 being a Hobart graduate, that I am a Hobart man. In 
 fact, I am just like the Irishman who, when asked where he 
 was born, said, "I was born nine miles out of Dublin, but 
 
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 if I had it to do over again I would have been born in 
 Dublin." I did the next best thing, however, for myself, 
 and the best for my son, who is now reveling in "these 
 classic halls, these happy walks and shades." 
 
 Hobart is a small college, but I assure you, Mr. Presi- 
 dent, you have come to one of the biggest little colleges that 
 I know anything about. We believe in the small college 
 for the particular work that it has to do. There is that 
 close and intimate relationship between the faculty and 
 the students, I have observed here, that does not often 
 exist in the larger institution. A few days ago, the state- 
 ment was made that a student of a great eastern university 
 in crossing the campus, met a professor who noticing that 
 the youth appeared lonely and forlorn — I presume he was 
 a freshman — said to him, "Are you looking for someone?" 
 And the youth replied, "No, I am not looking for anyone. 
 I don't know anyone this side of the Rocky Mountains." 
 
 Hobart has an influence out of all proportion to its real 
 size. We shall have an additional evidence of its prowess, 
 we believe, in a short time. One of the students said to 
 me yesterday — I hope the President will not listen to this — 
 "the really important event in connection with this 
 inauguration occurs tomorrow". The trophy dazzles us 
 and lures us, but tomorrow we must make it ours. Let 
 that be our hope and our endeavor. 
 
 I wonder sometimes whether Geneva fully appreciates 
 the wise and beneficient administration of an institution 
 like this in its effect upon the city itself. We may not 
 realize it, but Geneva is an important educational center. 
 Why, think of it ! In a population of a little more than 
 twelve thousand there are at least two hundred college 
 bred men — not men who have passed through a year or 
 two of college life, but men who hold a degree from an 
 
62 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 institution. Our University Club numbers almost one 
 hundred and twenty-five members, each of whom holds a 
 degree from a college or a professional school ; and we have 
 a College Women's Club of fifty members. This gives 
 Geneva a tone, it imparts a certain atmosphere. And we 
 are greatly indebted to this institution, Mr. President, to 
 the Experiment Station, our High School, but particularly 
 to these twin colleges — if I may be allowed that expres- 
 sion — of Hobart and William Smith. 
 
 We assure you, Mr. President, that you will hold a large 
 place in our hearts. You have already established your- 
 self there and we wish for you the largest success. This 
 day is the beginning of what we believe will be a great 
 administration in the life of these two institutions, and it 
 is our hope and our prayer that under your guiding 
 influence and inspiring leadership these halls will be 
 thronged and that the small college will grow larger. So 
 may Hobart in the future as in the past send out an ever- 
 increasing number of young men, strong, stalwart, well- 
 equipped to engage in the battle of life and to bring blessing 
 to the world; and may the institution on yonder ridge 
 continue to send out young women, strong, and fair as 
 they are strong, to bless mankind, to grace by their 
 feminine charm all the circles in which they move; that 
 through Hobart and William Smith this city — Geneva the 
 fair, the beautiful — our community — yes, the world, may 
 enjoy the touch of the life that is lived here in our midst. 
 
 Mr. Prince : Very many compliments have been said 
 today of Geneva and of its charm which have been appre- 
 ciated, I know, by the residents of Geneva and those who 
 are former residents of Geneva; and yet when this morn- 
 ing the climate was as it was, I felt that we would no 
 longer be able to say that Geneva was a place where 
 
Installation of the President 63 
 
 "every prospect pleases and only man is vile," but proba- 
 bly man, vile as he was, was standing very well up as com- 
 pared with the weather at that time — of course, I use 
 "man" in the strictly specific sense, because here at Hobart 
 on the distaff side, we are young and comely without 
 exception. 
 
 I know that you will feel as I do that with so many 
 representatives of the women's colleges here it is a pleasure 
 to have from them the point of view of the educator of 
 that side of the human race, and I know that, therefore, 
 you will thank me for having obtained her permission to 
 call now upon Dean King of Pembroke College, Brown 
 University. 
 
 ADDRESS BY DEAN KING 
 
 Mr. Toastmaster, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle- 
 men : I have come a long distance to bring the greetings 
 of the Women's College in Brown University, a sister 
 college to your affiliated college. Whether it is to be a 
 sister college to Hobart I am too modest to decide. 
 
 I have been particularly impressed today with the fact 
 that you are proud of your affiliated college. Some 
 universities and colleges which maintain an affiliated 
 college are not equally proud of that institution, or, 
 perhaps, are not so eager to express their pride. 
 
 The affiliated college is a necessity in our country. We 
 have in various parts of our country districts where 
 coeducation is impossible. We have also districts where 
 there is not sufficient money for an independent women's 
 college. When that district is so fortunate as to possess 
 a fine college of the type of Hobart College, then there is 
 an opportunity through an affiliated college to give the 
 young women of that section an education. 
 
64 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 To develop an affiliated college is a most interesting and 
 absorbing piece of work. First, because the affiliated 
 type of college is growing. When I went to work in this 
 business there were only five such colleges — Barnard, 
 and Brown, and Radcliffe, and Western Reserve, and 
 Sophie Newcomb; and now we have almost twice that 
 number — William Smith, Jackson College, the new college 
 at Delaware which is just being built, and now the women 
 in Virginia have made up their minds to have an affiliated 
 college attached to the old University of Virginia, and in 
 these days of feminism when women make up their minds 
 to such a move as this, that is the equivalent of laying the 
 corner stone of the first building. I see that I have for- 
 gotten one college, — the affiliated college connected with 
 Richmond College in Virginia. 
 
 There is, moreover, one thing about an affiliated college 
 that must appeal to everyone — the fact that it is indis- 
 pensable to the district in which it is situated. The 
 affiliated colleges are colleges which are attended largely 
 by local students and it has been proved conclusively by 
 Brown and Barnard and Goucher and many other women's 
 colleges that the girls who must stay at home and get 
 their education largely outnumber the girls who can go 
 away and get their education. Brown, in its short history, 
 has made it possible for over a thousand women who 
 could not otherwise have gone to college to have the 
 college education which is now regarded throughout the 
 east and the west and the north and the south as essential 
 training for the life of the modern woman. 
 
 And there is yet another delightful and satisfying task 
 connected with the up-building of the affiliated college. 
 We have found in Rhode Island that there are many 
 young women who do not go to college because they have 
 
Installation of the President 65 
 
 not been told what a college education means to women. 
 It has, therefore, been our privilege, and the privilege of 
 the friends of the college, to be missionaries and to 
 spread the truth in various ways to the Rhode Island 
 girls and later to watch with joy the increasing interest 
 in college going throughout our state. No college out- 
 side of our state would feel this same interest. 
 
 For these three reasons I have thoroughly enjoyed my 
 work in trying to build up an affiliated college and there- 
 fore, in extending my hearty congratulations to you, Mr. 
 President, as you assume your new office, I wish to say to 
 you that if you find as much pleasure and gratification in 
 that one department of your work, William Smith College, 
 as I have found in my work at the Women's College in 
 Brown University, I know that you will be amply repaid 
 for all your labor. 
 
 Mr. Prince: This has not much to do with what has 
 been said, but I was amused at the instruction which 
 the office boy who had just graduated into a higher po- 
 sition was giving the new incumbent office boy in a law 
 office. He was showing him around in the library 
 among the various digests — which he told him were health 
 books — and he came across the different volumes that 
 ran, for instance the first one ran from "Action" to "An- 
 tagonist," and so on down the line. When he came to the 
 one that ran from "Tender" to "Turnout" the new in- 
 cumbent asked the office boy what that meant. "Well," 
 the office boy said with his ready superiority, "that 
 is a brief story of a summer flirtation." 
 
 I don't know whether that has the slightest bearing 
 upon the feminine question. If it does, however, I know 
 that whatever bearing it has will be amply explained by 
 the next speaker. 
 
66 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 I do wish, however, in introducing the next speaker to 
 express the regret that we all feel at what is going to prove 
 our inability from lack of time to hear all of the guests 
 whom we would like to hear from, and at the same time 
 to express our great pleasure at being able to hear from 
 President Judson of Chicago. 
 
 ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT JUDSON 
 Mr. Toastmaster. Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle- 
 men: To save my life, I can't see the bearing of that 
 summer flirtation story on my speech. 
 
 This has been a very delightful occasion until now. I 
 have especially enjoyed the music that has floated down to 
 us from above ; and in saying that I make no reflection on 
 the vocal solos that have come from underneath the 
 balcony; but I have especially enjoyed the charming 
 music of these young ladies on the other side. It makes ic 
 perfectly plain for the first time what was meant in saying 
 that men are a little lower than the angels. 
 
 There is to my mind a certain fitness possibly in being 
 permitted to be present on this auspicious occasion. I 
 have the honor of being a native of the State of New York, 
 and, in fact, I was thirty-five years old before I ever got 
 west of Buffalo; and up to that time, of course, with the 
 rest of the community, I supposed there was nothing west 
 of Buffalo. Well, we think in Chicago that there is some- 
 thing west of that part of the world. Some years ago I 
 had a young man in one of my classes who put to us an 
 odd point of view. I don't remember now in what connec- 
 tion. He said, "You notice the farther you go west from 
 the Atlantic seaboard the broader-minded and the more 
 intelligent the people are." I said, "Yes, that is interest- 
 ing. We like to believe that in Chicago. Where do you 
 
Installation of the President 67 
 
 come from?" "Oh," he said, "I live in California." 
 However that may be, the universities and the colleges 
 throughout that great western part of our republic are 
 performing an important function in developing social life, 
 and wherever you go among those colleges you will find 
 many in their faculties and governing boards who have 
 come from eastern colleges. It was my privilege to be 
 for several years a member of the faculty of the State 
 University of Minnesota, and one of my colleagues whose 
 long life in that state was a benediction, whose power as a 
 thinker, as a man, as a scholar is marked today on that 
 great State University, was a graduate, sir, of Hobart 
 College. I refer to Professor William W. Folwell, of the 
 class of '57 of this college. 
 
 I have heard quite a bit about this coordinate college of 
 yours. We don't have that in Chicago. We don't find 
 it necessary to know whether a student is a man or a 
 woman. A student is a student anyway. But I am 
 interested in this coordinate college. Mr. President, I 
 don't know what these girls are going to do to you. I 
 could have spoken more confidently on a question like 
 that some years ago, but I can't now. I have noticed that 
 one's knowledge of what women are and are likely to be 
 is about in the inverse ratio of one's age. I don't know 
 anybody who knows all about that subject unless he may 
 be a college sophomore. Some years ago it was my 
 pleasure to be a student in what is now the Geneva High 
 School, then known by another name, where I begun the 
 humanities — my Latin and Greek — under the guidance of 
 one of the ablest, most intelligent and most successful and 
 inspiring teachers it was ever my fortune to know — a 
 gentleman whose name you will find on the alumni list and 
 faculty list of this college, my good friend Professor Vail. 
 
68 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 We had to write compositions in that school — or essays — 
 I don't know what they call them now — and the boys had 
 to learn theirs and recite them from the platform. And I 
 remember very well the teacher's holding the manuscript 
 of my little speech while I was reciting it from the platform, 
 and smiling. I wondered what in the world was found to 
 laugh at; I thought it was a pretty good speech. When 
 I got to my place on the floor and stood at my desk after 
 the fashion of that time, the teacher said, "How do you 
 spell women?" Well, I knew how I had spelled it in my 
 composition, and promptly answered, "w-o-e-m-e-n." I 
 couldn't imagine then why my classmates in the school 
 seemed to think it was odd. 
 
 Mr. President, that is not the forecast I make for you 
 in this women's college. I know that women in the college 
 have one function that I regard as vital in every sound 
 college. They can use an influence that no man can use 
 towards standards of good taste, towards standards of high 
 character, towards standards of clean conduct. That 
 influence is something that you will value, I know, in the 
 coming history of this college, and that is what the women 
 mean in the life of every American college which is per- 
 mitted to have them in its student body. 
 
 Sir, you have here a college — I don't care whether it is 
 small or whether it is large — it is a college and not a univer- 
 sity, and the difference is in the emphasis. The univer- 
 sity says "Knowledge always, and training, yes"; the 
 college says, "Training and knowledge". The first 
 thought of the college is on character. And if your young 
 men and women can be taught to live in a straight line and 
 instinctively to do the right thing when it comes, and not 
 the wrong thing, then it matters little what knowledge they 
 forget, because they have that other thing which is price- 
 less, above all rubies, and that is character. 
 
Installation of the President 69 
 
 I congratulate you, sir, upon this occasion. 
 
 Mr. Prince: "We should deplore growth in numbers 
 unless it were accompanied with steady increase in quality 
 of students. The real test and measure of an institution's 
 efficiency are not the number of students enrolled/, the size 
 of its endowment, or the magnificence of its physical 
 equipment. The true test and measure are to be found 
 in the productive scholarship of the institution's teachers 
 and in the quality of the men and women who go out with 
 the stamp of the institution's approval upon them." 
 
 I am not reading from President Powell's address, but 
 I am reading from the annual report of Nicholas Murray 
 Butler, the President of Columbia University; and when 
 men begin at the large colleges and at the small colleges 
 to speak of that element in education as the one important 
 thing, we at Hobart, small though we be, may reckon 
 ourselves as within the fellowship of those who are striving 
 for a common end. 
 
 I have great pleasure, therefore, in calling upon the 
 representative of another institution not large but doing 
 the same kind of work that we at Hobart are trying to do, 
 and I have pleasure in introducing President Luther of 
 Trinity College, Hartford. 
 
 Dr. Luther: Mr. Toastmaster and Mr. President: 
 There are, indeed, many reasons why I can feel myself 
 much at home here at Hobart College. The institution 
 dear to your hearts and the institution first in my own 
 thought are very much alike — founded within one year of 
 each other, interchanging officers and students quite fre- 
 quently, each of them a church college in the sense that it 
 is a part of the contribution which churchmen are willing 
 to make toward education in this country. They have 
 traveled the same road ; they have fought the same lions ; 
 
70 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 they are engaged in the same sort of conflict now ; they are 
 meaning to do about the same sort of work. I feel myself 
 very much at home here. There is not very much differ- 
 ence between the purple and orange of Hobart and the 
 blue and gold of old Trinity. They look very much alike, 
 only the blue and gold a little dusky. And if you will 
 let me go a little further along that line, when I was myself 
 an undergraduate and fought and bled and died — or tried 
 to — for old Trinity, we fought under the green and white 
 which now your girls in the sister institution have adopted 
 for their colors. 
 
 So I suppose, President Powell, that you and I have 
 about the same kind of a job, and I can't help thinking 
 what I felt nine years ago when I was inaugurated and 
 when I set out upon this path which I have followed with 
 more or less lack of success and disappointment now nearly 
 half a score of years. In some respects your job isn't 
 like mine. We haven't any affiliated college. I am rather 
 glad of it. I am distinctly glad! For personally I have 
 always been immensely afraid of that section of the human 
 race which is represented up there in the gallery. I have 
 thought perhaps I never had enough experience, having 
 fortunately met the very best and most perfect of her sex 
 in about the first girl that I ever saw. She took me in 
 charge and has kept me carefully secluded ever since. So, 
 President Powell, as to that side of your duties I can only 
 say Heaven help you! I can't. 
 
 I don't suppose I can help you anyhow. I can mention 
 two or three things that are worth thinking of. Nine 
 years ago I was inaugurated president of a small college 
 very much like Hobart, with very much the same problems ; 
 and for about fifteen minutes I was the youngest college 
 president in New England, where there are twenty-two 
 
Installation of the President 71 
 
 collegiate institutions, I believe. In fifteen minutes I had 
 a junior. That was nine years ago. I was the youngest 
 of them all — of the whole twenty-two — and now I have 
 only four seniors in New England. This ought to be a 
 good problem for a Professor of Mathematics : if you can 
 do up seventeen college presidents in nine years, how long 
 will it take to do the other five? 
 
 I don't know whether I should mention this to you, 
 President Powell: You are going to have considerable 
 of a time. Let me mention one man that is sure to come 
 to you. He will come into your office and will begin his 
 remarks by this: "When I was in college," and he will 
 tell you how much better things were then. Now, Presi- 
 dent Powell, they weren't. I was in that gang myself. 
 I know what sort of students they had forty years ago in 
 college. I know what sort of men these fathers of your 
 undergraduates were — and presumably still are; and I 
 want to tell you the college boy of 19 13 is a better fellow, 
 a cleaner fellow, a straighter fellow than his father, and 
 the boy of 19 13 gets educationally more than the under- 
 graduate of forty years ago did. This man comes to you, 
 President Powell, and says, "Now when I was in college 
 we had such and such things. We had to do everything in 
 the catalogue. They turned out men in those days." 
 And you ask him, "How do you prove they were so much 
 better then"? And finally he will have to say, "Oh, I 
 was there myself; look at me!" Oh, no! College has 
 improved as the years have gone on, and men are better, 
 and students study better than they did forty years ago. 
 
 President Powell, I must not delay this audience nor 
 you. There are some great pleasures in your life, and the 
 greatest of them all, it seems to me, is the pleasure of 
 association with young life. So long as you shall devote 
 
72 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 your own services to this kind of work for the world you 
 will have the pleasures of association with young life; 
 and as the years go by, there will come to you, again and 
 again, the sweetest thing that ever can come to teacher or 
 professor or president, the confession from some man 
 younger than yourself that something that you said or 
 did helped him; a statement from some one of your 
 former pupils that you have been of service to him — 
 helped him. That is the thing that comes to the life of the 
 old teacher — the life of the man that has spent his whole 
 life in college or school work, or a large part of it — that 
 comes out of the past. And it makes less difference 
 whether you increase your endowment as much as you 
 want to — you won't get all you want ; whether you put up 
 all of the buildings that you wish — and you won't put up 
 quite as many as you would like ; and whether you increase 
 your attendance so your catalogue is as thick as you want 
 it — and it won't be quite as thick as you would like to have 
 it — when you succeed along all those lines, my dear friend, 
 in those years that are close at hand and in which I have 
 only nine steps in advance in our march towards whatever 
 happens to us next — when you have all this success in 
 buildings and endowments and students and equipment 
 that you are praying for — or as near all the whole of it 
 as is good for man to have — may you have this other 
 thing — this consciousness, this confession from old pupils 
 that you have done something for them. And when the 
 years thicken about you and you sit in a rocking chair in 
 the sunshine thinking of the days that are gone, excused 
 from further work for the world, it will be a pleasant thing 
 to see this long procession of strong-limbed, stalwart youth 
 — always young to you — marching past your seat and 
 saluting you as you sit waiting for death, their leader, 
 
Installation of the President 73 
 
 their teacher, their friend. That is joy, sir, and it is joy 
 no man taketh from you ! 
 
 Mr. Prince : It is not only from the east that we have 
 friends: we have them from the north and from the 
 south and from the west as well. And eliminating myself, 
 as I conceive it to be my duty now to do for the rest of the 
 afternoon, I beg leave to call upon President Thwing of 
 Western Reserve to say to us a few words. 
 
 ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT THWING 
 Mr. President : We are all happy in the oneness of this 
 occasion. All of us who chance to be present are living 
 primarily for these boys and for these girls. And while we 
 rejoice in this hour, in its significance and prophesies, we 
 also know that it is for you girls and you boys, primarily, 
 that the college exists, therefore, I do want to say a 
 word to you, for this occasion means the most to you. 
 
 Some phrases used in the formulas for conferring degrees 
 were most happily chosen. In one formula, addressed to 
 a very dear friend of mine, was used the phrase "extensive 
 and accurate knowledge." Most happy and exact 
 phrase ! To know much is important; but accurate 
 knowledge is more important. Accurate knowledge! 
 The great bane of intellectual interpretation and under- 
 standing is slovenliness. The primary need is to see 
 exactly what there is to be seen and to express what one 
 sees exactly. I want to say to you girls and you boys, be 
 accurate! Accurate in your scholarship. A man went 
 to a great master and he said, "Master, what motto will 
 you give me? I am going to leave Oxford now." And 
 the great master said, "Verify your references." Be 
 accurate, careful! 
 
74 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 On this day also another formula bears evidence of a 
 primary thing in the college, and that is friendship. 
 When John Finley was called the minister or the priest at 
 the altar of friendship — also a phrase most happily chosen 
 — Professor Turk interpreted a chief aim of the college. 
 We remember our college friendships, — dearest of all 
 friendships outside of the hearthstone. Knit yourselves 
 to each other with love in these four years, and the love 
 will live beyond the portal academic. 
 
 But further I want to say, you girls and you boys in 
 the college are to cultivate a sense of wit and humor. I 
 get any quantity of fun out of my students, and they get 
 more out of me, I presume. I am sure, you, Mr. President, 
 and you girls and you boys will work together in having a 
 mighty good time. Mrs. Humphrey Ward in the life of 
 her father, who also bore the name of his father, Thomas 
 Arnold, tells that her father once knew of a tutor at 
 Oxford who put this question upon a paper: "What 
 became of the locusts of Pharaoh's plague?" And he got 
 this answer: "John the Baptist ate them." I want you 
 girls and you boys to cultivate wit and fun and humor 
 with this great and beloved President. 
 
 Thenext two speakers were Marion L. Burton, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., 
 Preside?: t of Smith College, and Joseph French Johnson, D.C.S., Dean 
 of the School of Commerce of New York University, from whose Depart- 
 ment President Powell was called to Hobart and William Smith. Both 
 spoke in a very intimate and affectionate way of their relationship with 
 President Powell and their high regard for his accomplishments and 
 abilities. A t the special request of the President and the subsequent 
 consent of the speakers, the detailed account of their addresses is omitted. 
 
 Mr. Prince : When Dean Johnson spoke of the difficul- 
 ties that faced the trustees and of the interviews that we 
 had, I realized what one of my colleagues had had upon 
 his shoulders, and I wish to say now that the committee 
 
Installation of the President 75 
 
 that had in charge the selection of a President have re- 
 garded all of this gathering as in a certain way, and 
 entirely unconsciously on your part, a tribute, in a way, 
 to themselves. We have worked hard and we think we 
 have worked well. The product of our work is before you. 
 Si monumentum requiris, ads pice! 
 
 I think it is fitting that we should deny ourselves the 
 privilege of hearing from many of the others from whom we 
 should wish to hear lest we find ourselves in the predica- 
 ment or situation which the Kentucky mountaineer 
 described. He had been in the habit of going out to water 
 the stock in the late afternoon, and having a feud on with 
 his neighbors, the Hensleys, he found it very awkward. 
 He was peppered at from the hedge every time he went 
 out. And finally it annoyed him to the extent that 
 although his eyesight wasn't good, he resolved to take his 
 gun when he went to the stock field, and he did. And 
 there being a rustling in the hedge, he, as he said, sprayed 
 the hedge with what bullets were in his arms, and went on 
 with his stock. But after a while, becoming curious, he 
 walked over to the hedge, and said, in describing it, 
 "Why, son, when I got over there I found all those Hen- 
 sleys had gone but three." 
 
 Lest we find ourselves in the situation of having the 
 Hensleys go off until there are but three, I shall call upon 
 one more speaker whom we are all glad to listen to and 
 who will especially represent both the Church and the 
 Alumni of Hobart College. I call on the Reverend G. A. 
 Carstensen, Ph.D. 
 
 ADDRESS BY DR. CARSTENSEN 
 I really thought I was safe, although I did hope that 
 someone might have the opportunity to say a word of 
 welcome in behalf of the alumni to President Powell. 
 
76 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 We feel very proud of ourselves as alumni of Hobart. 
 You heard Dr. Williams speak of the number — the small 
 number relatively of college graduates in this country and 
 the inverse proportion of their influence. We, of that one 
 per cent, of Hobart College are a very small number, so 
 that our illustrious character is in equal ratio to the 
 inverse character of the representation of college men 
 generally in the world or in the United States. I mean by 
 that, that if college men generally carry such an influence 
 and they are so few, Hobart men, because they are among 
 the fewest, are the best men in that few. 
 
 We see a great contrast today between the awkward- 
 ness, of which most Hobart alumni are evolutions, and the 
 comeliness which William Smith is hereafter to develop. 
 When we were here we all belonged to the awkward gang, 
 of which you find illustrations up there. It is a great 
 thing to think and to believe what is going to happen when 
 that awkwardness is going to be tempered by the comeli- 
 ness of the coterie at the right. And so, if I may quote 
 the Good Book in another sense from what it has been, 
 we are setting our affection on things above. William 
 Smith is only — not quite seven years old. Something was 
 said about Rachel and Leah. Jacob served seven years 
 for Rachel, did he not? And it seemed but a short time 
 for the love he bore her; and so seven years seem short 
 for the love that Hobart bears to William Smith. 
 
 And now, Mr. President, I just want to say one word 
 more from the alumni. There are great colleges founded 
 in this country by prayer; William and Mary was so 
 founded: Harvard was so founded: So was Williams. 
 Some colleges have been founded with money. One 
 is in Ithaca : the president of another is here today. 
 Leland Stanford of the far west is another. The 
 
Installation of the President 77 
 
 time was when colleges could be founded pretty 
 well on prayer; and then the time came when peo- 
 ple thought that colleges could be founded and fur- 
 nished on money. Hobart was one that was founded on 
 prayer and we all thought sometimes that the law of the 
 survival of the fittest was going to mean the extinction of 
 Hobart when money spread the great campus of Cornell 
 within almost a stone's throw of beautiful Hobart. But 
 now they are beginning to discover in Cornell and have 
 discovered in Chicago and will discover it at Leland 
 Stanford, that no matter how much money you have 
 you can't get along without prayer, and we are beginning 
 to find out that while we cannot get along without prayer 
 at Hobart the question is, how long are we going to get 
 along without money? Hobart, Hamilton, Rochester, 
 they all need it! Hamilton and Rochester are getting it. 
 Hobart must get it too. 
 
 I want to express one word of adverse criticism to the 
 new president already. He says we are going to make 
 Hobart the greatest small college in the country. We are 
 not going to do anything of the kind. It is the greatest 
 small college in the country already and our task is to let 
 people know it. Some colleges may be greater in other 
 things, but I tell you one thing we have got at Hobart: 
 we have got the best record with the smallest means of 
 any college in this country. We have a college that has 
 come nearest of all to making bricks without straw. We 
 have got the greatest Dean of any college great or small. 
 Without a president he administers the college and he gets 
 the largest Freshman class for years to welcome the incom- 
 ing president. He is the most universally loved man I 
 know. 
 
78 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 And another best thing that we have, the best astrono- 
 omer of any small college in the country. Hamilton used 
 to have that, but Smith Observatory, and Brooks and his 
 comets are now in the van. 
 
 I am glad to say that we of the alumni welcome the new 
 president, and we are going to do all that we can to make 
 him feel that he has at his back a good, loyal-hearted band 
 of earnest supporters, as he already has. So, in behalf of 
 the alumni, President Powell, we bid you welcome. We 
 bid you Godspeed. And I would like to have for a toast : 
 
 Hobart, vivat et floreat. 
 
 President Powell, vivat et supersedeat. 
 
 Mr. Prince: Again, my friends, I wish to express on 
 behalf of the college our great pleasure at having had you 
 with us and our deep appreciation of the good-will that 
 is evidenced by your having come here and extended to 
 us on this occasion the right hand of fellowship and 
 the evidence of friendship. 
 
 And now I ask you please to rise while the benediction 
 is pronounced by the Right Reverend Ethelbert Talbot. 
 
 (Bishop Talbot) : The blessing of God Almighty, 
 the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost be amongst you and 
 remain with you alway. Amen. 
 
 Directly following the luncheon President and Mrs. Powell were at 
 home at Miller House and in the evening the President's House was the 
 scene of a reception to the delegates and guests. 
 
DELEGATES 
 
 Harvard University 
 
 John Downer Pennock, A.B., Alumnus, Syracuse, N. Y. 
 Yale University 
 
 Chalfant Robinson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History. 
 University of Pennsylvania 
 
 Charles Harrison Frazier, A.B., M.D., Dean of the Medical 
 School and Professor of Clinical Surgery. 
 Princeton University 
 
 Reverend George Black Stewart, D.D., S.T.D., LL.D., Trustee, 
 President of Auburn Theological Seminary. 
 Columbia University 
 
 Talcott Williams, L.H.D., LL.D., Dean of the School of Journal- 
 ism. 
 William Witherle Lawrence, Ph.D., Associate Professor of 
 English. 
 Brown University 
 
 Wilfred Harold Munro, L.H.D., Emeritus Professor of European 
 
 History. 
 Lida Shaw King, Litt.D., LL.D., Dean of the Women's College 
 and Professor of Ancient Archaeology and Literature. 
 Rutgers College 
 
 Walter Taylor Marvin, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy. 
 Dartmouth College 
 
 Norman Everett Gilbert, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics. 
 United Chapters of the Phi Beta Kappa Society 
 
 Clark Sutherland Northup, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of 
 English, Cornell University, Senator of the Phi Beta Kappa 
 Society. 
 Dickinson College 
 
 William Lambert Gooding, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and 
 Education. 
 University of Pittsburgh 
 
 Samuel Black McCormick, D.D., LL.D., Chancellor. 
 St. John's College 
 
 Marcus Benjamin, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., Honorary Alumnus, 
 Washington, D. C 
 
80 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 University of Vermont 
 
 Guy Potter Benton, D.D., LL.D., President. 
 Williams College 
 
 Henry Daniel Wild, A.M., Massachusetts Professor of the Latin 
 Language and Literature and Chairman pro tempore of the 
 Faculty. 
 Bowdoin College 
 
 Kenneth C. M. Sills, A.M., Dean of the College and Winkley 
 Professor of the Latin Language and Literature. 
 Union College 
 
 Charles Alexander Richmond, D.D., L.L.D., President 
 Hamilton College 
 
 M. Woolsey Stryker, D.D., L.L.D., President. 
 Princeton Theological Seminary 
 
 Reverend Guy Louis Morrill, A.M., Alumnus, Canandaigua, 
 N. Y. 
 Allegheny College 
 
 Guy Everett Snaveley, Ph.D., Professor of the Romance Lan- 
 guages and Registrar. 
 General Theological Seminary 
 
 Reverend Arthur Prince Hunt, A.M., B.D., Professor of Chris- 
 tian Ethics. 
 Reverend Francis Branch Blodgett, A.B., B.D., Professor of 
 Old Testament and Apocalyptic Literature. 
 New York State Library 
 
 James Ingersoll Wyer, Jr., B.L.S., M.L.S., Director. 
 Auburn Theological Seminary 
 
 Reverend Arthur Stephen Hoyt, D.D., Professor of Homiletics 
 and Sociology. 
 Colgate University 
 
 Elmer Burritt Bryan, LL.D., President. 
 University of Virginia 
 
 Frank H. Dunnington, Alumnus, A.B., B.S., Niagara Falls, 
 Ontario. 
 Amherst College 
 
 Burges Johnson, A.B., Alumnus, New York City. 
 Trinity College 
 
 Flavel Sweeten Luther, Ph.D., LL.D., President. 
 
Installation of the President 8i 
 
 Kenyon College 
 
 Lloyd A. Grigsby, A.B., Alumnus, St. John's Military Academy, 
 Manlius, N. Y. 
 Western Reserve University 
 
 Charles Franklin Thwing, D.D., LL.D., President. 
 Randolph-Macon Woman's College 
 
 Dorothea Clara Morse, A.B., Alumna, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 New York University 
 
 Joseph French Johnson, D.C.S., Dean of the School of Com- 
 merce. 
 
 Frank Andrews Fall. A.M., Bursar. 
 Wesleyan University 
 
 William Arnold Shanklin, L.H.D., President. 
 Haverford College 
 
 Isaac Sharpless, Sc.D., L.H.D., LL.D., President. 
 Hartford Theological Seminary 
 
 Reverend Claude G. Beardslee, B.D., Alumnus, Hartford, Conn. 
 Union Theological Seminary 
 
 Reverend Francis Brown, D.D., Litt.D., LL.D., President. 
 University of Michigan 
 
 Warren Plimpton Lombard, M.D., Sc.D., Professor of Physiology. 
 Mount Holyoke College 
 
 Harriet Manning Blake, Ph.D., Instructor in English Literature. 
 Queens University, Kingston, Ontario 
 
 William L. Goodwin, Sc.D., Dean of the Faculty of Science. 
 Ohio Wesleyan University 
 
 Robert Irving Fulton, A.M., Dean of the School of Oratory. 
 College of the City of New York 
 
 Herbert Raymond Moody, Ph.D., Associate Professor of 
 Chemistry. 
 University of Wisconsin 
 
 Edward Asahel Birge, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., Dean of the College 
 of Letters and Science. 
 Phi Delta Theta Fraternity 
 
 A. J. Parker, Cornell University. 
 University of Rochester 
 
 Rush Rhees, D.D., LL.D., President. 
 
 Arthur Sullivan Gale, Ph.D., Fayerweather Professor of 
 Mathematics. 
 
 Andrew J. Merrill, A.M., Superintendent of Schools, Geneva. 
 
82 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 Berkeley Divinity School 
 
 Reverend Anthon Temple Gesner, A.M., Mutter Professor of 
 Ethics and Evidences. 
 Elmira College 
 
 Alexander Cameron MacKenzie, D.D., LL.D., President. 
 Michigan Agricultural College 
 
 Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick, Sc.D., Alumnus, Horticulturist, New 
 York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva. 
 Alfred University 
 
 Boothe Colwell Davis, Ph.D., D.D., President. 
 St. Lawrence University 
 
 Almon Gunnison, D.D., President. 
 Lake Erie College 
 
 Vivian Blanche Small, Litt.D., LL.D., President. 
 St. Stephen's College 
 
 Reverend William Cunningham Rodger s, D.D., President. 
 Vassar College 
 
 Mrs. Charles Franklin Thwing, A.B., Alumna, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
 
 John F. Ancona, Alumnus, B.S., Secretary of Rochester Tech- 
 nology Club, Rochester, N. Y. 
 DeLancey Divinity School 
 
 Reverend Thomas Benjamin Berry, A.M., Warden. 
 Philadelphia Divinity School 
 
 Reverend William Mansfield Groton, S.T.D., Dean. 
 National Academy of Sciences 
 
 Edward Leamington Nichols, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., Professor of 
 Physics, Cornell University. 
 Cornell University 
 
 Thomas Frederick Crane, Ph.D., Litt.D., Sometime Acting 
 President. 
 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 
 
 Erastus Hopkins, A.M., Sc.M., Alumnus, Geneva. 
 Drew Theological Seminary 
 
 Professor Ismar J. Peritz, Alumnus, Professor of Semitic 
 Languages and Literature, Syracuse University. 
 Lehigh University 
 
 Right Reverend Ethelbert Talbot, D.D., LL.D., Trustee, 
 Bishop of Bethlehem. 
 
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 University of Illinois 
 
 Edmund Janes James, Ph.D., LL.D., President. 
 Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 Reverend Maxmilian Lindsay Kellner, S.T.D., Professor of 
 Literature and Interpretation of the Old Testament. 
 Wells College 
 
 Kerr Duncan Macmillan, A.B., B.D., President. 
 
 Mrs. Max Piutti, A.B., Dean. 
 University of Minnesota 
 
 George M. B. Hawley, LL.M., Alumnus, Geneva. 
 Ursinus College 
 
 Reverend Nevin Daniel Bartholomew, A.B., Alumnus, Penn 
 Yan, N. Y. 
 Wilson College 
 
 Mrs. Seward Baldwin, A.B., Alumna, Waverly, N. Y. 
 Wellesley College 
 
 Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A.M., LL.B., Professor of History. 
 Syracuse University 
 
 James Roscoe Day, S.T.D., D.C.L., LL.D., President. 
 Ohio State University 
 
 Joseph Alexander Leigh ton, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Philoso- 
 phy. 
 Smith College 
 
 Marion LeRoy Burton, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D., President. 
 Johns Hopkins University 
 
 John Martin Vincent, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of European 
 History. 
 Case School of Applied Science 
 
 Charles Sumner Howe, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., President. 
 New York Agricultural Experiment Station 
 
 Frank H. Hall, B.S., Vice- Director. 
 Association of Collegiate Alumnae 
 
 Vida Hunt Francis, A.B., Secretary. 
 Bryn Mawr College 
 
 Marion Reilly, A.B., Dean. 
 Goucher College 
 
 Joseph S. Shefloe, Ph. D., Professor of Romanic Languages. 
 
84 Hobart College and William Smith College 
 
 Clark University 
 
 W. Fowler Bucke, Ph.D., Alumnus, Geneseo State Normal 
 School. 
 University of Chicago 
 
 Harry Pratt Judson, LL.D., President. 
 Keuka College 
 
 Joseph Archibald Serena, A.B., President. 
 Clark College 
 
 Radoslav Andre Tsanoff, Ph.D., Instructor in Philosophy. 
 
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 Entered October 28, 1902, at Geneva, N. Y., as second- 
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 of July 16, 1894