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UNVERSITY HEALL
JUNE 24, 1896
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PROGRAMME
CHORUS TRIUMPHALIS.
March-Fantasia with Chorus. &
Professor A. A. Stanley.
PRAYER. Rev. J. M. Gelston, Class of 1869.
ADDRESS ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS.
Hon. W. J. Cocker, Class of 1869.
ADDRESS OF THE UNIVERSITY SENATE.
Presented by the Chairman of the Senate Committee,
Professor Martin L. D'Ooge, Class of 1862.
RESOLUTIONS OF THE STATE TEACHERs' Association.
Presented by Professor F. A. Barbour, Class of 1878,
of the State Normal School.
RESPONSE OF PRESIDENT ANGELL.
COMMEMORATIVE ODE.
Written by Professor Charles M. Gayley, Class of 1878,
of the University of California.
Music Composed by Professor Stanley.
GREETINGS FROM BROWN AND PRINCETON Universities.
Rev. James O. Murray, D.D., LL.D.,
dº - Dean of Princeton University.
GREETINGs FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Justin Winsor, LL.D., Librarian of Harvard University.
GREETINGS FROM YALE UNIVERSITY.
Professor John E. Clark, Class of 1856,
of the Sheffield Scientific School.
GREETINGS FROM THE STATE UNIVERSITIES,
President A. S. Draper, of the University of Illinois.
GREETINGs FROM THE NATIONAL BUREAU of EDUCATION.
Dr. W. T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of Education.
CHORUs. “The Strain Upraise.”
Professor Stanley and Members of the Choral Union.
ODE*
I
O State enthroned beside the triple sea,
Embraced, embattled by his ageless arms,
Accept our homage, and this strain that we
With hearts attuned, in all humility,
As prelude to § seemlier praises offer thee,_
And grant us grace to know thy glory, sing thy sovereign charms!
II
By forests towering absolute,
By regions subterranean, mute,
Where treasures sleep and shades obtain
Thy rivers haste; by cedared bend, and lane
Where sumachs hold their crimson reign,
Through openings where maples shoot,
By flock and herd and laboring wain,
Through orchards bourgeoning for fruit
hey wind amain, -
ºft reaches yellowing to grain
And village, field, and furrowed plain,
Till leaping, singing,
They win at last some harbor of the sea—
Where ships at anchor swinging,
And thousand belfries ringing,
[And court and market, render ceaselessly
The service of themselves and all to thee.
Like stars that stud the firmament, O State,
Thy glories, but not these thou bidst us celebrate.]
III
O State enthroned beside the triple sea,
Not all thy borders’ rich emblazonry,
Nor wealth, nor freedom most sºles thee,_
But thy Fairest—at whose knee
We learn that heavenly learning is nobility.
IV
O Fair–
Mother of Learning and immortal youth,
§ children call thee blessed, know thee wise,
hose smile is beauty, and whose eyes
Benignant with the light of love and truth
Enkindle hearts of men to high emprise.
They call thee blessed,—yea, revere thee, most
Because thou teachest, uttering not the boast,
That with thy sons it lies
To mould the ages, make them less uncouth—
To point the people to the life above
To tread the path of duty in the freedom that is love.
V
O Fair
In peace, in peril beautiful,-
They found thee fairest whom thou gavest dutiful
To Country and the Name;
Thy best and dearest who laid down
The crown of myrtle for the crown
Of sacrifice and sword and flame
And Life that palters not with fate or fortune, fear or fame.
The State

The University
*Parts bracketed will be omitted in the singing.
- VI
Unsure the thread of Fate,
Uncertain Fortune's wheel,-
- Thine the presence ever-living,
Thine the inspiration giving
The courage of the Destiny thou dost reveal!
Unsure the thread of Fate,
Uncertain Fortune’s wheel,- -
But thy dwelling, gracious Mother—but thy Temple of the Sta
Enshrines the Lamp, the living Fire,
The Book of life and art and soul’s desire,
Ensures the Commonweal—
And quickens unto service the souls whom thou dost seal.
The President VII
Few the souls afire with ardor of the living fire itself,
Few the lives that stake no portion of eternity for pelf,
Few the hearts that petty impulse, gusts of passion do not move,
Few the men that walk the narrow way of wisdom that is love.
Who would serve thee, sacred Mother, and preserve thee to the State,
Chiefest of thy servants, must be great;
Great in goodness, great in counsel, resolute and moderate,
Serving not the time nor temper, moulding men for God and State,
[Fit himself to speak the nation's voice to nations and to arbitrate;
In the larger, never hasting purpose,
Undisturbed -
In the faith that Right will blossom, and the times uncouth amend,
And the vulgar babble languish, and the vain desire be curbed.
If thy fortunes so are guided, have a statesman for their friend,
Thy years descend!
VIII
[. steady, radiant ready, seeing far and seeing right,
ire-like glowing, cheer bestowing, generous of heart and Jight—
This the statesman-scholar whom we honor in his own despite!
Not his burning thoughts nor golden
Eloquence alone embolden
Us to heights with glory smit,
But his bright example holden
In the heart, unconscious, golden,
Life on lives of others writ— -
Life that tells of longer life within, around, above, &
Life that treads the path of duty in the freedom that is love,
Life that knows the worth of life and shows the wealth of it.]
Vain the praises that we give him,
Vain, unworthy to outlive him,
For he recks of praises nothing, counts them neither fair nor fit:
He who bears his honors lightly
And whose age renews its zest—
Lo, the maple, snowed upon, is sightly,
And its sap runs best.
IX *
Honor to him, peace unto him, pointing us the way above,
Love unto him, long life to him, whom no love of life can move!
[Hardly shall we find another
hen he ceases,<-
May God grant thee such another
Counsellor, O Reverend Mother,
When he ceases,-
Grant us grieving one such other
. . . President and friend and brother]
Ripe in wisdom, just in judgment—whom the years revolving prove—
Leading us the way of duty in the freedom that is love.
May 24, 1896. CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY
we muse raise, ºniºus
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