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UILLSBORO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 189:
Vol. XXIII.
No. 20.
GENERAL DIUFTOltY.
HTATK OFFICERS.
OoTornor ... f & .
Keorelary of btate ...Harrlaou K. Kincaid
Treaa.ir.-r Hvllip Mateeban
Hunt. Public Initrnotion . M. ir
Htata I'ruiWr
.W. H. Leede
... ' Chl- E Wolrerton
Hopreoie Conrt . '. HHn
r I F. A. Moore
- . . . . ,a a .1 - U .
Firth Iliutrint
T. A. MoBride
Attorney if lb Uiatriot . . .
W. N. barretl
COUNT OFFICERS.
Jode
Comuiiaaionera j ,
Clark
Hlierin'
Ifocoriter
Treaanr. r
Hoiiuol huneriiiienileut
surveyor
Coroner....
....B. Y. Cornelia
. . 1). b. K"aaoner
T. U. Todd
K. H. (loodin
11. 1. Ford
. . K. I.. Mi-C'oriniok
. . J. W. isaiipiiiwton
.OeorK 11. W i loo I
W. A. Knud
I,. K. Wilkee
VV. D. Wood
CITY OFFICKUS.
I ...8. U. Hnaton, Mayor
f. mown
jo. Downs
.F. i. Hailey
i. H. Burnley
1. K. Benrt
J. Y. Taruieeie
1). W. Dobbiua
. .. U. W. Fatteraou
W. Redmond
J. 1. KuiUt
Hoard of Trnateea
Ht.ixrtUr
'I rHK'ttiit.r
Mitralial.... -.
JiiHtllMt of I'UHOO
POST OFFICK INFORM VITON.
Iba n.ails cIiiho at tbe llillaboro Foat
OlMi.i.Mi, Wat I'uion. lb-tbany and Cedar
Mill, hi 11:31 a. iu.
(lolim South, H:t m.
Uoiiw - I'orlUud dud way-ofBoea, :! a.
til. mill 4 ii. w.
For FitrniiiiKtou and Laurel. Wedueedaya
nd Hiiliirduya ut 10:1101.. in.
OKKUON 01TV LAND OFFICE.
KolM.rt A. Milliir
I'eter I'aipiet....
. . . Itetfiater
. . . Iteoeiver
CllliltCIl ANI HtX'IETY NOTICKS.
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1HENIX I.OIHIK, NO. M, K. OF P..
1 went in Odd Fellow' Hull on Monday
eveniutf of each week. HojourniiiK bretlireu
",tt''Um,iO,"aiV.:UUOBM1NH,0.0.
W. J. Ptiaw, K. of It. A H.
I. l. o. '
MONTEZUMA LOPOK, NO. ISO. meete
Wednesday eveuinua at Ho'olook.ia l.O.
F. Hull. V mi tor umde woloonie.
J. I. KSlliHT, N.O.
I). M. 0. OiOi.T, (Wy.
A. F. autl A, M.
rpUAMTY I.OIH1K NO. 6, A. F. A A. M..
1 nieuta every Saturday uiKlit on or after
full mo in o( each mouth.
a. o. r. w.
TIIM.SIMMIO I.ODOK NO. 61, A. O. C.
J I W., meete every liret and tblrd
r,'uyew,i',,,,ih;iMAN.M.w.
J. I. Knioiit, Heoorder.
WAH1UNU I'ON ENCAM FMENT No. M,
I. O. O. F., uieeM on lint and
third Tu-diivii of eimb month.
It. H. OooinN, Monbe.
Itaiiichlem f Kcbekah.
nIM.HOUO ItEBEKAH LODOK NO.
M 1. O. O. V.. nieete in Odd Fellow'
ll eve K YiTa H?:HTM. N. O.
Mm. Nvai Kaijuty, heo'y.
1. of II.
HU.I.SIHMO UUANUK, NO. 7:1, meela
iud mid 4lb Hntnrdayeof each month.
Hknj. Houuriai.il, Master,
Anni lunula, rieo.
. P. ft. V. K.
MF.K i'S very Hundity evening at 7o'olook
in trie CbriHtmn olmroh. Yoo are
oordiallv iuntid to attend tt netmii.
MlNlli: 111 MI-11UEY8. IWt.
Ti'MSIIlNtn'ON tlOl'NTY KOI) AND
V Onn 'lul) nierU in Muran '""
very aewiud l liurwlay ol each month, at H
l. M.
II
ll,l.SIM)KO l,ODUE NO. 17, 1. O. O. T.
Hatnrdjiv eveiiinu. All ojourniim menilieM
inB,.Hl .ta.ulu.H ,r.,'u
the Imlne. JAM KS ADAMS, C. I.
W. II. (Urti.T. rWoB'tary.
N(M(E(lAITONli ClIl'HCH. corner
I J Mum and Fifth atreet.. Freaoliinn
every Sal.li ill., morninu and evening. Hnb,
bath" ..I k M o'.lk a. m. Pjaye'
m.H.fing l'linrml:iv eveuing. I. v. r..
hnndav at ':M p. in.
11 KST Chriafian Clnirili. K. Ii. Khelley.
,wl.,r. IWIine and Fifth. I'reaohmg
every Huu.lav at Ha. in. and 7:.M p. iu.
Hi...dvS.I,.K,l. 10 a. ui. l-raver n.eet.n
'rhnnd'iv.Hml p. in. Y. I'. . 0 Km Bun
day. 7ii p. ni.
"ai F CMl'Ki'll. H. H. VVelih. paator.
M .1 'reaH.inu every rtabl.nth niorn.nand
eveiimu. Snt.l.ath aohool every habbath at
r.T u l.i-elii.g ry y
:M p. M. (Joneral prayer , ";' 'r
lTinrliiy eveninu. Leaden and Steward
rlieetin j Ihe...d rnelay evening of each
itmiitb
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Yi F.fthandF.r. 1're.. h.ng every H, ,.
veiling i " ' ' "J .,"I,,r1,1h., .
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t e'te"er imelnig t-ver, Sunday ryeumg.
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I ; and third Sunday at 7 . aeoond
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. 21 ,i at III iv m. I'rayer meeting on
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TTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
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TTOUXEY-AT-LANV,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
.. v u.. i.na u.winoa Rank
ItOOal . U. O, .WB.inuH
Building, Heooud and Waabmgton htreeta.
w. a. anaaan.
BARRETT ADAMS,
lTOKNEYS-AT-LAW,
UILLSBORO, OREGON.
Orrici: Central Blook. Roomi 6 and 7.
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4 TTOUNKY-AT -LAW
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H I LL8BOUO, OREGON.
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UILLSBORO, OREGON.
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boi"?: foUr'T.r.AU work warranted.
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HILLS BOKO, OREGON.
wvi uii. rii
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attended to. night ". "Veeta.
(Vr. Ba Line and Second atreeta.
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an u,lu ' m
night or day.
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pilYSIClAN AND SUROEON,
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PHYSICIAN AND SUROEON,
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corner Firat and Mam atreeta.
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J)KNTIST,
HILLBHOKO. OREGON.
nn,iu ...a hhtDGE work a
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S Orroa Howaa: t rom H .
Dr. Price'f Cream Baking lewder
Awwkd OoM MJ Midwiaw F.ir. l-ruKtat.
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A TTORN KY-AT-LAW,
HU-I.-BORO. ORKOON.
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MARSH HALL!
NEW BUILDIXG DEDICATED
Addresses of T. H. Tongue
and H. W. Scott.
MIST OLD STTDESTS PRESEST.
Aa Epom In the History of Taclflc
lulreraltj.
An event that ahsorbed the
attention of the entire ltoiiula
tion more than any eoinuience
ment lias yet been able to do,
wan the dedication of Marsh Hall,
on September 27th, at Forest Grove.
The day was perfect and the people
of that school town were in a
flutter of excitement from early
morn.
The students, decorated with red
anil black ribbon, met the visitors at
the railway station and escorted
them to the college chiiiM-l, where, at
10 o'clock a. ni., they, with the town,
sat or stood, as the opportunity
ottered, while the literary exercises of
the dedication were delivered.
Iu this report a short chapter of
the history of Tualatin Academy
and Pacific University is introduced.
It is clipped from Geo. II. Himes'
report, published in the Oretfonian.
The historian, seakifij; of Marsh
Hall, which the ceremonies were to
dedicate, says:
"It marked the culmination of an
educational movement practically
begun iu 1840, when Rev. Harvey
Clark, of Chester, Vermont, started
fur Oregon to engage in mission
work, accompanied by his wife, a
graduate of Olierlln, Ohio. While
the idea of a school was iu his mind
at the beginning, it did not take
lefinitefurm until 18-15 when with the
assistance of Mrs. Tahitha Brown
'Grandma Brown' a small school
was established in a log cabin.
This was maintained for the most
part until 1848, when, on September
21 and 22, at Oregon City, a few
weeks after the arrival of Itev.
George H. Atkinson, who had re
ceived a suggestion from tho Ameri
can College & Education Hwiety to
plant an academy, in company Willi
others, it was resolved to found an
academy at this point, and Itev.
Harvey Clark, Hiram Clark, I. II.
Hatch, Kev. Ij. Thompson, W. II.
Gray, Alvan T. Smith, Itev. G. II.
Atkinson, Junes Mooru and O.
Kuscll were elected a Isiard of trus
tees. Itev. Harvey Clark was elected
president, Alvan T. Smith, treasurer,
ami Itev. G. II. Atkinson secretary,
which position he held for 40 years.
September 2!), Ix4!, tills received a
charter I'n.m tho territorial legisla
ture, and whs called Tualatin acad
emy, and a board of trustees elected,
Willi Itev. Harvey Clark president,
Hon. Alanson Hinman, one of the
original trustees and the only one
now living, is now president of the
board. Mr. Clark gave 200 acres of
Ills laud claim to shirt an endowment,
and after wanlri added 150 acres more
for the same purpose. Besides this,
lie assisted largely witli his own
means in securing material for the
original academy building, which is
still standing and in daily use.
Others notably Itev. Elkanah
Waiker and Itev. Cashing Mis
materially aided the enterprise by
valuable donations of land, and lr.
Atkinson gave much time to its
interest-!. In 1S52 he went East, via
the Isthmus, on behalf of the institu
tion, and induced Itev. Sidney
liar jut .Marsh to come out the fol
lowing year and assume the presi
dency of the embryo college. In
January, 154, a new charter was
grauted, and "Timlatin Academy
and I'm-ilie University," as it is now
known, w as created.
"For 2"i years President Marh de
voted the entire energies of his body
and mind to hisihoseu work, and
never ceasul his efforts until death
coucluili'd Ills labors, in 1579.
To his high scholarship, his great
foresight, his untiring energy, and
undaunted courage, is largely due
the high rank the institution has
always held. The adequate portrayal
of the self-saeritlcing and devoted
life of President Marsh in promoting
the object ol his life-work will make
as bright and honorable a page in the
history of American education as i-an
be written.
'UKin the foundation he was
chiefly instrumental in laying, his
successors carried on the work with
varitsl success until lslil, w hen Ifc'V.
Thomas .McClelland, 1. !., of Tabor,
Iowa, tavame president. He saw at
once that if the college was to main
tain its prestige, a forward move
ment was Imperative. To this he
bent hi fiirrgiea with con-uniinale
wisdom and rare shill, and results
have lam accomplished far lieyond
the exfss-tationsof the most sanguine.
Bvautiful and enduring as the new-
building is, w hich hits been erected
at fiit of t2,ik) in these times of
financial disturbance, and all paid
fur alone lasting ami most excel
lent monument to the energy and
capacity of Hr. McClelland It
does not make the college. That is
the mere husk which encloses the
kernel. The faculty and students
compose the college proper, with
advanced courses, largely eleetive
with picked men and women from
Oberlin, University ot Vermont,
Williams, Princeton, Beloit, Uni
versity of Michigan, Tabor, Weilesley
and Grinnel In th faculty, with the
largest number of students in its
career, with a loyal alumni, largely
occupplug honorable and important
positions in the different phases of
lite up and down this coast, and even
in other parts of this nation, also in
foreign lands, Pacific University
stands on foundations as lasting as
time, fid on the threshold of a
greatly enlarged sphere of usefulness
to tjie individual, to the state, to the
nation, thus beginning to assume
proportions commensurate with the
dreams and noble ideals of Its found
ers Clark, Atkinson and Marsh
than whom no more honorable
names will ever grace the pages of
Pacific coast history."
At the appointed hour the spacious
chapel was packed. Dr. McClelland
called to order. While a hush was
settling on the audience, the choir
sang. Pastor Itogers, of Forest Grove
Congregational church, Invoked the
divine blessing ujmhi the exercises
an J the school.
MAYOR HUGHES' ADDRESS.
Mayor Hughes, on behalf of the
city In welcoming the visitors said:
"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle
men; It Is a source of great personal
gratification to have the honor, on
behalf of the people of Forst Grove
and the faculty and trustees of Tuala
tin Academy and Pacific University,
of extending to all visitors a hearty
welcome to Forest Grove on the
preseut occasion.
"The construction of Marsh memo
rial hall, under existing circumstances
and conditions, is a matter worthy of
pecial note and congratulation. It
is a well-known fact that the country
is passing through one of the greatest
financial depressions known in the
history of the entire nation, affecting
adversely every section, industry and
interest of the entire country. The
completion of an improvement of this
kind, under the circumstances, evi-
deii'vs the pluck, energy and perse
verance f those having the work in
hand, and may lie regarded as an
itxlex to subsequent actions on the
mrt of those Intrusted with the great
work or which this Is simply a
beginning.
'It is entirely unnecessary, on my
part, to say anything In reference to
the past history of the Institution or
its work. This Is well known through
its alumni and students, who are
located throughout the great North
west, and occupy high and honorable
positions in every department of life,
and furnish ample evidence of the
thorough character of the work of the
institution in all its various depart
ments.
The dedication of this building
nirirks an epoch in the history of
Forest Grove, whose interests are
identical with and inseparable from
those of the Institution. And, while
the board of trustees and faculty have
pushed their work with such marked
energy and success, the people in the
city have not been idle spectators,
but have been advancing on a steady
and progressive step, unaffected by
the Influence of any boom or undue
excitement whatever. The improve
ments within the last two years have
been marked, and are the subjects of
many congratulations. Quite a
number of fine residence buildings
have been erected. Some very cred
itable business blocks have lieen
added to the business portion of the
city. The public streets have been
greatly Improved and new sidewalks
placed in siion. We have in
operation an electric-light plant,
second to none In the slate, with
sufficient capacity to meet all the
requirements ot the city for a num
ber of years. Also a local telephone
system, connecting many residences,
and those w 1th nearly every business
house in the city, also connecting
with the town of Greenville on the
north and Gales City, Wilson Kivcr,
Tillamook and Buy City on the west.
'We have also determined, by
vote of the people, on the construc
tion of a water plant of sulllcient
capacity to supply the city with good
and wholesome water for Isith public
and private use, and for lietter pro
tection against fire.
'When all the contemplated im
provements are complete, and our
population augmented by that class
of nple who always cluster around
institution of (earing, we hope to lie
able to Utwst of one of the mot
lieautiful, healthful and desirable
residence cities in the great North
west. "And now, thanking you for the
lt$Diior of your presence, I again ex
tend to you the freedom of our city."
MR. iHOTT'h RKmPOMsE.
At the conclusion of the applause,
chairmen MeClellan Introduced Hun
II. W. Scott, editor and half owner of
the Oregonian, who, a the fir-t
graduate of the college, was to respond
to Mayor Hughes' welcome. Mr.
Scott is a familiar figure to all citi
zens of Forest Grove except the very
recent ones. and the welcome be re
ceived was most flattering. He said:
" 'Tls SO years, or nearly, since the
effort began to build here a seat of
learning, devoted to the highest and
best purposes of education, accomo
dated to the needs of our ow n time,
and consecrated to an idea of the
wants of coming ages. Such a plant is
necessarily of slow grow th. It cannot
be created at once; It must be founded
in its own work, must grow In the
soil It finds In the character of the
community or state, assimilated unto
its surroundings, and assimilating to
itself all that it finds in the life or the
people, that can be wrought Into
its own being. Otherwise, it Is but
au alien to the soil.
"This sort of growth Pacific Uni
versity has. With the growth of the
state, it ha laid deeper and deeper
the foundations of its own work.
Nothing has been done In a fitful or
showy way. Solidity is the basis of
Its character. It has grown, as Hor
ace says of the fame of a great though
unpretentious man of his own coun
try, like a strong and mighty tree
through the silent lapse of years.
Nor has It grown merely In outward
flourish or display. It has grown in
character and spirit, and inward
strength, in the retinluig and elevat
ing influences which it has exerted,
and which in their turn have reacted
upon itself; In the general character
of its work and (may we say it?) in
the work done by the men and
women whom it ha sent forth to the
world. It has not affected greatness
in its buildings; and has been a long
time getting those good structures
with which it is now at last provided;
but it long sinoe built name and rep
utation and character, to which it has
constantly added. Here I may illus
trate by quotation from an author of
keenest spiritual insight, the greatest
of moral writers:
For nature, ereacent. doea not grow alone
In tliews and bulk; but aa tun Win lie
wal a.
The in anl aervlce of tba mind and aoul
tirowt wide withal ,
"Such Is the school at whose mem
orial exercises we apjiear today.
This is Marsh memorial day. We
utter a reverend name. It was a
courageous undertaking for a young
man to come Into a remote and
sparsely populated country to build
an institution of higher learning. It
was lr. Atkinson, our missionary
pioneer of blessed memory, who di
rected tho attention of Sidney II.
Marsh to Oregon. Here at Forest
Grove already was an academy, the
best -known school of Oregon. It
owed its existence chiefly to Rev
Itarvey Clark, another of those great
spirits who do good for the world
without thought for themselves. His
donation land claim was largely
given up for the purposes of the
school. We, the older alumni, well
rememlter the benignity of his coun
tenance, his noble self-forget fulness,
his words of kindness and encourage.
ment, his assistance and advice in
our studies, his benefactions to all
about him, in a thousand ways. The
academy had an excellent name, It
Was successful and prosperous; but
the field for higher work was yet
small, and Mr. Marsh entered it
alone. In himself ho was the faculty
of the university, the president and
the occupant of the chairs of all the
professors. Iater, Professor Lyman,
who might almost be called the spir
itual and intellectual father of many
of us, came to his aid; but amid the
discouragements of the time there
were but few students who could un
dertake and pursue regular courses
so necessary was time for manual la
bor to provide for the needs of the
passing day. Most, therefore, drop
ped out or shortened the course. The
difficulties, indeed, were great, but
the courage and constancy of Dr.
Marsh never forsook him. While at
work in Oregon he was incessantly
at work also among hia friends In the
East, to get help and add to the en
dowment; and the result of these la
bors is the basis on which the Pacific
University stands to-day. No ad
versity could daunt hi spirit. His
health, never firm, at last grew deli
cate, but he worked with an unceas
ing devotion, construing for his stu
dents passages In Thucrdides and
Horace, reducing mathematical dif
ferentials, milking his cows, lectur
ing on metaphysics or preaching
from various pulpits, all with an un
tiring ardor. Those who were near
him remember how at last, through
the disease that pursued him, his
voice sank to a whisper and his
breath grew short, yet he bated not
one jot of heart or hope, but premed
right onward. But a few days be
fore his death, he was in Portland on
business kfor the university, and re.
plied to one who remonstrated with
him that there was all the more need
for him to be alert in his work, for
his time was short. Happy are we
to be able to say that, though he
rests from his laliors, his works do
follow hinat
"The past, as associated with his
name, is a sacred memory; it makes
the present a duty, the future an
inspiration.
"Here I wish to say a word about
our home institutions of learning.
They must always lie the resource of
the greater number of our youth. A
few universities or colleges in the
great centers of population will not
suffice. The centralization of educa
tion cannot produce the highes civili
zation in a republic. We want these
home colleges, and must sustain
them for a double reason. Only a
few persons can a fiord to go to the
distaut universities, and we cannot
allow ourselves to disregard the influ
ence of the local college Ukju our
home environment. Besides, 1 fully
believe that, as a rule, the education
that will best fit us for duties among
the people with whom we must live
and work is nut to bo had far from
home.
"Moreover, I believe that this edu
cation away from home, instead of
enlarging the horizon of the mind,
tends rather to narrow It and make
it provincial. It concentrates the
mind too much upon the special lo
cality, upon the thought and ways
and methods and habits of the gn at
center of population, and shuts out
the whler view of the world at large.
It may seem a paradox to say that
the provincial mind Is developed in
these conditions, but I believe that Is
true. I believe that, as a rule, our
young people will have juster and
broader views of the world of affairs
if educated in Oregon than if t-ent to
Harvard or Columbia. From our
station here we can see the just pro
portions of things more clearly, and
we avoid the risk of losing our adapt
ability to our situation and to tiie
work it requires. I think it is a mis
take not to stand by our own colleges.
We occupy heights here from which
we can give our youth a survey ot
literature, science, history and the
world of affairs.
'I think it is those w ho have had
most experience with our colleges of
Oregon who are most disposed to up
hold and support them; while those
who have had least experience with
them are those most disiioscd to
doubt whether any gmsl tiling can
come out of Nazareth.
"We need, must have, must sus
tain these local institutions, to create
an atmosphere of culture at home,
This quality never can be imported.
It must lie home-made. The agencies
that produce It are always local.
They issue from our academical cen
ters. They are felt throughout the
country Inversely as the square of the
distance, and this Is the reason why
I cannot think, as some do, that we
have too many of these local colleges,
Better, say some, that we should
have one great central institution in
the state than such a number of local
schools, all struggling for existence.
It seems to me this is a mistaken
judgment. laOcal contact between
institution and jople Is indispensa
hie. Hence the argument for vigor
ous support of country colleges grows
more and more impressive as new
areisinthis new country gradually
fill with population.
"We can, indeed, no more dccnd
on the distant newspaper. A journal
published in New York or Boston
might be more satisfactory to some
of us in a certain way, but there
never would be found in it what we
must wanted. It would lack the
touch, the quality of life, the adapta
tion of universal principles, to our
situation and surroundings.
"Every great and larmanent thing
is small and humble in its la-ginning.
I find record of a time and it was
not so very long ago when the pride
of Dartmouth was a single large
wooden building, such us we may
suppose to have lam erected as bar
racks for soldiers, l'K) feet long and
00 feet wide, English grammar and
arithmetic were textbooks in the
sophomore year. Princeton, the
greatest Presbyterian college, was a
huge stone edifice, its faculty consist
ing of a president, vice-president, one
professor, two masters of languages.
and 70 students. Harvard had four
brick buildings; the faculty consisted
of a president and six professors, and
in Its halls thronged l.'lo to 100 stu
dents. Yale boasted of one brick
building and a chatcl, 'with a st-ple
12.1 feet high.' The faculty was a
president, a professor of divinity and
three tutors. The greatest Episcopal
college in the United States was Wil
liam and Mary's. It had been under
royal and state patronage, and was,
therefore, more substantially favonsl
than most of our American school.
At this time, it is said in a curious
old state rei-rt, the college was a
building of three stoiies, 'like a brick
kiln,' and had 30 gentlemen students.
The students lodged in dormitories,
ate at the commons,' and were aiti.-
fied with what we would call prison
diet. Breakfast, a small can of cof
fee, a biscuit, about an ounce of but
ter. Dinner, one pound of meat, two
potatoes and some vegetables. Sup
per, bread and milk. The only un
limited supply furnished was cider.
which was ajed in a can from
mouth to mouth. The days were
spoken of as boil day, roast day, slew-
day, and so on.
'It will not Is? pretended, I think,
that these colleges, In those days, did
not send out able and well-equipped
men. I would not undervalue a
great school; and yet It should not be
overlooked, as many are apt to do,
that the key of success is not furnish
ed by the school that one attends, but
Is in the man himself.
"Our alumni, and the alumni of all
the other schools of Oregon, have a
luty to perform in this matter of
commending and upholding the edu
cational institutions of our state, iu
Insisting and maintaiuiug that they
are best, on the whole, for the educa
tional Institutions of our state, in In
sisting and maintaining that they are
the best, on the w hole, for the educa
tion of youth, and in spreading the
idea that we owe it to our own peo
ple and to their future welfare to
build up, through these schools, an
influence among us that never can be
had here, if we educate our youth
abroad.
"I was first here 40 years ago. The
change here since then has corre
sponded with the general change of
the country, and has kept full pace
with it. There has been outward
improvement and Inward growth.
Tho work of nearly SO years lien In
this foundation. The structure is ris
ing upon it. Fame that is based on
earnestness, on character, on solid
achievement, fame that 'Uvea and
spreads abroad by those pure eyes
and perfect witness of all-judging
love' Is the test to which an institu
tion may proudly point an institu
tion that does Its work through dif
ferent hands as generations come and
go, and, with its work, belongs to the
community, to the state, to mankind,
as a pTKsesriion forever."
MR, tongue's addrkss.
The formal address for the alumni
was made by Hon. Thos. H. Tongue,
of Washington county, a member of
the 1808 class. While Mr. Scott is
recognized as tho most vigorous Jour
nalist of the state, Mr. Tongue Is rec
ognized as being the most brilliant
orator In tho state and the one grad
uate who has devoted any considera
ble time to the study of the material
interest of the commonwealth. Mr.
Tongue said :
Mr. Pkehiiikxt, La dim and
Gk.nti.kmen : 1 have been asked to
say a few words on behalf of the
alumni of Pacific University.
"I am expected In some measure
to voice the feelings and reflections
of those, who were a part of the old,
to which we are bidding farewell, a
they contemplate, the new, which wo
welcome with outstretched hands.
"From crowded city, from rural
village, from fertile plain, front
varying pursuits and occupations,
we are called to re-vlslt the scenes,
where in early life, we struggled
with varying results, and where we
laid the foundation of whatever
measure of success or failure has
since fallen to our lot.
"We come to rejoice with you, and
to participate in, and commemorate
an event in the history of Pacific
University, second only in import
ance to that of its birth. As chil
dren, we have been recalled to the
maternal home by a devoted mother,
to witness the new honors that clus
ter around her head, and behold her
maternal brow wreathed with new
crowns. We come to witness the
end of the old, the beginning of the
new.
"To-day marks an important epoch
in the lif story ol this institution. It
is a milestone in its progress. It
places Pacific University in the front
rank of Western institutions of
learning. It marks and crowns past
achievement, while revealing the
future full of promise. In the depth
and breadth and solidity of Its foun
dation; in beauty, uprightness and
grandeur of structure, we trust the
Unutifui building we dedicate to-day
will be typical of tho mental ami
moral character of the future children
of our Alma Mater.
"It Is well there should be rejoicing.
not only in Forest Grove, not only
among teachers and students, not
only among the friend of Pacific
University, but among the friends of
education, and the lovers of progress,
everywhere. We should hi-ar sweet
music, merry volets, and the clasp of
hand should express our happiness
at the event we this day coin mem
orate. To those who left the mater
nal roof a quarter of a century or
more ago, there Is strong desire to
indulge in reminisrenses, to recall
events, interesting only to those who
were a part of them. But I must
resist this temptation, and let reflec
tion take the place of memory.
"While I would not detract in the
slightest degrH from your Joyous-
ncss, I trust you will pardon me, If I
suggest, how In my Judgment, the
cause of our rejoicing may la? per-M-tuated
and increased. It is rare,
where success does not lay Increase
of lalsir, where change of condition
does not require change of action;
w here enlarged opportunitie do not
entail enlarged responsibilities. I
want, therefore, for a few momr-nU
to suggest the question, whether the
very cause of this rejoicing, and the
changed condition brought about by
Cinhri'ifd on fourth Pit'j'.,