Souvenir Edition of the Ohio University Mirror Summer Term 1905 4i4t4i4i4t4t4i4t4t4t4i4i4t4t4t4t4i4i4t4t4i^4t4t4»4i4i4t4t ^ * j* * j* i^jfi ±j£i *|* «|* *|i *$& «$* * j* «$fc * j* *{* *|& rf* rf* ijf* i^k *|* «fi *|i * j* *|& * j* ^ *|* * j* *|* «|* «|* *|* «$* ♦$* «$* 4$ifc *J« ^T PICTURE OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL, 1905 Summer School Number THE »• MIRROR. PUBLICATION OF THE UNIVERSITY. VOL. 4, SERIES 3. ATHENS, OHIO, JULY, 190*. NO. 9. T1IE MIRROR Published monthly from October to June in- clusive by the students of Ohio University Athens. Ohio. Subscription price, 75cents, a year. Entered as second-class matter at the post- office at Athens. Ohio. ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦<♦ ♦♦♦♦ ♦ X EDITORIAL. X ♦ ♦ FACULTY EDITORIAL COMMITTEE : ALSTON ELLIS President Ohio University. HENRY G. WILLIAMS, Dean State Norrr al College. Editor-in-Chief. DR. FRANK P. BACHMAN. Department of the History and Principles of Education. DR. OSCAR CHRISMAN, Department of Psychology and Paidology. PROF. HIRAM ROY WILSON. Department of English. PROF. T. N. HOOVER, Associate Professor of History. Introductory T HIS issue of The Mirror follows the general pl.an determined upon one year ago, to give to the students of the Summer School of Ohio University and State Normal College a souvenir edition, containing many illustrations and personal news items pertaining to the Summer School. It is furnished free to all students of the Summer School of 1905, and will be mailed for the asking to all other persons who may make .such request, addressed to “Ohio University Mirror, care President’s Office, Athens, Ohio.” We are pleased to be able to issue such a publication, containing as it does so many excellent and interesting pictures of those connected with Ohio University, and so many group pictures of students, county clubs, boarding clubs, etc. These features make the publication a valu.able souvenir, which will doubtless be treasured up as a reminder of happy days spent in Athens at Ohio University and State Normal College. Charles Henry Dumaree A GAIN the student body of Ohio Uni- versity and the members of her fac- ulty are in the deepest sorrow, mourning the loss of Charles Henry Duma- ree; the former mourning him as their colleague, the latter as their pupil. A few months ago Ohio University lost one of her most popular and most prominent profes- sors, now she has lost one of her most popular and promising students. Words are lacking with which to describe the surprise as well as the feeling that exists among those students who knew him most inti- mately and have been .associated with him most closely, and not only to these but to all it was a terrible shock. While we as colleagues, his fellow students, instructors, and relatives are grieving over our loss, there is one fact that consoles us, he was ready to go. That is probably why he w,as taken; if so, our loss is his gain. His life was not a long life but a deep life, and his days will ST THE SUMMER SCHOOL FACULTY, 1905, OHIO UNIVERSITY 5 THE MIRROR be measured spiritually, not mechanically. He was Shakespeare’s model man: “His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; His tears pure messengers sent from his heart; His heart as f.ar from fraud as heaven from earth.” J/Ir. Dumaree was a good young man, therefore a noble young man, for Tennyson says, “ 'Tis noble to be good.” He w.as faithful and content, never finding any fault with the course of events but adapting him- self as far as possible to the existing cir- cumstances. Then, too, he was character- ized by his sincerity, his loyalty, his deter- CHARLES HENRY DUMAREE mination to do right as he saw the right. He w.as very ambitious and a hard worker. Taking into consideration Mr. Dumaree’s life, we can not call him dead. No! with such as he it is only a passing through the portals of death to the life that has no end. Mr. Dumaree was a self-made man, .and that he was ambitious is evidenced by the fact that he had carved his own way entire- ly during his life since leaving the district school. He did not stop here, however; he determined to get a college education. He had made his w.ay as far as the junior class. A mother and father, two brothers, and one sister, together with other relatives and friends mourn his death. Mr. Dumaree had been failing for the past few months, but did not think his condition at all dangerous. Sunday, June 22, at noon he had two slight hemorrhages. Sunday night one, and one Monday afternoon. He passed away Tues- day morning, June 24, 1905, about G:20. He retained consciousness for about five minutes after the last hemorrhage began. His last words were “It’s a hard fight.” He fought bravely to live but the odds were too great. Those present at the time of his death were: Dr. McVey, Mrs. Kern, Mrs. Bancroft, Miss Lucy Cranmer, Mr. Nice, his sister Edith, and brother E. L. Dumaree. His death occurred at the Ladies’ Hall. He was taken sick while waiting on the tables Monday evening, and being too sick to be moved to his room he was kept there all night. Charles Henry Dumaree was born May 1G, 1877, in Vinton county, attended the district school up to the age of sixteen, after which he taught school for a period Trior to his entering college here in the spring term of ’99. Since that time he has taught during, the winter months and attended Ohio Uni- versity during the spring and summer terms. He was .at the time of his death a member of the junior class. For three years Mr. Dumaree was superintendent of the schools at Luhrig, during which time he taught night and day. It is this that is thought to have caused his health to break. The remainder of his teaching, which amounts to seven years in all, was done in Vinton county and in the southeastern part of Ohio. He was also a member of the Board of School Examiners of Vinton county. Mr. Dumaree was a member of the Marshfield Lodge Constitution F. and A. M., also the K. of P. lodge at Marshfield. Dur- ing his st.ay in Athens he was always a de- vout Christian and a great and enthusiastic worker in the M. E. church, Epworth Lea- gue, and Sunday School. In college he was very active, in the Y. M. C. A., in the Athenian Literary Society, also editor of The O. U. Mirror. It was he that planned and worked up the memori.al edition of Professor Higley. In this he manifested the self-same interest that characterized all his work. The funeral was held Wednesday at 1 6 THE MIRROR o’clock at the Methodist church, the ser- mon being preached by Rev. Bouquard, of Marshfield, where he was a member. Dr. King .and Dr. Slutz assisted in the services. The interment took place at the new com- etery under the charge of the Masonic Lodge. The music was furnished by a mixed quartette, Misses Bishop and Bailey, Messrs. Hoover and Crooks. DR. RURIC N. ROARK, LEXINGTON, KY. The Making of Teachers Abstract of Address by Dr. R. N. Roark, at the Dedi- cation of the State Normal College Building, June 14, 1905. H T'O OFFER such a subject for discus- X sion might seem to some good people as impertinent and unwar- ranted; for there be those who to this good day persist in declaring that ‘the teacher is born and not made’. And so indeed he is; and to the like ex- tent — and no less — are also the lawyer, the doctor, the f.armer, and the cook. To be born and not made means simply to possess predilection or natural aptitude. It means to hold within the hollow reed of one’s self the Promethean spark which needs only the wind of circumstance or opportunity to fan it into the glow of talent or the flame of genius. Whoever is to teach most successfully THE MIRROR 7 EWING HALL, OHIO UNIVERSITY must have this innate impulse to teach; but the te.acher, like the lawyer, or the preach- er, or the carpenter, is not all born nor so well born that he needs no making, no special training that shall make the most possible and the best possible out of his inheritance. To do this for the teacher is the peculi.ar work of the normal school. To define this function more particularly, it is needful to determine the equipment of a teacher and to enquire how well a normal school can furnish this equipment. I name the following as essential factors in the fitness of him who teaches: (1) Physique, (2) Personality, (3) Scholarship, (4) Technique, (5) Culture. The social organism — state or city — should through its laws .afford every in- ducement to the teacher who is possessed of these characteristics, and should do all possible to eliminate those who do not have them. The social and professional recognition awarded the teacher, and the “cash register” appreciation shown for his work, should be such as to tempt the best and the strongest men and women into the service of the schools. The merely academic examination which is now required is, as is well known, no test of fitness to teach. I hope that it will be a very short time before some st.ate shall have the courage to say through its school legislation that after a certain date, sufficiently remote to be equitable, no one shall be permitted to teach who has not had .a definite amount of technical, normal training. The speaker then took up in order the five elements of the teacher’s fitness which he had named, and proceeded to discuss them somewhat in detail. By “physique” is meant the strong physical endowment which is the necessary substrate for the mental activity .and nervous vigor that the work of the teacher requires. The teacher must have soundness and wholesomeness of body and comeliness of person, because good health is catching, and ugliness a tresspass upon the sensitiveness of the children. The state should permit no one to teach, and the norm.al school should ad- mit no one as a student who cannot show a clean bill of health, a radiant vitality, a resilient physique. Personality, the second requisite of the teacher, is indefinable, yet everyone recog- 8 THE MIRROR AUDITORIUM OF EWING HALL nizes and appreciates it. It is aided by, but is by no means dependent upon physique. Many men who had no physique had strong and inspiring personality. And it is the personality of the teacher that abides long- est in the consciousness of the pupil and that has the greatest influence upon him. Reference was made to the method in use in the State Normal School at San Fran- cisco, for determining the personality of the would-be teacher, and to eliminate those who do not possess it. There are two possible positions which the normal school may assume towards the factor of scholarship in the teacher’s equip- ment. A certain amount of scholarship may be required, the norm,al school building its technical work upon this; or the normal school may make it a part of its work to give the necessary scholarship as well as the professional training. This question has had much discussion in this country, but the common practice — and it is .a good one — is that the normal school should do academic work. A reciting knowledge of a subject, which is all th.at the student ac- quires in a high school, is by no means sufficient as a teaching knowledge of the subject. Hence the necessity that .a normal school should do academic work — it is in- dispensable. The work of the normal school culminates in its effort to impart to the teacher the technique of his profession. There must be not only the instruction in psychology and its various application in pedagogy — child-study, methodology, and educational economy — but there must be much .and most careful training, under close supervision and criticism, in the actual practice of the art of teaching. The material equipment of the normal school for doing this work should consist of a model school, wherein the student will have opportunity to observe the work of experts and to study its nice- ties; and a pr.actice school wherein the pupil-teacher will have constant practice in the art of teaching, done under the eye of friendly and helpful criticism. It is need- less to say that no person should be granted a certificate or diploma of a professional character who fails to come up to a very high standard in the practice school. Finally, the teacher must have culture. THE MIRROR 9 “the aroma of learning.” This culture, in- definable but real, is all the more necessary in those who are to mould the future of the children, beeaues in this day we may see on every side the tendency toward a crass materialism, which cares little for the gent- ler refinements of the spirit. Closing, the spe.aker said, “These are the endowments and qualities to the searching out and nourishing of which a splendid building is this day dedicated and devoted, and those who shall labor in it are today reconsecrated. Here will be carried out, which to keep alight the holy flame of a noble enthusiasm for service to the Srate — the highest service — the service of a teacher.” Address by Gen. C. H. Grosvenor Delivered at the Dedication of the Carnegie Library Building, Ohio University, June 14, 1905. Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of the Building Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen: DEAN WILLIAMS'S CLASSES IN SCHOOL MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION IN FRONT OF THE DEAN'S HOME with a faithfulness of detail .and an attain- ment of results scarcely more than hinted at in the rough draft I have presented, all the suggestions that I could possibly make, and more. In Persia there are temples in which a sacred flame is kept constantly burning by devotees. There must be lighted the s.acri- ficial fires of those who administer the re- ligious rites and ceremonies of the State. Here, this building shall be a temple in 1 APPEAR before you today in a dual ca- pacity. I propose to make a speech for a gentleman who is absent and then, perhaps, add a few words of my own. The distinguished President of the Ohio University requested me, about the middle of April, to write to Mr. Carnegie p,nd invite him to be present on this auspicious occa- sion, and to speak to the assemblage here at the dedication of this beautiful building. The date fixed, the middle of June, rendered 10 THE MIRROR it impossible for Mr. Carnegie to be present, and I received, in response to my invitation, a letter as follows: “Andrew Carnegie, 2 East 91st Street. April 17, 1905. Hon. C. H. Grosvenor, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: — Mr. Carnegie h.as received yours of April 15th, and is delighted to hear that the library is nearing completion. He says as to appointing a gentleman to go out and speak, he appoints his friend, General C. H. Grosvenor, M. C., for whom he is willing to be fully responsible. Respectfully yours, Jas. Bertram, Private Secretary.” men of New England who aided in the establishment of liberty and enlightenment in the Northwest Territory ordained that religion, morality, and education should be fundamental ideas in the new territory, and set apart here two townships of land as a perpetual endowment for an educational in- stitution, the presence of which in the town of Athens we boast of today. It was fitting, therefore, in the bestowal of the great lib- erality of Mr. Carnegie, that a library for the benefit of the public should be estab- lished in the town of Athens. There could not have been found upon the map of the Northwest Territory a more fitting place. There could not have been found on that map a constituency more appreciative than 3ISb$ l 33B RESIDENCE OF PRESIDENT ALSTON ELLIS It is in compliance with this suggestion that I speak briefly on behalf of Mr. Car- negie and in celebration of the day. It would seem that no more appropriate place for the erection of a public library, free to the people of the vicinity, could be selected than the town of Athens and the vicinity of the Ohio University. Away b.ack at the beginning of the 19th Century the is this constituency. The Ohio University has struggled long and faithfully to supply the needs of the communities in Ohio with the facilities for their education and has succeeded admirably, .and today it is the boast of our people that the University is in better condition than for many years and, indeed, possesses signs of prosperity and assurances of growth which place it in the THE MIRROR 11 font rank of Ohio colleges. That this pres- tige will be maintained we have every reas- onable assurance. So it was befitting that Mr. Carnegie, in looking about him for loca- tions where he should invest his liberal contributions, should have selected Athens as one of the places. In arranging for the erection of this build- ing and the endowment of this libr.ary, versity — may their tribe increase — but for the good people of the town of Athens and vicinity; and it was an exceedingly pleasant episode when the distinguished President of the University co-operated as he did to ar- range the terms upon which this donation was accepted, in such .a manner as to insure for all time that there should be no aggres- sive monopolistic action, and that the public ALSTON ELLIS, President Ohio University great care was taken that there should be no monopoly of control or use that would involve the exclusion of any persons resi- dent within the neighborhood who would make use of this institution, and who would appreciate the beneficence of the donation. So, then, I am authorized by Mr. Carnegie to say that this library is a public library not alone for the students of the Ohio Uni- and the University, including the Normal College, and all of us should have an inter- est in this great library. So, speaking for the generous donor, I congratulate you today that you have so judiciously expended the generous gift of Mr. Carnegie that no injurious failure of contractor or building committee has tar- nished the fair name of the town, and that 12 THE MIRROR THE CABEEN BOARDING CLUB there comes from the hands of the archi- tect and contractor, under the wise super- vision of the building committee, a building of such perfection in art and such a beauti- ful demonstration of the fitness of our American architecture. Thus far I have spoken as might well have been spoken by Mr. Carnegie himself. Thus far I have spoken as he would have had me speak, and now m.ay I not turn aside and speak a few words of comment upon the character and genius of Andrew Carnegie? Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland. He claims to be proud of much that is Scottish now, but the fact that he left Scotland and came to America and became a citizen of America and married an Amer- ican wife, is evidence sufficient to my mind that he is more an American than a Scotch- man. He is an exhibition, an object lesson, of the wonderful things that can be done by individual effort in America. He is s.aid to be worth an enormous sum of money, but no man ever laid at the door of Andrew Carnegie the imputation that he was not an GEN. CHARLES H. GROSVENOR THE MIRROR 13 honest man, or that he had ever acquired one dollar by means that could be justly criticised. I do not me, an to say that he has never been criticised, but I do mean that he has never been justly criticised. This is not the time nor place to discuss the ethical questions hovering around, in these days, the possession of great wealth by individuals nor do I, on this occasion especially, take sides for or against the proposition that the m.an or organization that solicits charity and benevolence should first, before appropriating the offers made by the wealthy, stop and diagnose the char- acter of the processes by which the money came to the hand of the donor. The utter and inconceivable absurdity of the proposi- tion is so generally accepted, that it is bet- ter to leave individuals to the enjoyment of such notoriety as they may have acquired by holding to the doctrine that the mode and manner and method by which money is acquired by the donor attaches to and runs with, as a lawyer might say, the gift and taints and tarnishes the money, and follows the funds into the remotest lines of distri- bution. Nothing more absurd ever has been invented than the proposition. Nothing more absurd probably ever will be invented, and it shall be left, so far as this occasion is concerned, to the h,appy discoverers of the proposition that they may revel in their self-adoration, while the commonsense people of the United States and of the world go straight forward to the administration of the great charities, which are today in the United States largely upheld by the men and women who h.ave acquired great wealth by their genius and practical wis- dom. Andrew Carnegie well understood that an era had dawned upon the United States and the world when the manufacture of steel was to be one of the greatest elements of national and individual wealth incident to modern civilization, and applying his great genius to the subject matter, and honestly devoting a great peroid of his lifetime to the study of this important and interesting subject, he placed himself in the front rank of the men who have developed the greatest industry of modern times. He foresaw that the building of ships was to be ,an era of the enlargement of steel requisites. He THE PRACTICE SCHOOLS AND THEIR TEACHERS 14 THE MIRROR McCO Y J S SUMMER SCHOOL BASE BALL NINE foresaw th.at structural steel in the building of bridges and houses and factories was to become a great and the greatest feature of architectural construction, and so it w.as that combining his genius of organization with his genius of foresight, he amassed a tremendous fortune and thereby accepted, or, as it might be said, there was forced upon him, a trusteeship, mighty in its con- sequences and terrible in its responsibili- ties. It is a great thing to be the trustee of four hundred million dollars, with a heart throbbing with genuine love and sympathy for human beings. It is a mighty responsibility to be the possessor of such a fortune with a conscience, while void of offense toward God and man, is neverthe- less charged with its own conception of duty and right, with a trusteeship that shall tell for good or evil all down the coming corridors of time. It required wis- dom to know what to do with a trusteeship like that. The decision of the question would be mighty in its consequences. There was here a situation out of which might grow enormous weal to the human family, or out of which might grow the condemnation of an administrator of such a trust who had not just appreciation of his responsibility to God and to the human family. Andrew Carnegie accepted the responsi- bility with a determination to execute the duties of his trusteeship in such a manner as that the acquisition of this great wealth would be a blessing to mankind, and ,an "two of a KIND.” THE MIRROR 15 honor to the race to which he belonged. Who shall say that he has faltered or failed? Let him who has better filled his post of duty cast the first stone. Let him who has better met the demands of life upon him make the first carping criticism. Let him who can point to a better illus- tration of the steward of the manifold bles- sings of Heaven first analyze the life of Carnegie and criticise what he has done. We have men in this day who calmly sit down and say, “No man can acquire a for- tune like that and not h,ave done so by disreputable means.” On behalf of our benefactor, that statement may be chal- lenged. What disreputable means did Carnegie use by which he amassed this fortune? While he has been gathering these millions and while he has been aug- menting their volume, he has been of all men one of the most charitable of his race, not altogether in the great things that have been echoed in the public press, but in the small things, the loving hand th,at has been placed upon the head of poverty and has lifted up the victim; the man who has helped the young to struggle, the man who has privately and without any publication entered the home of the suffering and ad- ministered to present want, and whispered the word of encouragement and hope in the ears of the perishing. This, to some extent, is a fair outline of the man Carnegie. He is not alone the administrator of a great financial fortune, THE WEST WINGERS but he is the genial, sociable, and earnest citizen. There is not a subject-matter of public importance under discussion in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Scotland, or the mighty Republic of the United States to which Andrew . Carnegie is not alive. ATHENS COUNTY STUDENTS AT THE SUMMER SCHOOL 16 THE MIRROR OTTAWA COUNTY CLUB AT DINNER, JULY 4 His decision upon the questions thus aris- ing, and his intelligence upon the issues of the vast subjects of debate are some- thing wonderful. He has written and pub- lished books for the information of people upon topics that he has had himself to do with, .and has rendered valuable contribu- itons to the literature of the times. So far as the personnel of this distin- guished man is concerned, I will appro- priate for this occasion a portion of an article from the London Chronicle, written by one who knows Carnegie, and I take pride in simply saying that so far .as my observation of the man in Scotland, sur- rounded by his guests at. Skibo, and under the administration of his household by the hand of his genial and very efficient help- mate and wife, I can certify to the charac- teristics which are here graphically de- scribed: And what of Mr. Carnegie himself? I can only write of him as I have seen him. In New York he may be different from wh.at he is at Skibo; in Pittsburg he may be more different still. The business side of him I am entirely unacquainted with. The only Carnegie I have come across is not the steel king, but the man, the host, the friend and comrade. As such the first thing to be said about him is that you would never suspect him of being Andrew Carnegie. He upsets all preconceptions; he is the precise antithesis of the con- ventional “moneyed man.” A less “pursey” man it would be impossible to imagine. He is not harassed, he is not spoilt, he seems hardly to be effected by his colossal wealth. A boy of fifteen with a half-crown in his pocket and a fishing rod in his hand could not be more free from care, more chirpy and light-hearted than is Mr. Car- negie. If I could persuade myself that the own- ership and administration of a fortune in eight figures would leave me as young and keen, as blithe and jolly, as ready to be interested and .as chock-full of zest in life as it has left Mr. Carnegie, I should be willing to become a multi-millionaire to- morrow. It may be because he is an Amer- ican — Americans seem to carry about them the secret of perpetual youth; but I think the real explanation of Mr. Carnegie’s per- ennial freshness and buoyancy both of heart and disposition is that he is at bot- tom a profoundly simple man. His democracy is part of this simplicity, and how democratic he is it is difficult to be long at Skibo without le.arning. All on THE MIRROR 17 his estate feel him to be one of themselves, perfectly accessible, and genuinely inter- ested in all their doings. He has the happy knack of attracting by the power of sym- pathy and fellowship. There is no conde- cension in his manner, no affectation of patronage; his bearing toward all with whom he comes in contact is simply that of a man to men. I have known him to step before a company of his guests and public- ly compliment — with his hand on the man’s shoulder — a member of the household staff who has just given an exhibition of High- land dancing. I have known him to leave a party of his guests kicking their heels on the high road while he engaged a crofter’s son in earnest and intimate talk. Mr. Carnegie radiates satisfaction. He is satisfied with himself, with .all he does and says, with the world at large, with Skibo, in particular; but the satisfaction has little or nothing of assertiveness or vanity about it. He has an unaffected en- thusiasm for his Scottish home, and is, perhaps, never quite so contented as when showing a friend round it and tracing on the gravel his plan for forming a loch here and building a dam there to perfect the fishing. Fishing and golf are the hobbies of his life. He has a private golf course laid out in the Skibo estate, and within the last two years has built two elaborate salmon and trout hatcheries. Billiards he plays, but only occasionally. Cards I have never seen him touch, though, I believe, whist may be included in his pastimes. He never shoots, leaving that to his guests, but his yacht is always in commission during his six-months’ residence in Skibo. Motoring he loathes almost, but not quite so much as he loathes tobacco. Of music he c,an not have enough. Every morning at 8 o’clock a piper marches round the castle, and in the evening plays through the din- ner hour. His reveille lasts ’till 20 minutes past eight. Punctually at th.at moment he re-enters the castle; punctually at that moment the organist sits down to the or- gan in the hall; and guests who have risen to the wild skirling of the pipes descend to THE FULTON BOARDING CLUB 18 THE MIRROR brea.kf.ast with the salutation of the organ in their ears. Mr. Carnegie, I always imagine, would far rather be knoyn as a social and po- litical philosopher than as the Steel King. He has read widely and perseveringly, traveled less as a sight-seer than as a stu- dent of affairs, and rather likes to lay down the law on all things human and divine. Now, a word as to the work that Mr. Carnegie has done in the matter of furnish- ing libraries to the people of the world. Up to the first of January last, Mr. Carnegie had given or pledged himself to give 1,290 library buildings to the English-speaking than eighteen per cent, of the entire popu- lation of the country. Since the first of January, he has given $10,000,000 to a fund for 'the caring of re- tired college professors and several million dollars to other beneficences, making in all more than $50,000,000 that he has actually given in money for these great purposes. Who can tell the effect upon the future of the country and the world of what Mr. Carnegie has done? It is enough to say that through the instrumentality most potent for good to the common people of the country he has given a sum of money unequalled by any other giver of modern or .ancient times. Who shall carp at and Slffc Si IS CARNEGIE LIARARY BUILDING, EAST FRONT people, and of these 779 are in the United States. The aggregate cost of these build- ings to Mr. Carnegie, the share of the money that he himself puts in, is $39,325,- 240, and every state in the Union, except Rhode Island, Mississippi, and Delaw.are, has received more or less of this magnifi- cent donation. Ten hundred and forty- eight towns have been reached with 1,290 buildings, thus coming in touch with more criticise Carnegie? Let him who is without fault among you cast the first stone. Address by Hon. C. B. Galbreath, State Librarian What is this iron music Whose strains are borne afar? The hammers of the world-smiths Are beating out a star. THE MIRROR 19 They build the old world over, Anew its mould is wrought, They shape the plastic planet To models of their thought. This is the iron music Whose strains are borne afar; The hammers of the world-smiths Are beating out a star. I N HER ISOLATION and independence, America has been peculiarly the ar- chitect of her own fortune. But the old order changeth. Science has leveled mountains, severed continents, eliminated time and annihilated space. The spirit of this electric age leaps from its brazen leash and makes the air its swift messenger of * cry in the onward march shall be as of old, “We must educate, me must educate!” How? To what extent? Will the in- struction of our common schools suffice? No. Will a course in the academy or the high school answer? No. Will the tradi- tional curriculum of the college or the uni- versity meet the demand? No. The first of these is absolutely necessary, and all constitute a most desirable equipment, but the best that they can do is to introduce us to the great school of life where experience shall guide and books shall teach. The im- perious demand of the present is, hold what you gain in school, add to it, and to the CARNEGIE LIBRARY BUILDING, WEST FRONT thoughts to distant l.ands. The ocean is no longer a barrier. We stand face to face with the world — 'the world dedicated as at no time in its past to the ruthless dictum, “The fittest shall survive.” In her progress under new conditions the Republic will hold her place of prestige and power not by gold, or steel, or super- iority of race, or pride of birth, but by in- tellectual vigor and prowess. The battle last hour of your life keep your education up to date. The best agency for that im- portant work is the free public library. To the youth of this university and this city, to instructors and citizens who would be students always, you dedicate this temple of learning. This is not a fitting occasion for remini- scence or extended history. It may not be amiss, however, to recall the fact that one 20 THE MIRROR of the earliest libraries northwest of the Ohio river was established within the pres- ent limits of this county. On February 2, 1804, The Western Library Association was organized at Ames. In the .annals of the state it has become famous as the Coon- Skin Library. Thomas Ewing, the elder, put into it his accumulated wealth of ten coon skins. He bears eloquent testimony to the value of this collection of books. “The Library of the Vatican,” he declares, “was nothing compared to it, and there never was a library better read.” It was supported, of course, by subscription of its members. The free public library was not dreamed of in that day. Dr. Burns is The gre.atest libraries are in places re- mote. There is the Royal Library at Berlin with 1,200,000 volumes; the Imperial Li- brary at St. Petersburg with 1,330,000 vol- umes; the British Museum with 2,000,000 volumes; the National Library at Paris with 2,600,000 volumes. Those who have visited our national cap- itol will not forget the Library of Congress. If the dome of the magnificent building is somewh.at abbreviated, out of respect to the capitol, ample amends are made for this concession by interior arrangement, finish and decoration. Mosaic floors, graceful columns, polished marble staircases, fres- coed ceilings, faultless statuary, rich p.aint- RESIDENCE OF DEAN WILLIAMS authority for the statement that a portion of that early library h.as been merged into the collecion that is to occupy this build- ing. With this brief reference to a local pioneer enterprise, we pass over the his- tory of the library movement in state and nation, and proceed to a brief consideration of some of the prominent features of the field as it exists today. ings, legendary scenes in bas-relief, the work of artists of our own land — the tri- umph of American genius, all unite in a creation of beauty that has no parallel in the world. Collect in one place .all libraries of Ohio, including those presented by An- drew Carnegie, and add to this property our State University and the State Capitol Building at Columbus, and the sum total THE MIRROR 21 would be less than the cost of the Con- gressional Library. All of the state librar- ies in the Union would not equal it. There United States. Printed catalogue cards, at a trifling expense, go to every library that cares to get them. By special loan arrange- HENRY G. WILLIAMS, Dean State Normal College, Ohio University it stands in* stately, unadorned exterior symmetry, the largest, costliest and safest structure of its kind ever erected on this earth since time began. On the shelves of this treasury of liter- ature about 1,200,000 volumes have already been arranged. Under the guiding hand of Mr. Putnam, the present librarian, its influ- ence has been felt in every part of the ment, books may be sent across the conti- nent to certain designated libraries for ref- erence use. In short, this library has become national in the extent of its ser- vice. No one complains of the expense. All agree that the institution is worthy of liberal support. We would not change it. We are justly proud of it. It is typical of all that is highest and best and most en- 22 THE MIRROR THE WATKINS BOARDING CLUB during in our Americ.an civilization. It stands as a monument to things that are not dead, that do not die. Coming nearer home and descending from the truely great to the relatively small, we have the State Library at Colum- bus, now numbering over 100,000 volumes, and through its system of loans and trav- eling libraries serving as best it may with its facilities, the state from which it re- ceives its support. I am pleased to know that some of its books have come to your city, and to acknowledge our obligations to instructors in this university for their aid in extending this branch of library activity to other p.arts of the state. The State Li- brary, under present conditions, is not all that it ought to be. Would that it, like your library, might have a building of its own, adequate to its present needs and future growth. But your interest today is not in things remote. The Library that is to render you the most substantial service, that deserves your most cordial support, that should be an object of pride to every citizen within the entire state is the one that you dedicate today. Its dual character is unique and most fortunate. What better place for in- structors, students and citizens to meet than within these walls, dedicated to the patronage of literature. The dominating influence of the univer- sity means some things that are vital to the success of the library. It means an administration under a qualified and exper- ienced librarian, and in accordance with approved modern methods. It mean|s a careful selection of books by those who have studied our literature and know how to sift the grain from the chaff. It means the building up of an institution peculiarly .attractive to your public schools, an avenue from them to the university. By a union of common interests you will avoid need- less duplication of books, and secure the most efficient service at the minimum ex- pense.- Thus both parties to this enterprise are benefited. No other university sup- ported by the state can point to such a library building; no other city in the state will enjoy such library privileges at so small an expense. While you have lightened the burden of THE MIRROR 23 taxation by dividing it, you are reminded that even under condition's sio fortunate the item of expenditure cannot be elimi- nated. We are told that the public library costs money, that tax levies and Carnegie Buildings go hand in hand. This is true; but there are two sides to the ledger. The institutions that contribute to the moral up- building of a community .are its most spec- ious asset. Your churches add to the value of your real estate. Good schools are the best advertisement a city can have. In enhanced values the public library will pay. But there are other and higher consider- ations. Dollars and cents cannot measure progress and enlightenment. The free public library, properly equipped and con- ducted, is a messenger of both. Its value to the community is to be measured by the service it performs, by the number and quality of its patrons. Its mission is to create, nourish and perpetuate a taste for good literature. Pine volumes tastefully arranged on the shelves may look very well, but ito help the world they must get off the shelves — they must lose something of the gloss of binding in the comfort and sunshine and information and inspiration that they shed abroad. It is the well worn volume that commands our respect. If it could speak, its simple story would be to the library cause a tribute most eloquent. The books and the people must meet. To fail to get them together is to fail utterly. In these d.ays the accumulation of great fortunes in the hands of the few finds a measure of compensation in the fact that we have entered upon an era of liberal giving. I will not laud the great Iron King, whose gifts already reach beyond the enor- mous total of $100,000,000. His praises fall from tongues more eloquent. Posterity will spe.ak of his philanthropy. His example is contagious. According to their ability, men of means are giving more freely than ever before. But today you dedicate something more than the gift of Mr. Carnegie. Back of it stands the pledge of the city and the uni- versity for perpetual support. That splen- did building is a testimonial to your faith in universal education. As such it stands in the dawn of this new century. Long JACKSON COUNTY CLUB 24 THE MIRROR PICKAWAY COUNTY CLUB flourish the cause that it is to serve. Pericles, we are told, invoked the genius of Phidias to erect on the citadel of the Ath- ens of Old a statue of Minerva, goddess of wisdom, patron of arts and arms. On the "CHAN” AND HIS LADY FRIEND acropolis of this modern Athens you h.ave reared a temple to an ideal more lofty and enduring than the Jove-born divinity of the antique world. Above it stands no statue with shield and upifted spear, but within it, unseen yet distinctly felt in the lives of votaries, the spirit of wisdom shall dwell and dispense her choicest gifts. This work of your hands shall not perish, for it sig- nalizes the onward march of influences en- dued with a beneficent immortality. It stands as a monument to tilings that are not dead — that do not die. Address of Hon. E. 0. Randall W E ARE NOT so smart as we think we are; there are others. There have b