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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1895)
'. f THE HESPERIAN ft Chancellor JlacLcan. ) A Word from the Chancellor. At the request of Thk Hksi'kkian, it gives me pleasure to say a word of greeting to the students of the University of Ncbrrska. It may be considered as a happy omen that the third opportunity given me for public utterance in Nebraska is a chance to speak to the students. In accordance with the time honored custom of the University my fujl message must be reserved for the ma triculation address on the opening day of the University year. It may be of interest to the students now to hear some of the points made in my re marks to my "fellow-craftsmen," the teach ers, in attendance at the University Summer School. Emphasis was laid upon the unity of the public school system of the state as including the primary and secondary schools together with the University. Chancellor Canfield's admirable way of putting the mat ter, when he said the University was the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and six teenth grades of the public school system, was commended. The further development of the unity by means of continuing and making pormanent the holding of a teacher's institute as a University Summer School was urged. The University should afford the fullest possible opportunities to the teachers of the state. Thus it may best enrich the school. The key note that sounded and that will be reiterated was "the best before the big gest, the best not necessarily the biggest, the best and, if possible, the biggest." The Shibboleth of the west, in earlier days, was, from the very force of environment, "big," but now it is becoming "big and best," whether it be in breeds of animals or varieties of grain. The world owes to the west the "A No. 1 hard wheat." May it
