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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1895)
THE HESPERIAN not be, if the world waits a few yours, that it may bo indebted to the same region for a higher type of men and women, correspond ent to the wheat? Certainly the product of the aggressive and enlarged institutions of our civilization in such favorable circum stances should be such a type. Another phase of the same subject was touched upon in my response to the toast, "Education in Nebraska," at the banquet given by the Commercial Club of Omaha in honor of Governor Holcomb. Then the motto suggested for the pennant to be run up the foremast of the University was ''Cul ture and Agriculture." Both terms must be used in their broadest sense in a state whose very name signifies "the land of broad rivers." Until my formal greeting, which shall be as informal as possible, it may bo sufficient to assure every student of a welcome to op portunities for the best and broadest culture, in the University that henceforth shall be the object of our common labor and loyalty. Gkokok E. MaoLkan. Spring Lake Beach, N. J., Aug. 16th, 1805. Chancellor MacLcan. The University Buffered no slight loss when Chancellor Oanfield was compelled to leave its students and patrons feeling that his place could not be easily filled. Nor could it, and Dame Fortune saved our re gents a vast deal of worry and anxious hunting by the happy suggestion of Dr. George E. MacLcan at the yary first. There was no cautious hesitation, no doubts as to whether "if wo look over the field a little moro, wo might get a better man." They know they had a good man, a man in every way fitted for the trust, and one wliose superior it would be too difficult a task to find. The University is an institution at whoso head a strong man is needed strong mentally, morally, physically, yet a man possessed of a big warm heart and a super abundance af sympathy; and such a man is our new chancellor. George E. MacLcan was born in Rock ville, Conn., in 1850. Ho prepared for college at Williston seminary, East Hamp ton, Mass., and graduated at Williams in 1871. The three next years he spent at Yale. A hard student and "pusher" from the start, that he was at the head of most of his classes and the instigator and backer of all the prominent moves in the college is hardly to be wondered at. He was a mem ber of all the societies, won prizes of no mean note, was elected to offices of almost every kind and description and when he graduated was honor man of the first rank. In the same year he received his master's degree at Williams. From 1874 to 1S77 he was pastor of the Union church of Leban on, N. Y., and for the four succeeding years pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian cnurch at Troy, N. Y. In 1S81 he went to Europe and studied at Leipsig, Berlin, Ox ford and Cambridge. In two years he re ceived the degree of doctor of philosophy, and also that of master of arts at Leipsig. In 1S84 he was elected to the chair of English language and literature in the Uni versity of Minnesota, and has had an active part in building up the school from an en rollment of three hundred students to one of very nearly twenty-two hundred. Granted a vacation in 1801, he spent a your in work in the British museum and at Oxford. The summer of 1804 he passed in studying in the national library at Paris. Besides several articles of note published in the magazines, Chancellor MacLoan .is the author of several books, all of which are highly spoken of. Williams' College of Oratory. Elsewhere in this issue we have inade mention of the Polytechnique institute. Ac cordingly, it is most fitting, that we speak of the new school of Elocution and College of Oratory established by Mr. Williams. It will be found in two very pleasant rooms in
