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THE HESPERIAN
WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA.
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Yol. XXVIII.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, NOVEMBER 4, 1898.
No. a.
THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW BUILDING.
Holiday for the University. Lecture by Prof. Brooks
Classes Meet. Seniors and Juniors Play a Tie
Game of Foot-Ball.
The holiday last Friday was observed by faculty, students,
regents, and everybody in general with genuine college spirit.
Many predicted that the gathering of the classes to march to
the armory would bring about some class "scraps" that would
make the day a lurid one, but all of those predictions were
vain. Juniors passed by Seniors without any pugnacious
feelings; Sophomores and Freshmen looked upon each other
mildly and made no fuss.
The holiday program began in chapel at 10 o'clock. The
feature of this meeting was the address of Prof. Morgan
Brooks on "Electricity and Enlightenment." Regent von
Forrel opened the meeting by invocation which was followed
by the ofticial announcement of the election of Prof. Brooks,
vice Prof. Owens, resigned. Chancellor MacLean then
announced Mr. Brooks officially installed and presented him
to Dean Bessey of the Industrial College. In his lecture
Prof. Brooks traced the development in the use of electricity
in this century. The early attempts to use electricity for
lighting purposes had been failures. The electrical tolegraph
haB only been invented about sixty years, and for a long time
it had only a limited use. When Cyrus W. Field laid the
Atlantic cable, a great advance was made in telegraphy.
Prof. Brooks mentioned the importance of the telegraph as
an aid to the government. It facilitates diplomatic relations;
makes difficult the-escape of criminals, saves life and property
by means of weather bureau and fire alarms.
He spoke, also, of the usefulness of the telephone, as an
agent in business affairs. It also aids in unifying the language
of a country.
He also spoke of the conservation and transformation of
energy by electricity and cited as an example, Niagara Falls,
Electricity has supplanted horse-power to a great extent
electricity in X rays has greatly transformed surgery,
THE AFTERNOON EXERCISES.
The cadet band opened the afternoon exercises by an out-of-door
concert which brought out a large crowd. The University
may well be proud of its band this year. It contains nearly
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thirty-five pieces and Mr. Earl Wohn as loader is bringing
out the very best there is in the boys. The classes gathered
during this concert and marched to the armory giving their
class yells as they went. After an excellent selection by the
band, in the armory, Pros. C. H. Morrill of the Board of
Regents, presented the report of the building committee. The
total cost of the building as it stands has been 30,126.87.
This is not quite met by the $30,000 appropriation of the leg
islature. Pres. Morrill congratulated the University in thus
receiving tho most substantial building on the campus.
The words of Chancellor MacLean, in accepting tho build
ing, were eloquent and well-chosen. He said that ho accepted
this tenth building on tho campus with thanksgiving to God
and tho people of Nebraska. "It shall bo named 'The North
Wing of Mechanic Arts Hall,' " he said, uuntil the liberality
of a legislature that knows no north and no south shall give us
a completed college of Mechanic Arts."
"To tho eye of the prophet, this day with tho dedication of
tho Mechanic Arts Hall crowns the peace jubilee of tho trans
Mississippi exposition. The University of Nebraska, now
generally recognized as the leading central trans-Mississippi
university, becomes in the loftiest sense of the words, the per
manent trans-Mississippi and international exposition. It will
be tho perennial school of the people, tho fountain head of
progrcsn in theory and practice, the preparatory school for an
other exposition whose peace jubilee will celebrate, not only as
at present a united nation free from sectionalism of north and
south, east and west, but also a unified nation. Invention
will have bound all into one with something more than bands
of steel oven by intercommunication as quick as lightning
of thought, speech and visible presence. Education and tho
solidarity of humanity will have made one capitalist and laborer,
classes and masses, the American from Porto Rico to the
Philippines, and mankind, tho globe around."
He then committed tho building to Dean Bessey and his
colleague irith hearty congratulations.
Prof. Bessey responded with a brief history of tho growth of
tho University, and in closing pledged himself and hie col
leagues of tho Industrial College to use tho now building in
strict interpretation of tho act of congress, for tho promotion
of "tho liboral and practical education of tho industrial classes
in the several pursuits and professions of life."
A procession was then formed and marched to tho new
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