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Fame For Fame’s
Sake Alone

INAUGURAL TALK

In an address on “The College
and Alexandria,” Dr. Gordon Keith
Chalmers struck the keynote of his
purpose in his future administrator-
ship of Rockford college at the cere-.
mony marking his formal inaugura-
tion as the college’s ninth head
Wednesday.

'I‘o student and to faculty mem-
ber, to trustee and guest educator,
it was clear that the new Rockford
college head will set a high stand-
ard of scholarship for his pupils
and faculty members alike.

He proposed an increase in the
study of languages and mathematics
for his students; and for his faculty.
vitality and free originality. He
Wishes his teachers to give to their
pupils “attractive examples of good
living.” '

‘ The president’s address began

.witli a. description of the intellectual
industry of the people of Alexandria

in the third_century B. C. It was

in Alexandria that the greatest and

most renowned scholars did their

work, he said. They were famous and

worked primarily for fame, and
1 when they wrote they wrote chiefly
footnotes. Many books were pub-
lished, but little care 7 was taken
about their quality. “The literature
» was the literature of academies, the-
3 poetry that of cliques,” he continued. .
New Alexandria. '

“Alexandria has arisen among us

many times since the third century.
It was to be found not long after-
wards in Rome. It was to be found
in spirit at the time of Louis XV
in France. The Marlene Dietrich
‘ movie pretending to be based on the
3 history of Catharine of Russia sug-
gests in its fictional settings the
Alexandrianism of Moscow in the
eighteenth century. Alexandrianism
is not extreme materialism, it is not
debauchery, though these things
may- accompany it. It is profusion
of fact, mere eye stuffing. Just to“
look at the stage sets in that film
wears you out.

“In the Alexandria of our century
we see the 'same elaboration. We
love the map, we love to linow the
number of miles, we love population
statistics, we love the telephone and
transoceanic cables, in talk we love
to repeat phrases many times—good
things in their place, but we love
them too well.”

He continued: “Alexandria is not
Mammon worship. It is the naive
ambition of a powerful people,
ignorant rather “an greedy. They
do the conventionally right thing
and do it up brown. They elaborate
instead df originate; they expand in—
stead of progress.”

Unlike the classical Greeks, nthe
Alexandrians did not understand
the good of a thing, Dr. Chalmers
said.

Use What Is Needful‘

“If you know enough about litera—

ture to go anywhere in its treasure

 

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-—Mormng Star Photo.

Miss Mary Emma. Woolley, president of Mount_Holyoke college and
a delegate of the United States government to the recent disarma—
ment conference at Geneva, arrived in Rockford last night to take
part today in the ceremonies marking the installation of a new presi—
dent at Rockford college. She was greeted at the Illinois Central
station by Miss Meryle Stockhus, a graduate of Mount Holyoke in
1931. Miss Woolley (right), is shown with Miss Stockhus.

"Famed Delegate
For Peace Here,
Scoffs War Scare

That the assassination of King
lexander of Jugoslavia yesterday
11 France will not precipitate an-
ther war was the confident ,asser-
ion of Miss Mary Emma Woolley,

uresident of Mount Holyoke college
.nd America‘s woman delegate to
the last disarmament conference at
Geneva. upon her arrival in Rock-
ford last night to participate today
11] the festivities marking the instal-
ation of Dr. Gordon Keith Chal—
.mers as president of Rockford col-
"lege.

“Eventually, but it may take
longer than we had hoped,” was the
answer that the famous president
of Mount Holyoke, who is one of
the nation’s most ardent advocates
of disarmament, gave when asked if
she still had hopes for the disarma—
ment of nations.

Miss Woolley stated that she could
not foresee any international com-
plications that might lead to war
arising out of the unfortunate
shooting of King Alexander of Jugo-
slavia yesterday in France.

To substantiate her belief, she re—
ferred to the recent assassinations of
the president of the French Re-
public and the chancellor of Aus-
tria. Neither killing precipitated
war, she pointed out.

“These assassinations,” Miss Wool—
ley claimed, “are indicative of the

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- ——Momin Star Photos.

Dr. Gordon Keith Chalmers (center) is shown in the upper
photographat the luncheon given Wednesday following his in-
stallation as president of Rockford college. In the lower picture he
is shown at the right at the actual installation ceremony in the
college quadrangle.

At the left in the upper picture is President Walter Dill Scott
of Northwestern university; next to him is Dr. Mary Emma Woolley,
president of Mount Holyoke college; andon the other, side of Dr.
Chalmers are Dorothy Canfield Fisher, noted novelist; and Robert
Frost, celebrated New England poet. ‘

In the lower-picture'fleft to right) are Prof. Norman Foerster,
director of the school of letters of the University. of Iowa, who spoke
' on “The Individual and Society”; Webb C. Stevens, who installed
Dr. Chalmers for the board of trustees; Dr. John Gordon, who gave
the invocation; and Dr. Chalmers. ~

   

 house, recognize what is valuable to
you, seize it and so possess it that
you can use it whenever you have
need, then you will have been justly
equipped by the college,” he con-
tinued.

“F01 in a firm voice and with a

couiageous judgment, the conegq

must say what ppmgs azexnosli use-
eml ,_ ‘hesa 1dr’ia11 days have

"tom in the academic
Wei-111’ Consider the catalogue of
any gieat univeisity and many of
the colleges. The number of courses
of study considered of general value
to the mind and soul is preposter-
ous. There is Alexandrianism par
excellence. Everything is included
for fear that something some day
may prove of value, though no one
would quite dare assert at this min-
ute its sure worth. The curriculum
must be chastened. Officially the
college must say to the student, ‘A
few kinds of knowledge belong to
mankind at its noblest. Mastery of
one or two of these you must have
in order to be free.’

“But even a chastened curriculum
will not assure good college work.
Teaching itself can be done in the
Alexandrian spiiit, and here lies our
greatest failure. The college though,
has a peculiar advantage among in-
stitutions of 1ea1ning.It can iec—
ognize the simple truth gained fiom
experience, that educatiOn is not the

result of a system of a constitution, ,

but a lively thing- got by 1m'ta' n
Professors must be admirab 1 me
and women ttractivemin _,

way of thought the student wants
to emulate. Imitation in this theory
of teaching I use in Aristotle’ s sense
of the word. Rockford college, un-
der the leadership of President
,Maddox whom so many of you loved,
has honored the study and practice
of some of the arts, equally with a
study of the sciences and the hu-
manities. In doing this it has rec—
ognized the necessity of use and
selection. On its faculty are to be
found accomplished users of fact in
the sense in which I have spoken.
Sooner or later one who uses fact
well produces an essay, a sonata,a
poem,astory1 a painting,a astatue,
or a scientific study. It is a good
principle well proved by experience
that college teache must be fruit-
ful in their own subJects. And here
let me remind you that the college

‘ must expect the rich, firm fruit, at--

tractive to many palates, not the
haws, limes, mangoes, and pome-
granates of Alexandria.”

In conclusion; Dr. Chalmers said: .

“By its structure, by its philosophy

' and by the character of its teachers,

the college as distinct from other
institutions has a unique opportun-
ity to save its members from Alex-
andrianism. If what our students
learn is a snail part of that small
body of generally useful knowledge;
if they learn this in action and
master it seeing close to them day
by day in their many contacts with
their professors a lively and gracious
way of using knowledge, then they
are likely to walk forth into Alex—
andria defended from the amazing

distraction

museums With the ambitious, note
making pedants, the literary hacks
laboring for publicity and a facile
novelty will surround our graduates.
They can do no good in Alexandria
unless they live well and me happy,

unless they use experience and
learning For what Alexandria
needs more than anything else is
attiactive examples of good living.
We can expect that our g1aduates
will find life m01e lovable, and that
taking life more seriously, as they
do, they may feel fiee, perhaps, to
be a little less serious about it. From
them we may look for a firm
quietude of spirit and a strong, eager
w01d_ of appioval for the few things
of use and excellence which they
will find. From some we may even
hope for a clear and considered as-
seition, be it in words, numbers,
pigment, music, stone, or on the
stage, an assertion of what is truly
joyous and peculiarly useful in life.”

 

  

 

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