The University of Wisconsin dedication of Lathrop Hall program. April 1, 1910

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The University of Wisconsin

Dedication

of : Lathrop Hall

. Friday Afternoon : Apmil the first at three o'clock Nineteen hundred and ten Historical

“There is annually appropriated for the period of four years the sum of one hundred thousand dollars to the university fund income from the general fund of the state out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to be used for the construction and equipment of a women’s building, which shall include a { women’s gymnasium, and for men’s dormitories, provided that the women’s building is to be first constructed. . . .” Sec. 4, Chap. 428, Laws of Wisconsin, 1907. “Section 391n of the Statutes (being Sec. 4 of Chap. 428, Laws of 1907) is hereby repealed, provided any balance up to $200,000 remaining in the state treasury unexpended on June 30, 1909, to the credit of the university fund income un- der said section, shall remain part of the university fund income * and be expended for the construction and equipment of the women’s building now under construction.” Sec. 6, Chap. 306, Laws of Wisconsin, 1909.

The contract for the construction was let by the Regents, on the approval of the Governor, April 14, 1908. The architects were Warren P. Laird and Paul Cret, con- { sulting, and Arthur Peabody, supervising. Ground was broken on May 1, 1908. The choice of a name for the building was made by the Re- gents on February 17, 1909. Programme

President Charles Richard Van Hise, presiding 3 Mr. Gardiner Lathrop, Guest of Honor

Invocation . By The Reverend Charles Josiah Galpin

Song—The Spinning Chorus—Wagner By The University Girls’ Glee Club

Address—Eternal Values in a University By Regent Florence Griswold Buckstaff

¥ Address—The Personal Development and the Social Responsibility of Women By Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, of New York

Song—Summer—Chaminade By Miss Minnie Bergman Mrs. Inga Sandberg, accompanying

Song—America By the Assemblage, led by the Glee Club

Benediction

After the exercises there will be a reception on the first floor, to which all are invited. The building will be open for inspection. Young women will be at hand to answer inquiries. John Hiram Lathrop

Born at Sherburne, New York, January 22, 1799 Died at Columbia, Missouri, , 1865

A.B., Yale College, 1819; LL.B., Hamilton College, 1845. Tutor at Yale College, 1822 to 1826; Professor at Hamilton College, 1829 to 1840; President of the University of Missouri, 1840 to 1849; Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, 1849 to 1858; President of the University of Indiana, 1859; Professor at the University of Missouri, 1860 to 1865, President, 1865. His inauguration as Chancellor of the University of Wis- consin took place on January 16, 1850, at the Capitol. His inaugural address reveals him as a man of prophetic vision, with profound faith in human progress. He saw the possibili- ties in Wisconsin and in the University, as the following ex- cerpts will show.

“If I mistake not the signs of the times, and the genius and the character of our people, it is on American soil that the three fold problem, what free institutions can do for education, and what education can do for free institutions, and what both can do for human progress, is destined to be most successfully and most gloriously illustrated. Wherever in our country the prin- i ciple of free schools has been directly submitted to the of a popular vote, it has been carried triumphantly through. The American mind has grasped the idea, and will not let it go, that the whole property of the state, whether in common or in sev- eralty, is holden subject to the sacred trust of providing for the education of every child of the state. Without the adoption of this system, as the most potent compensation of the aristocratic tendencies of hereditary wealth, the boasted political equality of which we dream, is but a pleasing illusion. Knowledge is the great leveler. It is the true democracy.” “Wisconsin may have the honor of solving for herself and for man, the great problem of the best educational organism for improving, informing and purifying the common mind, . . . . a problem on which depends, more than on aught else, the progressive civilization of mankind.” “And if this State University be the chosen instrumentality by which Wisconsin shall discharge her duty to man, then shall it indeed accomplish a glorious.destiny, by ministering, in no humble degree, to the advancement of the cause of God in this world, which is none other than the cause of human intelligence and virtue—the great cause of an ever progressive civiliza- tion.”

In an address before the State Agricultural Society, at its first annual fair, held at Janesville, October, 1851, Chancellor Lathrop closed an appeal to the farmers of the state to rally to the support of the University, with these words: “Tt is a fact of world wide celebrity that Wisconsin presents to the settler the physical elements of prosperity, in rich pro- fusion and in beautiful combination. With its soil and climate unsurpassed—with its capacity for rapid settlement and early maturity—with its continued alternations, in just proportion, of woodland and opening, of prairie, natural meadow, and lake— and with the command of both ihe Eastern and Southern mar- kets, it needs but the means of professional culture, thus car- ried to the door of the farmer, through the system of Public Instruction, to finish what nature has so tastefully and so boun- teously begun. “Agricultural science, like all other science, is to be acquired by study and research. The discipline and the instruction of the school, are essential to its seasonable and thorough acqui- sition. Without it, the farming processes fall to the low level of : routine and drudgery. With it, Agriculture vindicates its un- doubted claim to stand, not only in the first rank of the experi- mental arts, but to take its position, side by side, with the learned professions, in dignity and honor, as well as in profit. “Bring, then, the educational agencies of the state into har- mony with the great objects of your Association; follow up the auspicious beginnings of this day with ample provision for gen- eral professional culture, and you will leave an inheritance to ¢ your children, transcending all that you have felt or fancied of the destiny of Wisconsin. “Education, Gentlemen, is no mendicant. It begs nothing from your charity. Its proclamation to you is, “Give, and it shall be given to you again; good measure, pressed down and shaken together, and running over, shall be returned into your bosom.” : ! Lathrop on Coeducation

From the annual report of the Board of Regents, dated October 1, 1857, transmitted to the Governor by Chancellor Lathrop, and undoubtedly writ- ten by him as president of the Board.

“The completion of the central edifice, will open the way to ' the admission of female pupils to the Normal and the other de- partments of the University. It is a question, now much agi- tated, whether the liberal culture of the female mind is an end most appropriately attained under the existing agency of sep- arate educational establishments, doubling the array, and quad- rupling the expense of the instruction. The entire success which has attended the common education of the sexes in the Normal schools and the higher academies of the Eastern States, goes far toward settling the question for the University. There is not wanting collegiate experience of some authority in the same direction, and the whole question is now in process of be- ing conclusively tested at , under the Presi- dency of Horace Mann. It may be alleged that public senti- ment in Wisconsin is not yet ripe for dispensing with separate female schools; still the Board deem it right to prepare to meet : the wishes of those parents who desire University culture for their daughters, by extending to all such the privileges of the Institution. The residence of the families of the faculty in the buildings, and the admirable conduct of the commons hall, will render the membership of female pupils pleasant, economical and safe.” Amenica

My country, ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the Pilgrim’s pride, From every mountain side Let freedom ring!

My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, Thy name I love: I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.

Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom’s song: Let mortal tongues awake, Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong!

Our fathers’ God, to Thee, Author of liberty, To Thee we sing: Long may our land be bright With freedom’s holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King. —Samuel F., Smith.