1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL. 119college and university trustees, and the conference on commercialeducation. The earnestness which was displayed inthese assemblages and the excellence of the addresses deliveredbefore them shed great light upon, and will undoubtedlybe of considerable assistance, in solving the questions whichconfrpnted them.It is rare indeed that a very large number of men distinguished'byable service in the cause of education, the churchand the state, come together. The presence of a large numberof distinguished men was one of the most notable featuresof President James's installation. Among those who are bestknown by the general public, who were present, were Dr.Andrew S. Draper, commissioner of education of New York;President James B. Angell, University of Michigan; PresidentIra Remsen, Johns Hopkins University; Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus,president Armour Institute; Rev. James K. McClure;Thomas E. Judge, editor New World, Chicago; "Uncle Joe"Cannon, speaker of the national house of representatives;Chas. S. Deneeri; governor of Illinois; Jacob M. Dickinson,chief counsel of the Illinois Central Railway; Major GeneralWeston, U. S. A.; and others too numerous to mention here.Though the entire week was occupied with the differentconventions, the convocations of the several colleges andschools of the university, the military review, the dedicatoryexercises at the recently completed women's building, thestudent's parade, the Friar Bacon and Fiiar Bungay play andmany other interesting events; yet, grand and imposing asthese were, the event that lent color and meaning to them,and around which they were clustered as setting to a finestone, was the installation of Edmund Janes James as the executivehead of the University of Illinois. A vast assemblagepaid homage to'the great western university and did honor/to its .new president on Installation Day. When the timecame for the academic procession to start from the presi--..dent's house for the armory, where the formal installationexercises were to be held, fully ten thousand people had.gathered on the leaf-strewn campus to witness the brilliantprocession. The day was dark with lowering clouds andthreatening rain, but the rich colors, and the luster of theacademic gowns which dotted the campus, brightened thegloomy aspect of things materially. Color, color everywhere—averitable sea of gold-tasseled caps and varicoloredgowns poured in upon the campus from all sides. The colorsof classic Oxford and Cambridge mingled here and there