the State has committed one of the most important interests of the people, represented in the establishment of this school. It is not a school to be administered for the benefit of Cornell University, but it is a school to be administered by Cornell University for the benefit of the people. We may view its future with confidence as we recall the services rendered in the past by those connected with the agricultural work of this University, and I am sure it is gratifying to the people to know that the work is to continue under the immediate supervision of that accomplished director, Liberty Hyde Bailey, to whose ability and energy this institution owes so much. And through wise administration and through the benefits which will result from the knowledge this school will disseminate, and the fruitful experience it will record and communicate, Cornell University will be entitled to the respect and the gratitude which are the just due of the faithful execution of a public trust.

President Schurman: On behalf of the State of New York, it is now my privilege and my agreeable duty to commit through you to Cornell University the custody and control of these buildings and property, constructed and

set apart by the State for the New York State College of Agriculture, and through you to commit to Cornell University the administration of this college for the benefit of the people of the State. And in doing this I take pleasure in expressing my confidence in the administra. tion of this trust by Cornell University and my expectation that through this foundation the agricultural interests of the State will be notably advanced.

IV.

Address at the Unveiling of Tablets at the Hall of Fame, New York University, May 31, 1907.

On this day, with grateful appreciation, we commemorate the valor and the sacrifices of those who, as representatives of the people, took part in the struggle for the preservation of the Union. With the passing of the years, the wounds caused by civil strife have been healed, and old animosities and sectional rivalries have given place to a common realization of our National destiny and to a common congratulation that we have remained a united people. And to-day we render the tribute of honor as well as of affection to the memory not merely of those who fell fighting for a victorious cause, but for all who in their unselfish zeal, following what they believed to be the right, revealed the heroic qualities of American manhood.

While the ceremonies of this hour have no direct relation to the general observance of the day, it is fitting that among those who are

esteemed worthy of a place in this temple of illustrious Americans, and whose tablets are unveiled at this time, should be the great general of the Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman.

He hated war, but brought to its prosecution the highest military genius. He appraised its horrors so justly that he had no patience with temporizing policy. But, by daring and original plans, carried out with mathematical precision and unrelenting determination to succeed, he hurried the advent of peace, which he sincerely desired. To him war was war-unrelieved, cruel war,- a terrible means to a righteous end. And he played his part heroically, brilliantly, and unflinchingly for the sake of the end he so clearly saw. And by reason of his originality, foresight, exactness, intrepidity, and success he placed himself in the first rank of military men.

The soldier has so largely monopolized the plaudits and affection of mankind, not because of, but in spite of, the barbarities of war. Largely, of course, it has been due to the momentous political consequences of the success of arms, either in the defence of liberty or in the maintenance of national life, with which the people have felt their interests identified,

or in the increase of National glory which they proudly shared. But more largely the soldier has been honored, paradoxical as it may seem, because of love of humanity, and because through his work the noblest qualities of man have been placed in conspicuous relief. Endurance, poise, fortitude, unselfishness, disregard of personal danger, sagacity, discernment, swift and unerring analysis, exact calculation, the capacity for leadership and the mastery of men, single-mindedness and love of truth and honor, shining forth in a sincere and noble character at a time of greatest stress and peril,these are the qualities which dignify humanity and, represented in the soldier under circumstances fixing the attention of the nation and the world, call forth a universal tribute. by the manner in which these severe tests have been met, we test the quality of a nation's citizenship. It is not the havoc wrought, the lives sacrificed, the disaster and the ruin caused by the victory, that win the admiration of mankind, but the inflexible purpose, the intelligent plan, the undaunted courage, and the heroic self-abandonment, whether of victor or vanquished, which exercise the perennial charm and in their justification of humanity form the spell of ballad and of story.

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