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Title: The Tiger (student newspaper), Sept. 1903-June 1904
Year: 1903 (1900s)
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Subjects: Colorado College Student publications Colorado College student newspaper College newspapers and periodicals
Publisher: Colorado College
Contributing Library: Colorado College, Tutt Library
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ht ofbecoming a university. I do not learn this frommy friend, Dr. Slocum, and I know that his ambition is boundless. But whether it is true or nor.1 am going to oppose the idea. She will be a uni-versity before you know it. The Palmer Hallmay be offered in evidence that the college period is not measured by printed theses, by elaborateexaminations, by the number of hoods of blackand golden its doctors are privileged to wear. Itis measured by the animating spirit, the spirit ofintellectual enterprise of academic devotion. There is no real difference between the Ameri-can college and the university, and there neverwill be any. The lower achievement leads to thehigher ambition. Many colleges are little, or♦veak, or lean, or narrow universities; yet eventhe poorest of them may be hallowed by some onesdevotion, ennobled by some one\ sonoiarship. Itis scholarship and devotion, which in the long-run make the university. Certain genuine attri-butes of the true university we may see clearly
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The Machine Shop. is past. Colorado College is already become auniversity. A university in embryo, perhaps, ifyou like, but still with all the marks by which th^university is known—as certain to become a uni-versity in fact as a pine seedling on your royalhills is sure some day to become a pine tree. A university in America is a place where menthink lofty thoughts, and where men test for them-selves that which seems to be true, where menfind their life work; where men go up to the edgeof things and look outward into the great un-known. The university does not consist of colleges anddepartments, deans and dignitaries, rules and reg-ulations. It is not a cluster of professional schools,nor even a group of graduate students. Its spirit in Colorado College; for one thing, she is broad-minded. The hall we dedicate today stands asone evidence of this, her fair library is another,and still more cogent, the wide sympathies andhelpful achievements of her professors. I be-lieve most firmly in

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