Presentation Of Dr. Angell's Bust

xne presentation oí tne dusc oi ui. Angelí to the University took place Tuesday afteruoon, and was a fitting celebratiou by the graduating class of the twenty-five years of Dr. Augell's service as president of the Uuiversity. The bust was made by Lorado Taft, of Chicago, and cost $ 500. Miss Aun L. Richards made the presentaitou speech on behalf of the class, speaking in high praise of Dr. Angelí. Regent Cocker accepted it in au address which conclnded as f ollows : The University has been especiaily fortúnate in the character and attainmeuts of its presidents. Gifted and seholarly men they have been and wisely Jüive they planned. The state owes thena a debt of gratitude for their devotion to its educational interests.and this Uuiversity will ever gratefully aeknowleuge its indebtedness to these eumesi men. The term of office of Dr. Angelí tías pivered nearly half the lif'o of the Univrrsity, and his rare tact and wi.Sciiir.) have covered it with especial honor. IV w have grasped as olearly as be has the needs and possibiliites of a great school of learning and have attained as satisfactory resnlts. Few eau appreciate the embarrasement and difftculties of the president of college, particnlarly of a state university likc our ovni. There are so many and so conflictiug ideas as to the relattion of the state to higher education, so many local prejudices to satisfy, so many political ambitions to gratify, that a state iustitntion encounters greater rluügers and requires greater wisdom in administration thau do othor institutions of learuing, whose polioy is largely fixed by traditions, or whose interests are conserved by a rich and powerful constitnency. To place the sity iu the front rank of the great schools of leamiug, with their rich endowments, to make the state kuowii and respected abroad through its university, and in spite of opposing influenoes to make it the crowniug glory of the state, require the highest wisdom and the rarest skill. All friends of the University gratefully recogni.e the indebtedness of thisinstitution of leaming the distinguished schol ar who now presides so ably over its interests. While Dr. Angell's reputation as au educator wiU rest largely on his administrativo skill, and on the wonderful growth of the University duriug his occupancy of the presidency, he has gained other distiuctiqns. It rarely happens that great executive abilityisass-, eiated with exceptional knowledge of some one subject. A suecessful college president must be conversant with so many different snbjeots that form a part of the work of a university that little opportnnity is giveu or profound knowledge in auy special line of liter - ary and scientific work. It is greatly t o the credit of the president of this Uuiverity that he is not only au aecomplished teacher and rare acholar, but also an anthority on intern atioual luw. Twice the national government has selected him to perform important functions, which he has discharged W'th sitiial honor to himself and credit to the whole country. Whether as journalist or teacher or college president or embassador to a foreign court, he has the rare felicity of looking. "On dnties well performed and days well speut. ' ' I receive, therefore, in behalf of the Uuiversity this admirable bust of Dr. Angelí as a pledge of the loyal aft'ection of the class of 1895 for the genial and houored president of this University.