The Student's Journal from Lawrence, Kansas • 9

KXKIU'ISKS. 7 cated and provided that the estate should not be finally settled within less than ten years. A fall in the value of the property led to a further delay, but at last each of the residuary legatees received Obcrlin's share was used to increase the permanent endowment fund and so raise the salaries of the professors. Our share was taken from the endowment fund where all gifts; the purpose of which is not specified go by act of the last legislature and devoted to the purchase of the plot of ground, about four hundred feet square, and the erection of the library building and Chancellor's residence. The Spooner Library was a dillicult building to construct.

The foundations of the two ts are upon different levels. But all obstacles have been overcome and the building is firm, sound and honest. The building committee consisted of Regents Robinson, Rogers and Mitchell, all of them men well fitted for the task assigned them. They were ably assist- ed by the superintendent of the building, Mr. John Cox, and by the architects, Messrs.

Van Brunt Howe. The late Governor Robinson was so deeply interested in the building that be thought of camping out upon Mount Oread in order that he might be constantly present to watch the work, but his failing health prevented him from doing as he wished. It was at the suggestion of Mr. Robinson that a part of the Spooner fund was set aside to build a Chancellor's residence, not to cost more than twelve thousand dollars, and which shall be the residence of F. II.

Snow for life. The audience then went to the Spooner Library, from the steps of which Regent Scott, speaking in behalf of our benefactor, presented the building to the state. HON. CIIAIILKS F. SCOTT.

Mr. Scott does not see. in the ten- four hundred, and twenty thousand volumes. An institution cannot be a university with so few as twenty or thirty thousand volumes. A benefactor from without the state has furnished the building Let the state till it.

In these days there are crying evils and much unrest. There are multitudes of reformers with one little idea who would set everything aright. They are wrong. Mankind is not to be elevated en masse. Every man must climb up for himself.

What arc needed for the solution of the present perplexing problems are kind hearts, knowledge, and clear thinking. The past, ten years has seen more foggy thinking in the field of public econ- omy than any other age in history, and to this fact our sufferings are largely due. The country is full of men who can settle the silver question and other abstruse problems after fifteen minutes reading. Kind hearts are plentiful. Knowledge? Yes, we shall get it.

We have been striving after it all our lives, and we are getting nearer. The libraries will help us on toward it, and with it will come clear thinking and the solution of our troubles. In concluding, Dr. Northrup prophesied a bright future for Kansas, not so much on account of her material resources as because of her people. New England is not materially rich, bitt such a people! After Dr.

Northrup ceased speaking Chancellor Snow gave a brief statement of the faets concerning1 the Spooner bequest, which will be of considerable interest to the students. V. II. SPOONElt'S GIFT. Mr.

Spooner's will provided that the portion of his estate remaining after the payment of numerous specified sums should be divided between Ober-lin College, in Ohio, and Kansas University. The will was quite compli-.