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in the East some of the European students, they will soon be seen crossing the 

 continent and coming to see you, also. And don't be too short in your expecta- 

 tions ; do not look too near the present moment, but look forward ; and that 

 forward, however distant you may think it now, will be at your feet before 

 many years. 



When I saw to-day, for the first time, San Francisco through the Golden 

 Gate, I was amazed. I look upon it as one of the marvels of modern times, 

 that there should be a city standing upon these shores, so grand, so prosperous, 

 so rich — and so young. And what you have achieved in material prosperity, 

 do not despair to achieve in intellectual growth in the same short time. If you 

 will only put the shoulder to the wheel, and have confidence in yourselves that 

 you can do it, you will achieve that, as you achieved the other great result. 



President Davidson remarked : I know the Professor needs no 

 thanks from us for his kind words. He must feel such thanks, as 

 he sees them beaming from the countenance of each one here. 



I hope our new President of the University of California will 

 favor us with a few words, for we have in him a man come among 

 us with youth, ability and backbone, and these are the kind of men 

 we want in our educational institutions. I introduce to you Pro- 

 fessor Gilman, late of Yale College. 



REMARKS OF PROFESSOR GILMAN. 



I cannot but regard it as a most happy omen, that the first opportunity I 

 have, after coming here to take charge of your educational institution, of meet- 

 ing with the citizens of this place, is on an evening when you are assembled to 

 pay homage and render greeting to one who brings the best culture of the Did 

 World to bear upon the solution of the great problems which appertain to the 

 New — when you are here to greet so eminent a man as he who has just addressed 

 you. I can echo his words in a faint way, and take up a few of the thoughts 

 he has dropped. He has told you that the Museum at Cambridge is distin- 

 guished as the museum of to-day. Should it not be so with the University ? 

 Should it not be a university for the wants of to-day? Should we not use it 

 for the great problems which belong to this generation, for the great future that 

 is opening upon us? Should not we all unite to gather up the best of the past 

 experience of every nation, the accumulations of all men before us, and bring 

 them to bear upon our society, and upon, I trust you will allow mo to say it, 

 our own State of California ? One other thought I should like to re-echo. Pro- 

 fessor Agassiz has told you that the great want of science is observers, and the 

 great want of society is men. Now, the object of the University is to turn out 

 men; not narrow specialists, though they may be as eminent as possible in this 

 or that other department which they may pursue, but men of honest and earnest 

 purpose, men of true wisdom, and that is what the University has before it. I 

 will not prolong these remarks, but let me trust that the true utterances yoa 

 have heard from the distinguished orator who has spoken to you, that you need 



