OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY



followed their natural instincts on this day and returned to The
Old Kentucky Home, to their Alma Mater.
    We have asked many distinguished guests to participate in this
ceremony with us. We have brought men here from many walks
of life for the purpose of presenting to them honorary degrees.
    We have invited to make the leading speech of the occasion one
of the country's most distinguished educators. We have with us also
our President Emeritus, whose educational life almost spans that of
this University, to recite to you its history. None but him could tell
it. As President of this University I bid you welcome. We consider
that you have honored us by coming. We want you to feel that this
campus is yours; that these ceremonies are in part yours. We want
you to participate in everything that we have and do in the joy of
reunion; in the pleasure of revivified friendships; in our exultation,
and in our pride.
    I have now the pleasure to introduce to you the President of the
University of Cincinnati, a man of profound scholarship, a thinker,
leader, educator of few equals in America-Dr. C. W. Dabney.


    Presidlent Dabnev said:

    It is a great pleasure to bring you the greetings of the people
of Cincinnati and of her University upon the occasion of your Golden
Jubilee. Cincinnati is so unfortunate as to be situated on the other
side of the Ohio River, but she has a beautiful southern exposure and
receives many genial influences from the Kentucky side. The sun
that begins at this season of the year to shine upon us in Cincinnati
from above the southern hills is symbolic of the power and inspira-
tion which we receive from Kentucky. For we are indebted to you
for giving us many of your best ment to direct our affairs and your
loveliest women to rule our homes.
    We are glad. also, that while you make Lexington Your seat of
learning, you vnake Cincinnati your center cf trade. We welcome
your sons with their produce, as we do your daughters with their
dollars. Pive towns on your side of the river supply homes for our
people and sites for our factories, and whenever there is anything
we want to do and may not do in Cincinnati, we escape to this land
of liberty.
    Cincinnati is, therefore, sincerely and deeply interested in every-
thing that makes for the welfare of Lexington. She rejoices in every
evidence of your progress and congratulates you especially on the
power and influence attained by your University.
    Like most of the great agricultural states of the South. Ken-
tucky started late in developing a system of public education. But



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