If this good record is maintained as the years go by, no friend of the University need fear that it will not continue to grow in the helpful esteem and confidence of a generous people. For after all, the rank and value of this Institution will be measured, not by the size of its buildings, nor by its collection of books and apparatus, nor even by the eminence of its Faculty, but by the conduct and careers of those whose intellects and characters have been trained and formed under its direction and discipline. And if each year adds to the number of young men and women who, going from these halls into the every-day walks and ways of human endeavor and duty, win for themselves honorable and respected names, the reflected lustre of their usefulness and exaltation will shine upon this building as does the sun in his daily journey—the glad morning of their triumphs bathing it with brightness, the full noontide of their worth and renown flooding it with warmth and splendor, and the majesty of their declining years shedding upon it the gratitude of a reverent benediction. THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. Address to the graduating class of the State Normal School, delivered at Emporia, June 11, 1885. MR. PRESIDENT, AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: In one sense, at least, the State Normal School is the most important of our higher educational institutions. The others educate, each year, a number of individuals, and necessarily a limited number, who are, individually, to fill various positions on life’s battle-field. The State Normal educates the educators, and thus by its influence, its system, its method and thought, reaches and shapes the minds of many thousands. There were, last year, 8,342 teachers in the public schools of Kansas, and they controlled and instructed an army of 308,600 children—an army larger than Grant, or Napoleon, or Wellington ever commanded; an army far more difficult to direct than were theirs; an army whose drill, discipline and instruction will exercise, through all the coming years, a larger and a far more important influence over the material and intellectual well-being of humanity than did the victories of these great commanders.