. Inauguration ceremonies of Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, as president of the University of Southern California and exercises of the Pan-American educational conference, April twenty-seven to twenty-nine, nineteen twenty-two. is name with a single 1, therefore, I take it, he isnot closely related either to Gabriel or Michael, but belongs en-tirely to a different family of angels. The college president of today finds his highest ambitionrealized in the opportunity to be, not an angel, though everis he in search of good angels who make his work possible,but an evangel who speaks the word of tru
. Inauguration ceremonies of Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid, as president of the University of Southern California and exercises of the Pan-American educational conference, April twenty-seven to twenty-nine, nineteen twenty-two. is name with a single 1, therefore, I take it, he isnot closely related either to Gabriel or Michael, but belongs en-tirely to a different family of angels. The college president of today finds his highest ambitionrealized in the opportunity to be, not an angel, though everis he in search of good angels who make his work possible,but an evangel who speaks the word of truth as he sees thetruth, to all the world through which he is privileged to spreadhis influence. This is the day for the consideration of worldaspects of education, and in that consideration I find my theme. This is a great day for education, great in its possibilities,with demands that will not be refused and opportunities thatmust not be denied. Perhaps it required a great world strugglefor the preservation of the most worthy achievements of humanexperience to awaken mankind to the consciousness of the con-tribution made by organized means of education to human wel-fare. We must remember that the greatest piece of ca-. PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE 113 tional legislation during the century was enacted amid thethroes of the Civil War. But whether or not such mis-fortune was required, it is very certain that the late war hasushered in a revival of learning, the like of which has neverbeen seen. The emphasis in this later day, however, is laidupon human efficiency and service, rather than upon humanacquirements, not with the idea of excluding the old and thevaluable, but looking toward a coalescence of the most worthyof the old and the most worthy of the new. The number and complexity of the problems arising out ofpresent conditions are such as to confound the mighty andbaffle the thought of men of lesser culture. While elementaryand secondary schools are not free from profound trials,
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