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025 - Intellectual - Chapter 4 · Short History of Pittsburgh

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty four of Short History of Pittsburgh by Samuel
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  Speaker 1: Harden Church. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Read by Tatiana Chichilla, Section twenty four intellectual, Chapter four.
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  Speaker 1: The author ventures to repeat in this little book a
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  Speaker 1: suggestion which has been made by him several times, looking
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  Speaker 1: to a working cooperation or even a closer bond of
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  Speaker 1: union between the Carnegie Institute and the University of Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: In an address delivered at the Carnegie Institute on Founder's
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  Speaker 1: Day nineteen o eight, the author made the following remarks
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  Speaker 1: on this subject. The temptation to go a little further
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  Speaker 1: into the future first requires the acknowledgment which Saint Paul
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  Speaker 1: made when he wrote of marriage. I speak not by authority,
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  Speaker 1: but by sufferings. There will soon begin to rise on
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  Speaker 1: these adjacent heights the first new buildings of the Western
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  Speaker 1: University now University of Pittsburgh, conceived in the classic spirit
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  Speaker 1: of Greece, and crowning that hill like a modern acropolis.
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  Speaker 1: With its charter days back one hundred and twenty five years,
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  Speaker 1: the university is already venerable in this land. Is it
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  Speaker 1: not feasible to hope that through the practical benevolence of
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  Speaker 1: our people, some working basis of union can be effected
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  Speaker 1: between that institution and this. Here we have painting and sculpture,
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  Speaker 1: and architecture, and books, and a wonderfully rich scientific collection,
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  Speaker 1: and the abiding spirit of music. We have these fast
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  Speaker 1: growing technical schools, and yet the entire scheme seems to
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  Speaker 1: be lacking something which marks its unfinished state. The technical
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  Speaker 1: schools do not and should not teach languages, literature, philosophy,
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  Speaker 1: and the fine arts, nor the old learned professions. But
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  Speaker 1: these must always rest in the university. Should not one
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  Speaker 1: school thus supplement the other, And then the students on
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  Speaker 1: each side of this main building would find available here
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  Speaker 1: those great collections, which, if properly demonstrated, would give them
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  Speaker 1: a larger opportunity for systematic culture than could be offered
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  Speaker 1: by any other community in the world. For we should
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  Speaker 1: no longer permit these great departments of the fine arts
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  Speaker 1: and the sciences to remain in a passive state. But
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  Speaker 1: they should all be made the means of active instruction
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  Speaker 1: from masterful professors. Music, its theory, composition and performance on
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  Speaker 1: every instrument should be taught, where demonstrations could be made
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  Speaker 1: with the orchestra, and the organ successful painters and sculptors.
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  Speaker 1: The elected members of the Fine Faculty should fix their
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  Speaker 1: studios near the institute and teach painting and sculpture as
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  Speaker 1: well as it could be done in Paris or Munich.
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  Speaker 1: Architecture should thrive by the hand of its trained votaries,
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  Speaker 1: while science could continue to reveal the secrets of her
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  Speaker 1: most attractive mysteries. Then, as the ambitious youths of the
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  Speaker 1: ancient world came to Athens to obtain the purest culture
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  Speaker 1: of that age, so would are modern youths, who are
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  Speaker 1: already in the Carnie Technical Schools from twenty six States
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  Speaker 1: continue to come to Pittsburgh to partake of the most
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  Speaker 1: comprehensive scheme of education which the world would obtain. Believing
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  Speaker 1: firmly in the achieving power of hopeful thought, I pray
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  Speaker 1: you think on this end of section twenty four