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Hobart Herald “ It is today no small part of the pleasure of the donors that their modest gift of funds sufficient to erect a gymnasium deemed ample for the purposes of the college enables your honorable body at last to carry into effect ideas which have always had a more or less prominent place in your plans and in the plans of your predecessors, for it is no secret that the trustees of Hobart have always considered themselves as ministers to the students under their charge, not of intellectual and. moral and social and religious culture onlv, but of phvsicalcultuie also, and that again and again in the hist, -ry of the college they have ungrudgingly made such provision for physical culture as was possible with funds often painfully slender even for the more pressing needs of the college. “It is a further and in one sense a particular gratification to the donors, whom I have been delegated to represent, if they may believe that their free-will gift, such as it is, is welcome to that member of your honorable body, who as president of the college has made it apparent from the first day of his presidency that the manifold interests of the college are each and all without preference in his heart as well as in his hands. “But this gift today to Hobart of a gymnasium is in reality a gift not to the authorities of Hobart College but to the students of Hobart College, and I am sure I do but voice the inmost feeling of the donors when I say that it is their hope that the students of the college will find as great pleasure in using the gymnasium as the donors have found in giving it,' and that each and every student will regard it as his gymnasium, whose use is not to be' delegated to others but to be exercised by himself— regularly, intelligently, faithfully, and systematically till he comes at last, through it and the other educational instrumentalities the College affords, to that highest level of culture, a perfectly developed mind in a perfectly developed body. “Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of th e Board, nothing so be comes our humanity as loving thought for the wants of others,