Excerpt from Inauguration of Wallace Walter Atwood as President of Clark University, February 1, 1921, Vol. 6
To the presidency of the college, at its opening, came a distinguished public servant, Carroll D. Wright. He was succeeded by a constituent member of the University Faculty who had writ his name large in the annals of Experimental Psychology - Edmund C. Sanford.
As time passed, these two institutions not only dwelt together in amity, but the same men came in many instances to serve on both faculties. Graduates of the College in considerable numbers continued their studies in the University. The line of demarcation became not stronger, but fainter, with the passing years.
Then President Hall resigned, in the fullness of strength and capacity, that he might prepare for publication his accumulated treasures of scholarship and research. At the same time President Sanford proposed to the Trustees that he relinquish his executive responsibilities and return to his professorial duties. Thus was brought about the situation contemplated by the founder when the two institutions should have a single head.
The Trustees had before them by no means an easy task. Of all commodities college and university presidents were the scarcest, and the demand for them was clamorous. At the end of our long trail we found a man into whose hands we felt that we could entrust the future of the institution with supreme confidence and glowing hope.
It is not necessary that this institution, founded as an innovation, shall cherish forever each and every detail that has found a place in its organization; but it is absolutely necessary that Clark shall be true to certain great fundamental principles; and of these two stand out conspicuously.
The true university spirit must forever be maintained. That spirit is the spirit of truth. It requires both the historical and the experimental disciplines: the one to make clear the truth we have to build on; the other to go forward from what we have and annex ever more and more of the undiscovered country.
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