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own needs, is sufficient unto himself and has the large charity which 

 sound nerves ensure. The way of Colorado is the warrior's way — 'the 

 Bushido,' as they said in old Japan, the way of the rough rider, the 

 way of the quick arm and the tender heart, the way of him who cares 

 only for what men are and not at all for what men say. 



Weak men who have been kept good in the east through the up- 

 braiding of maiden aunts often fail in Colorado. Good men grow 

 better there, for they must fight for and justify their virtue. After all 

 that is the only kind of righteousness that counts, vast, burly, ag- 

 gressive righteousness to which sin is folly; selfishness and vice are 

 things to be avoided as contemptible, as well as shunned as wicked. 

 The scholar in Colorado shares the largeness of his field. The dim- 

 eyed monk, the stoop-shouldered grammarian, these are not his ideals. 

 The scholar is the leader of enterprise, the builder of states. 



The air of Colorado is charged with oxygen. It is good atmosphere 

 in which to bring up a boy. In Colorado he becomes an out-of-door 

 man. He expands his chest, he can do things, he becomes fearless be- 

 cause he is adequate. Here in the west we send our graduate students 

 to the east, because we know that it will be well for them to know what 

 homes their fathers came from. They need New England acquaint- 

 anceship, English culture and German methods of thought. Far more 

 does the eastern graduate need what the west can give. The life in 

 the foothills makes a man, if need be, of the Harvard doctor of philos- 

 ophy. The world beyond the Missouri spreads his horizon and the 

 swift oxygen in the Colorado sunshine swells the size of his heart. 

 Some day men will go to Colorado and California for inspiration of 

 force as poets go to Greece for the inspiration of beauty. 



The new America is born where things are broad and free, and her 

 finest inspiration where things are grand and strengthening. When 

 the days of the emigrant are over and our people reach their equilib- 

 rium, the home of the highest education must be in the west. Who- 

 ever has known Colorado, whoever knows the great west will, all his life 

 long, always hear it calling, and wherever he goes he will carry with 

 him a fuller heart and a freer hand for his life in the plains or the 

 foothills, for his life in the regions where the very heavens are cosmo- 

 politan. 



I might say a word on the field of local scientific study which 

 Colorado offers. The problems of the local geology have been discussed 

 by my colleague President Van Hise. A region as vast as the Missis- 

 sippi valley has been crumpled and folded in the stress of the earth to 

 make Colorado. Noble scenery is the raw material of geology. A 

 mighty cliff is an uncovered record of primeval history. In all this 

 history, from the earliest to the latest, Colorado has something to say. 

 The graves of our earliest ancestors, it may be, lie in the hills of 



