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others to do the same. Where teachers are original investigators 

 truth-fearing and truth-loyal men, men that can not be fatigued or 

 discouraged, their students will be of their own kind. To find them, 

 they will come from the ends of the earth. The investigators make 

 the university as the teachers make the college. It is not necessary 

 that many departments be developed to make the university real; it is 

 said that Agassiz in 1850 was himself the sole university in America. 

 The presence of Agassiz and Gray, Lowell and Longfellow, Holmes 

 and Goodwin, Felton and Norton, meant a university atmosphere. 

 Silliman and Dana meant the University of Yale. Such men are as 

 rare as they are choice. No university faculty was ever made up 

 wholly of university men, and no one ever had too many of them. 



From such men as these the American scholar is descended. The 

 growth of American science is his work, and of this growth he is in 

 turn a product. That he may never grow less we hope and pray. And 

 this with a certainty that our prayers will meet their answer. Our 

 faith is shown by our works. With the best of these let us place our 

 new temple dedicated to the holy life of action, to the worship of the 

 God of things as they are, our new Palmer Hall of Colorado College. 



