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important, to recognize that there are times when we should read, 

 when, if we are not reading, we are doing something else that we 

 ought not to be doing. It is that time wdiich I urge you to devote 

 to learning; it may not be much time, but however little it should 

 be, if used carefully, progress must be made. 



In conclusion let me say that the officers of the University wish 

 to do everything in their power to promote your studies in the 

 future as in the past. As members of the University you are mem- 

 bers of a great fraternity; each member of that fraternity is anx- 

 ious to promote the welfare of every other member; he is particu- 

 larly anxious to promote the study of every other member, because 

 he believes that study is of fundamental importance. It is that 

 belief that has led him to join this great company of students. Not 

 only Avill your instructor watch your career and seek to be of serv- 

 ice to you in the future as in the past, but the officers of the Library 

 too, hope to be of assistance to you from time to time, perhaps of 

 greater assistance to you as graduates than they have been to you 

 as undergraduates. The business of librarian is not to take care of 

 books but to take care of readers. As long, therefore, as you are 

 readers it will be my duty and that of my colleagues to render you 

 such service as is in our power. 



My distinguished and venerated predecessor in office. Dr. Can- 

 field, looked forward to the time when we should have in the Col- 

 lege a great library, a library which should be useful to students 

 not only during their college year, but in later years. I am con- 

 fident that the time is not far distant when some of the Alumni and 

 friends of the College will make this service possible. It ought to 

 be possible for us to place in their hands, whenever you need it, all 

 the most recent information upon any subject of interest to you. 

 It will be possible to do this, I believe, in the near future. 



In conclusion may I, as representative of the University, con- 

 gratulate you members of the graduating class upon the comple- 

 tion of your collegiate year, upon your entrance upon the career 

 which you have chosen. I must also congratulate you on the op- 

 portunity that you have had of listening to the teachings of he who 

 presides over these exercises to-night. Dr. Chandler. 



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