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field of almost unlimited work, and work that is worthy the best 

 efforts of our students. For while my address, in treating of 

 the present condition of the study of lakes, has dealt largely with 

 isolated facts, after all it is not the facts which the student pur- 

 sues as his ultimate aim, but the general laws underlying the 

 facts. He is an unfortunate man who sees the trees, but cannot 

 perceive the forest, who can see the stones of which the cathedral 

 is constructed, and show^ liow^ they \veve lifted to their places, 

 but cannot perceive the beauty of the structure as it stands in 

 its exquisite proportions, its massive masonry and w^ealth of 

 sculptured detail only serving to express the idea of beauty and 

 harmony in the master mind of the architect. 

 Rip on, Wisconsin, 



