THE RADCLIFFE TRADITION 365 



The women who have gone far on the road to 

 learning and who wish to go farther are not many, it 

 is true; in the very nature of things pioneers and 

 leaders must always be few. But the hope of our 

 civilization lies in the few : in the men and women who 

 have the strength and courage to press on and up 

 into the clearer sky, the purer air. Thinking of these 

 things, have we not reason to be proud of the past 

 and hopeful of the future.'^ We have lived and grown 

 strong by the kindness of friends in Harvard College 

 and out of it; they have never failed us, surely they 

 never will; we may rely — may we not.? — on the 

 sympathy and interest and generosity of the commu- 

 nity in which we live. If much is given to us, much 

 will be required of us; but in the past we have been 

 faithful stewards, and in the future I think we shall 

 not be found wanting. New paths may be opened to 

 us; I feel that we shall have strength to tread them. 

 New questions will be put to us; I trust that we may 

 have wisdom to answer them. New burdens will be 

 laid upon us; I pray that we may have courage to 

 bear them. We have never forgotten that our * prac- 

 tical" business is to make our students good members 

 of society, to fit them for the world; not the world of 

 yesterday, but of today and tomorrow, the world 

 which has need of the best in every one of us. We 

 have tried to teach them that wisdom is better than 

 knowledge and that "wisdom is a loving spirit"; we 

 ask for them that they shall have what they deserve, 

 no more, but no less, and we are glad to remember 

 that it was the wisest of men who said of a good 



