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in closing mj brief remarks, to join together two of these 

 great names as alike worthy of immortal memory : Benja- 

 min Franklin and Joseph Henry — if the one, as it has been 

 boldly said, seized the lightning in its course from heaven, the 

 other has sent it forth as a vehicle of intelligence throughout 

 the earth. 



Mr. Vaux : Gentlemen : — While you have been de- 

 lighted, charmed and Instructed by what you have heard 

 from the oldest, and the uninterruptedly continued insti- 

 tutions of learning by their representatives at our fes- 

 tive board this evening, I think our feast of reason can- 

 not well be concluded until you have had an opportunity 

 to hear an equally learned address from the last-born 

 of the learned institutions of the continent on which 

 we live. Within the last few days, since this moon 

 began to wane, there has been born in the Federal 

 metropolis an institution of learning which, from all 

 that we can know of its parentage and its purposes, is 

 destined to be one of the most marvelous creations of 

 this age, and in order that you may not go away to- 

 night believing it is the old institutions which have the 

 monopoly of science and philosophy, let me ask you 

 to drink to the last toast : " The labors and achieve- 

 ments OF great teachers in Science and Philosophy 

 LIVE after them ; these are their monuments." To 

 so appropriate a toast gathered from all the learning 

 that has come down to us through the Latin race, 

 marvelous in its character, splendid in its condition, 

 wonderful in its elements, eternal in its truth, let me ask 

 you to listen in reply to the Rt. Rev. John J. Keane, 

 LL.D., President of the Catholic University of America. 



