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What fine lives they led ! It was a happy blending of the stren- 

 uous, the simple and the abundant life. 



Strenuous, because in addition to the enforced and exacting 

 labors of a teacher were added the self-imposed tasks of the 

 investigator ; simple, because they lived close to nature and her 

 laws were the rule and guide of their daily conduct. They had 

 neither time nor means for luxury. And most of all their lives 

 were abundant ; abundant in opportunity, abundant in accomplish- 

 ment, abundant in honors, abundant in friendship. Demanding 

 little, they received much. They are of those who losing their 

 lives save them. 



We are together to celebrate an epoch, not alone in the pro- 

 motion of science but in the attainment of the ideals of education ; 

 ideals for which the Academy will stand in the future as it has 

 in the past. 



