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only too apt to breed eccentricity, but I mean that 

 those among you whose bent is toward scholarship 

 as a career should keep in mind the fact that such 

 scholarship should be productive, and should there 

 fore aim at giving to the world some addition to 

 the world's stock of what is useful or beautiful; 

 and if you work simply and naturally, taking ad 

 vantage of your surroundings as you find them, 

 then in my belief a new mark will be made in 

 the history of intellectual achievement by our 

 race. You of this institution are blessed in its 

 extraordinary physical beauty and appropriateness 

 of architecture and surroundings, with a sug 

 gestion of what I might call the Americanized 

 Greek. Such is your institution, situated on the 

 shores of this great ocean, built by a race which 

 has come steadily westward, which has come to 

 where the Occident looks west to the Orient, a race 

 whose members here, fresh, vigorous, have the 

 boundless possibilities of the future brought to their 

 very doors in a sense that can not be possible for 

 the members of the race situated further east. 

 Surely there will be some great outcome in the way 

 not merely of physical, but of moral and intellectual 

 work worth doing. I do not want you to turn 

 out prigs; I do not want you to turn out the self- 

 conscious. I believe, with all my heart, in play. I 

 want you to play hard without encroaching on your 

 work. I do, nevertheless, think you ought to have 

 at least the consciousness of the serious side of 

 what all this means, and of the necessity of effort, 



