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erous emotion, souls capable of understanding what 

 you owe to your training, to your alma mater, to 

 the past and the present that have given you all 

 that you have if you have such souls, it ought 

 to make you doubly bent upon disinterested work 

 for the State and the Nation. 



Such work can be done along many different 

 lines. I want to-day, here in California, to make a 

 special appeal to all of you, and to California as 

 a whole, for work along a certain line the line of 

 preserving your great natural advantages alike from 

 the standpoint of use and from the standpoint of 

 beauty. If the students of this institution have not 

 by the mere fact of their surroundings learned to 

 appreciate beauty, then the fault is in you and not 

 in the surroundings. Here in California you have 

 some of the great wonders of the world. You 

 have a singularly beautiful landscape, singularly 

 beautiful and singularly majestic scenery, and it 

 should certainly be your aim to try to preserve for 

 those who are to come after you that beauty, to try 

 to keep unmarred that majesty. Closely entwined 

 with keeping unmarred the beauty of your scenery, 

 of your great natural attractions, is the question of 

 making use of, not for the moment merely, but for 

 future time, of your great natural products. Yes 

 terday I saw for the first time a grove of your 

 great trees, a grove which it has taken the ages 

 several thousands of years to build up; and I feel 

 most emphatically that we should not turn into 

 shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyp- 



