PENN DAY l 



Penn Colloge has its colors, old gold and blue, but it is 

 loyal above all things to the colors of the great republic, 

 which are unfurled upon this campus today. 



Penn Day is the great anniversary to which Penn stu- 

 dents of the present and the past turn with pleasure and 

 pride. The day of the small college has again come, and 

 it is to schools of this class that the student may come 

 with the hope of daily instructions from its teachers. In 

 the great colleges of the day, with their thousands of pu- 

 pils, not even a speaking acquaintance is kept up between 

 the ordinary student and the higher members of the fac- 

 ulty. 



It is true that a widened horizon attends the advance- 

 ment from one institution to another. Charles Foster 

 Smith says that when he was at Wofford he hailed from 

 the high school of Spartanville ; when he went to Har- 

 vard he hailed from Wofford, and when he went to Oxford 

 he hailed from the United States of America. 



Every college furnishes the pupil with the weapons for 

 the battle of life ; the pupil must grind them himself, but 

 it helps him to have the teacher not too far away. The 

 student following the trail must keep his eyes close to the 

 ground that no detail may escape him, even though the 

 trail be dim and it is difficult to see the goal that ulti- 

 mately will be reached. In after years when you rise to 

 look back over the way that has been passed, the eye fol- 

 lows it readily till lost in the far distance; each dimly 



i Address given by Major John F. Lacey at Oskaloosa, Iowa, October 

 14, 1909. 



