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again, this is not only a thing worth while, it is the 

 essential of education, past, present, and future. 



Now it does not take much of a roof to cover possi- 

 bilities such as are here suggested. Our fathers knew 

 this well, and we their children should not forget it, 

 nor be tempted to think that large endowments, palatial 

 structures, or the refinements purchasable by wealth 

 can ever insure the glory that we seek. All these are 

 beautiful, they make for the convenience, the comfort, 

 the stimulus of thousands ; but the intellectual life is still 

 the same sweet, precious, simple thing it was when Christ 

 saw the lilies on the field, or Socrates talked beneath the 

 plane tree on Ilissus' banks. Thundering mills, roaring 

 engines, and hissing pipes grind out and deliver the flour 

 that feeds the nations of the world, but the flour itself 

 is shaped in the tender blades, in silent fields, beneath 

 the unpurchased rays of the blessed sun, and the soft 

 ministrations of the dew and rain. Even the kingdom 

 of God cometh not of observation. The things worth 

 while in all our schools are those not seen ; the quiet pur- 

 pose, the manifest high appreciation of that the world 

 knows not, the association day by day with agencies and 

 forces that make for purity and love and faith, for the 

 world ideal, to which perchance we never may attain, 

 but which no less shall be forever the high habitation, 

 the sacred fond retreat of every noblest soul. 



Nothing is more encouraging in these commencement 

 days in all our schools than to note how more and more 

 the world is coming to an appreciation of these high 

 values for which the schools have stood. More and more 

 the world discovers how absolutely priceless is the con- 



