Culture and the State 59 



You younger people know only the tradition of honored 

 names; but the ideals remain, clear, beautiful, glorious 

 as of old. These shall not change. The decades shall 

 come and go, another half-century shall speed its silent 

 way, and one of you shall stand here perchance to tell 

 for the class of 1915 the doing of life's little day. May 

 it then be his to find in these same old ideals not only his 

 own exceeding rich reward, but the promise of benedic- 

 tion to his country in culture that shall still survive to 

 serve the state in centuries yet to be ! 



