80 On the Campus 



and so make him mighty to save the community, the com- 

 monwealth. 



In real physical things we are rich enough to-day. We 

 have exploited the accumulated wealth of millenia and 

 are surfeited. What we need is wisdom to use our in- 

 heritance. This we must have if we are not to sink in 

 the mire of commercialism and see all high vision, all 

 pure appreciation, blotted out for us and for our chil- 

 dren. To avert such catastrophe, you men and women 

 are this day set apart; to forfend it by your own loyal 

 enthusiasm; by the ideals you set up to anticipate the 

 swiftness of its coming, that the Republic may live and 

 not die! 



