SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 213 



suggestions prompted by this occasion concern the place of the 

 East in education. 



If you were to visit the oldest college in our country, Harvard 

 University, entering the main gate leading to University Hall 

 you would find on your left old Harvard Hall, the tongue of 

 whose belfry has called generation after generation of young 

 men to lectures and to prayers. On your right you would find 

 old Massachusetts Hall. The Old South Church, across the 

 Charles in Boston, has been called the birthplace of American 

 liberty. Faneuil Hall, Boston, has been called the cradle of Hberty. 

 In a very important sense old Massachusetts Hall might well 

 be called the schoolhouse of hberty, so many succeeding classes 

 of young men have been schooled within its walls in the history 

 and principles of American freedom. Recently a niche has 

 been built into the front of this old colonial building. When 

 the class of 1883 was deciding who might most appropri- 

 ately occupy that spot, they chose a man who has been called 

 by one of our foremost scientific men "perhaps the best poet for 

 the working man," James Russell Lowell. And when the senti- 

 ment to appear on the pedestal beneath the bronze bust was 

 chosen, these were the words cut into the marble : 



I, Freedom, Dwell with 



Knowledge: I Abide 

 WITH Men by Culture 

 Trained and Fortified 



On the outer gate, within a stone's throw of this new monument, 

 one reads the ancient inscription that the primary object in the 

 founding of Harvard College was to protect the children of the 

 colonists from the legacy of "an ilUterate ministry. " From the 

 first moment, American freedom has been joined to knowledge; 

 men of the East have been trained and fortified by the cultivation 

 of their higher and finer powers. 



