PROFESSOR HENRY AND THE 



penetrated to the farthest ends of the earth, to 

 tend that sacred flame; so that when they shall 

 transmit it to their successors, it shall still be 

 borne high aloft in the upper atmosphere of pure 

 truth, with still increasing lustre a guiding 

 beacon to the wayfarer, wandering and astray 

 in the gloomy valleys of ignorance those deep 

 defiles, where the shadows seem ever darkening 

 by contrast with the brightening mountain tops 

 illumined by the rising sun of knowledge. 



May it inspire the ingenuous youth, who in the 

 thronging years of the future shall gather about 

 these altars, to search the character and achieve- 

 ments of the great master; that they may be taught 

 by him how to study; how to think; how to work; 

 how to live; and how to die. 



May it continue to remind those who annually 

 are attracted here to witness the evidences of the 

 growth of knowledge, as they are exhibited in the 

 commencement seasons, that once this college was 

 honored by the ministrations of Joseph Henry, 

 an American, who, with means created almost 

 wholly by himself, rivalled the achievements of 

 the greatest scientists of the old world, working 

 with the resources of nobly-endowed institutions, 

 and encouraged by the bounty of Kings; and for 

 years was ever a leader in the vigorous attack 

 upon the arcana of nature, made by the champions 

 of science in the early years of this century. 



