November 23, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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about the microcosm and the macrocosm in 

 the make-up of the universe of God ? Will 

 it add to or subtract from him who is to 

 proclaim the "Word of God who has a 

 knowledge of and can talk about these 

 noble subjects, or shall he be content to 

 say: 



A primrose by a river's brim 

 A yellow primrose was to him. 

 And it was nothing more. 



Did not the Master say with an elo- 

 quence that has lived through the cen- 

 turies : 



Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; 

 they toil not, neither do they spin, and yet I say 

 unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was 

 not arrayed like one of these. 



I firmly believe that every student whose 

 purpose is to follow some one of the pro-- 

 fessions will have a more successful and a 

 happier life by absorbing at least enough 

 of science, of technics if you please, to 

 broaden out his views, as a knowledge of 

 the humanities will surely do for the tech- 

 nically-trained student. 



In an address to the students of the 

 Sheffield Scientific School my friend. Col. 

 H. G. Prout, made this remark, "Scientific 

 study may in itself be a great expander of 

 the imagination and I venture the assertion 

 that the study of chemistry and biology, 

 machine design, or analytical geometry, 

 geology or astronomy, is as quickening to 

 the imagination as the study of Greek or 

 Latin grammar, moral philosophy or rhet- 

 oric, as any formal study of English lit- 

 erature. ' ' 



Some Founder's Day I think you could 

 not do better than to have read before you 

 the splendid address of that splendid man, 

 Eckley B. Coxe, which was delivered at 

 the Montreal meeting of the American 

 Association of Mechanical Engineers, of 

 which he was then president. I had the 

 great pleasure to hear that address on 

 'Technical Education,' and to j^ou who 



knew the man I need not say that it made 

 a deep and lasting impression upon my 

 mind. It was a mighty sermon from its 

 opening to its closing sentence, showing a 

 most profound knowledge of the whole 

 subject. Surely Lehigh was honored by 

 the association of Eckley B. Coxe as a mem- 

 ber of its board, and as a noble patron who 

 had your best interests at heart. 



Other names have graced your roll of 

 honor, some of whom have passed over to 

 the 'summer land of song'; yet we can re- 

 joice to-day that some of the old guard are 

 still with you, lending a helping hand to 

 lift Lehigh to a still loftier plane in the 

 domain of higher education. 



As a citizen of Pittsburg I am here to- 

 day to rejoice with you that my friend of 

 a quarter of a century, and your friend of 

 to-day, Andrew Carnegie, will from this 

 time on have his name inscribed in your 

 annals, in the hearts of your undergradu- 

 ates and alumni and all that have the in- 

 terest of your university at heart, as a 

 friend and patron. 



It was a joy to me to learn that he had 

 made it possible to build the dormitories 

 you have needed so long, and I must con- 

 gratulate your president and also one of 

 his co-workers in our end of this good 

 old commonwealth in having secured the 

 friendship and patronage of this friend of 

 science; no one knows better than he who 

 addresses you what the friendship of 

 Andrew Carnegie means. 



We Pittsburgers also have a Founder's 

 Day, and our next one will commemorate 

 his grandest and, we think, one of his 

 greatest gifts to the world, namely, the 

 splendid institute in which the arts, the 

 sciences, music and literature will find a 

 home and be fostered, and with this we 

 shall also commemorate the founding of the 

 great technical school, which has already 

 nearly fifteen hundred students within its 



