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SCIENCE. 



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exact science leaves with the student is the 

 necessity not only for exact work, but for 

 a high ideal. Science is satisfied with noth- 

 ing short of perfection, and this principle 

 when it pervades a body of men comes to 

 govern and control the spirit in which their 

 work is done. No better heritage can be 

 left to any institution than that which has 

 been faithfully handed down to you, namely, 

 in education it is not suflBcient to be merely 

 accurate, but it is necessary to hold fast to 

 the highest ideal. 



Once this idea gains control of a student 

 life, that student will undertake faithfully 

 and courageously whatsoever duties lie be- 

 fore him, whether they concern his profes- 

 sional life, his social life or his country's 

 service. 



Let me add, in conclusion, a word of 

 personal greeting, speaking as one may 

 when he addresses those who have come 

 together, drawn by a common interest. 



In the name of the corporation, and of 

 the faculty, and of the students of the In- 

 stitute of Technology, I thank those who 

 represent here other institutions for your 

 presence on this occasion. Your coming is 

 not only a source of pleasure, but of en- 

 couragement to us, and helps to emphasize 

 that spirit of common interest and of com- 

 mon helpfulness which ought ever to mark 

 the relation of those who have to do with 

 education. The Institute of Technology 

 extends to you, and through you to the in- 

 stitutions which you represent, the assur- 

 ance of its cordial good feeling. 



Two of those who sit upon this platform 

 the President of Lehigh University and the 

 President of Harvard came from the faculty 

 of the institute. This fact gives to your 

 presence here an additional element of in- 

 interest, and we extend to you a special 

 greeting. 



To Lehigh University in the sturdy work 

 which she has done and is doing, for the 

 courage with which she has not hesitated to 



face difficulties, we extend our warm con- 

 gratulations. 



To our near neighbor, the oldest and 

 largest of American universities, we offer 

 most hearty greeting. "We rejoice in the 

 greatness and in the strength of Harvard 

 University, and take courage in the thought 

 that we join hands with her to-day — as an 

 elder sister — in a work not only for this 

 city and for this commonwealth, but for hu- 

 manity. 



Gentlemen of the Corporation : In ac- 

 cepting the responsibility which you have 

 this day formally invited me to share with 

 you, I do so hopefully and with full con- 

 fidence in you, in this community, and in 

 the future. There is no greater work com- 

 mitted to men's hands than that to which 

 we are called. 



As I think of those who have preceded 

 me in this place, when I call to mind their 

 splendid services to the institute, to the 

 commonwealth and to the country, I accept 

 this work with a feeling of great humility, 

 but with the earnest hope that through our 

 common effort the institution may grow not 

 only in strength, but in usefulness ; not only 

 in facilities for work, but in the better under- 

 standing of what work means, and that it 

 may ever seek to lead in all that concerns 

 the rational and helpful teaching of applied 

 science. 



Gentlemen of the Instructing Staff: For 

 the cordial welcome to your number I am 

 most grateful. I come to you with no new 

 message and as the herald of no new 

 gospel. The same spirit of work and of 

 devotion which has been the glory of your 

 body in the past must be our source of 

 strength for the future. 



In all that leads to the uplifting of techni- 

 cal education in the development and ex- 

 tension of the work of the institution, in 

 the suggestion of new means by which it 

 can minister more directly to the work of 

 education upon the one side, and to the 



