November 20, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



735 



to the conclusion of the report of the most 

 elaborate parliamentary commission Great 

 Britain ever knew, of forty volumes and 

 nearly nineteen years in the making, covering 

 all British charities of every kind, more than 

 twenty thousand in all, which is: that of all 

 objects of charity, the highest education has 

 proven wisest, best, and most efficient of all, 

 and that for two chief reasons, first because 

 the superior integrity and ability of the trus- 

 tees who consent to administer such funds, 

 together with the intelligent appreciation of 

 those aided by them, combine to furnish the 

 best guarantee that they will be kept per- 

 petually administered in the purpose and 

 spirit of the founder whose name they bear; 

 and second, because in improving higher edu- 

 cation all other good causes are most effectu- 

 ally aided. Since the first endowment of re- 

 search in the Greek academy, porch, grove and 

 garden, from which all our higher institutions 

 have sprung, thousands of spontaneous free 

 will offerings have borne tangible witness to 

 the sentiment so often and vividly taught by 

 Plato, that in all the world there is no object 

 more worthy of reverence, love and service, 

 and none that it pays a civilization better to 

 help to its fullest development than well-born, 

 well-bred, gifted, trained young men who de- 

 sire to be masters in an age when experts de- 

 cide all things, for in them is the hope and the 

 future leadership of the race, and to help 

 them to more of the knowledge that is power 

 is the highest service of one generation to the 

 next. And how this has appealed to all ages ! 

 Oxford and Cambridge have 1,800 separate 

 endowed fellowships and scholarships, to say 

 nothing of the smaller exhibitions. Leipzig 

 has 40Y distinct funds, the oldest dating 1325, 

 and wherever the higher academic life has 

 flourished we find scores of memorials bearing 

 the names of husbands, wives, parents, chil- 

 dren, and providing for students of some spe- 

 cial class, locality or establishing or benefiting 

 some new department or line of investigation, 

 theoretical or practical; and now that the rap- 

 port of business, government and all social 

 and cultural institutions was never so close, 

 all who give greatly and wisely, or who make 



or suggest bequests, have a new 

 oblige to consider. 



Cold facts and figures finally show a few 

 things that I beg you all to ponder now. These 

 are, that compared either with the size of our 

 faculty, the number of departments, or our an- 

 nual budget, we have fitted more men for 

 higher degrees, seen more of them in academic 

 chairs, where they are found in all the leading 

 institutions of the land, including some dozen 

 of presidencies, first and last, published more 

 original contributions which seek to add to 

 the sum of the world's knowledge, have a 

 larger proportion of members of our faculty 

 starred as of first rank in Cattell's census of 

 the competent, had closer personal and often 

 daily contact with students, and given more 

 individual help outside of classes, had more 

 academic freedom (for no one in our history 

 has ever suffered in any way for his opinions), 

 had more autonomy in our departments, each 

 of which is a law to itself, had less rules and 

 formalities of every kind, and had a president 

 who was less president and more teacher, good 

 or bad, spent less time in devising ways and 

 means of seeking contributions from our 

 friends here, advertised less and avoided all 

 publicity more, until now, when I am, just for 

 this one moment, throwing all our traditions 

 of silence, modesty, absence of boasting about 

 our work, to the winds. In these respects we 

 exceed any of the other twenty-four institu- 

 tions of the Association of American Univer- 

 sities. 



This Clark University means, has stood for 

 and will forever stand for, and this is why we 

 all love and have put the best twenty-five years 

 of our lives into her service and wish we all 

 had another quarter of a century to serve her 

 better. This is what brings you alumni back 

 with your offerings, your loyalty and hearty 

 good wishes. This is the university not made 

 with hands, eternal in the world of science and 

 learning. Clark University is not a structure, 

 but it is a state of mind, for wherever these 

 ideals reign Clark men are at home, and all 

 who have them are our friends and brothers. 



It is this ideal that sustained us in our 

 darkest days and now lights up the future 



