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danger. Action and tangible results that 

 appeal to men so strongly are often at odds 

 with reflection and spiritual values. The 

 ideal university must not forget that ma- 

 terial efficiency is only a means to ends — a 

 finer type of personality, a more just and 

 ennobling social order. The university 

 aims at training, not skilled exploiters, but 

 men and women who shall first of all be 

 high-minded citizens with a loyal "sense 

 of the state," who shall exemplify the 

 scientific spirit, bear themselves gallantly 

 in life's struggles, show themselves pos- 

 sessed of satisfying mental resources, and 

 prove faithful to the highest standards. 



Men and women of this sort do not issue 

 from a place given over wholly to utility 

 and material interests. There must be a 

 controlling, pervasive spirit of service, a 

 desire for "a harmonious expansion for all 

 the powers which make the beauty and 

 worth of human nature," and a real ap- 

 preciation of life's deeper meaning. The 

 university must help men to answer Kant 's 

 three questions, the questions of science, of 

 morality, and of religion : ' ' "What can I do ? 

 "What ought I to do? "What may I hope 

 for ? ' ' True, the state university can have 

 no official theology and no ecclesiastical 

 affiliations. But it may have a spirit of 

 reverence for the mysteries of life; it may 

 cultivate that essential religion which exalts 

 the things of the human mind and spirit 

 over things physical and which reads back 

 of the material world a purpose and a 

 destiny. ' ' The state, ' ' said Arnold, "is of 

 the religion of all of its citizens, without 

 the fanaticism of any of them." Bacon's 

 "College of the Seven Days "Works" was a 

 research institution, but it did not forget 

 that it was concerned with only certain 

 aspects of a vast university. ""We have," 

 said one of the staff, "hymns and services 

 of laud and thanks to God for His marvel- 

 ous works, and forms of prayer imploring 



His aid and blessing for the illumination 

 of our labors and the turning of them unto 

 good and holy uses." 



We have caught glimpses of the univer- 

 sity ideal. May this, as the years pass, 

 grow ever clearer, nobler, more inspiring. 

 May it take our "imaginations by storm" 

 not as an evanescent emotion, but as a per- 

 sistent vision. "We remember Toynbee's 

 words, "a definite intelligible plan for 

 carrying that ideal out into practise." It 

 is to the many details of this plan that as 

 colleagues we are to address ourselves. 

 May we take up this great task with a 

 solemn sense of what it means. "We must 

 not deceive ourselves. "We advance to no 

 easy triumphs. "We must cherish no mil- 

 lenial dreams. We must have faith that 

 good-will guided by wisdom will in the end 

 bring our vision to pass. Let us then with 

 sober judgment and steady courage pledge 

 anew our loyalty to the ideals of the uni- 

 versity, to the people of the state and to 

 that republic of science, letters and the 

 arts which knows no national boundaries. 

 May each of us take to heart the counsel of 

 Goethe : 



What each day needs, that shalt thou ask; 

 Each day will set its proper task. 

 Give others' work just share of praise; 

 Not of thine own the merits raise; 

 Beware no fellow man thou hate; 

 And so in God's hands leave thy fate. 



George E. "Vincent 



THE NEW ZOOLOGICAL LABOMATOEY OF 

 THE VNIVEBSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 

 In devising and planning this laboratory to 

 fill the needs for many years to come of zo- 

 ological study at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, zoology has been construed in its broad- 

 est sense, as the science of animal life. AU, 

 therefore, it was considered, should be in- 

 cluded that would allow of the prosecution of 

 study in any branch of this great and most 

 important subject; and this object we have 



