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exemplified in his achievement, as you have done, The Power 

 of Time. You may have noticed a recent wise and witty book, 

 entitled, "How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day." You 

 do not need to read it. I have often wondered in what small 

 arc of the twenty-four-hour epicycle of your great circle of 

 sixty years, you have accomplished the permanent outstanding 

 part of your ample achievement. Defective eyesight forbids you 

 the midnight oil, whereof most of us burn so much and therefore 

 the very wick of our lamp of life. The manifold engagements of 

 the university executive and representative, of the man of the 

 world, the public servant, the lecturer, the specialist, the arbi- 

 trator, the protector of the seal; countless meetings of boards, 

 committees, conferences, academies, foundations; endless jour- 

 neyings up and down the earth; inopportune inrushings of 

 "people of importance"; to say nothing of the heartrending 

 intrusions of reporters, faddists, maniacs, locophists, and fol- 

 lowers of every kidney and cut of turban — these, and the like, 

 might well account for every hour of the twenty-four. Yet in 

 the poor fag-ends of your left-over 4jjjpie, what have you not 

 accomplished! In the little nick of time which another would 

 have devoted to a cigar, you have written books and articles 

 the mere bibliography of which would be a volume. And all 

 this you have been enabled to do because you had the angler's 

 secret of taking that shy creature of the sea of Time, which we 

 call Opportunity. 



Of Opportunity, we hope you are to have more in the coming 

 twenty years than in the last. And this prayer of ours has led 

 us to think of a way in which we can really help you. It is our 

 desire to commemorate this happy occasion by a gift which shall 

 be useful to you and at the same time a constant reminder to 

 you of our friendship. From participation in the pleasure of 

 this gift we have zealously and selfishly excluded all save the 

 too few survivors of the Pioneer Faculty, construing the word 

 Pioneer with severe literalness. We have desired to present to 

 you an object which shall be closer to you, and if possible more 

 useful, than anything or anybody except your wife. You will 

 carry it close to your heart, as long as it shall beat — that big 

 heart wherein we hope to occupy a permanent place. It will 

 go with you on your journeyings, will recall your engagements, 

 will make easier the practice of that austerest of virtues, Punc- 



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