THE RADCLIFFE TRADITION 365 
The women who have gone far on the road to 
learning and who wish to go farther are not many, it 
is true; in the very nature of things pioneers and 
leaders must always be few. But the hope of our 
civilization lies in the few: in the men and women who 
have the strength and courage to press on and up 
into the clearer sky, the purer air. Thinking of these 
things, have we not reason to be proud of the past 
and hopeful of the future? We have lived and grown 
strong by the kindness of friends in Harvard College 
and out of it; they have never failed us, surely they 
never will; we may rely — may we not? — on the 
sympathy and interest and generosity of the commu- 
nity in which we live. If much is given to us, much 
will be required of us; but in the past we have been 
faithful stewards, and in the future I think we shall 
not be found wanting. New paths may be opened to 
us; I feel that we shall have strength to tread them. 
New questions will be put to us; I trust that we may 
have wisdom to answer them. New burdens will be 
laid upon us; I pray that we may have courage to 
bear them. We have never forgotten that our “prac- 
tical” business is to make our students good members 
of society, to fit them for the world; not the world of 
yesterday, but of today and tomorrow, the world 
which has need of the best in every one of us. We 
have tried to teach them that wisdom is better than 
knowledge and that “wisdom is a loving spirit’’; we 
ask for them that they shall have what they deserve, 
no more, but no less, and we are glad to remember 
that it was the wisest of men who said of a good 
