48 Address — Henry C. Potter. 



In the days when we are emphasizing fallacies which undertake to persuade 

 us of the alienation of class from class, nothing, I maintain, is sublimer in its 

 highest aspect than the great educational function of such an institution as this, 

 and the inspiring fact that, whatever has been done by public munificence, side 

 by side, as we have heard here this afternoon, private munificence has arisen 

 with it ; that the gifts of the city have been, year after year, matched by the 

 gifts of the individual ; and, better still, — though it has not been spoken of 

 here, — that all this is owing most of all, not to money, but to heart and brain. 

 Whatever my friend, the President, has given out of his pocket (and I should 

 not like to embarrass him by asking him how much it is — I have a strong sus- 

 picion), he has given a great deal more and better in the time that he has given, 

 day after day, and year after year, all these twenty years, of a trained intellect, 

 and of a vigilant oversight, in which service he has been helped by the coopera- 

 tion of other intelligent and thoughtful minds, in whose services we have to-day 

 an illustration of what has been doing in our public and private institutions of 

 learning all over the United States. Believe me, ladies and gentlemen, it is 

 this common service, this common sacrifice for the common well-being, which 

 is to bind together in great movements for all that is best in the republic, the 

 people of the whole land. 



A few views of the Paris Exposition of 1899, as studied by the 

 Department of Public Instruction, were then shown and explained 

 by Prof. Albert S. Bickmore. 



