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are needed in directing a great observatory successfully, as in managing 

 a railroad, or factory. Any one can propose a gigantic expenditure, 

 but to prove to a shrewd man of affairs that it is feasible and advisable 

 is a very different matter. It is much more difficult to give away money 

 wisely than to earn it. Many men have made great fortunes, but few 

 have learned how to expend money wisely in advancing science, or to 

 give it away judiciously. Many persons have given large sums to 

 astronomy, and some day we shall find the man with broad views who 

 will decide to have the advice and aid of the astronomers of the world, 

 in his plans for promoting science, and who will thus expend his 

 money, as he made it, taking the greatest care that not one dollar is 

 wasted. Again, let us consider the next great advance, which perhaps 

 will be a method of determining the distances of the stars. Many of 

 us are working on this problem, the solution of which may come to some 

 one any day. The present field is a wide one, the prospects are now 

 very bright, and we may look forward to as great an advance in the 

 twentieth century, as in the nineteenth. May a portion of this come 

 to the Case School and, with your support, may its enviable record, in 

 the past, be surpassed by its future achievements. 



