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on the moving stream flung, as his ripples gently flowed, a 

 burnished length of wavy beam, where naught was heard on 

 the lonely hill but the cricket's chirp and the answer shrill of 

 the gauze-winged katydid and the plaint of the wailing whip- 

 poorwill, now in the middle watches of every night, whether 

 the heavens are dark or bright, far flung is the great illumina- 

 tion that speaks of the onward march of man in the building 

 of one of his great centers ; the reflected light in the skies, pro- 

 ceeding from the efforts of man is so great as to darken the 

 light of the stars on the water ; the crickets' chirp and the katy- 

 did's answer and the whipporwill's plaint have been succeeded 

 by the crash of traffic propelled by power that men had noi 

 then dreamed of. Then and now, what mighty changes man 

 and man's mind and man's energy have wrought ! Yet some 

 things change but little. We are working slowly but surely 

 toward the same ends. We still have appreciation of the 

 beautiful hampered at times, perhaps, by that utilitarian spirit 

 which is the spirit of the age. We still have that spirit of 

 tolerance and breadth which has seemed innate in our soil. 

 We are still, as has recently been said by a distinguished but 

 somewhat cynical Englishman, inhabitants of "a place to 

 which the fit will be attracted and where the fit will survive; " 

 where efficiency in physical essentials no less than efficiency 

 in mental acquirements is inculcated; where the vigor of 

 'American civilization and progress is strongly evident; where 

 the Americanism and the patriotism that is Americanism is 

 being disseminated and embraced and proclaimed; where art 

 is cherished and education in the finer things valued; a com- 

 munity which as it points with pride to its captains of industry, 

 points also with pride to men who, in lives long or brief, have 

 done things because of which their grateful kind have in- 

 scribed their names upon the scrolls of fame; a community 

 which will never fail to be proud of the fact that "The Amer- 

 ican Flag" is associated with its soil and that lying within 

 its confines is all that remains mortal of that frail young frame 

 which housed the mind that wrote those verses which will not 



