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together and the sons of God shout for joy. To have part in such 
social and moral creation of the world— ^that is the high destiny 
of the American college. 
ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR' WILLIAMS. 
T gives me great pleasure to convey to Dr. Chamberlain 
the hearty congratulations of this College Faculty. As 
men and women of this body we do not all think alike 
with reference to certain matters, but we are one in our 
attachment to our new President, both as a man and as an offi- 
cial. In our relations with him we have found him very pleasant 
and very reasonable. 
Those of us who were members of this Faculty when Dr. 
Chamberlain was an undergraduate were very fond of him and 
for this among other reasons. He did not assume that he was 
a genius. He was without the affectation of brilliancy. He was 
without the tricks of mere smartness. He was not ashamed 
for it to be found out that he had to work very hard for 
all he gained. Now and then an alleged student saunters 
into college overstocked with the conceit of ignorance. 
He is like an empty jar that is hermetically sealed up. 
The emptiness within is inaccessible. Clark W. Chamberlain 
was at the furthest remove from that class of young men. He 
captured a number of prizes, but he did not let them capture him. 
He had the good sense to make the best of them. He did not rest 
upon his college laurels. College laurels are not good to rest on. 
Resting on them is likely to result in contented stagnation. As 
an undergraduate, as a post graduate, and as a professor he has 
adorned Carlyle’s doctrine of hard work, and that is one of the 
chief reasons he is today formally inducted into the Presidency 
of his Alma Mater. 
If I am not mistaken, Dr. Chamberlain is a conservative. He 
is this by nature and by education, too. Nature made the motion 
and education has seconded it. But his is the conservatism that 
exists only by going forward. He is one who believes he can keep 
hold of what he has only by getting hold of more. 
We members of the Faculty are conservatives of the same 
kind. We are none of us so old that we cannot learn anything 
