THE COMSTOCK MEMORIAL 
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tion that receives State funds, has a very special and direct responsi¬ 
bility. Such an institution is to train the men and women who come 
to it; but it is also to extend itself, so far as it may, to meet the 
needs of the people who support it. The Entomology Department 
has always stood for the highest quality of teaching at home, and it 
has also been ready to apply this knowledge to the problems of the 
people. This is an important point of view, now that there is so much 
tendency to develop extension work when there is very little to extend. 
Good college and post-graduate work in any department is a pre¬ 
requisite to good extension work outside. I speak as a citizen of the 
State and not as an officer of administration when I express my 
appreciation both of the carefulness of the training of students in 
residence, and also of the generosity of the spirit that would aid 
every man on his farm and at his home. 
We are here today, then, in the spirit of congratulation. We 
congratulate you, Professor Comstock, on what you have done. We 
congratulate you on what you still have to do. I have hoped that 
you would retain your office in the buildings of the College of Agri¬ 
culture, and here continue the work you have followed with so much 
devotion for more than forty years. I do not think of you as retiring, 
but only as continuing. You are to cease your active connection 
with the administration, but this only means, I hope, that you are 
to devote yourself more uninterruptedly to the work that has so 
long been associated with your name. One has a right to cease. 
A man’s life may well be divided into three parts: one part for 
preparation; one part for service in an institution or an organization; 
and one part for living, and for making his contribution to the welfare 
of his fellows in just the way he may choose. Therefore, we come 
with no regrets and with no cause for sorrow. We have no right to 
grieve for the order of nature. 
We congratulate Cornell University that you have been here, that 
you have brought together in all these years so many devoted sons 
and daughters, that you have assembled this faculty and staff. 
Your work is to be continued as you would have it continued; your 
spirit is still to guide it; there is no break in the plan. 
So we are together to celebrate an epoch in the attainment of the 
ideals of education. These ideals are Comstock ideals. 
At the close of the address by Professor Bailey the Chairman said: 
Among the group of forceful students that sought the new University with 
the ideals given it by a representative of the virile and independent, thinking 
