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Title: The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding as Queens College, 1766-1916
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rutgers University Lewis, J. Volney (Joseph Volney), 1869-1969
Subjects: Rutgers University
Publisher: (New Brunswick) The College
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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e. It is a fine andsplendid thing that here on this red soil of middle Jerseythere has been for a century and a half a group ofearnest scholars carrying forward the spiritual traditionof the race. They have gone each his way, they havegone most of them to their long reward, but their serviceis marked in the lives of hundreds and thousands ofyouth who have carried from this hearthstone the in-extinguishable fire of spiritual interest and spiritual am-bition. We are not today celebrating the end of anything.We have come only to what may be called a station, orperhaps as Xenophon would have had it a completedparasang, in the long march of the spiritual tradition.This College will not end with the completion of onehundred and fifty years of accomplishment. It will stillgain from contemplation of its past and from this cere-mony new strength and new inspiration for the limitlessyears that lie ahead and beyond. The lesson of educationis a difficult and a dark one to learn. There seems to be
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER FOURTEENTH 117 no end to the possibility and the capacity of human enter-prise, of human intelligence, and of human aspiration.We may not measure it, we dare not attempt to measureit, in terms of quantity; we dare not attempt to describeit in terms of years, or of things that are weighed andcounted and measured; for it eludes all these. We canonly measure it in terms of human power—that powerwhich has sound intelligence, guided by a fine and noblespirit and driven by a strong and earnest character—andof human service. That goal is the goal of this College,the goal of every college which gladly comes today tobring its word of congratulation and of greeting; andwhen our children and grandchildren and great-grand-children come back to these lawns and trees after an-other century and a half may they find the tradition notonly unimpaired but strengthened. May they find thisnoble, constructive work still going on, and may theytake note of the fact with what joy and sat

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