was greatly gratified to know that our City was thus so close to that work of foundation upon which has been built so great a structure as the present Brown University. Dr. Hibben spoke of our friendly relations. My friendship with Dr. Hibben has been a very happy thing during these recent years, and, from the time of my entering on the office of President of Rutgers College, I have somehow or other had a peculiar feeling of friendship also with the President of Brown University. I have pleasure in introducing him tonight-Dr. William H. P. Faunce. SPEECH WILLIAM H. P. FAUNCE, D.D., LL.D. President of Brown University I am very happy to bring greetings from another Colonial college which, two years ago, celebrated its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and heartily hope that you may find in your festival all that we found in ours. We listened this morning to one of the most compact, comprehensive and interesting historical addresses ever delivered on any academic occasion. And, listening, I was convinced that no other college in America has quite so picturesque a one hundred and fifty years as has Rutgers College. The tragedy, or comedy, of these interacademic festivals is that there are so many dignitaries present that none of us amounts to very much. At home we are accustomed to being large men in small places, and when we get here some of us find we are small men in a large place. When rainbow colored hoods are seen by the score, when dignitaries foregather under every green tree, when notabilities crowd the curbstone, somehow the individual withers, and our home dignities are lost in the melting pot of fame. On one of these occasions some time ago the presiding officer, being my friend, or professing to be, introduced They were not only interested in education, but they were pioneers also in the cause of God and His Christ. And when the call came at the time of our Revolution, we find that they were patriots, willing to lay down their lives for the sake of their country. And having made America free they gave their best thought to the fundamental constitution which should govern us throughout all the years to come. In these ideas of the school and of the church and of the state there was one underlying element that they all had in common, and I would characterize that as the "group" idea. These men were not particularly interested in themselves; there was no individualism in their theory of life; it was the service of the group. If that group happened to be at the time the school, the college, they gave their hearts and thoughts to it; the other group, of the church, they identified their lives with it; and the larger group of the state, their nation, they were willing to lay down their lives for it. Today I think in our education we are perhaps neglecting this idea, not only in the schools and colleges, but back to the first school, that of the home. We are unconsciously holding out before our young men and our young women the idea of an individual career in life as the aim of all living. Now I say no! God forbid that the young man should go out from Rutgers or Princeton or any of our institutions with the idea that he should look out for himself from the commencement day to the end of his life and cut clear from the beginning his path of success, his petty career! What about the group to which he belongs, which he should serve? He may say: "I have no group to which I belong. I have no responsibilities to any group of men." If that is his answer I say: "God help him in this age, when we are all living and feeling together; where our destiny is one, high and low, rich and poor." In this land no man can live for himself and no man can die for himself. Our fathers had this idea. It was the main impulse of their lives. They could not express it in words; I can not express it in words. Words are too feeble. But they had two great symbols to which they referred from time to time in their lives, and they were the last symbols before their eyes when those eyes closed in death: the symbol of the Flag and the symbol of the Cross. And they are not two symbols, after all, but they are one. The symbol of the cross certainly is that of vicarious sacrifice, and I would like to insist also that the symbol of the flag is that of vicarious sacrifice. Looking at our flag superficially, our first thought perhaps is we glory in it because it is our protection. That is only part of the story, ladies and gentlemen. That flag does not merely protect us, but we citizens of this country are to protect that flag and all that it stands for; and with that spirit we must look upon it as a symbol of sacrifice, just as the cross is the symbol of sacrifice, for the citizen of our country. And the young man who leaves the college must be taught that this is the first and the central and the last lesson of his education: The symbol of the flag is that of sacrifice. What is patriotism? Love of country, yes. Love of country that shows itself in consciousness of obligation and a readiness for sacrifice, not only in times of war, but also in times of peace. And finally, Mr. President, my best wish for you in your administration, and for the welfare of Rutgers is that you may so discharge the trust that is committed to you that in the coming generation the children yet unborn may rise up and call you blessed, as you today gratefully celebrate the inheritance which you have in the founders of this institution of a past generation. President DEMAREST: The relation of Rutgers to colleges and universities in the State of New York has been varied and constant through the years, and especially has there been interesting personal bond with what we call the University of the State of New York, at Albany. A very early graduate of Queen's College, Simeon DeWitt, became Chancellor of the University of the State of New York, and in more recent years David Murray, |