The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, September 26, 1924 Page: 3 of 4
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THE THRESHER
HOUSTON, TEXAS
3
Lovett Speech—
(Continued from Page 1.)
Slate Assembly of New York. Mr.
Roosevelt became the twenty-sixth,
Mr. Taft the twenty-seventh, and* Mr.
Wilson the twentyeighth president of
the United States.
These three gentlemen in their
youth were thorough!- .e pa red foi
college in public, and private schools:
thev went to three of the oldest and
best colleges of the country: in college
and out all three lived laborious days;
no one of the three wrecked either
his own or the family fortune; each
of the three took a straight four
years' college course, graduated w.i
honors, and promntly entered one of
the best professional schools in the
country; a little later, but not before
completing the formal part of their
education, all three had married com-
paratively young; all three raised
families, and sent children to college.
Three Servants of the University.
When Roosevelt. Taft, and Wilson
entered Harvard, Yale and Princeton,
these colleges were still small colleges.
In them it was possible for every stu-
dent to know at least by name every
other student. This is by no means
the least of the advantages of a small
college. Moreover, then as now, the
acquaintanceship of every student ex-
tended to seven classes, his own class,
the three in residence when he entered,
and the three admittd in successive
years during his residence. Of the
college contemporaries of Roosevelt,
Taft, and Wilson, many in turn
achieved distinction. Among these it
may be of interest to an academic au-
dience to note that President Lowell of
Harvard was a senior at Harvard
when Roosevelt was a freshman. Ex-
President Hadley of Yale was a junior
at Yale when Taft was a freshman.
And President Hibben of Princeton
was a freshman at Princeton when
Wilson was a senior.
Friends of Rice.
To all six of these gentlemen Rice is
under personal obligation. The Trus-
tees early sought the advice of Mr.
Wilson, who was then President of
Princeton University; later the pro-
posed plans for the new university
were discussed also with Mr. Roose-
velt; and more recently, in. perform-
ances which you may read in the Rice
Institute Pamphlet, Mr. Taft inaug-
urated our Godwin Lectureship in
Public Affairs, and, incidentally, made
from the high table of the Commons,
quite unexpectedly, and in twenty
minutes, the best speech ever made
about the Rice Institute. President
Hibben of Princeton has twice visited
Rice, in the course of an earlier visit
addressing the students and citzens
eloquently on prpardnss for war, and
agan in 1922 whn he delivered the De-
cennial Address; Ex-President Hadley
of Yale has also been here twice in our
history, once in advance of the open-
ing, and ten years later breaking a
trans-continental journey to see the
buildings; and two years ago Presi-
dent Lowell of Harvard came to Texas
to deliver at Rice his memorable God-
wn Lectures, which have since been
published in his recent volume on
"Public Opinion in War and Peace."
Careers For Rice 1828.
I might be slow to suggest that any
student should set his heart on becom-
ing President of the United States, but
with less reserve I could advise every
student so to shape his course that if
ever the call should come he might be
adequately prepared even for so high
an office. Not all of you will become
president of the United States, but the
nineteenth amendment to the Consti-
tution, coupled with co-education, gives
Rice in 1924, a double chance over
Harvard, Yale, or Princeton in" 1874.
Nor is the idea altogether fantastical
that some one or several of this Rice
class of 1928 may bring such honor
to their Alma Mater. In fact, a bit
of very elementary arithmetic based
on available statistics will at once
make reasonablethe double proposition
that not all of you can and several of
you may. Of past presidents of the
United States, the youngest was
sworn in at forty-two, and the oldest
at sixty-eight; the oldest member of
this class may be twenty-four, and
the youngest fifteen; accordingly the
oldest would be forty—and while we
are guessing we might just as well
count on Rice graduate beating the
record—the oldest would be forty in
1940, and the youngest sixtyeight in
1977; so that, neglecting all other im-
probabilities, from 1940 to 1976 hardly
more than ten Rice graduates of 1828
could possibly become president of the
United States.
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The lucky fir t ten of these hand-
picked four hundred we may comfort*
ably leave to their fate: but what of
the other three hundred and ninety?
If the former follow in the steps of
Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, I could
wish, too, that many of the latter
would emulate the example of Lowell,
Hadley, and Hibben. Each of these
gentlemen also went four years to col-
lege; each graduated, with highest
honors; each went forward to gradu-
ate and professional study; each
achieved first-rate distinction in pro-
ductive scholarshipin government, in
transportation, and in philosophy, re-
spectively. In this direction, the
chanceB of success for you are mani-
festly greater. There are as many as
six hundred colleges and universities
in this country today, and in your time
there may well be as many as a thou-
sand. That would mean in the lump a
student body of a million and a fac-
ulty approximating a hundred thou-
sand. An executive position comes
more or less by accident, and, after
all, the best satisfaction of the uni-
versity life are in the professorship.
Rice may not have started out to make
presidents of the United States, but
Rice did start out to make scientists
and scholars. Indeed, the great need
for such in the South is the real rea-
son why Rice entered on a university
programme beginning at the science
end, from mathematics, physics, chem-
istry, and biology, on down through
architecture, engineering, and other
applications of liberal and technical
learning to the manifold arts of our
present-day life.
Three Servants of the Church.
The primary object in the founding
of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton was
the preparation of men for the min-
istry of the church. Similarly, as the
frontier line advanced from the east-
ern shore, stage by stage, beyond the
Alleghanies, beyond the Mississippi,
beyond the Rockies, religious educa-
tion has been the pioneer of all forms
of education in this country. The
founder of this institution was taught,
even as you have been taught, to re-
member his Creator in the days of his
youth. And his parents, who so taught
him, gave him the name, William
Marsh, of a Christian clergyman. Per-
sonally 1 have great pride in the fact
that of the earliest Rice graduates
several are in the ministry of the
church, and that other students in
residence are preparing for such serv-
ice as their own life work. I should
like to think that the spirit of this
place in its search for truth would
.end sure and strong support to that
high calling. I have in mind three
other Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
men of the '70's .William Lawrence of
Harvard, who graduated from the
Episcopal Theological Seminary in
Cambridge in 1875, William Rainey
Harper of Yale, who graduated Doctor
of Philosophy in 1875, and Henry van
Dyke of Princeton, who graduated
from the Princeton Theological Semi-
nary in 1877; Harper, who set the
whole country aflame with his en-
thusiasm for the Hebrew language
and literature, and later became the
first president of the University of
Chicago; Lawrence, who became
Bishop of Massachusetts, and has late-
ly capped a half century of intellect-
ual independence in the ministry by
successfully leading the raising of
nearly ten million for art, chemistry,
and business administration at Har-
vard University; and van Dyke,
preacher, poet, and publicist, who
wrote and read the Inaugural Ode at
the opening of Rice, and has only re-
cently retired from his professorship
at Princeton University.
Emulation of Nine Outsanding Ameri-
cans.
When Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
were founded there were three learned
professions beyond the cffilege, name-
ly, the law, medicine, and the ministry.
Today there are I don't know how
many, and the number is increasing
yearly both within and without the
university. If among these I have
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singled out the three outstanding pro-
feasiontspf service to State and church
and univerllty, it is because the very
warp and woof of our civilisation is
by these three institutions prepared
and preserved. All three of these in-
stitutions have been faithfully served
in public life and in private life by
each of the nine college contempo-
raries of whom I have spoken in turn
this morning. I have looked back 50
years that you might immediately look
forward four years and fifty years,
fifty years seems a long time, but
these men are not far removed from
you. They are your contemporaries;
six of them are living, with years of
active life ahead of them. They came
of good American stock, even as you
jome of good American stock. They
grew up in good American homes,
jven as you have grown up in good
American homes, amidst all the influ-
ences of patriotism, religion, and edu-
cation. In school they were good stu-
dents, better than the average in
brightness, but hardly more than one
or two of them would have been char-
acterized in prospect either as a gen-
ius or as a giant in the making. They
all went to college, three of them to
college in their own home towns, even
as you have come to college. All nine
graduated from college. All contin-
ued their formal education beyond the
jollege. All took advantage of the
best training the world had to offer
chem when they were young. With
no one of them did the process of edu-
cation ever stop; with all nine of them
;hat process was kept up by reading
ind research throughout life. Will
you follow them? They were of dif-
ferent political parties, even as you
are. Like you, they were of differ-
3nt religious faiths. They battled, each
of them, with indifference and doubt
ind ill health, as each of you may.
Each learned how to think; and hav-
ing learned how to think, each learned
how to please men through the written
word and how to persuade public as-
semblies through the spoken word.
Each grew in power; each knew some-
thing of his limitations; each found it
necessary to conserve his strength.
Each made his mistakes, but no one of
them made the same mistake twice if
he could help it. Each learned to say-
no to opportunity for service as well
as to temptation to evil. Each could
relax; each knew how to play as well
as how to work. All carried on and
won out through hard work, great
hope, good fellowship, and hard work,
even as you may carry on and win out
through hard work, great hope, good ;
fellowship, and hard work. I have j
studied the lives of these nine men
profitably. The things I am saying
to you are not glittering generalities
or Jiighly spun idealistic enthusiasms.
They are concrete facts as actually
practically lived by men of your own
blood and time.
Initial Difficulties.
Finally, ladies and gentlemen, when
Princeton men come to see us, they
say: "You are building the Princeton
of the South;" when Yale men come to
visit us they say: "Here in the mak-
ing is the Yale of the South;" when
Harvard men come to see us, they say:
"Rice will become the Harvard of the
South." Time alone will tell, but in
any event we are already sending
forth annually as many graduates as
annually left each of these institu-
tions fifty years ago, and we have
great hopes that in service to Hous-
ton, to Texas, the South, and the Na-
tion, the graduates of Rice will hold
their own with the graduates of the
oldest of national institutions of learn-
ing in this country. This high road
of our high hopes for you, and,
through you, for Rice, is not an alto
gether easy road, but it is by all odds
theh happiest road I know of. In its
very initial stages here you may ex
pect to encounter difficulties; intel-
lectual difficulties, for what else is a
college for; spiritual difficulties, for
how otherwise would life be worth liv-
ing; financial difficulties, for in what
other way could we learn the saving
grace of labor. A short way out of
financial difficulty is to avoid it by
paying as you go on a cash and carry
basis, opening no charge accounts; a
quick way out of intellectual diffi-
culty is straight through it, step by-
step, sleeping over it occasionally, but
everlastingly hanging on until the
thing clears up; and a good way with
spiritual difficulty is to wait on ex-
perience, and in the meantime work
for others.
Individual and Organized Efforts.
With this simple philosophy I bid
you Godspeed as you start forward
this morning. It's a day's march
every day. The day's orders are most-
ly of your own making, but they
should be scrupulously executed every
day. The line starts four hundred
strong. Keep it four hundred strong
for four years In this I am deadly in
earnest, for I firmly believe that if
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along. Getting on calls for some
ability; getting along calls for genu-
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manners, and grit. It is, second of all,
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out of season to keep all of its mem-
bers in college continuously from ma-
triculation day to graduation day. The
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