Repository: UIHistories Project: Convocation - 1930 [PAGE 14]

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been brought Up. Wherever you go, go With heads high, courage strong, hearts cheerful, and del mini 1 to givi the world the best that is in you. Some of you will go to what the world regards as high places and some oi you will fill positions that in the eyes of man are humble and lowly. Let not your hearts be troubled thereby. Your contribution to the final success of humanity may b greater than humanity itself can know. Some of you will succe 1 and some of you will fail, so far as mate-rial w ilth is concerned. The true and ultimate measure of the u< ess of your real contribution to your own life and to the lives of your fellow men will be measured by the degree in which you leave the world better than you found it. I bid you go forth in the spirit of the Illini tradition That tradition is a spirit that does not falter before difficulties and dangers. It is one of high purpose and lofty courage; it is a tradition of hard work that we may learn the more; a tradition of devotion to duty in private business and in public service; a tradition of learning that seeks to know the facts, to find the truth in the belief that the truth "will make you free"; a tradition that will bid you act in the sense of that glorious motto of our athletic contests, applicable to all acts of life, that we win without boasting and lose without excuses; a tradition that calls on you to preserve the spirit of the pioneers who made it their mission to know the unknown, to dispel error, to add >mothing to the sum of the world's knowledge. (io forth, then. in the spirit of that tradition with loyalty and love for voui Alma Mater, profiting by what you have done here, keeping old friendships and making new, in order that ; nir fathers and mothers, your friends, your Alma Mater, your : country, and your God may at the end be able to say 'you have done well."

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