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were; yet, in spite of it all, this institution would grow up in the long run to be enrolled among the great academic oenters of the world. We are privileged to reap where he sowed* We are privileged to see with our own physioal eyes the realization of the vision which was plain only to his inner and spiritual eye. Surely our lines have fallen in pleasant places, as we see, deoade after decade, and year after year, nay, almost month after month and even day after day, some new evidence of the increasing usefulness of this institution. The great German author Lessing declared that that which we do not see growing we find after a time grown. But we are privileged both to see the institution growing and to see it grown. To one occupying the position which I hold, a part of whose function it is to keep track of the activity of every individual department and subdepartment of the University, it is plain that every day in the year some stake is driven farther afield to take possession of new territory, or the plow driven in more deeply to cultivate more thoroughly the territory already in possession. The University of Illinois is with every passing hour measuring itself up more fully to its responsibilities as an institution which in its comprehensive soope and
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