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the exeroiae of the very highest talent In a way to be of supreme value to your day and generation. I only hope that

as the people of this commonwealth increase our facilities and opportunities we may be able to build up here in these subjects a center to which the best young men from all parts of the country will naturally resort because here will be the best work of that kind to be found. We are dedicating this building, then, first of all to the service of the commonwealth in the largest and widest sense. And this service involves first, a. service to the students, the most effective possible teaching which we can render; the most effective possible training whioh we can develop for the benefit 6f the young men, - and young women too, if they want it, - who choose to take up this line of work5 feeling that if we did nothing else but send out into the bosom of the commonwealth, men of ability and training and inspiration, the institution will have done a valuable service and rendered a full return for all the sacrifice whioh the commonwealth has made. But after we have done that, noblesse oblige. We should never be satisfied with one service or any particular number of services until we have done all the servioe that we can render. The next servioe, besides effective teaching, would

be continual additions to the sum total of human knowledge, in the shape of effective, valuable literature of the profession so that this would be one of the great centers