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"ti\ essentia] requisite for the healthful and hopeful >wthofoui Institution, "Sees ye Rrs1 the kingdom oi leaven and .ill these things shall be added unto you." I t t this one good pari and it can nelt her be taken from us nor ( an it be hindered from i .n i \ ln« alonu wit h it In .1 mi htj onward Nwaj all things deHirable towards the fu tin reatness and power oi the University oi tllinois 1 l ference in made to wh.u mav i < indicated bv suftleient > mphasia upon the first word in the title oi this paper, Not lie University, i>nt Our University. Ours, not simph i>\ po "ii and privilege, but ours in enthusiastic pride.ours in turning devotion, ours in exalted and unbounded love \ ainst such there is no law, and ai ainst such then is no possibility "i discouragement or defeat, Let citi ens stud} lie institution and seek to understand the meaning and tiitude of the deep-running, onward-movln . burden I aring current instead oi hastening to conclusions by spe DUN observations oi the ripples and eddies which art* i .ill onh surfao indications oi resistless momentum

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(Jrav< responsibility i are laid upon the trustee s, What !h.\ do .MKI what thev refrain from doinu are alwavs im portant matters, and w ise considerations oi the latter maj attended with as fruitful consequences as maj those ot h. formei Kind It is a question < i success <>\ failure, « t > > hi, ,,, death, whether or not theii a< is an Interpenetrat d ml dominated i>\ ^^ Impersonal, unselfish, unbiased but well Inform* I. .«ppr< lativ< and p.it i lot ic regard foi t h I, .t welfare oi the institution, Their's is a most dell at< and dlfth nit task, and t hi hould be ret o tii ed bj all \ 1» There Is, however, on V 1< \. Minn |ml nK'iii upon them, indium principle which without liesitancj should i pn , i, .i h re and In .ill deliberal Ions ha\ Inn for theii ol t < 11,. in i . i Ii.it i he Intel nal edm at lonal and d i |p

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