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earth, which sees through the the common life. It stand noi onlj »r i bin . for ; research; noi wanderin . pointl itterii . il th ai study of hidden truth which m enlar mi ki of himself and of all nature, which i il li appier and society more Becure, which may qu H-I and carry new fascination into the I mechanical industries. It nourisl th lit ir bt it neither submits nor objects t any cr : it - not for free thinking which has no hai ins or ; it i r freedom in a faith based upon sci ntific ; its and 1 *1 thinking, and it encoura is worship in any . 1 stands for all men and for equality unity; i sympathies are as high as heaven, and a b 1 as the boundless universe of matter and of lit : it m >i . 1 > that it is the instrument of democrat ic t v ; -trem:i en its own foundations by ma kin-- men and v. true and tolerant and useful in the home and in th and it understands also that it is not its busim - tride or discourage, hut to help on every other insl rum. ity, public or private, which maki forthesam it ei s

THE UNIVERSITY BUTLDINUS AND QROl N 1)8

Now let us go through the buildings of this Uni\ and see just what is being done. The journev is \o one and you must he patient. We are to took in; ,• , n * where more than six hundred different courses,,f Wl , r |, [r* being carried on. If one man was to undertake to do all this work, and should be a gOOd enough student t p a s s out of each course without "flunking" it would tal • | l l : ; ; seventy years to do it. It, needs much time just i |, into the rooms where this work is done, and the journo' cannot be made as interesting by \\ord a l,\ siKhl ^