Show I 1 never in in history bistor y has so much wealth fallen into lap of education by PRESIDENT A L LO LOWELL WELL Il harvard arvard university HE effects of the great war surprised us ns one of the results affects T us deeply here the people who havo have suffered sin since ce the wa war r on the continent of europe moro more acutely than any other class clam have been tho the professors because they were paid in a constantly falling currency their means of publishing book and of getting apparatus has been greatly diminished what effect is that likely to have Is it not almost certain to retard their growth Is it not sure to hamper their work on the other hand of this country and I 1 06 there has never been a time in the history the history of mankind wealth lias has fallen into the lap of learning as it it has has since the end of the war I 1 cannot help feeling that that has hn a moral for us we have been mor enors distinguished in the past in building ral railroads than we have in producing pro duing great books books that turned the current of human thought in nw directions we havo been moro more successful in our industries than wo we have been on the whole in our learning I 1 notice nt the present time that the public nt at large thinks tile the object of institutions of higher learning is to win football games perhaps they are right but our vie view w is quite different yours and mine we feel as if we owe something to men wo we feel cs as if we had received the sacred fire and that that sacred fire must be kept alive perhaps you agree with roe me that if we ve let that fire I 1 go out we deserve to be buried alive like the vestal virgin wo we have built the land of our country we have made the desert fertile wo we have established great factories and we ought to do it now is the time when we will begin to sow the seed of the greatest intellectual movement that the world lias has ever known if not we do not deserve to be where we are arc wu ought to feel eliat the time hia has come when if our country is going to bo be great wo we must begin now now we must feel the spirit of that inner riner voice cosce intellectually we havo have a right to feel everything is before us it is for us now to ninke make the contributions which our fathers have made it possible that we should make so far as intellectual intellect ual pursuits are concerned we are I 1 ving living in the carnivorous age |