Show College Men Meir Under Obligation to Preserve and Disseminate the Truth TruthE Yale University E Ey Iy DOCTOR ANGELL President who falls fails Jo lo dedicate himself first o first o th the res college n man mm TIm lion tion and dissemination of knowledge knowledge- and truth and the othe discover discovery T II of new ne truth wherever it may be found is false to the trust repose reposed in tn him b by his rore forebears ears who founded the institution to the contemporary contemporary con ron temporary society which maintains it and to the company of scholars who conduct it it To abstain from such Fuch d dedication argues lamentable ignorance ignorance ig ignorance ig- ig norance of what is involved sheer moral perversity or hopeless incapacity to apprel appreciate and take advantage of great opportunity There are few pleasures so disinterested few so 80 stimulating so in intrinsically intrinsically intrinsically in- in delightful and refreshing few so permanently rewarding as those which come conic front from the time intellectual entry upon wholly new appealing end significant fields of knowledge or upon unfamiliar and moving beauties beau- beau tits ties in literature or in art To miss this kind of experience by failure to improve e the time opportunities college offers is altogether tragic and especially especially espe espe- dally if iC it means menns that one has not made effective contact with the great teachers tent who can kindle the flames lames of intellectual enthusiasm and To 10 sit at the feet of great grent scholars is one of the privileges of which the college man should be most jealous following him who can lead revealingly revealingly revealingly re- re into the rn mysteries of history and literature of science a and d art of philosophy and religion To forego such opportunities because one is absorbed in some trivial extraneous activity is simply to sell ones one's birthright birthright birthright birth birth- right for a mess of oC pottage Here lIere lies the great and unequaled treasure of the college To miss it is to sin against the time enlightenment of ones one's c own spirit to be in the presence of wisdom only to pass it by Folly Fony is too milt mild l a term for such ineptitude |