Show it Is well to remember that a great university Is much like a tree by LYNN HAROLD HOUGH president northwestern university one odthe hobt delightful poems of joyce giltne nuis thus chils 1 I think that I 1 shall liall i neur sea are A plein lo 10 lovely ply aa trie tree A tree whose hungry month is against the earths barths sweet iloni flowing ng breast A tree that looks to god all day i aal lifts her leafy arras arms to pray A tree that may in summer i wear A nest of robins robina in her hair upon whose bosom bilow has lain who intimately lives imps with rain poems are made in by fools fols like me but only god eau cau bake make a tree long before tins this high spirited american poet who so gallan gallantly na his lift life in in Fra france tive had sung of the lif a tier mcm list had f felt cit majesty majc ty antl and the lie mystery of the kings of if the forest t the ilir old ohl scan li flavian v had told etolil of the great gi ew at tr tree ee il the lie tree trea of existent nil and life mid knott lede the ultimate nic mcanin anim of the lie universe va in the life of a tree the embolism or of the irve arce is bilu i tempting tempi ing and fur for our lAir purpose poe just now it is well ivell to rellie niber that a great it university liver sity lii is a tree it roots deeply in the past it drinks eagerly cuddly the suns ine and the rtin rain of tho prent it gathers into biz life the hie full fall ni meaning caning 0 of f kitow ledge it offers kofl ers wonderfully friendly shade sl iule and it bears constant fruit which it gives with noble freedom to the torlif after all there is a sene hano iu in which we all all have haie a linic ciare in ill the making ilig of a tree this thia tree of knowledge which ii H our airn ov n ity loes does not prow grow of itself its self we can call swim MM its branches over wider areas area we can call increase its productiveness mid it its gifts gifta of fruit to the he republic ind and the lands beyond what is our skare ill in the making of this tree |