Rice University - Campanile Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Eo tce JJtneteen Ciaentp= eben One of my heroes among Greek philosophers said that he envied above all men the one who first stumbled on the idea that man has a mind. For four years every member of the Rice Class of 1927 has been engaged here in the discovery and cultivation of mind. For each of you this adventure in discipline and discovery has been a determining personal experience, emotional as well as intellectual in character. A striking thing about the cultivated mind in your day is that almost without exception it begins as an individual mind and ends as an international mind. Such mind thinks in terms of the planet, all the people of the planet, and seeks to survey the whole of time and existence in terms of civilizations and their history. It implies the national mind even as the national mind implies the provincial mind, but it would transform pa- triotism into a passion for humankind. It sees mankind the world over as one great family, its dominating idea being the essential unity of civilization. Its power is persuasion. Its appeal is to reason. Its purpose is harmony and peace, among men and among nations. With well-trained individual minds you are about to enter the larger world of men and nations. That world in our day seems destined to become more and more a dominion of some form or other of international mind, under a cosmopolitan spirit that shall mold, and in turn be molded of, world opinion. Of such mind and spirit the newer manifestations are full of promise as sunrise on mountain or prairie. They are, however, in their earliest stages and call for all the nurture our natures are capable of. Their planetary aspects doubly enhance the power of all educational enterprise, not only to educate the public opinion of a people, but to enlighten the public opinion of a planet on which no people longer lives alone. From their partial fulfillment among men we may well take heart, and towards their further promotion among nations we do well to press on, impelled by high hope for still larger conquests of righteous- ness, justice, and truth on the part alike of individual and of international mind. ■jMCtfiis-

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Edgar Odell Lovett, Ph.D., LL.D. President of the Riee Institute

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poarb of James Addison Baker Chairman William Marsh Rice, Jr Vice Chairman John Thaddeus Scott Vice Chairman Benjamin Botts Rice Secretary-Treasurer Edgar Odell Lovett Alexander Cleveland Edward Andrew Peden It is in the hands ot these men that the making of Rice Institute lies. It is through their wisdom that Rice is what it is today and through their foresight that Rice will fulfill its destiny as one of the finest educational institutions of the United States. James Addison Baker is the only one of the original board remaining, the others have been elected bv members of the board to fill vacancies occurring through death of any member. THE TRI MEMS MEET ON IHK CAM I '