Bradford Academy - Chimes Yearbook (Haverhill, MA)

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'23 rad Ord .J-4n21aL5 since it is our century, l am not going to disparage it. But I am going to say this: No man can understand the twentieth centurv who does not know something of the sixteenth and the fourteenth, and the third, and the cen- turies before Christ. No man has a right to live in our time and not know the times behind him, ani' more than l have a right to live in a great his- toric house and not know something about the men and women who lived and made it what it is in the rears before. It is not for us to inherit this priceless thing which we call civilization, reared bv the sacrifice and the self-denial. and the agonizing struggles of our ancestors, without bearing them continualli' in memorv. and without constant recognition of what they have done tor us. 'lihis subject has so many sides, and to-day the necessity of education, as the man in the world sees it, is so pressing, the tragedies of life are so largeh' the tragedies oi non-education, that it is not easy to stop when one has begun. llnt nu' share of the time of this morning is already exhausted. .-Xnd to the friends of Bradford .'Xcademi', which has so admirably, through so mam' decades, illustrated the great principles of education, not simply the traininif of the brain, but the training of the bodv, and the training of the imagination, and the training of the character, I say you cannot do a better service for your time, or for yourselves, than to give to such an insti- tution as this vour moral support and your greatest generosity. Nothing finer has happened these last few years, in all this rush and storm and tide of material prosperity, than the immense gains which education has secured. It is a blessed thing that in the profits and losses of year before last 'MHS HHH HHH went to educational purposes from private hands. That is a noble record. lt was an appreciable percentage of the profits of the year for the whole nation. .-Xb, but when the nation comes to understand that a democracv, above all other governments, depends for its stability on the 1 be no money which it will withhold, and l b 'll l 'fh the walls of its schools no labor which it will spare, to lay deep ant ui t ug ' r f ' ' f l and its colleges g for thei' are the nurseries of its strength, and out o tiem training of its citizens, there will must come the influences which are to make it great if it shall be great. l Loud applause. J f G7 I

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Brad ord 5241111141115 it always provincial. To be born in a little community is one thing g to live in a nation is another thing. They tell us in the VVest, and I think they have good grounds for their complaint, that most of us along the Atlantic seaboard live in a section, and have not yet learned to live in the nation. The only way to cease to be a provincial and to become a citizen of the world is by education. You cannot do it by travel. XVhat is travel without education? There is no sight so pitiable as that of the self-made American father and husband, who, with the devotion and the sagacitv of the American man, has made a fortune, and in the making of it has been so absorbed that he has had no time for his own mind, and takes his famillv abroad and stands in one of the great picture galleries, or on one of those memorable battle- Helds, and wonders what in the world people come there for, and what it is all about. CLaughter.l Manx' of vou are going abroad this vear, l have no doubt. Now, vou are not going to see anvthing in lfurope which vou do not take with vou in the capacitv to see. You are not going to see anv more of Europe than lies to-dav in the back of vour mind. Nobody can stand on Wfaterloo bridge and look at that vast citv stretching up and down the Thames, and at the great minster, and at XN'c-stminster Palace, and understand what England is unless he can go back of XX'estminster Abbev, with its centuries of devotion, and praver, and aspiration, and love of beauty and skill, to the old times in which was reared that great pravcr into stone. No man can understand what XVestminster Palace means unless he can recall the great figures who stood there, and hear again the great voices pleading for freedom in other centuries, and see the great men who, bv their voices and their character, their broad intelligence and their grasp, made English power and authority what it is to-dav at the ends of the earth. No man can understand what the Place de la Concurtlc in Paris means unless he can see with the imagination the IH'lllit's moving out with bur- nished eagles, or coming back with tattered standards, victorious, from half the capitals of Europe, or unless he can hear in memorv the tumult and uproar of those great mobs which have made that square the stage of some of the most colossal tragedies of historv. No man can understand his own time unless he can get ullt of it. This IS undoubtedly a great century. The newspapers are telling us. and will continue-to tell us, that it is the greatest centurv since time began. :Xml 1 isis 3

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