Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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iriiiratunt .♦- ONCE or twice in a lifetime one hears words that stay with him forever. Those who heard Robert G. Ingetsoll address the old soldiers in the Circle at Indianapolis back in the ' seventies, when he began by saying, The past rises before me like a dream, were fortunate above their fellows. It was the greatest and best thing that Ingersoll ever did. All else in his life may be forgotten. Similarly, March 23 was a red letter day to the friends of Butler who were in the college chapel that day. Scot Butler made his farewell address as presi- dent. Il is a great thing for one to be at his best when he lays down a burden and takes up a new relation in life. Such was his happy state on that day : His share of life ' s battle well fought, but his quiver still full of arrows. To whom should this book be dedicated but to him, who has shown us the way to the fountain of eternal youth? To him, and to his words of March 23 let us ever be true : This is a part of the lesson I want to give you, — that life is all good. It all makes for righteousness, for strength, for holiness, if, under God, we use it rightly. Today is great, tomorrow shall be greater. 1 am talking to young people, — not only you who are here before me, for back of you and over you 1 see throng- ing faces of those who were here before you, thrust forward out of the dimness of the distance. Youth is beautiful. You do not realize how beautiful it is. You will realize it better after awhile. Youth ought to last always. You may grow weary with the trials and struggles of life, losing perhaps largely every fine sentiment and delicate feeling, but in the later day may you come back to the same bright land of youth, where the skies burn blue, where the winds blow soft, and where reign forever peace and trust and heartfelt confidence and abiding calm.