Drexel University - Spartan Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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power, are what our modern education, the education that is to be and that is coming out of this great war, the eommon aetion, etlueation toward a eommon end, that power, that life going through eaeh hour of industry, going into the husy mill, into all the ae- tion of man, bringing them all to a higher point, to a more spiritual end, to a liner eon- cept of citizenship, to a. more splendid devotion-that' is the task whit-h we have before us. There are others, but we cannot neglect that, and so with that we are going on after these twenty-tive years, going on, all of ns, to common aetion and to common ends, using the hours, saving all we ean, and breathing into every hour and every clay a splendid purpose. It has been a. very great privilege 1 know for my eolleagues of' the Board of Trustees to have with us in our celebration our next tlistinguisllecl speaker. America is fortunate in having some real flistingui:-zhecl men, and Philadelphia is hy no means less t'ortunate than other parts of the Unitecl States. In none is it more t'ortnnate than in having Mr. Tower. I have the great honor to introfluee the Honorable l'harlen1ag'ne Tower, member of the Board of Trustees. Y-2 -1 I . I 17 t

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present and t'a1'-sighted, t'Ulll171'lill6llSlVC, eontinuous plans in the future. For edueation eoneerns daily, inunediate emergeneies, and is also eoneerned with those future years when the world, now heing and already destroyed, must he rehuilt. And it is a matter otf greala eoneern to a.ll otf us in edueation that the rebuilders otf that world, the men and women, shall not he, as the first l'ounders otf Harvard desired in a, more narrow and theo- logieal sense, shall not he illiterate ministers. For you remember l'l'arvard was t'ounded largely to prevent any possibility ol' an illiterate ministry. It is our task to send out literate ministers otf industry through edueation: literate, knowing, judging, men and women, who ean eontrol those treineiulous eivil powers on whieh depends so mueh to- clay the happiness, the eoml'o1't ot' all ot' us and all that long line that is to eoine alter us. It is a. lnatter 't'or eaeh ol' us to think earel'ully about. What is to he the task ot' eduea- tion? What is to he the eoordination ol' industry and ol' edueation in these next years? One thing we ean surely do. We 4-an ask two questions: Whati van industry give to edu- eation? What ean edueation give to industry L? And while the answers are as varied as all the lields ol' energy, l eau eertainly say that only hy one we ean determine what eaeh can give. We 1-an say that in every ease educ-ation shall provide the soundesl, tinest and highest ideals and a hasis for the development ol' industry and l'or the development of the state. 'l'he old days that eame het'ore the war are almost pre-historie now. l think you, like myselt', look hack upon those days hel'ore that August day ol' ltllsl and feel as it' it were another age and world in whieh we lived apart, a dit't'erent world: and yet' many olf us go on with the same ideas, and some ot' us with the same ideals, that we had in that tormer, pre-historie age. lt is a new world. It is a questioning world, and it is a major task ol' edueation to meet the new. What Fundamental l'aetors exist in eaeh? lt we are to go together in edueation and in industry, we must have eertain vom- mon ends, and we must have eertain eommon measures. What' l'mulamental l'a1-tors are there A? One we know. lt has heen said again and again that time is the compelling taetor ol' this war. Look haek to those lirst days when we were looking to see whether or not Liege would hold the on-coming line. Look haek to Verduu. Look to last week, or to this morning, it' you will, and see how many matters ot' industry, ol' the state, and ot' the war eome together in one eommon thought--the using ol' time, the saving of time, that great' lesson ol' saving time, ol' thril't in time, ot' using all that we have ol' time. 'that is one lesson surely that is eommon to industry and to edueation. And there l helieve is one lesson that the Institute eertainly, and 1 helieve many others, ean all join in as a eonnnon platform-the need t'or edueation to measure the golden hours, those hours golden heeause they eannot he houghtg they eau only he saved or used, and all our service l'o1' the eollege and the state eannot do mueh that is hased on any more l'1nulamental eon- eept than that one ot' time. Il' edueation is to do what it should with that great and mighty tigure t'hronos, with that golden minute and that golden hour, it must put through every hour and through every day a spirit, of its own. The vital tluid, the vitality, lite, 16

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ADERESS OF THE HONORABLE CHARLEMAGNE TOWER I estt-t-m it an espt-t-ial honor to say a t't-w wortls upon this ottt-asion on hehall' ot' the lioartl ol' 'l'rnstt-t-s txt' 'l'ht- llrt-xt-l lnstitntt--the g.1'll2ll'tllilllS antl t'art-talit-rs who hart- hatl its mtt-rt-sts at ht-art antl have matlt- its wt-lt'arti tht- t-hit-l' aim ol' their entlt-arors tlnring: tht- past twenty-tire yt-ars, t'1l1'l'j'lllQ' ont' the wishes antl fnllilling' tht- purposes ot' its high- mimletl antl g't-nt-rons l'onntlt-r. Tl it-irs has been the watt-ht'ul solit-itntle lllltlL'l' whit-h this institution, plantt-tl in Phila- tlelphia soil a quarter ot' a l'Clll'lll'.Y ago, has grown antl llonrisht-tl, has t-xtemlt-tl its in- llnemft- througliont. tht- limits ot' tht- t-ity, into tht- homt-s ol' tht- hoys antl girls, the mt-n :mtl the womt-n whost- hamls it has strt-ng.1'tlit-nt-tl aml ht-t'ore whom it has st-rvt-tl to smooth tht- way npon whivh tht-y antl we all art- hearing' forwartl tht- lmrtlt-n ol' hnman cxistt-nt-t-. At the t-lose ol' a long antl at-tive lil't-, lilletl with tht- t-xperit-nt-e ol' one who km-w wt-ll its tlillit-nltit-s-whit-h was t-rowm-tl hy tht- rt-wartl ol' honorahlt- sm-rt-ss, Mr. An- thony Urt-xt-l tnrnt-tl his thoug'hts towartl his l't-llow mt-n-towartl tht- amhitions hopt-s ot' tht- vonng whost- glam-t-s rt-at-h l'o1'wa1'tl to tht- goal l'ar aht-atl, still ont ol' rt-at-hg antl Lowartl tht- Sl1'llj.1'j.1'l0 ot' those in maturt-r yt-ars who havt- alrt-atly hornt- somt-what the ht-at antl burtlt-n ot' tht- tlay. llt- sympathizt-tl with tht-m in lllK'l1' t-l'l'orts to atlrant-e aml he hatl it in his ht-art to aitl tht-m from tht- rit-h sourt't-s ol' his worltl t-xpt-rit-m-t-, as wt-ll as l'1'om tht- 2llJlllltlillll'0 that hatl t-omt- to him tlirongli his own intlnstry antl pt-rst-vt-rant-t- aml th1'it't. lfle hopt-tl to ht-lp tht-in onwartl to sm-t-t-ss. 'Q' . 'l'ht-re art- so many t-lt-mt-nts, howt-rt-r, wlm-h go to make up what may ht- t'allt-tl sm-- vess in lit'e that it is not easy to t'ort-st-t- whit-h ol' tht-m t-xt-rts tht- Hl1'tlllfJ,'CSl inllnt-mte in tht- gt-nt-ral rt-snlt, or whit-h miglit ht- rt-straint-tl or omitlt-tl without, wt-altening' tht- l'oi-t-t- or t'liang'ing' tht- tlirt-t-tion ol' tht- pnrpost- that all hart- in View who aim to 1l1'0g'l't'SS. 'l'ht- t-liarat-tt-r ot' mt-n, their t'ort-t- ot' will, tht-ir attt-ntion to tletail, tht-ir tlioronglmt-ss in tin- ishing what they take in hamlg so also tht-ir sliortt-oniing's, tht-ir lavk ot' attention to their tlntit-s, their lt-ss lirm 1'USlSt2lllt't' in the ovt-rt-oining' ol' tlitlit-ultyg tht-sts things, ot' t-ourse, play a part in roumling' ont' a t-art-er in lit't- antl in shaping' the tlt-stiny ol' an intlivitlnal man or woman, antl they are to ht- t-onsitlt-rt-tl in planning' any st-ht-me ol' t-th1- t-ation. l-Sntz tht-se are im-itlt-nts whitfh tlt-pt-ml upon tht- imlivitlnal himst-ll' antl govt-rn his artion in eatth vast- as it prt-st-nts itst-lt'. ltlr. Drt-xt-l's wish was above antl liill' ht-,vontl this. Ilis intt-ntitm was, to ht-lp mt-n aml women as tht-y are, to provitle lor them somt-- thii ty- of whit-h t-very one miglit' avail: antl that is the grountl upon whit-h 'l'ht: Drexel ln F 18