Rice University - Campanile Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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cr J iee iP lfeit i fee TO RICE, NINETEEN TWENTY-SIX fi OR four years you have been studying an old map. It comes down to you from Athens and Sion through Rome. It stretches from the sky to the sea through the soul of man. It is the map of the western mind. For these same four years you have been tracing a new map. It too comes down to you by heritage and tradition, and through Rice. It too reaches from the sea to the stars through your own spirit. This new map IS the map of your own mind. The old records the race ' s acquisitions, and labels its ranges with such terms as philosophy and history, science and letters, religion and art. The new reveals the individual ' s adventures, perhaps in regions still unlabelled. Each has its vast spaces of undis ' covered country. Each has its glory either of age or of youth, each its lines bright or dark of intellectual beauty, and each is gay with all the color of emotional charm. In this place you have found no more precious possessions than these two maps. Despite their long lineage, they are of your own making in so far as you have made them your own. For the future they are indispensable to you, both for the busi- ness of life and for the leisure of life, but if for either of these high ends of living one of the other of these maps must at any time be given up, hold fast to the new. And, as for each of you this new map of your own mind unfolds, I trust that in lines sharp and distinct and in colors radiant and strong it may reveal the liberating and liberalising in- fluences of philosophy, science, and religion, may register substantial contributions on your part to the old map of the western mind in its regions both of action and of re- flection, and may record for all of us the least mortal part of the mind of Rice. -■ xud

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n lbte t ' i (gr 7m.its cavigtCt EDGAR ODELL LOVETT, Ph. D., LL. D. President of I he Rice Iristiiule

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nrikte U @ r tr 7 s its igCt OFFICERS OF THE ADMINSTRATION EI) (JAR UDKLL I.OVETT Pmidait ROB K R r G R A X I L L E C A L D W E L L Dca7i SAM EEL GLENN McCANN Renslraj- JOHN THOMAS McCANTS Bursar 11 IE RICE INSTITUTE •- y. I; ' : OF l.lBliHAL ANfi I , TECHNIOM LEARMNiJ I-! FOliNDtP BY j WILLIAM .MARSH K1C% rr. ' AND I b|DEJ)ICATE0 BY HIMjIi m THE ADVANCEMES OKIETTERSSCIENCI AND ART H ICI