Rice University - Campanile Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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KITE INSTITUTE B O A IS II O E T Rini» T E E !$ James Addison Bakkk W iLLiAM Marsh liicE. ,|k. C ' lmiriiiiiii )ii Thaddeis Scott f ico-Chdinnan 3 I icv-Cliuinuun Rkn.ivmin Botts KrcE Sc(rcl(iry-1 ri ' dsiir Kdgvk Odell Lo et Alexander Sessl.ms Cleveland 3 ] M!D AnDRE V I ' eDEN ' ((■ picliiies jiillinr llic anlcr iif luinu 3 1 II

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TO RICE NINETEEN-TTTIKTV I wijli you time. I wish m ii the spirit of hope and a sense of Inniinr. I wisli vou imaginative sympathy with all conditions of men. a hvely interest in all humanitarian undertakings, prompt and unhesitating initiati e in all good uorks. I wish ou reason and reserve, right- mindedness and resoureeiidness. I u i li ou taste and tael. lol ' ranee. and leTiaiit . I uish you truth. I ui h ou years of outh. ami i-ars and years of usefulness. 1 liaye no magic wand uitli shich to raise these half dozi ' n wishes into reality for vou. Nor lo vou e p ' el anv su ' h sleight of hand or leight of mind on m |iart. I Jideed. u eri ' ser iee of this sort within in pouer. its exercise would Ik- a distinct disservice, for these wishes are not mere words, ihev are ideas, and ideas are uon onl hx the will and the wirk to win llieui. You have already been winning them in om- form or another, because, whether ou ha e been always conscious of the fact or not. our actual liusiness here for the last lour years has been a still hunt lor idi a and their impliiations. now on new trails, and now on old. iid where ha e vou lound their native haunts. ' ' I douht if an man knows. I )o lhe come Irmn within, or from without ' . ' ' if from within, how. ' If from without, whenci-. ' ' Min ha e always been divided as to the origin of ideas. The are di ided still. We ndghl argue the mat ler till sundow n. and (roin sundow u till morning. Ilii ' im|)ortant thing is that we has ■ them. hatever their origin, the fai t is that these ideas, truth, hope, imagination, reason, toler- ance, and so on. carr on in ihr traditions of the education in which you have been engaged. Anil what are those traditions? .Some of tli -ui are ridigion. which gives sanelions to irlue, sequence to history, salt and savor to life: and freedom, guaranteeing to ini-ri their indl idu- alitv in thought and action; and dis ' .ipline. guarding Iri ' edom ironi lanaticism and libi ' rlv from license: and science, with its unhurrving search lor fails and relations among facts, from cells to consciousness, ions to cosmos, ami return: and sport, with its light-hearted en- thusiasm for physical fitness, fair play, and thi jov of lih ' : and service, with its disinterested zeal for philanthropy and the connnon weal: and deniocrai- . which, despite sonu ' limita- tions, brings to our secular relationshi|is a new dignitx in all the walks (d men. These traditions have stood about iniv tents in this |)lace. Thev ha e heaten into our armor the ideas 1 have wished vou. Ther ' is little time left for buckling on tli ' armor, for the bugles are blowing and tin ' battle is already going on. — Edgvr Odell Loveit.

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ff .- ' 0F - % • R I € E 1 S T 1 T r T K O F F I i E IR S O F A II 31 1 X i S T « A T I O X KUGAK OUELL LoVKTT Robert (iK NviLLE Caldwell Sa.mlel Glenn McCann John Ttiom s McCants I i E i E I ' icsiilrnt Ihai, Hcilislrttr Hill s(ir The picluns joUim- lliv iiiiIit ii] ikiiiws.