The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding as Queens College, 1766-1916 . eat continent. And could we not tell them the storyof the aeroplane, and the submarine, and of all the greatprogress that the world has made in these one hundredand fifty years? And with what shame, also, we wouldhave to tell them of the great European War; of theengines of destruction tearing down what they and theirkinsmen on the other side of the Atlantic have beenbuilding up for centuries in faith and in hope. And outof their amazement they would perhaps turn to us, theirsons, and the
The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding as Queens College, 1766-1916 . eat continent. And could we not tell them the storyof the aeroplane, and the submarine, and of all the greatprogress that the world has made in these one hundredand fifty years? And with what shame, also, we wouldhave to tell them of the great European War; of theengines of destruction tearing down what they and theirkinsmen on the other side of the Atlantic have beenbuilding up for centuries in faith and in hope. And outof their amazement they would perhaps turn to us, theirsons, and they would ask of us at this time the verysearching question: *But what of the moral and thespiritual progress of this country? Are you as proudof that as you are of all of these material achievements ?And how would we be able to answer that question? Theanswer we would have to give is that we are not thor-oughly satisfied, to say the least, with our advancementin this regard. We say to our ancestors tonight: **Wecrave for the present and for the future a double portion Pageant, Prolog: KNIGHTS AND MONKS. Pageant, Episode V: THE BALL AT BUCCLEUCH FRIDAY, OCTOBER THIRTEENTH 89 of your spirit. We would not go forth into this unknownfuture of ours in our country and the unknown future ofthe world without stopping at least at this time to securesome benediction from the past. There is a man who is very much in the eye of theAmerican public today, one of the greatest manufac-turers of our country, who said not long ago—and it wasquoted in all of our newspapers—that he was not inter-ested in the past, that the past had no meaning for him,that the man of affairs must live today wholly in thepresent and with an eye toward the future. Ladies andgentlemen, I wish to state—and in stating this I believeI express the feeling of every one here—that we at leastdare not forget the past and the lessons of the past. Ibelieve in every progressive movement in this country,and I believe that w
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