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phere, we shall find too, the sculptor's an armament against the wild theories of hand, which is continually moulding the the visionist and fanatic. Law shall finally present laws into those higher forms, that make liberty the birth-right and inherifind their ultimatum in the great principles tance of all mankind. that guide our existence. Law stands as
ADDRESS TO THE SENIORS.
BY CHANCELLOR LIPPINCOTT.
Young Ladies and Young Gentlemen of the Classes of'84:
It becomes my duty, and is no less a pleasure, to convey to you to-day the greetings of the Board of Regents and of the Faculty of the University. We congratulate you upon the successful issue of your student life. These years of study seemed very long and perhaps very tedious when viewed in advance; but how swiftly and, in the main, how pleasantly they have passed. Some of you will doubtless enter the professional school in further preparation for the special work to which you propose to devote yourselves; but, for the most part, you stand upon the threshold of those years, all too few, as you will some day realize, into which you are to weave whatever of success shall crown your lives.
To-day you turn your faces away from your school home. As you stand upon the threshold ready to go, your Alma Mater looks upon you—we may as well acknowledge it—with something of pride. A goodly company, you have filled a large place in the University household. Your work here is now done and it is simple justice to say in this presence that, in the main, it has been well done. But let us not forget that this work is merely the preparation. If you have done this well, you are ready for the duties that even now, perhaps, await your coming. For this is Commencement Day. Do not look upon it as marking the close of school life; here begins that earnest work for which all up to this has been but the preparation. Our hearts go out with you into that untried future
whose buffetings and triumphs we anticipate for you. May these buffetings, which will surely come, be to you but the occasions for triumph!
Will you pardon me if yet for a moment I detain you? Here, for my associates and for myself, I speak the last words before the tie is finally severed that binds us together in the relationship of student and instructor. Would that I might speak just the word necessary completely to supplement the teachings of these years. You mean, each one, to win success. God help you to accomplish it! But what is success? Let me assure you it is not that glittering thing in eager pursuit of which men contend with each other. He who would win the true success must reach it through a victory over himself. Such is the teaching of God's word: "A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." Not what you shall possess, then, but what you shall become is worthy your most careful and conscientious consideration.
As you take your places in the intricate relationships of social and business life, specially in the earlier years, we shall follow you with hopeful solicitude. Your triumphs your Alma Mater will count her own; and if in any doubtful contest you look back to her for such assistance as she may render, you may be assured that such help shall not be withheld. Into these years of contest and, as we hope and believe, of triumph she folllows you with her benediction.