Publications of the University of Pennsylvania, Vol. 4

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Excerpt from Publications of the University of Pennsylvania, Vol. 4: University Bulletin, Number I Students of the College: - It is not an easy thing to speak to you. It might be, it is true, if the occasion of to-day were to end with to-day. It might be, if so much did not hang upon to-day and the days which are to follow. It would be, if what I wish to say to you came entirely from a careless heart, and if I did not feel possessed with the responsibility of your future. I may look into your faces - eager with expectation and purpose and hope, upon whose lineaments neither joy nor sorrow, success nor failure, has as yet left its imperishable mark, - and try to foresee what is to be the lot and work of each of you, but no prophet nor oracle can satisfy, with any certain answer, the questions concerning you to which we would have reply. Perhaps all that I can fairly ask is that you will truly believe that the few words with which I shall seek to open a new academic year will be words of sincerity and truthfulness. During the long vacation, all of us must have had new experiences. To some, a growth of vigor and healthfulness and progress, from well-spent time. To others, some retrogression, which I believe comes necessarily to all, youth and adult as well, after a too long, careless and idle holiday. That is, my belief is that without either stimulating association or definite purpose, man everywhere relapses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.