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Excerpt from Proceedings and Addresses at the Inauguration of Jacob Gould Schurman, LL. D. To the Presidency of Cornell University: November 11, 1892
The live university is always growing but growth is not necessarily in mere size a really live man may be growing, even though he long ago attained his full bodily stature - growing intellectually or morally, of which there may be no outward sign to the casual observer. So we may grow, as a University, and so each department may grow, though the traveler on the opposite hill five years hence, or ten years hence, may count no more new buildings than he can count now, or the summary in the Register may show no more students year by year.
The rate of progression in the sum total of the intellectual forces engaged in the work of the college or University shows what the growth is there that is of the best kind, rather than the increase in the mere weight of ?esh and bones on the forms. That it will be your highest pleasure, sir, as President of this University to foster this higher growth, that which is of the kind most ardently to be desired, we of your Faculty are as sured.
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