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serves the varied life of a civilized commonwealth must do so by building for all its arts and all its professions: no trivium, no quadrivium, can plot the University course of the future; rather there must be a multi-vium, a branching into the manifold paths along which men's activities move. Yet this, be it not forgotten, cannot be without some general orientation: there must be the initial course which gives the true direction followed by all the branches and leads to the one end of all which we call human progress. That initial course and true orientation Nebraska fortunately received from her first college, devoted to the liberal learning which must always be the inspiration and the guide of her institutional life, as it is the soul of her final mission.
Nebraska's past, then, is the prophecy of her future, and in it her future is to read. In a material sense it means continued years of building—which, indeed, is one of the noblest of human activities, for there is no truer index of the greatness of human civilization than is the greatness of architecture. Today most of the sciences are well housed on the several campuses, but there are still to come the housing for the library (whose free use is us life-giving respiration to the institution), the erection of a museum to preserve both the natural history treasures in which Nebraska is rich and the treasures of art which with encouragement and devotion she will yet create, the assembly hall which shall give a place for the University's formal dignities, and the dormitories which should give comfort and esprit to the crowding generations of students. All these must come in time, and with them, we may hope, broad-branched campus trees and grassy plots, remindful of scholastic revery [sic]. But inwardly and truly these can be only an outward symbol of the one genuine and lasting Spirit of the University, through which, while it lives, the University will continue to live and to grow in greatness, and which itself is neither more nor less than that love of learning and that faith in the natural devotion of Nebraska boys and girls to unselfish knowledge in which the first
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