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Excerpt from The Rice Institute Pamphlet, Vol. 6 For a thousand years Athens was a university town. Its several great schools of philosophy were in reality so many independent colleges, each with a tradition, organization, and discipline of its own. The president of one of these colleges lived in office to the ripe old age of ninety-nine years. In a famous hymn bearing his name he sang, "O God most glorious, called by many a name... We are Thy children." The great pioneer preacher of our own era wrote, "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase." "I dressed his wound - God healed him," said a distinguished French surgeon lately of a recovered soldier. It is in some such spirit of dependence - thus expressed in turn by surgeon, missionary, philosopher - acknowledging out of our own personal experience, in moments of exaltation a force not ourselves making for righteousness, in seasons of depression a Father to whom we pray fervently, in days of even tenor a friend within reach, a faith within reason, a fear within wisdom, - it is in some such spirit of dependence, sustaining intellect, energy, courage, enthusiasm, and independence alike, that we would face the tasks of a new year marked by the return of our heroes, the renewal of our life, the reunion of Rice men, the revival of learning, and great rejoicing in hope. For the heroes have returned. Heroes of the longbow and battle-ax. Heroes of the fire-ball and battering-ram. 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.