We are come together in this place today, ladies and gentlemen, to pay our respects, to accord honor, and to remember. These are important human activities: paying respect, according honor, and continuing to remember. These constitute the concern for Founders Day. Not that the founders themselves have need for our tribute. Each of them served well in his own day, and the achievement of each was its own reward. It is we, rather, who need Founders Day. No person can appreciate fully his own institution and its goals, and his proper relationships to it, who does not see clearly its origins or who is not conscious of the sacrifices those have made who brought it along. In recent months, I read with absorbing interest a history of the University in which I serve. Completing it, I expressed to my family the conviction that this book should be required reading for every new instructor who accepts employment at the University, and probably for every new student. So, on Founders Day, it is not the founders, but we, who have need. For our own sense of perspective and direction, our growth in humility and gratitude, we need regularly to stop and look back and remember. For our own sake, we need to take reverent recognition of those who have labored with such sacrifice and devotion to give us our beginnings. We need to remember their courage when others had stopped the struggle; to be reminded again and again of their burning faith in public education during those terrible and bitter years of Reconstruction when others had abandoned hope; to recall their inspired insight and vision when most others had lost the way. And in these unsettled times, when our sister institutions have been tempted like the legendary character who jumped on his horse and rode