Alumni Bulletin 1919 - TCU Library - Texas Christian University

dous responsibility came like "Dian's kiss, unasked,unsought," we have felt our completeunworthiness and humility in the presence ofsuch a challenge. Our hope and ambition isto make the Texas Christian University auniversity in fact as well as in name; to makeit serve in an increasing way the educationaland social interests of our City and State,. and to include in its program the developmentof an institution second to none in our great. Southwest. In this we trust we shall neitherdisappoint you or those who come after you.In the language of the immortal Burke,we say, "Applaud us when we run; consoleus when we fall; cheer us when we recover,but let us press on, for God's sake, let uspress on."As the architect of some noble cathedralwhose eyes are closed ere his work has scarcebegun, lives on in the growing piles unfolding,so the noble work of Christian educationis to find its completion. Others have laboredand we have entered into their labors. Thereis a mystical verse in Holy Writ that findsfit expression at this hour, after the authorof the Book of Hebrews, like Old Mortality,had cut deeper the fading inscriptions onmonuments that had endured through fourthousand years of history, he said, "Apartfrom us their lives should not be made perfeet."So it is ours to complete the tasks 0 fthe fathers. Weare to add stone to stonein the building, note to note in the music,glory to glory in the achievement, until thevery heavens rain their gold and their fire.[ E i g h t ]