Fletcher Brown
Published: 2017-11-06
Total Pages: 366
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Excerpt from The Campanile, 1930: Fifteenth Annual Record Published by the Students of the Rice Institute at Houston, Texas I have no magic wand with which to raise these half dozen wishes into reality for you. Nor do you expect any such sleight of hand or sleight of mind on my part. Indeed, were service of this Sbl't within my power, its exercise would be a distinct disservice, for these wishes are not mere words, they are ideas, and ideas are won only b-y the will and the work to win them. You have already been winning them in one form or another, because, 'whether you have been always conscious of the faet or not, your actual business here for the last four years has been a still hunt for ideas and their implications, now on new trailsqand now on old. And where have you found their native haunts? I doubt if any man knows. Do they come from within, or from without? If from within, how? If from without, whence? Men have always been divided as to the origin of ideas. They are divided still. We might argue the matter till. 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.