sz THE CADET. .
    —` ~WEl.CDM‘E ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT PATTERSON. i
  ._ (Delivered at the dedication ofthe New Natural Science Building.)
  Under existing conditions you will expect but little
  from me on this occasion. I congratulate you upon the
  circumstances.which have brought you hither. The im-
i portance of epoch-making events is seldom apprehended
i in their fullness until longafter the proximate causes which
. brought, them into being have become historic.
= \Vhen the Barons extorted Magiia Charta from King  
, john upon the field of Runnyrnede, who could have im- '
y agined that within the seals and emblazoned devices which
  encircled the scroll on which their asserted franchises were
  inscribed lay, in embryo, the undeveloped liberties of the
  English-speaking race throughout the world? Vi/'hen New-
{ ton took note of the commonplace incident which had oc-
  curred unheeded to thousands before, who could have pre- `
~ dicted that from this tritling event should be deduced the
. most profound and far-reaching of all physical laws, the
law that brings all the phenomena of the material universe
into an indivisible unity,
"That very law which moulds a tear
` And bids it trickle from its source;
That law preserves the earth a sphere,
And guides the planets in their course."
\Vhen Franklin caught in his kite the lightning from
the clouds, who then could have seen in his simple expe-
ment the beginning of the mighty power which bids fair
to revolutionize the industries and the commerce of the
world. E ‘
_ NEW ERA oPEN1NG.
‘ So, we today, proliting by the experience of the past,
may readily conceive that we stand upon the threshhold y
of a` new era of scientific development and progress in I
4 in Kentucky. Her earlier colleges and universities took l ‘
little note of scientific investigation. The humanities and