You leave URI with
degree
lasting friendships and
in hand and with
fond memories of the years you have spent here. You take with you also my
congratulations
Beyond
and best wishes for
success
these sentiments, however, lies the
motivate you for the rest of your
In
days.
could say that his formal education had
day, no
life
such
man
was
and
simpler
happiness
hope that
an
earlier time, when St. Augustine
equipped him for just
about every
knowledge pretty much within
describe its bounds
even
or
recognize
you
pursuit that should drive and
viewpoint could be fatal for human knowledge
a
can
in the future.
a
that education is not terminal but is rather
thing,
and
is
grasp. so
vast
To
that
subdivisions, let alone comprehend
what lies within them.
Knowledge make
is
expanding
at
an
explosive
rate
and
new
knowledge will
existing knowledge and specialized skills inadequate and obsolete.
Anyone who stops learning will
heap. These cautionary
observations
of your Commencement. Rather, from URI should
signify
nation to exercise your
You will
never
knowledge
soon
a
find himself not
are
they
are
commitment to
learning
learn all there is
powers to
a
a
intended
the intellectual scrap to
dull the enjoyment
reminder that your
graduation
life of the mind,
a
by vigorous
and
to
determi
determined
use.
be known but in the continued pursuit of
you will find life's greatest rewards and among the finest of these
will be the extension of the frontiers of your Ours is
portunity.
on
a
world quivering with
thoughts
change
and aspirations.
and yet
brimming
with op
We at URI have tried to prepare you to deal with both. We
that your education is well
hope
begun. Francis H.
Horn
President
University of Rhode Island
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