Abbott L. Lowell

You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done. ”

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. ”

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. ”

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors. ”