In observance of this evening’s Core Banquet, we share the traditional toast, with which this annual event has been opened for thirty years.Each group of lines is read aloud by our convener, and thenrepeated by all in unison:
To students and their teachers;
to teachers and their students;
and therefore to the great-souled dead,
distant, their works near as mind;
Those who have sought
and partly found
the laws of nature
Those who have sought
and partly found
the laws of men
Those who have sought
and partly found
the meanings of men.
To the Heroes;
to the Thinkers;
to the Makers;
to the Inspired;
Who, together with us,
alive, here, in our time,
are the life of the mind,
and of the spirit
To these let us drink before we eat.
