{"id":6570,"date":"2021-04-29T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2021-04-29T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T22:18:10","slug":"the-core-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2021\/04\/29\/the-core-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Core Toast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In observance of this evening&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">To students and their teachers;<br \/>\nto teachers and their students;<br \/>\nand therefore to the great-souled dead,<br \/>\ndistant, their works near as mind;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Those who have sought<br \/>\nand partly found<br \/>\nthe laws of nature<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Those who have sought<br \/>\nand partly found<br \/>\nthe laws of men<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Those who have sought<br \/>\nand partly found<br \/>\nthe meanings of men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">To the Heroes;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">to the Thinkers;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">to the Makers;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">to the Inspired;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Who, together with us,<br \/>\nalive, here, in our time,<br \/>\nare the life of the mind,<br \/>\nand of the spirit<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">To these let us drink before we eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In observance of this evening&#8217;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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions\/6571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}