lived by a phrase expressive of the dominating
spirit of their time, so we to-day are constantly attempting to differentiate our age from all previous
epochs and to give our day its permanent setting in
the world’s history. We call it, according to our viewpoints, an Age of Democracy or an Age of the Absolutism of Wealth, an Age of Brotherhood or an
Age of Selfishness, an Age of Thinking and Thinkers or the Age of the Headline, an Age of Reform or
an Age of Moral Chaos, an Age of Opportunity or an
Age of Shut Doors, a Materialistic Age or an Age of
Increasing Spiritual Apprehension and Aspiration.
You will not gainsay the fadt that each of these
conflicting views has its considerable following, and
I am confident that you will all agree that we are
living in an Age of Unrest, whatever other tendency
may characterize our time.
In business, mighty projects, such as men hardly
dared dream of two decades ago, are set on foot, and
we scarce have time to give them a moment’s thought,
so intent are we in our own struggles with the new,
changing, and often ...
A Memorial of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the University of Michigan Held in Commencement Week, June 23 to June 27, 1912
