And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.
The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life of the mind - yes, these formative and abiding principles of higher education in America had their first and firmest advocate, and their greatest embodiment, in a tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched this university take form from the mountainside where he lived, the university whose founding he called a crowning achievement to along and well-spent life.
Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!