Chapel Talk, 1998 May 24: Baccalaureate / John Austin '83

In discussing explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard's account of a 1914 trek to the South Pole in search of a penguin egg, VI Form Advisor John Austin urges the graduates to journey through life in a continuous search of knowledge: "[C]onceive of yourself, as Cherry-Garrard and his companions did, as explorers rather than mere climbers. The world is full of climbers -- of men and women who want to go higher than the next person, who conceive of life as a race rather than a journey, and who look at the world and see mountains rather than eggs. ... My advice, for what it's worth, is this: Forget mountains, go for the egg."