Excerpt from Addresses During the Final Exercises, June 8-12, 1913
To visit this ancient college, the second oldest in America, and to participate even for a day in its life, is indeed a privilege. To be a student in it, or to be permanently connected with it as a member of its faculty, is a still greater privilege, and one which only a relatively few may enjoy. Most Americans interested in the early history of their country are familiar with the heroism and sacrifice of those who guided the early destiny of this college, and know its splendid service and its illustrious record; and all rejoice today in its manifest prosperity and in its most hopeful outlook for the future.
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