Repository: UIHistories Project: Commencement - 1922 [PAGE 15]

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g >up but as citi ens through citizen agencic and or mizations, lest \\ be chai ed with sailing under f I rs and be suspected of buildin up a clo »r] n our own numbers while pretending to serve th( publi Nothing will be more quickly fatal to any ite uni

versit\ than a feeling on the part of the citi/ US at larg

that the instituition is assuming either to din I the

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tin alumni. The University must work with all the Si it<

not with any class or coterie, and so I welcome \<>u after tc lay into the world of men and women with all the privileges o( responsible and educated citizenship. T h e University of Illinois is a state institution in the broadest possible sense of the term. Its Board of Trustees are el< ted by the people, and this means that higher edution in Illinois is held secondary to nothing else, however worthy. On this broad foundation the Universitv of "his imperial State opens its doors, not only to it wn sons and daughters, but to those of other states and other on practically equal terms, for Illinois, though a

mid-continental territory, intends not to be insulariz< i by its ( itional policy.

I [ere all classes of men and women are educated t geth( r in one society, whatever their future I dling I lore juaintanceships are formed as wide as th w

>n 1 . !i I as humanity. Here is knowledge props ate t r the ;oodofmen. Your special duty and pi e

to mule stand the University of Illinois, hen cek :< 1 p: »n i' - Welfare and its work In c\ r\ lb ibh pie We stand as yet only at the vestibule of the great

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