Caption: Convocation - 1896 (Forefathers' Convocation)
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The Pilgrim ami His Share in American Life. 14 iea, when the Frowning bulwarks That gfuard t his taolj si rand 1 Have suuK beneath the trampling surge 1 1 bed8 of spark H ng sand, 1 While in the waste < f <)cean > ()ne hoary rock sha 1 stand, 1 Be this its l.itest legend : HERE, WAS THE PILGRIM'S I. \xi>." The Pilgrim literature of recent years has been marked by a discussion of the question whether England or Holland contributed most to the formation of Piknim character, and through thai character to the institutional life of the New World. That discussion Is a fascinating and not a fruitless one. The average citizen finds interest In it though lie still refuses p grant that there Is much question aboul it. The historical student enters Into It with enthusiasm and sees some new light. It seems Strange, indeed, that t h a t I I discussion has been so long delayed. The delay indicateshow long it takes for a people to put away its unhiased disposition to elucidate the truth. It is not too much to say that out of this discussion desires and its prejudices and study history with an it isgradually becoming apparent thai English though! ha- done hut scant .justice to the decided impulses which the heroism and the progress of thepeopleof th« "Low Countries" contributed at the very beginning tic n nd and tone of organized society In America, and thai ome part of this contribution came by the way of ( ape Cod, even if the greater part did enter bj the \\;i , of Sandy I look. \\ will, however, avoid being drawn Into thai dia1 u f1 i HI today We w ill go hack to 1630f thai tailsD nic date in the life of the Old World as well as of the m &< \\ a. ml re. HI nt I he v i m ph- a n d pat he tit* si o n w h i c h i h / i n r up lo us. T i n - f a d s w h i c h are n e i t h e r c o n 1 'ted nor Involved arc all snlliclonl for us, and the hlch i hen repetition paj tO the plain men and I '>noi men ho u.,.uv 11,,, i <i,, o -i tt in human his tor) Is
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