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University, the State, and the country. It implies that we believe in, and try to live up to, the ideals of honesty, industry, service, and self-sacrifice, which are necessary to make a people or an institution great and noble. It implies adherence to an industrious life, moral cleanness, and political uprightness. Men do not acquire these qualities through outbursts of lip-loyalty on some occasion of an hour. They are the results of thought, selfcontrol, self-repression, loyalty to standards and devotion to ideals. If a university education has any value it should train him who gets it to self-control. It should teach him to direct his impulses to what is consciously the right and the good as against the wrong and the bad. It should develop in him the moral stamina to make the choice. Without this moral stamina all else is useless. The University of Illinois devotes itself, through its educational ideals, and through the character of its instruction, to the development of this moral stamina and of the intellectual power to make right choices. It aims to train young men and young women to those ideals of self-sacrifice and devotion to their country's cause, which inspired the heroes whose memory we are honoring today. Our consecration through the dedication of this Stadium is our pledge that we will continue to do so. It is thought by some that the primal instincts of man were wholly physical. This belief has become the basis of a somewhat widely accepted philosophy of life. That philosophy is, that since our instincts, however brutish, however low, are natural, it is proper that we should give free, full play or license to their expression. This philosophy runs through much of the literature of the day. I challenge it in the name of our dead and in the name of our institutional ideals and practices. M a n makes progress not by indulging his physical instincts and his brute impulses, but by controlling and repressing them; by directing the energy that is behind them to the attainment of better habits than they would build, of

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