Repository: UIHistories Project: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 17 [PAGE 5]

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,o the lines of study followed in ™ . v . This, it seems to me, i- •*• most . . : ^ ^ for our future civilization of You arc going to face enormous b u r ! ^ siKtiiticut r ^ ,i,r future c m in your work—far heavier than any w join w"«i\ — i«n IIW.IVILI man * all the acts ot the Government. have had to carry in our generation. \1 Here we have a recognition on the part will anjwcr the call I am sure. of the Federal Government that men who tccessful I congratulate you again my young friend* have done three or iour years lUCCi four yu»» »— ~ work in college have acquired in alertness, in y o u r c o m i n g into y o u r majority, in y o u r adaptability, an outlook, a fitness for un- beginning y o u r active, independent life i familiar tasks, a courage in the face of un- a w o r l d which will be vastly different and expected difficulties which distinguish them in m y opinion vastly better than that in in a marked degree as • class from the which w e h a v e been living. men who have not had this training and Y o u come in d u r i n g t h e greatest war in makes it distinctly worth while, therefore, lthe hhistory oof t t h e n h mm a n race. It may be hc lstory t ne u u an race. It mav be to gamble upon putting them in charge of v o u c o m e i n a t t h e r c a l beginning of the new enterprises rather than their brothers ^ j n o r ( , e r o f t i m e o r a b o m t h e mifWlc who have not had this training. o w a r d the close o f iit Q r ^ of t or as, jI hcyxef% believe, t t o w a r d the cl< Of course, you can't make hickory out of a m | t o w a r d a victorious close for us. Be buckeye or a silk purse out of a sow's ea that as it may, y o u a r e still young and —and no amount of college training will will see the benefits it will work out and supply brains or character and both are you will profit by t h e m . needed to make the successful man anyO t h e r w a r s have been waged in the name where. You will remember that Cicero in o t tfreedom a n d humanity.. They nave rcedom of and humanity They have that interesting oration on the Poet Arch- o f t c n r e s u l t C ( i i n a freedom for one nation ias says that "men have always disputed w h i c h c n a b l c ( l i t t o i o n l i t O V e r other nawhether the training of the schools or nattions or enabled its privileged classes to ural ability were the more important elereign m o r e absolutely over the lower ment in the highest success of men, but classes of the same nation. Other wars they are all agreed that when to great nathave united many nations in pursuit of the ural abilities are added the qualities which same end, v i z : the o v e r t h r o w of a power training can produce, something rare and seeking ^ ^ ^establish ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^dominion; to ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ universal marvelous is likely to appear." ^ ^ n^d _ t h e ^^Hi a ^r» W P *h» r n V A m m . « * i i o v e r t h r o w of such a power has So here, the Government, and large and b e*n Ml—A been followed U~ - -_-•--. -* — E L i 'freeby a kind of national r a small industry in its wake, acknowledges the immense advantage of school training dom which w a s entirely consistent with over. the haphazard training> of practical the growth a n d maintenance of autocratic practical f^»-^ , : ~ e "*• r s of business, and so called practical worW ™ government. The history of the French Revolution the farm, ,n the bank, in the shops, in such a way that it will i m p r e s s t h e ; furnishes a striking illustration of this nation of even the eighth grade boy or form of development. girl in our public schools. The republican armies of France went After the war, in m y opinion, the Amer°rth, more than a century ago, to the concan people w.ll recognize a, never before 1 i E ° f t h e w o r , d w i t h t h e sentiments of the advantage, of systematic school train! and f r a t thelr ™ > »P°» >ng long continued as an element in llZ. s t a n d ^ ^ y Were Krwted with en aration for life. This will m ^ e a IT t h u s i a s l , * ti0 h S mC tnd world-the world in which y^u win h T to live-which will make it I Z j L a, PC cd pon thfir to H V e - a n d , a b o v e all> w i l « S * * you °»K the I • \ " banner. H ,,oum,ar «t the t i n , ^ i « of t h e republt. «ble for you to do greater thing, thin W e rcnli WCre n o t r i for tion o n , l* *« ** f ° « * ">a R ni.u-ent dream. A n d 4

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