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the military profession now from what it has been 

 in past time ; to remember that the final test of sol 

 diership is not excellence in parade-ground forma 

 tion, but efficiency in actual service in the field, and 

 that the usefulness, the real and great usefulness 

 in the parade-ground and barracks work comes from 

 its being used not as an end, but as one of the 

 means to an end. I ask you to remember that. I 

 do not have to ask you to remember what you 

 can not forget the lessons of loyalty, of cour 

 age, of steadfast adherence to the highest standards 

 of honor and uprightness which all men draw in 

 when they breathe the atmosphere of this great in 

 stitution. 



AT THE HARVARD COMMENCEMENT DINNER, 

 CAMBRIDGE, MASS., JUNE 25, 1902 



Mr. President; President Eliot; and you, my Fel 

 low Harvard Men 



I am speaking for all of you I am sure I speak 

 for all Americans to-day, when I say that we watch 

 with the deepest concern the sick-bed of the Eng 

 lish king, and that all Americans in tendering their 

 hearty sympathy to the people of Great Britain re 

 member keenly the outburst of genuine grief with 

 which England last fall greeted the calamity that 

 befell us in the death of President McKinley. 



President Eliot spoke of the service due and 

 performed by the college graduate to the State. It 

 was my great good fortune five years ago to serve 



