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under your President, the then Secretary of the 

 Navy, ex-Governor Long, and by a strange turn of 

 the wheel of fate he served in my Cabinet as long 

 as he would consent to serve, and then I had to 

 replace him by another Harvard man! 



I have been fortunate in being associated with 

 Senator Hoar, and I should indeed think ill of my 

 self if I had not learned something from associa 

 tion with a man who possesses that fine and noble 

 belief in mankind, the lack of which forbids healthy 

 effort to do good in a democracy like ours. I 

 shall not speak of his associate, the junior sena 

 tor, another Harvard man Cabot Lodge because 

 it would be difficult for me to discuss in public one 

 who is my closest, stanchest, and most loyal per 

 sonal friend. I have another fellow Harvard man to 

 speak of to-day, and it is necessary to paraphrase an 

 old saying in order to state the bald truth, that it is 

 indeed a liberal education in high-minded states 

 manship to sit at the same council table with John 

 Hay. 



In addressing you this afternoon, I want to speak 

 of three other college graduates, because of the ser 

 vice they have done the public. If a college educa 

 tion means anything, it means fitting a man to do 

 better service than he could do without it ; if it does 

 not mean that it means nothing, and if a man does 

 not get that out of it, he gets less than nothing out 

 of it. No man has a right to arrogate to himself 

 one particle of superiority or consideration because 

 he has had a college education, but he is bound, if he 

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