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AT LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, 

 PALO ALTO, CAL., MAY 12, 1903 



President Jordan,, and you, my Fellow-Citizens, 



and especially ypu, my Fellow -college Men and 



Women : 



I thank you for your greeting, and I know you 

 will not grudge my saying, first of all, a special 

 word of thanks to the men of the Grand Army. 

 It is a fine thing to have before a body of students 

 men who by their practice have rendered it unnec 

 essary that they should preach; for what we have 

 to teach by precept, you, the men of '61 to '65, 

 have taught by deed, by action. I am proud as an 

 American college man myself to have seen the tablet 

 outside within the court which shows that this 

 young university sent eighty-five of her sons to 

 war when the country called for them. I come from 

 a college which boasts as its proudest building that 

 which stands to the memory of Harvard's sons who 

 responded to the call of Lincoln when the hour of 

 the Nation's danger was at hand. It will be a bad 

 day for this country and a worse day for all edu 

 cative institutions in this country if ever such a 

 call is made, and the men of college training do 

 not feel it peculiarly incumbent upon them to re 

 spond. 



President Jordan has been kind enough to allude 

 to me as an old friend. Mr. Jordan is too modest 

 to say that he has long been not only a friend, but 

 a man to whom I have turned for advice and help, 



