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before and since I became President. I am glad 

 to have the chance of acknowledging my obligations 

 to him, and I am also glad that when I ask you 

 to strive toward productive scholarship, toward pro 

 ductive citizenship, I can use the president of the 

 university as an example. Of course, in any of our 

 American institutions of learning, even more im 

 portant than the production of scholarship is the 

 production of citizenship. That is the most im 

 portant thing that any institution of learning can 

 produce. There are a great number of students 

 who can not and should not try, in after life, to 

 lead a career of scholarship, but no university 

 can take high rank if it does not aim at the 

 production of, and succeed in producing, a cer 

 tain number of deep and thorough scholars not 

 scholars whose scholarship is of the barren kind, 

 but men of productive scholarship, men who do 

 good work, I trust great work, in the fields of lit 

 erature, of art, of science, in all their manifold ac 

 tivities. Here in California this Nation, composite 

 in its race stocks, speaking an Old World tongue, 

 and with an inherited Old World culture, has ac 

 quired an absolutely new domain. I do not mean 

 new only in the sense of additional territory like 

 that already possessed, I mean new in the sense of 

 new surroundings, to use the scientific phrase, of 

 a new environment. Being new, I think we have 

 a right to look for a substantial achievement on the 

 part of your people along new lines. I do not mean 

 the self-conscious striving after newness, which is 



