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Nation that men and women should desire during 

 their lives to devote the fortunes which they were 

 able to acquire or to inherit because of our system 

 of government, because of our social system, to 

 objects so entirely worthy and so entirely admirable 

 as the foundation of a great seat of learning such 

 as this. All that we outsiders can do is to pay our 

 tribute of respect to the dead and to the living 

 who have done such good, and at -least to make 

 it evident that we appreciate to the full what has 

 been done. 



I have spoken of scholarship; I want to go back 

 to the question of citizenship, a question affecting 

 not merely the scholars among you, not merely those 

 who are hereafter to lead lives devoted to science, 

 to art, to productivity in literature. And when you 

 take up science, art, and literature, remember that 

 one first-class bit of work is better than one thou 

 sand fairly good bits of work ; that as the years roll 

 on the man or the woman who has been able to 

 make a masterpiece with the pen, the brush, the 

 pencil, in any way, has rendered a service to the 

 country such as not all his or her compeers who 

 merely do fairly good second-rate work can ever ac 

 complish. Only a limited number of us can ever be 

 come scholars or work successfully along the lines I 

 have spoken of, but we can all be good citizens. We 

 can all lead a life of action, a life of endeavor, a life 

 that is to be judged primarily by the effort, some 

 what by the result, along the lines of helping the 

 growth of what is right and decent and generous 



