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a right to expect good citizenship; but most of all 

 from those who have received most; most of all 

 from those who have had the training of body, of 

 mind, of soul, which comes from association in and 

 with a great university. From those to whom much 

 has been given we have Biblical authority to expect 

 and demand much in return ; and the most that can 

 be given to any man is education. I expect and de- 

 mand in the name of the Nation much more from 

 you who have had training of the mind than from 

 those of mere wealth. To the man of means much 

 has been given, too, and much will be expected from 

 him, and ought to be, but not as much as from you, 

 because your possession is more valuable than his. 

 If you envy him I think poorly of you. Envy is 

 merely the meanest form of admiration, and a man 

 who envies another admits thereby his own inferior- 

 ity. We have a right to expect from the college 

 bred man, the college bred woman, a proper sense of 

 proportion, a proper sense of perspective, which will 

 enable him or her to see things in their right rela- 

 tion one to another, and when thus seen while wealth 

 will have a proper place, a just place, as an instru- 

 ment for achieving happiness and power, for confer- 

 ring happiness and power, it will not stand as high 

 as much else in our national life. I ask you to take 

 that not as a conventional statement from the uni- 

 versity platform, but to test it by thinking of the 

 men whom you admire in our past history and see- 

 ing what are the qualities which have made you 

 admire them, what are the services they have ren- 



