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faithfully you would be untrue to the traditions of your col- 

 lege and the teaching of your professors. Your graduation 

 must be turned to account ; it must be added to and made 

 useful, both to the possessor and to those around him. The 

 college man must progress, if anything, somewhat more than 

 those who have not had his advantages, if his study and his 

 development are to be of any avail. 



A man must, if he is to accomplish anything in this world — 

 anything beyond the mere necessities of food, raiment and 

 shelter, and sometimes they mean a multitude of things — 

 keep true to his ideals, to the high standard which he sets him- 

 self. Of course, in the hurly-burly, the stress and strain of 

 life, one is somewhat like a ship in the sea ; a point or so is 

 lost from the true course of life, but an earnest active mind, 

 like a careful helmsman, will bring himself back to his true 

 course again. The motto of Georgetown University, 

 which is emblazoned on its shield, "utraque unum" — two 

 blended in one — is like that of this country, a great one. 

 Perhaps many of us are not aware that the words of this 

 motto are found in the great Antiphon sung by the Church in 

 Advent, on December 22, when the cry of eager expectation 

 is : "O King of the nations, yea, and the desire thereof ; O 

 Corner Stone, who blendest two in one (qui facis utraque 

 unum) ; come to save man whom Thou hast made of the dust 

 of the earth !" It sounds the keynote of all true progress here 

 on earth ; the blending of the divine with the human ; the 

 mingling of the spiritual with the material in every effort of 

 man to go forward. It has not only been the motto of this 

 University ; it has been the very warp and woof of its teach- 

 ing. You and I who have just received its degrees can testify 

 that while it has evoked the mental and intellectual powers of 

 the mind and has taught us to use all our natural gifts, it has 

 at the same time never lost sight for a moment of the spiritual 

 and higher nature that lies within us. It is the educational 

 blending of the two in one which makes firm the faith of 

 Georgetown in the sons which she sends forth into the world. 

 And those sons, as events since the last Commencement have 

 shown, have been found worthy of the highest places in the 

 land. 



In this twentieth century we have but to look upon the 

 noble record of the century just closed in order to take heart 



