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to uncover a haven for the oppressed and that's what America is today. Sur- 

 rounding oceans have influenced America for many centuries and have allowed 

 this country to be a fertile ground for breeding a free society, for letting it grow 

 to its strength and its maturity. As we think of exploring the great untapped 

 world of water, we should remember that lesson. If we seek to go out and pick 

 up treasures to enrich ourselves then we shall fail the real concept. We can 

 develop the ocean resources only through knowledge. Here is where the whole 

 concept of the sea-grant university is so meaningful, timely and important. It is 

 only with knowledge that we can reduce these resources to useful material, 

 energy, and food, for the people of the world. You know the techniques. You 

 are the scientists who know the equations and know how much more knowledge 

 we need to make them more effective. We need you to give us the criteria for 

 translating scientific knowledge into application. Business can provide the or- 

 ganization for applying this knowledge to the useful developnnent of these re- 

 sources. 



It is rather interesting that the whole modern corporation had its origin 

 in the aspiration of the new world. In the need to combine human resources and 

 capital to develop the new areas of the world that were being found by the ex- 

 plorers, came the company acts, the charters of companies that could have per- 

 petual life. They could live beyond individuals and could accumulate the invest- 

 ments of many, many people. They could organize these corporations to develop 

 the resources and build the colonies that became the real strength of the new 

 world. Out of that new need to organize resources, came the most efficient eco- 

 nomic operating unit that exists anywhere in the world- -the American private 

 corporation. When the United States is confronted with the need to develop hard- 

 ware, to develop know-how, to develop techniques for exploring space, it turns 

 to American industry. However, these corporations never will be able to provide 

 what the universities can provide. Universities are the feeding ground of the 

 knowledge and the people who become the basic resource. American industry 

 will be ready to take the knowledge you gain and develop those resources in a 

 highly efficient way. This whole endeavor, will of course, need to be a partner- 

 ship. The government will certainly play a role because the problem is so 

 large and will require the seed money you are seeking in the sea-grant univer- 

 sity concept. It certainly will make the educational institutions do their utmost 

 to provide the highest level of accomplishment, the highest level of excellence 

 in thought and preparation, and it will need American industry to translate these 

 things into a final useful product. It's very engouraging because the world 

 oceans offer far more opportunity than outer space in the next hundred years 

 for developing useful resources to meet the needs of the technological and demo- 

 graphic changes. 



I hope from this conference we can do more than talk and compare notes 

 and listen to very learned speakers. I hope we will do sonnething far more con- 

 crete. We should go home, each of us, and organize support for the sea-grant 

 university. Here tonight are people who can reach sixty or seventy senators 

 and hundreds of congressmen in their respective states. If you can communicate 

 to them the need, urgency and importance of this concept, then you will have 

 gained from this conference a landmark for a sea-grant university. 



In closing, may I remind you that the sea yields to knowledge. When you 

 bring it to yield to you, may you bring it to yield for the good of humanity and 

 for no selfish purpose. 



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