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Illustrious and Venerable Guest:-All these assembled here salute you. We welcome you with rejoicings; we greet you with congratulations; we delight to do you honor and to pay you the tribute of our devotion...
...have been ever a valiant soldier of the truth; a "Happy Warrior", strong, serene and steadfast, in the full meaning of the poet's phrase--with, I imagine, something of the Puritan's delight in the joy of righteous conflict. We rejoice that you are still clad in your shining armor; that your soul is radiant with the spirit of youth...
...with whom, according to their stories I never had any direct contact. They tell me that their careers have been determined by something they heard me say at a public meeting in their town, or by a passage in my writings which early attracted their attention. It is a delightful part of my experience today that I can try to imagine how diffused my influence has been for more than 50 years past, yes, 60 years, and it is really a great delight to remember--not to remember, but to be told--that actions of which...
...confess I receive with great delight what the President of the University said about the spreading influence of Harvard in the present day. I recognize that I have been unusually strong and had unusually good health, and that a great deal of the influence I have exerted,--what has been described as my personality, is derived from those two facts,--strength and health. And with those two things, strength and health, went a great joy in work, just in work. I need not stop to consider why I had joy in work. I never looked in enough to think...
...paper continues, "does not lose his large vision. He believes that the United States is far better governed today than she was when he started life. And while he is cautiously reticent over the growing influence of the universities in public life, his usually reflective eyes gleam with subdued delight when he recalls how this or that Harvard man has been found faithful in the administration of some high office...