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...owe to Harvard a loyalty that should not cease with the acquisition of a diploma. Any means of sustaining a more intimate connection of the graduate with the University should meet with the heartiest approval. Future graduating classes will do well to follow the policy...
...patriotism, his unhappy experience in the war is good evidence. Because, beginning in 1915, he insisted that the United States must have a trained body of officers, he was reprimanded and disgraced by the high military officials. The Plattsburg camps owe their existence chiefly to him. "Furthermore, General Wood is a man who can work in harness with other people; a man who makes his decisions only after consultations with others. As a President he would never think that he could govern the people of the United States without the aid of other minds. He makes friends and associates...
...college. That it has been an aid to others without doing them any harm a good many Harvard men will stoutly assert. They remember friendships that originated and received a glowing impulse over a bottle of wine; they know that for the removal of narrowness and prejudice they owe a debt to alcohol. Men have quarreled at Harvard in their cups, and men have been maudlin over one another in their cups; but between these manifestations of extreme emotion brought on by excessive indulgence have been many more numerous instances of men who have been led through the mellowing influence...
...spring to the support of their country in the Civil War and the Great War has animated their answer to the call of public duty today. It is in truth one and the same duty, and the honor of the service is at bottom as great. Boston and Massachusetts owe much to the patriotism and public spirit of Harvard today. Boston Transcript...
Thus all members of the University, both past and present, owe President Eliot a profound debt of gratitude for his clear understanding of their educational needs. And even though he may not be personally known to all of them, they wish him the greatest happiness on his eighty-fifth birthday...