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...time when many ties which have been close are severed to know that the oldest and the strongest bonds remain. The messages received yesterday by President Lowell from the heads of an old English and an historic French university remind us at this hour of the debt we owe to other peoples, and to older civilizations...
America has her own individual civilization in the making. Yet the foundations of that civilization are laid deep in France and England. The debt we owe them may not be lightly cast aside. It is for their kind of civilization that the Allies are fighting. It is for our civilization...
...Memorial Society and other members of the University had assembled in the Delta, W. D. Canaday '17 and R. N. Cram '17 placed wreaths upon the founder's statue and J. W. D. Seymour '17 delivered the address. Turning toward the statue; he told of the debt we owe to John Harvard in the following words...
...Upon this anniversary we are gathered here to commemorate the birth of him, to whom more than to any other man we owe our life within this University. Three hundred and nine years ago John Harvard was born, the man whose gift was later to bring into being Harvard College. Today we do honor to him, and to this statue we turn in tender gratitude...
Very few of us ever stop to think how much we owe to that courageous young minister, who, in 1638, left his library and half his estate to the struggling college at Newtowne. In gratitude the General Court changed the town's name to Cambridge, the university which John Harvard left in order to come to this country. Without his aid it would never have attained its early reputation--it might even have been abandoned. And, in partial recognition of our enormous debt to him, the least that we can do is to attend the exercises this morning...