Word: youre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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I am delighted to have the privilege of joining in welcoming to Cambridge so many students from other lands. I take it that some of you have but recently arrived in America, and it is a great pleasure to me to assist in your induction into membership in Harvard University...
In one of the older statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which still govern the University, a reference is made to the "republic of letters," with the interests of which the University is identified, and it is into Harvard's part of the "republic of letters" that you are welcomed...
I think it is one of the first tests of citizenship in this republic that one should hold himself free from bondage to authorities in his thinking and in his manners, and it is the opportunity for the enjoyment of such freedom which we would seek to maintain for you...
Those of you who have come to Harvard for the first time will doubtless find here things which make your life different from that in the universities of your native lands. You may find some of our many systems of instruction strange. You may think that some of the requirements...
Of course all of your 24 hours cannot be given to the republic of letters at Harvard. You will want to carry back to your country, also, impressions of the republic of the United States of America, and in after years they may be as significant to you as your...