University of Pennsylvania: the proceedings at the dedication of the new building of the Department of law, February 21st and 22nd, 1900 . , at this University, with the hopeof instruction as to ways in which these two nations maycome into contact and not to conflict. When the best brain of this country is governed bythe enlightenment of the universities, reform, conserva-tive and yet progressive, is inevitable. And a public sen-timent may be created by the universities even more en-lightened, because more courageous than their own. For your learning, and for your public and nationalservices,
University of Pennsylvania: the proceedings at the dedication of the new building of the Department of law, February 21st and 22nd, 1900 . , at this University, with the hopeof instruction as to ways in which these two nations maycome into contact and not to conflict. When the best brain of this country is governed bythe enlightenment of the universities, reform, conserva-tive and yet progressive, is inevitable. And a public sen-timent may be created by the universities even more en-lightened, because more courageous than their own. For your learning, and for your public and nationalservices, we have clothed you, then, with our highest aca-demic honors and with symbolic colors—the red and theblue—under which our University strives to realize thehighest purposes. We feel that, loyal to your nativeland, you will, henceforth, be a worthy son of Pennsyl-vania. And so we greet you to-day with the prayer that thecolors of our own country, the red and the blue and thewhite, may typify in the first two the pohcies of justiceand enlightenment, and in the last The white flower of a blameless life, in all our national
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