

This community and this College have a deeper significance than anything done or any words that can be spoken here this noon. Now, for me, today's ceremony means more than physical participation in the laying of a cornerstone.

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May it help assure to all her students free access to knowledge, just as the teachers of this institution will help them make intelligent use of that knowledge. I deem it a signal honor that I may be here in order to say "Long live Ohio," not merely for 150 years but on down through the ages-one of the brightest jewels of that great crown they call America.Īnd long may this library here stand and serve the needs of Defiance College. I am here because I want to pay tribute to one of the greatest States in its 150th year.
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I believe that unless all negotiations between nations are based upon a growing understanding among the peoples of those nations, there is no validity and no permanence to whatever arrangements may be made.Īnd so I think that the function of the school commands the presence of anyone in the United States, when there is a significant occasion in any one of our important schools, and that person can find it proper to attend. I am here because of my ultimate faith in education as the hope of the world-Christian religious education, man's free access to knowledge, his right to use it. Recognizing their obligations to the society of which they are a part, they have never once hesitated, in the years I have known them, to take the hard and difficult way to discharge that obligation, instead of the easy way of enjoying things that they thought were given to them by that society. They typify for me an American couple at its best. Kevin McCann was with me in the services, at Columbia. I am here because of my admiration and affection for two people-Kevin and Ruth McCann. I am delighted to have this opportunity to return such a neighborly call. This choir that we see here came to Washington last January 20th and did me the signal honor of being there at the time of the Inauguration. For example, I am returning a call-I am returning a courtesy. But, in a way, they are important to me, and I would like taking a moment of your time to express them. I suppose it is not too important to anyone to have an explanation of my reasons for being here this morning. McCann, Senator Bricker, Governor Lausche, other distinguished guests, and my fellow Americans:
