Fourth Draft, Commencement Speech of President Harry S. Truman at Princeton University
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Fourth Draft.
"NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
President Dodds, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen:
SERVICET
It is with a great deal of pleasure, and much pride, that I
am now able to count myself as a member of the Princeton Family. Princeton
University has conferred an honor upon me for which I am deeply grateful.
I consider it a special privilege to have received the degree of Doctor
of Laws at the Final Convocation of the Bicentennial Year in the presence
of this distinguished company.
On an earlier occasion of equal significance in the history of
this University, the President of the United States, Grover Cleveland,
spoke in 1896 at the Princeton Sesquicentennial Ceremonies. President
Cleveland seized that opportunity to charge the colleges and universities
of the nation with the task of supplying a "constant stream of thoughtful,
educated men" to the body politic - men who were eager to perform public
service for the benefit of the nation. He chided our institutions of
higher learning for their lack of interest in public affairs, and held
them responsible for the disdain with which many of the best-educated
men of the day viewed politics and public affairs.
Happily for us, that attitude on the part of our universities
vanished long ago. I am certain that no observer of the American scene
in recent years has detected any
reluctance on the part of
our educators to enter the political arena when their services have been
needed. And our schools have made much progress in supplying the "constant
stream of thoughtful, educated men" for public service called for by
President Cleveland a half+century ago.
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That task is more important today than at any
time in our
national history.
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