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    "ocrText": "HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE CRISIS OF OUR TIMES*\nIt is a real pleasure to take part in these ceremonies commemorating\nthe founding of Alfred University. The anniversaries of institutions of\nhigher education are inspiring occasions. One who reads the history of these\ninstitutions must be impressed with the close parallel between their own\ndevelopment and the growth of our Nation. From origins that were usually sigle,\nsometimes crude. and often precarious, they have struggled up through the\n1.\nyears continuously supplying our society with the type of intellectual and\nmoral leadership that has made our land prosperous and great among the nations.\nLike our people, these institutions have adapted their lives to the rapidly\nchanging circumstances of existence in a dynamic society. As I know it, this\nhas been the history of Alfred University. Having its beginnings in a simple\npioneer school in the beautiful but rugged country of Western New York,\nit has through the years grown in strength and in service to increasing numbers\nof American youth. Little could Jonathan Allen have realized more than a\ncentury ago as he walked through the trails in these foothills of the Alle-\nghenies that out of the little select school of those days would grow the\npresent Alfred University. It is an unusual institution. It combines within\nits program in nice proportions the theoretic and the practical, the academic\nand the vocational, the secular and the religious, in brief, things of the\nmind, the body, and the spirit. And unlike many other of its sister in-\nstitutions, its program is supported by funds from the public treasury,\nand from the private purse.\nAddress by Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal\nSecurity Agency, Nashington, D.C., for Founders Day Celebration, Alfred\nUniversity, New York, November 10. 1949,"
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