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OCR Page 1 of 5GREETING*
It is a pleasure and an honor to take part in these
ceremonies inaugurating Dr. T. R. McConnell as the 8th Chancellor
of the University of Buffalo. This University, in which I had
the good fortune to study and to serve as an officer, though by
no means the largest, the wealthiest, or the oldest of the
hundreds of institutions of higher education in this country, is
unquestionably one of the most distinguished. If it had larger
resources it could, of course, render a fuller service to the
Niagara frontier which is such an important economic and social
unit in our national life. But the resources which thousands
of citizens of this community have provided during the past
quarter century have been put to the most effective use in build-
ing a serviceable plant and in assembling a faculty of able men
and women.
Striking as these features of the University are, there
is a more arresting characteristic responsible for the renown
this institution enjoys throughout the academic world. It is its
spirit. Though things of the spirit are impossible to grasp and
hard to assess, they are nevertheless very real. Today they count
heavily in a world in which there is abroad a force attempting
*By Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Washington, D. C., at the Inauguration of
Dr. Thomas Raymond McConnell as Chancellor of the University of
Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, Saturday, January 6, 1951.
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