Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman at the Commencment Exercises of Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
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OCR Page 1 of 10SPEECH OF HARRY S. TRUMAN,
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
GRINNELL COLLEGE, GRINNELL,
IOWA, MAY 28, 1944.
RELEASE ON DELIVERY
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Dr. Stevens, members of the faculty, members of the graduating class,
students of Grinnell, and distinguished guests:
I am indeed privileged to have the opportunity to speak to you at
these Commencement Exercises.
Grinnell College has come to be known throughout our nation as an
institution of which we can well be proud. From its humble beginning it has
grown to the magnificent school we know today.
Grinnell has developed through the years the highest traditions. It
has built up a reputation as a seat of learning - and more important - as a
builder of character.
Graduates of this institution have gone forward into all walks of life
and have acquitted themselves with distinction. Their success is the real tri-
bute to the wisdom and the ideals of their teachers conveyed to them in the
classrooms - on the athletic fields - and in the dormitories. During under-
graduate years they learned to live in comradeship. They learned to know and
to understand their fellow students. These lessons they carried with them into
the world, and by their example, others have learned the principles by which men
can live one with the other in peace and security.
I feel that I should like to address my remarks today particularly to
the graduating class. I believe that you are most vitally concerned with the
present war conflict, its meaning, and its aftermath. From the halls of your
great school, many have answered the call to the colors, and it may well be that
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