Address By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath at the Founders Day Celebration, Alfred University, New York, Higher Education and the Crisis of Our Times
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OCR Page 1 of 14HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE CRISIS OF OUR TIMES*
It is a real pleasure to take part in these ceremonies commemorating
the founding of Alfred University. The anniversaries of institutions of
higher education are inspiring occasions. One who reads the history of these
institutions must be impressed with the close parallel between their own
development and the growth of our Nation. From origins that were usually sigle,
sometimes crude. and often precarious, they have struggled up through the
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years continuously supplying our society with the type of intellectual and
moral leadership that has made our land prosperous and great among the nations.
Like our people, these institutions have adapted their lives to the rapidly
changing circumstances of existence in a dynamic society. As I know it, this
has been the history of Alfred University. Having its beginnings in a simple
pioneer school in the beautiful but rugged country of Western New York,
it has through the years grown in strength and in service to increasing numbers
of American youth. Little could Jonathan Allen have realized more than a
century ago as he walked through the trails in these foothills of the Alle-
ghenies that out of the little select school of those days would grow the
present Alfred University. It is an unusual institution. It combines within
its program in nice proportions the theoretic and the practical, the academic
and the vocational, the secular and the religious, in brief, things of the
mind, the body, and the spirit. And unlike many other of its sister in-
stitutions, its program is supported by funds from the public treasury,
and from the private purse.
Address by Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Nashington, D.C., for Founders Day Celebration, Alfred
University, New York, November 10. 1949,
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