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and his fellow-citizens you will never hear that either the high place he reached or what he accomplished was due entirely to his education. You will, instead, constantly hear, as accounting for his great success, that he was obedient and affectionate as a son, patient as a soldier, honest and upright as a citizen, tender and devoted as a husband, and truthful, generous, unselfish, moral and clean in every relation of life. He never thought any of these things too weak for manliness.

"Make no mistake, he was a most distinguished man, a great man, a useful man, who has been distinguished, great and useful because he had and retained unimpaired qualities of heart which I fear university students sometimes feel like keeping in the background or abandoning.

"What is there left behind for our people by the President we mourn? He has left us a priceless gift in his example of a useful and pure life, of his fidelity to public trust, and his demonstration of the kind of virtue

that not only ennobles mankind, but leads to success. It is for us to remain to enforce this example and make it a saving influence for good in all our progress as a nation, and in every vicissitude that awaits our future.

"We are in church to-day, and the churches throughout the land are open to memorial exercises. These services should be but the beginning of strenuous exertions on the part of our churches to arouse our people to their obligations in the fulfilment of civic duty and to the enforcement of the fact that the laws of God, if kept and obeyed, are sufficient for all our needs and vicissitudes. God still lives and reigns, but He will not turn His face from us who have always been objects of His kindness.”

BITS OF WISDOM, MCKINLEY.

January 1.

We leave the old century behind us, holding on to its achievements and cherishing its memories, and turn with hope to the new, with its opportunities and obligations.

January 2.

What you want is to get education, and with it you want good character, and with these you want unfaltering industry, and if you have these three things you will have success anywhere and everywhere.

January 3.

The thing to-day is to be practical.

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January 4.

No amendment can ever be made to the Constitution of this country that will curtail the supreme and sovereign power of the people.

January 5.

Bad citizenship will always induce bad government.

January 6.

In a country like ours, resting as it does upon the judgment of the people, our government and its administration, our laws and its courts, are very much what the people make them.

January 7.

Good citizenship is indispensable to good government.

January 8.

Let me assure you, young gentlemen,

that the present and the future hold rich reward for good scholarship, high character and noble endeavor.

January 9.

We love peace better than war, and our swords never should be drawn except in a righteous cause, and then never until every effort at peace and arbitration shall be exhausted.

January 10.

Our growing power brings with it temptations and peril requiring constant vigilance to avoid. It must not be used to invite conflicts nor for oppression.

January II.

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

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