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Show :70 of order to make good our hyprocritical claim of being followers a Prince of Peace? I know it is in bad taste to be in earliest at the end of a meet- ing. I think you hoped I would tell a story and get out of the way. I was trying to think of a story coming up, but confronted by this impressive company, remembering that many of you are not Chicago residents. knowing that in this little room at this present time is represented a fellowship that reaches from ocean to ocean. a fellowship that forgets the limitations of space and sections, I was knocked down into the subconscious realms of my life which by birth and training is given to the pathos of preach- ing. (Applause) The meeting then adjourned. Luca: tt‘M Iquu SEVENTH SESSION THIRD ANNUAL INTERSTATE INTERCOL- LEGIATE ORATORIAL CONTEST Tuesday Afternoon, May 4, at 3 o'clock MANUEL HALL, UNIVERSITY or CHICAGO DEAN GEO. E. \'IN(.‘FN'I‘, Presiding PROF. VINCENT: On behalf of the university I desire to welcome to this place those who represent the Peace Congress which is now in session in this city. It is appropriate that a university should harbor and give welcome to an association of this sort. If the university stands for anythingr it stands for progressive control of the mind over the passions. One who studies higher education may be at times a little skeptical about the rapid progress of this mastery, but at any rate the ideals of an educational institution represent this higher rational control, not only of the individual but gradtr ally of the group and of the nation. International peace, so far as it is promoted#and it is hard to say how it can be promoted otherwise than by the aid of individual and collective intelligence -ought to be and it is to be hoped is furthered by the life of universities and colleges. Moreover, scholarship represents one of these many inter~ national associations by means of which nations are knit together. and The great empire of scholarship is co-existent with all lands of the with all climes where research and truth and the ideals prevail. development of the individual and of the community feels So that on both these accounts the University of Chicago have this itself favored and counts it a privilege to be able to meeting held under its auspices, immediate The contest of this afternoon is held under the is a contest charge of the Intercollegiate I‘L-aee .»\ssociati«,in. It ,,.. -/I |