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come to the field: We assure you that we appreciate your
interest.
Fellow cadets: In the name of my classmates I am to
bid you a long farewell. You are yet to continue the duties
and responsibilities of cadetship; we are promoted to a new
field of duty. Bv certain regulations which result from or
ganization we have held and enjoj^ed privileges of rank and
command over you, privileges, indicative not of superior in
tellect, nor of higher efficiency in military discipline, but
rather of our maturity in years and collegiate standing.
You are yet to scale greater heights and delve in deeper
mysteries. You would aspire to victory. Press on. The
good that beckons you on has already given us our fathers,
our land a Washington and a Jefferson, to unfurl the flag of
freedom and fling out upon the breezes the banner of a gov
ernment true and just. You have yet before you many les
sons to learn, many night vigils to keep, behind and around
you the legacy of our experience, the failures and successes
of those who started as we do in the race.
The solicitude of the hour impells me to speak a special
word to those who are now to take up the long waited for
duties and privileges which we lay down. You have duties
to perform, which, though fraught with pleasure and satis
faction, will yet be surrounded by trying calls upon your
manhood.
You will, in part, be responsible for the successes and
the failures which will result from your estimate of the true
meaning of seniorship; You are to be co-workers with our
respected faculty.
In leaving you, our pleasure would be unbounded could
we give to you an untarnished record, perfected work of sym
metry and beauty. On the contrary, we realize that our task
is unfinished, that, although we have labored hard upon the
foundation, nothing but the rougher work is done, the fin
ished and pleasing portions are yet to be worked out.
Be brave, be true, be dutiful, the sum of duty let two