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| (upbeat music) | 0:04 | |
| (audience cheering) | 0:27 | |
| (upbeat music) | 0:43 | |
| ♪ By the dawn's early light ♪ | 0:48 | |
| ♪ What so proudly we hailed ♪ | 0:52 | |
| ♪ At the twilight's last gleaming ♪ | 0:56 | |
| ♪ Whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ | 1:00 | |
| ♪ Through the perilous fight ♪ | 1:03 | |
| ♪ O'er the ramparts we watched ♪ | 1:07 | |
| ♪ Were so gallantly streaming ♪ | 1:11 | |
| ♪ And the rocket's red glare ♪ | 1:15 | |
| ♪ The bombs bursting in air ♪ | 1:19 | |
| ♪ Gave proof through the night ♪ | 1:23 | |
| ♪ That our flag was still there ♪ | 1:26 | |
| ♪ O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ | 1:31 | |
| ♪ O'er the land of the free ♪ | 1:40 | |
| ♪ And the home of the brave ♪ | 1:46 | |
| (audience cheering) | 1:54 | |
| - | Will you join with me as we pray? | 2:00 |
| Let us pray. | 2:05 | |
| Oh, God, we come to this high and holy moment | 2:07 | |
| with genuine thanksgiving on our lips and in our lives. | 2:11 | |
| We praise you for all who have taught those | 2:16 | |
| in this graduating class for the challenge, | 2:19 | |
| the stirring of mind and heart, | 2:23 | |
| the demand to grow and mature, | 2:26 | |
| which professors have given to them. | 2:28 | |
| Thanks be to you, oh God, | 2:32 | |
| that not one of these graduates is as he or she was | 2:34 | |
| when they first came to this university. | 2:37 | |
| May the endless hours of study, | 2:42 | |
| the countless words read and written, | 2:45 | |
| the new ideas entertained way discarded and kept, | 2:49 | |
| insights and convictions appropriated and lived out, | 2:54 | |
| all have made them better, | 2:59 | |
| more creative, more caring persons. | 3:00 | |
| And now, oh God, | 3:05 | |
| make of this time a time apart for remembering, | 3:07 | |
| for relaxing, for celebrating, | 3:12 | |
| for renewing, and recommitting of our very best selves. | 3:15 | |
| We rejoice in your goodness to us | 3:20 | |
| and now let us rejoice in fellowship with one another. | 3:23 | |
| We ask in your holy name, amen. | 3:27 | |
| (gentle music) | 3:36 | |
| ♪ O God, our help in ages past ♪ | 3:43 | |
| ♪ Our hope for years to come, ♪ | 3:50 | |
| ♪ Our shelter from the stormy blast ♪ | 3:56 | |
| ♪ And our eternal home ♪ | 4:03 | |
| ♪ Before the hills in order stood ♪ | 4:10 | |
| ♪ Or earth received her frame ♪ | 4:17 | |
| ♪ From everlasting thou art God ♪ | 4:23 | |
| ♪ To endless years the same ♪ | 4:30 | |
| ♪ A thousand ages in your sight ♪ | 4:37 | |
| ♪ Are like an evening gone ♪ | 4:43 | |
| ♪ Short as the watch that ends the night ♪ | 4:50 | |
| ♪ Before the rising sun ♪ | 4:56 | |
| ♪ O God, our help in ages past ♪ | 5:04 | |
| ♪ Our hope for years to come ♪ | 5:11 | |
| ♪ Still be our guard while troubles last ♪ | 5:17 | |
| ♪ And our eternal home ♪ | 5:24 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 5:35 | |
| - | It is my pleasure to introduce to you the student speaker | 6:02 |
| for our commencement exercises. | 6:06 | |
| He came to Duke four years ago from Emerson, New Jersey. | 6:09 | |
| He will graduate to today | 6:14 | |
| with the degree bachelor of arts in English. | 6:15 | |
| It is my pleasure to introduce you to you, | 6:20 | |
| Mr. Ian Neil Abrams of the class of 1977. | 6:22 | |
| (audience clapping) | 6:26 | |
| - | Thank you, Chancellor Pye, | 6:37 |
| Madam Secretary Kreps, Mr. Sanford, | 6:41 | |
| members of the administration of the faculty, | 6:44 | |
| my family, guests, and friends. | 6:47 | |
| In our society, a college graduation | 6:52 | |
| is regarded as one of the most significant rites of passage | 6:55 | |
| in a person's life ranked equal in importance | 6:59 | |
| with birth and marriage. | 7:02 | |
| It is also the very last such rite of passage | 7:04 | |
| shared by so many of us at any one time. | 7:08 | |
| Like all rites of passage, graduation signifies a transition | 7:12 | |
| from one state to another. | 7:17 | |
| In this case, the transition is from the state of a student, | 7:19 | |
| essentially a person in chrysalis form, | 7:23 | |
| to that of a fully participating member of society. | 7:26 | |
| A person must now become a producer | 7:31 | |
| instead of just a consumer. | 7:33 | |
| It is appropriate then that at the time of this passage, | 7:36 | |
| we consider not only the state we are passing into, | 7:40 | |
| but the state of the world around us as well. | 7:44 | |
| It is the world we will have to live in, | 7:48 | |
| the world we have been prepared for. | 7:50 | |
| How will it change in the future? | 7:53 | |
| For an answer to that question, we might ask ourselves, | 7:55 | |
| how has it changed in the past? | 7:59 | |
| I think it's interesting to note that the university careers | 8:02 | |
| of those graduating here today have spanned | 8:05 | |
| three distinct presidential administrations. | 8:08 | |
| When we arrived at Duke for freshman orientation | 8:13 | |
| in late August of 1973, | 8:16 | |
| the revelation that Richard Nixon taped | 8:19 | |
| all of his White House conversations was fresh news. | 8:21 | |
| The 18 and a half minute gap | 8:26 | |
| was revealed during our freshman year. | 8:28 | |
| The resignation of Richard Nixon occurred about a month | 8:31 | |
| before we came back to Duke as sophomores | 8:33 | |
| and later that same year, | 8:36 | |
| we had the migrants incident, | 8:37 | |
| economic problem and their attempted solutions, | 8:39 | |
| and the Vietnamese baby lift. | 8:42 | |
| It was probably during our junior year | 8:45 | |
| that most of us heard the name Jimmy Carter | 8:47 | |
| for the first time | 8:50 | |
| and it was at the start of the semester | 8:52 | |
| we have just completed, | 8:54 | |
| the last semester most of us will ever spend at Duke, | 8:56 | |
| that we heard the same Jimmy Carter take the oath of office | 8:59 | |
| as president of the United States. | 9:03 | |
| The point behind all this | 9:07 | |
| is that while we've been here at Duke, | 9:09 | |
| preparing the face the world, | 9:10 | |
| the world has not been standing still. | 9:13 | |
| The changes haven't all been major ones, for example, | 9:15 | |
| whereas I at one time was a freshman, | 9:19 | |
| a student entering Duke next year will be a fresh person. | 9:22 | |
| In many ways then, | 9:29 | |
| the world we faced after graduating high school in 1973 | 9:30 | |
| was a different world | 9:35 | |
| and in some ways, a nicer world | 9:37 | |
| than the one we're preparing to go out into now. | 9:39 | |
| So we have the question, | 9:42 | |
| which world has Duke prepared us for? | 9:44 | |
| The world as it was in 1973 or as it is in 1977? | 9:48 | |
| I've heard opinions to the effect | 9:54 | |
| that the world doesn't really enter into it. | 9:56 | |
| That what most of us | 10:00 | |
| have been prepared for are the law and med schools in 1977. | 10:02 | |
| Well, I'm not sure that that really makes a difference. | 10:07 | |
| What it comes down to is the same. | 10:11 | |
| We have been prepared, molded to an extent, | 10:13 | |
| not to merely face the world, | 10:17 | |
| but to take our places in it and, in time, | 10:19 | |
| to bring about our own changes in that world in our own way. | 10:23 | |
| In the year 2010, | 10:28 | |
| most of us graduating today will be 55 years old. | 10:30 | |
| Many of us will have to children | 10:35 | |
| who will be themselves graduating from college. | 10:37 | |
| It seems likely that the man or woman who will be president | 10:40 | |
| in the year 2010 is a member of some class in 1977, | 10:44 | |
| perhaps even the Duke class in 1977. | 10:49 | |
| (audience laughs) | 10:55 | |
| Among the 2000 or so of us here, | 10:57 | |
| we probably have at least one prominent politician | 11:00 | |
| of the future, possibly two or three. | 11:02 | |
| I find it inspiring to think that among us here today | 11:06 | |
| are not maybe or can be, | 11:11 | |
| but are the great men and women of the future, | 11:15 | |
| the ones who will advance mankind-- | 11:20 | |
| (audience cheers) | 11:23 | |
| The ones who will advance mankind | 11:36 | |
| through medical techniques, | 11:39 | |
| that today we might think miracles, | 11:41 | |
| or by enacting laws to make our society more just, | 11:44 | |
| or in a multitude of other ways | 11:49 | |
| to help make the world our children will | 11:51 | |
| enter when they graduate college. | 11:53 | |
| Because no matter who it is who's responsible, | 11:57 | |
| the world never does stop changing. | 12:00 | |
| The question of whether Duke has prepared us for 1973 | 12:03 | |
| or 1977 is an immaterial one in the last analysis. | 12:06 | |
| One sort of preparation is as valuable | 12:11 | |
| or as valueless as the other. | 12:14 | |
| If Duke has prepared us for the world at all, | 12:17 | |
| it can only be by teaching us | 12:20 | |
| to see the world for ourselves, | 12:22 | |
| how to relate to it and cope with it, | 12:24 | |
| whatever the nature of our individual endeavors | 12:27 | |
| and according to our own changing needs. | 12:30 | |
| All other preparation is futile. | 12:33 | |
| Whether Duke has succeeded in this preparation | 12:36 | |
| cannot be judged today by our grade point averages | 12:39 | |
| or even by the number of us accepted into graduate schools. | 12:44 | |
| It can only be judged by our own children | 12:47 | |
| graduating in the early years of the next century | 12:51 | |
| who will see around them the new world | 12:54 | |
| that our generation, | 12:56 | |
| among them the members of the class of 1977, | 12:58 | |
| have helped to shape. | 13:02 | |
| When they do this, | 13:05 | |
| when our children look around them | 13:06 | |
| and see not only the new world, | 13:09 | |
| but the men and women who have most profoundly assisted | 13:11 | |
| in the making of that world, | 13:14 | |
| I believe that many of these men and women | 13:17 | |
| will be able to say with pride, | 13:19 | |
| Duke University prepared me for the world. | 13:23 | |
| Thank you. | 13:27 | |
| (audience cheering) | 13:28 | |
| - | Distinguished faculty, parents, friends, | 13:42 |
| great men and women of the future. | 13:47 | |
| (audience cheers) | 13:50 | |
| Welcome. | 13:57 | |
| (audience laughs) | 13:59 | |
| I usually had this position when I first came here | 14:06 | |
| right after the student speaker | 14:09 | |
| so I could rebut whatever he said, | 14:10 | |
| but student bodies have improved | 14:15 | |
| so and I congratulate your speaker. | 14:17 | |
| (audience clapping) | 14:21 | |
| You put it another way, he missed a good opportunity. | 14:27 | |
| (audience laughing) | 14:29 | |
| Over the years, | 14:32 | |
| Duke University stature has increased many times | 14:33 | |
| through the accomplishments of individuals | 14:37 | |
| in the Duke community. | 14:39 | |
| This is the way an institution's reputation | 14:41 | |
| and capacity for service grow | 14:44 | |
| and the application is, I hope, | 14:47 | |
| that the institution itself | 14:49 | |
| does something to foster the development | 14:52 | |
| of outstanding, creative individuals. | 14:55 | |
| During the hard years of World War II, | 14:58 | |
| a young woman just graduated from Berea College | 15:02 | |
| in her native state of Kentucky, | 15:06 | |
| arrived at Duke to be in graduate studies in economics. | 15:09 | |
| In a few years, | 15:14 | |
| she had a PhD and a young man here at the same time, | 15:14 | |
| not only had a PhD, but he had a wife. | 15:20 | |
| He now is the husband of Juanita Kreps, | 15:24 | |
| distinguished professor of banking at Chapel Hill, | 15:29 | |
| but we are proud of both of them. | 15:37 | |
| They left to teach and during 1954, | 15:40 | |
| Juanita Kreps returned to the Duke faculty | 15:44 | |
| and has been here ever since, though just recently, | 15:47 | |
| we have agreed to loan her for a little while | 15:51 | |
| to the United States government | 15:56 | |
| with the firm understanding that she has to come back. | 15:59 | |
| I could spend the rest of the afternoon | 16:03 | |
| talking about the Juanita Kreps accomplishments, | 16:05 | |
| the position she's held in the education business worlds, | 16:10 | |
| the important contributions she has made | 16:13 | |
| as a scholar to our understanding of the economics of aging, | 16:16 | |
| of work, of manpower, of women, higher education, | 16:22 | |
| as well as other fields | 16:27 | |
| and the awards and other forms of recognition | 16:29 | |
| she has justly received over the years, | 16:31 | |
| but I'd rather just tell you of the sort of person she is, | 16:36 | |
| warm and gracious, a devoted wife and mother, | 16:41 | |
| a champion and inspiration | 16:45 | |
| and the cause of equality for women | 16:48 | |
| and to us, most of all, | 16:51 | |
| a creative colleague and a real friend, | 16:54 | |
| Juanita Kreps is certainly among the most remarkable | 16:59 | |
| of that select group who have made Duke University | 17:02 | |
| the internationally known | 17:07 | |
| and respected institution it is today. | 17:08 | |
| By her presence at Duke and her devotion to Duke, | 17:11 | |
| we are all richer. | 17:15 | |
| The credit she reflects on Duke will have a lasting impact | 17:17 | |
| on the way in which Duke is known by the world | 17:21 | |
| and in the way that Duke knows itself. | 17:24 | |
| It's my great honor to welcome home | 17:27 | |
| the Secretary of Commerce of the United States, | 17:29 | |
| Juanita M. Kreps. | 17:33 | |
| (audience clapping) | 17:34 | |
| - | Mr. President, members of the Board of Trustees, | 17:52 |
| the faculty, parents, and friends. | 17:56 | |
| Most of all, those of you who are graduating today. | 17:59 | |
| Thank you for inviting me to share this day with you. | 18:04 | |
| When your invitation came, | 18:09 | |
| I wondered whether you wanted | 18:11 | |
| a major policy statement from Washington | 18:13 | |
| or a more personal statement for students here, | 18:18 | |
| the students whom I have shared | 18:22 | |
| the learning process with for many years. | 18:26 | |
| One candid senior answered the question | 18:31 | |
| after I was on the campus by saying, | 18:34 | |
| "to tell you the truth, | 18:37 | |
| "we didn't want either, | 18:39 | |
| "but we couldn't persuade Mr. Como to sing." | 18:41 | |
| (audience laughs) | 18:45 | |
| There is some temptation to focus on the state of the union, | 18:52 | |
| to rattle off the accomplishments | 18:56 | |
| of the first hundred days. | 18:59 | |
| But a hundred days is to brief a time to judge | 19:02 | |
| either an administration or a student. | 19:06 | |
| Both need their four years to set the record. | 19:09 | |
| In sharing with the president | 19:14 | |
| his preparations for the summit, | 19:15 | |
| I was constantly reminded of how far we have yet to go | 19:18 | |
| if we are to restore world prosperity | 19:22 | |
| and I'm grateful that he, knowing how much Duke means to me, | 19:26 | |
| agreed early that I could be here on this weekend, | 19:31 | |
| irrespective of the cabinet schedule. | 19:35 | |
| Incidentally, my women students will be glad to know, | 19:38 | |
| I think, that the president has given me good marks | 19:44 | |
| for appointing women to top posts | 19:47 | |
| in the Department of Commerce. | 19:49 | |
| (audience clapping) | 19:52 | |
| And I have assured the president that, contrary to rumor, | 19:59 | |
| I have not refused to hire any man at all. | 20:03 | |
| That being sensitive to the fact that reverse discrimination | 20:08 | |
| was somehow worse than forward discrimination, | 20:13 | |
| I have insisted that we hire males | 20:16 | |
| in more than token numbers. | 20:19 | |
| Nevermind the standards, fair is fair, | 20:23 | |
| but this is not a political day for you or for me. | 20:29 | |
| It is a day for drawing together | 20:34 | |
| those people who have touched your lives, | 20:35 | |
| fired your thoughts, heightened your senses | 20:38 | |
| and for this hour, when you stand between two worlds, | 20:42 | |
| you are surely allowed to direct your thoughts, | 20:45 | |
| not to the condition of the world, | 20:48 | |
| but rather to your role in that world, | 20:51 | |
| not to how a new administration views its challenges, | 20:54 | |
| but how you see your own. | 20:58 | |
| And with this in mind and with a special affection | 21:01 | |
| for those of you who may have come to know so well, | 21:04 | |
| I offer this brief comment on freedom and constraints. | 21:08 | |
| All commencement addresses, like all gull, | 21:16 | |
| are divided into three parts: | 21:20 | |
| predictions, promises, and pleas. | 21:22 | |
| The prediction heralds the coming of | 21:27 | |
| a bigger and brighter world, | 21:28 | |
| the promise is that you will run that world, | 21:31 | |
| and the plea is for you to do a better job | 21:35 | |
| than your parents did. | 21:38 | |
| Now this is no time to break with tradition. | 21:41 | |
| There is precious little of it left | 21:44 | |
| and we should honor it, | 21:46 | |
| yet I have to confess | 21:48 | |
| that I cannot come to the same safe conclusions. | 21:50 | |
| First on predictions. | 21:54 | |
| Past forecasts have had one thing in common. | 21:57 | |
| All have predicted that things would get easier, safer, | 22:01 | |
| bigger, faster, and as a result, | 22:05 | |
| we would be able to have more and more. | 22:08 | |
| In reality, progress as measured by material goods | 22:12 | |
| has exceeded even our most optimistic projections. | 22:16 | |
| Half a century ago, | 22:21 | |
| when this university was having its first commencement, | 22:22 | |
| speakers looked forward to the day | 22:26 | |
| when each American family would own an automobile, | 22:28 | |
| when highways would link every part of the nation | 22:32 | |
| with every other. | 22:35 | |
| We know what has happened. | 22:38 | |
| Automobile production and rising incomes | 22:40 | |
| have enabled us to have more cars than parking space | 22:42 | |
| to our utter frustration | 22:46 | |
| and highways allow us to go anywhere we want to go, | 22:48 | |
| though there are many days when we don't know where that is. | 22:52 | |
| The past half century has brought more than cars | 22:57 | |
| and expressways, however. | 23:01 | |
| Science has made it possible for us to know almost instantly | 23:03 | |
| what is happening throughout the world, | 23:06 | |
| to explore the moon and Mars, | 23:08 | |
| to grow taller and live longer, | 23:12 | |
| yet few of these important developments were forecast | 23:15 | |
| half a century ago. | 23:19 | |
| It gives one pause in making predictions for it is clear | 23:22 | |
| that in looking ahead, we often look at the wrong things. | 23:26 | |
| Concerned with growth | 23:30 | |
| and its power to raise levels of living, | 23:31 | |
| we have failed to focus on the correlates: | 23:33 | |
| greater scientific knowledge and understanding of the world | 23:37 | |
| and its peoples, | 23:40 | |
| better health, more equitable treatment for all persons. | 23:41 | |
| Indeed we have taken economic welfare so seriously | 23:46 | |
| that we have developed ways | 23:50 | |
| to measure each inch of progress | 23:51 | |
| and yet we have not thought it necessary | 23:55 | |
| to find an index of human welfare | 23:57 | |
| that takes into account important, | 24:00 | |
| non-material changes in the quality of life | 24:03 | |
| and with this caveat in mind then, | 24:07 | |
| what can one say of your future? | 24:10 | |
| Here I would like to break with the past | 24:15 | |
| for I cannot argue | 24:17 | |
| that continued high rates of growth are possible | 24:18 | |
| or necessarily desirable. | 24:21 | |
| I cannot believe that the cost | 24:24 | |
| of growth in resource depletion | 24:26 | |
| and environmental destruction are always worth paid, | 24:28 | |
| nor do I think that the American people | 24:33 | |
| will continue past consumption patterns | 24:35 | |
| once they understand the implications of those patterns | 24:38 | |
| for their children and their grandchildren. | 24:41 | |
| It is true that scientific breakthroughs | 24:45 | |
| can postpone the rate depletion | 24:48 | |
| and some people will argue that full exploration | 24:51 | |
| of the world's resources will produce such quantities | 24:54 | |
| that we need not ever worry, | 24:57 | |
| but even as such exploration occurs, | 25:00 | |
| the threats to the environment mount, costs rise. | 25:03 | |
| Consumption has to decline. | 25:08 | |
| International pressures, moreover, | 25:10 | |
| press against the wealthy nations as never before. | 25:13 | |
| Living standards measured in the usual way | 25:17 | |
| are simply not going to grow as fast | 25:20 | |
| as in your parents' day, | 25:24 | |
| but a slower pace | 25:29 | |
| is not likely to be a disturbing prediction | 25:30 | |
| for those of you graduating today. | 25:33 | |
| You come from relative affluence. | 25:36 | |
| Affluence is always relative, I suppose, | 25:40 | |
| and you may well ask whether | 25:43 | |
| as the rate of real growth slows, | 25:45 | |
| alternative goals may not be even more desirable. | 25:48 | |
| This perspective was not characteristic | 25:53 | |
| of your predecessors. | 25:55 | |
| Parents here today remember a strikingly different world. | 25:57 | |
| We spent our childhood in an era of economic collapse | 26:03 | |
| and depression and our youth struggling | 26:06 | |
| with the shortages that came with total war. | 26:09 | |
| It is not surprising that we approached our careers | 26:12 | |
| with aspirations for financial success | 26:16 | |
| and the economy with expectations of unprecedented growth. | 26:19 | |
| In both respects, our hopes have been fulfilled | 26:23 | |
| and that ought to mean that we are happy | 26:28 | |
| with the way things turned out. | 26:30 | |
| There is some evidence that contentment, | 26:33 | |
| even with such success, is spotty. | 26:35 | |
| Heart attacks are on the rise. | 26:38 | |
| The incidence of depression is high. | 26:41 | |
| Stress is a greater problem than heretofore. | 26:43 | |
| The suicide rate is up and civility is on the decline. | 26:46 | |
| But the goal we set for ourselves was success. | 26:51 | |
| Success as our parents had defined it measured in power, | 26:55 | |
| income, and goods and the world cooperated | 26:58 | |
| for we would not let it do otherwise. | 27:03 | |
| You did not grow up in an environment of scarcity, however. | 27:07 | |
| You were children of plenty | 27:13 | |
| and just as your parents' aspirations | 27:15 | |
| were honed by the times of their lives, | 27:17 | |
| so too are yours. | 27:20 | |
| Lacking the pressure that goes with doing without. | 27:22 | |
| Secure in the knowledge | 27:27 | |
| that material needs can be met fairly easily | 27:28 | |
| and with only part of one's time and effort. | 27:31 | |
| What goals do you set for yourselves? | 27:34 | |
| Since goals are sensibly set | 27:40 | |
| only do regard to what it is realistic to expect, | 27:43 | |
| one is led to the question of promise. | 27:47 | |
| What has the world to offer you? | 27:50 | |
| Promises, promises. | 27:52 | |
| On graduating rhe speaker says the world is yours. | 27:54 | |
| Of course, you are not taken in | 27:59 | |
| by that grand gesture | 28:02 | |
| because you realize it isn't the speaker's world to give | 28:03 | |
| because those who control things | 28:09 | |
| are not about to pass that power onto you | 28:11 | |
| for a number of years | 28:14 | |
| and even then, with some reluctance, | 28:15 | |
| and anyway, | 28:18 | |
| you probably don't want the world today. | 28:20 | |
| Next week, perhaps, but not today. | 28:23 | |
| Short of inheriting the earth, | 28:28 | |
| what is yours to claim in the new life? | 28:30 | |
| Surely it will not be true as Lucy of "Peanuts" fame says. | 28:34 | |
| "It always reigns on our generation." | 28:40 | |
| But if not great growth in material wealth, | 28:45 | |
| bigger houses, bigger cars, what can you expect? | 28:47 | |
| If the rate of growth is to be slower | 28:53 | |
| than in your parents' lives | 28:55 | |
| because the resource base is depleted | 28:57 | |
| or because we need to conserve and protect, | 29:00 | |
| will there not be important changes | 29:03 | |
| both in our national and personal values? | 29:05 | |
| There can be no doubt that such changes | 29:11 | |
| and values are occurring and wisely so | 29:13 | |
| for to begin your professional lives | 29:17 | |
| with aspirations appropriate to another era | 29:19 | |
| is to invite frustration. | 29:24 | |
| To struggle against the impediments of the past | 29:27 | |
| is to dilute the strength needed to solve the problems | 29:31 | |
| of today and to ascribe to your world | 29:34 | |
| the limited parameters traditionally assumed | 29:38 | |
| is to lose sight of the greatest promise of all. | 29:41 | |
| Galbraith once chided the nation | 29:45 | |
| for living with goals applicable to an earlier era | 29:48 | |
| and as a result he said, | 29:51 | |
| "We do many things that are unnecessary. | 29:53 | |
| "Some that are unwise and a few that are insane." | 29:56 | |
| To be not unwise nor insane, | 30:03 | |
| but instead to be in tune with one's future, indeed, | 30:07 | |
| to help invent it, we need to do two things. | 30:10 | |
| We need to accept the restrictions | 30:15 | |
| imposed by the postindustrial world | 30:17 | |
| and we need to embrace its freedoms. | 30:21 | |
| Under the heading restrictions, | 30:25 | |
| we have to view conservation as a goal | 30:26 | |
| that is at least as important as growth. | 30:29 | |
| We have to develop different tastes, different attitudes. | 30:32 | |
| We have to admire economy and criticize waste. | 30:36 | |
| With Epicurus, we may observe that one is rich, | 30:41 | |
| not through one's possessions, but through that | 30:45 | |
| which one can with dignity do without. | 30:49 | |
| If we are able to modify our personal values, | 30:54 | |
| the linkage between value, income, and wealth may be broken. | 30:57 | |
| We may then develop qualitative measures of worth, | 31:03 | |
| numbers for gross national product, | 31:07 | |
| which lump Freetos and Faulkner into one aggregate | 31:09 | |
| to tell us how well we are doing may become less important. | 31:13 | |
| As this happens, | 31:18 | |
| the new freedoms available to us. | 31:20 | |
| will more than counterbalance the new restrictions. | 31:22 | |
| For if we cease to accept the notion | 31:26 | |
| that we are doing well | 31:29 | |
| only if we are making more and more money, | 31:31 | |
| we will be able to do many things, | 31:34 | |
| which we have denied ourselves in the past. | 31:37 | |
| Once we repeal the instruction | 31:40 | |
| that we cannot afford to think about anyone else | 31:43 | |
| because there is no profit in it, | 31:46 | |
| that we cannot take pleasure in another success | 31:50 | |
| because life is a zero sum game in which no one can gain, | 31:52 | |
| except at the expense of someone else, | 31:56 | |
| then we may find that we have a much wider range of options. | 31:59 | |
| In short, the promise of your tomorrow | 32:04 | |
| is different from that offered your parents. | 32:07 | |
| Whereas we who came into maturity following that second war | 32:12 | |
| to end wars were promised the economic progress | 32:15 | |
| that our era desperately needed. | 32:18 | |
| You are today being offered a world | 32:22 | |
| that yearns for compassion and human dignity, | 32:25 | |
| a world that offers great freedom of choice | 32:30 | |
| and expression and lifestyles, | 32:32 | |
| a world in which the good life is accessible to people | 32:35 | |
| who in earlier times were completely shut out. | 32:38 | |
| The promise of such freedom is a gift | 32:43 | |
| never before rendered to a generation of students. | 32:45 | |
| Sharing that freedom is all important | 32:50 | |
| as the president has cautioned because we are free, he said, | 32:53 | |
| "We cannot be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere." | 32:57 | |
| Enter now the plea. | 33:03 | |
| If there is one thing I could wish for you, | 33:05 | |
| it would be that you sense the freedom | 33:08 | |
| and be sensitive to the constraints | 33:11 | |
| that the forces of history have thrown in your laps. | 33:13 | |
| Because you face a different world, | 33:17 | |
| I would further hope that you feel uninhibited | 33:20 | |
| by the expectations of others, | 33:24 | |
| remembering that their notions of success | 33:26 | |
| or failure are not appropriate to your time and place. | 33:29 | |
| I shall not exhort you with cliche challenges | 33:34 | |
| to build a better world to correct the mistakes we made. | 33:38 | |
| In fact, | 33:41 | |
| I find it offensive to deprecate the achievements | 33:42 | |
| of previous generations. | 33:45 | |
| It was their efforts that moved this nation | 33:47 | |
| and a large part of the world into a position | 33:50 | |
| in which such a large proportion of us enjoy education | 33:52 | |
| and freedom of choice. | 33:56 | |
| In retrospect, | 33:58 | |
| many who preceded you would do some things differently | 33:59 | |
| just as each of you in time will mourn certain mistakes, | 34:02 | |
| but know also how easy it is to avoid making mistakes. | 34:08 | |
| One has only to do nothing. | 34:13 | |
| Nor shall I urge you to love thy fellow person | 34:16 | |
| for that would be presumptuous. | 34:20 | |
| Yours is not a generation | 34:23 | |
| that lacks the capacity to care for others. | 34:25 | |
| What is more troublesome? | 34:30 | |
| Is finding ways to rationalize that sense of caring | 34:31 | |
| with a competitiveness and ambition | 34:36 | |
| that seem to be demanded of leaders in any field, | 34:38 | |
| business, the professions, government. | 34:42 | |
| And since we at Duke have encouraged | 34:45 | |
| your leadership qualities, | 34:46 | |
| you will surely feel some conflict between the selfless | 34:49 | |
| and the selfish. | 34:53 | |
| To this conflict, there is no easy solution. | 34:57 | |
| I too observe the need to be aggressive | 35:01 | |
| if one would lead and dogmatic if one would persuade. | 35:05 | |
| But I observe further | 35:12 | |
| that in the world of common sense experience, | 35:13 | |
| the only substitute for shouting is substance. | 35:16 | |
| Well, then, on knowing what you are about | 35:22 | |
| for a knowing mind will ultimately win out | 35:27 | |
| if anything can against a loud voice. | 35:30 | |
| Finally, | 35:36 | |
| I offer a plea that you treat yourself as well as others | 35:37 | |
| with respect | 35:42 | |
| for you too are a special person. | 35:43 | |
| In accord with the familiar "Desiderata," | 35:49 | |
| beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. | 35:52 | |
| And I would add only hold o to what it was you brought here | 35:57 | |
| and all that you have added to it, | 36:03 | |
| laugh as often and cries as little as you can, | 36:07 | |
| and know always that we care about you. | 36:13 | |
| Thank you. | 36:16 | |
| (audience applauds) | 36:18 | |
| - | President of the University | 36:57 |
| will now proceed to the conferring | 36:59 | |
| of degrees earned in course. | 37:02 | |
| - | Mr. President, I now a call upon recent graduates | 37:13 |
| and all candidates for the degree of bachelor of arts | 37:18 | |
| to please rise. | 37:23 | |
| (students cheering) | 37:26 | |
| - | Mr. President, | 37:48 |
| I am pleased to present to you a group | 37:49 | |
| of 688 happy candidates who have completed the requirements | 37:52 | |
| for the bachelor of arts degree. | 37:58 | |
| Their names have been duly approved by the faculty | 38:01 | |
| of Duke University and by the Board of Trustees. | 38:04 | |
| I would like to note that the Latin | 38:08 | |
| from which the term liberal arts is derived | 38:11 | |
| means work befitting a free man. | 38:15 | |
| That definition in which the concepts of effort and freedom | 38:18 | |
| are joined marks a major achievement in the lifelong quest | 38:23 | |
| that all educated people undertake. | 38:28 | |
| These students have reached that achievement | 38:32 | |
| and we are deeply proud of all of them. | 38:34 | |
| - | Thank you. | 38:41 |
| (audience cheers) | ||
| I confer upon each of you | 38:49 | |
| the degree of bachelor of arts | 38:51 | |
| and recognition of this major step toward the duties | 38:54 | |
| and the satisfactions of the educated life | 38:57 | |
| and the role of creative and enlightened citizenship. | 39:00 | |
| Congratulations. | 39:03 | |
| (audience cheers) | 39:05 | |
| Somehow the bachelor of arts always get more excited. | 39:33 | |
| It may be they had greater doubts about making it. | 39:36 | |
| (audience laughs) | 39:39 | |
| - | Will the candidates and recent graduates | 39:58 |
| of the degree of bachelor of science please rise. | 40:01 | |
| (audience cheers) | 40:06 | |
| - | Mr. President, | 40:19 |
| I am pleased to present to you 167 candidates | 40:20 | |
| who have met all requirements | 40:26 | |
| for the bachelor of science degree. | 40:27 | |
| Their names have been duly approved by the faculty | 40:30 | |
| of Duke University and the Board of Trustees. | 40:33 | |
| Their degree today signifies the achievement | 40:36 | |
| of wide competence in scientific fields. | 40:40 | |
| They have established the basis for objective inquiry | 40:44 | |
| and involves not only the ability to answer questions, | 40:48 | |
| but the judgment to know which questions to ask. | 40:52 | |
| There is no doubt that society will continue to depend | 40:56 | |
| on the results of such questions | 41:00 | |
| if we are to have a better world. | 41:02 | |
| We know that these students are capable | 41:05 | |
| of scientific inquiry | 41:07 | |
| and we are deeply proud of all of them. | 41:09 | |
| (audience clapping) | 41:14 | |
| - | By the authority vested in me, I confer upon each of you | 41:22 |
| the degree of bachelor of science | 41:26 | |
| in recognition of this major step toward the duties | 41:29 | |
| and the satisfactions of the educated life | 41:32 | |
| and the goal of creative and enlightened citizenship. | 41:34 | |
| Congratulations. | 41:37 | |
| (audience clapping) | 41:39 | |
| For more than a century, | 41:51 | |
| one of the major interests of Duke University | 41:53 | |
| and the institutions from which it grew | 41:55 | |
| has been the training of teachers for elementary | 41:58 | |
| and secondary schools, both public and private. | 42:01 | |
| It is fitting at this point to recognize 59 members | 42:04 | |
| of this graduating class who have prepared themselves | 42:07 | |
| to meet the demands and challenges of effective teaching. | 42:11 | |
| They have completed the requirements | 42:15 | |
| for a standard teaching certificate | 42:17 | |
| in addition to having qualified for a degree. | 42:19 | |
| Their names are marked on your program | 42:23 | |
| and in order that their achievement may be recognized, | 42:25 | |
| I ask them to stand. | 42:28 | |
| (audience clapping) | 42:31 | |
| - | Candidates and recent graduates | 42:45 |
| for the degree of bachelor of science in engineering, stand. | 42:48 | |
| - | By the authority vested in me, I confer upon each of you | 43:08 |
| the degree of bachelor of science in engineering | 43:12 | |
| in recognition of your competence | 43:15 | |
| in the basic skills of your profession | 43:17 | |
| and your commitment to a calling, | 43:20 | |
| which combines so uniquely the best of our technical | 43:22 | |
| and the greatest of our human hopes. | 43:26 | |
| Congratulations. | 43:29 | |
| (audience clapping) | 43:30 | |
| - | The Dean Vessy. | 43:37 |
| - | You see, you have won it by the strength of your voice, | 43:39 |
| the president didn't even wait for my recommendation. | 43:43 | |
| (audience clapping) | 43:47 | |
| - | We gonna do it over again. It was so nice. | 43:54 |
| Always wanted to do it again anyhow. | 44:05 | |
| - | Well. | 44:09 |
| Since the president insists, | 44:16 | |
| I'm going to present you officially. | 44:17 | |
| Mr. President, | 44:20 | |
| it's a pleasure and a privilege to present to you | 44:21 | |
| the group of young men and women | 44:23 | |
| who have satisfied all the requirements | 44:25 | |
| for the degree of bachelor of science in engineering. | 44:28 | |
| (audience cheering) | 44:33 | |
| - | And now for the second time, | 44:35 |
| just so you can be sure it'll stick, | 44:38 | |
| I confer upon each of you | 44:40 | |
| the degree of bachelor of science | 44:42 | |
| and engineering with our best wishes and congratulations. | 44:44 | |
| (audience clapping) | 44:49 | |
| - | Candidates for the degree of bachelor of science | 44:59 |
| and nursing will please rise. | 45:03 | |
| (audience cheering) | 45:07 | |
| It seems that Duke University | 45:27 | |
| has become a preparatory institution for voice today. | 45:28 | |
| Mr. President, | 45:34 | |
| I am pleased to present to you 85 candidates | 45:36 | |
| who have successfully completed all of the requirements | 45:40 | |
| for the bachelor of science and nursing degree | 45:44 | |
| as determined by the faculty of the School of Nursing. | 45:47 | |
| Their names have been approved | 45:52 | |
| by the faculty of Duke University | 45:53 | |
| and by the Board of Trustees. | 45:56 | |
| Their commitment to service in the field of health | 45:59 | |
| is duly manifested by their various decisions | 46:03 | |
| for career involvement in the immediate future. | 46:07 | |
| Our best wishes accompany them | 46:11 | |
| as they focus on the holistic mans of mankind | 46:13 | |
| in a time of when health has a renewed priority nationally. | 46:18 | |
| - | I confer upon you the degree of bachelor of science | 46:26 |
| and nursing and appreciation of the added brightness | 46:29 | |
| you have brought to the student body. | 46:34 | |
| (audience cheering) | 46:36 | |
| And in recognition of the progress which you have made | 46:43 | |
| toward one of the great professions. | 46:46 | |
| You are even more admired than you know. | 46:48 | |
| (audience cheering) | 46:53 | |
| I've got written down here | 47:00 | |
| you are even more admired than you know. | 47:02 | |
| I would have to say that you are admired | 47:05 | |
| as much as is obvious and you will have, | 47:07 | |
| I'm sure, an added reward in the lives | 47:12 | |
| of the people you serve, congratulations. | 47:15 | |
| (audience clapping) | 47:19 | |
| - | Candidates for the degree of bachelor of health science, | 47:29 |
| please rise. | 47:33 | |
| (audience clapping) | 47:37 | |
| - | President Sanford, the candidates for the degree, | 47:46 |
| bachelor of health science, | 47:50 | |
| whose names appear in the official program | 47:52 | |
| have completed the requirements for that degree. | 47:56 | |
| They represent a broad spectrum of knowledge and skill, | 47:59 | |
| all very essential to the healthcare | 48:03 | |
| of not only our own population, but that of the world. | 48:06 | |
| It is a privilege for me to present | 48:10 | |
| these very outstanding people to you | 48:12 | |
| for the conferring of that degree. | 48:14 | |
| - | Thank you. | 48:18 |
| The degree of bachelor of health science | 48:19 | |
| is awarded to students who have completed successfully | 48:22 | |
| a series of studies | 48:24 | |
| which prepare them for careers as president's associates, | 48:26 | |
| medical technologist, pathologist assistants. | 48:29 | |
| You've elected to join the health professions | 48:33 | |
| in order to serve your fellow human beings. | 48:37 | |
| I wish you every success in these exciting | 48:40 | |
| and important careers and give you our congratulations. | 48:42 | |
| (audience clapping) | 48:48 | |
| - | Mr. President, | 48:55 |
| there are no May candidates | 48:56 | |
| for the degree of master of science in nursing, | 48:59 | |
| but there are some September graduates | 49:03 | |
| and if they are here now we ask them to please rise. | 49:06 | |
| - | Well in their absence, I confer upon each of them, | 49:16 |
| the degree of master of science in nursing | 49:19 | |
| and evidence of their successful advanced achievement | 49:23 | |
| in education for your profession of serving others | 49:27 | |
| and congratulations to them. | 49:31 | |
| - | Will the candidates for the degree of master | 49:38 |
| of environmental management, please stand. | 49:41 | |
| (audience clapping) | 49:45 | |
| - | Mr. President, | 50:05 |
| these candidates, 16 in number, | 50:07 | |
| have completed all requirements for the degree | 50:10 | |
| of master of environmental management. | 50:13 | |
| They have been approved by the faculty | 50:16 | |
| and by the Board of Trustees. | 50:18 | |
| On behalf of the faculty of the School of Forestry | 50:21 | |
| and Environmental Studies, | 50:24 | |
| I present them to you for the award of the degree. | 50:26 | |
| One which signifies their dedication to the management | 50:30 | |
| and protection of the nation's environmental resources. | 50:33 | |
| - | By the authority vested in me, | 50:39 |
| I confer upon you the degree | 50:41 | |
| of master of environmental management | 50:44 | |
| and evidence of your concern for the future of mankind, | 50:46 | |
| the earth, and your fitness to enter upon the practice | 50:50 | |
| of your profession | 50:53 | |
| and I recognize the great responsibility | 50:54 | |
| of which you have accepted to interpret | 50:57 | |
| and influence the uses of our diminishing resources. | 50:59 | |
| Congratulations. | 51:03 | |
| (audience clapping) | 51:05 | |
| - | Candidates for the degree of master of forestry | 51:12 |
| will now rise. | 51:16 | |
| (audience shouting) | 51:18 | |
| - | Mr. President, | 51:27 |
| these candidates, 30 in number, | 51:29 | |
| have completed all requirements | 51:31 | |
| for the degree of master of forestry. | 51:33 | |
| They have been approved by the faculty | 51:37 | |
| and by the Board of Trustees. | 51:39 | |
| On behalf of the faculty of the School of Forestry | 51:42 | |
| and Environmental studies, I present them to you | 51:45 | |
| for the award of the degree, | 51:48 | |
| one which signifies their dedication to the protection | 51:50 | |
| and management of the nation's forest resources. | 51:54 | |
| - | By the authority vested in me, | 52:00 |
| I confer upon you the degree of master of forestry | 52:02 | |
| and evidence of your fitness to enter upon | 52:06 | |
| the practice of your profession | 52:09 | |
| and I recognize the great beauty | 52:11 | |
| and pleasure of which you have as you go out to preserve | 52:13 | |
| and serve the infinitely complex world of nature, | 52:17 | |
| which we may no longer ignore and dispoil. | 52:20 | |
| Congratulations. | 52:24 | |
| (audience clapping) | 52:26 | |
| - | Candidates for the degree | 52:34 |
| of master of business administration, please rise. | 52:35 | |
| - | Mr. Sanford, | 52:48 |
| it gives me great pleasure to present to you | 52:50 | |
| 42 outstanding persons | 52:52 | |
| for the degree of master business administration. | 52:55 | |
| They have satisfied all the requirements for the degree, | 52:59 | |
| have been certified by the Dean, approved by the faculty, | 53:02 | |
| and authorized by the Board of Trustees of Duke University. | 53:06 | |
| - | I am pleased to confer upon you | 53:12 |
| the master of business administration. | 53:14 | |
| Have intended well to your business here, | 53:17 | |
| you may surely now step with greater confidence | 53:20 | |
| into the business world | 53:23 | |
| and with greater awareness of the broader goals of society | 53:25 | |
| that you will serve through the business enterprise. | 53:28 | |
| Congratulations. | 53:31 | |
| (audience clapping) | 53:34 | |
| - | Candidates for the degree | 53:40 |
| of master of health administration will now stand. | 53:42 | |
| - | Mr. President, the candidates for the degree | 53:52 |
| of master of health administration, | 53:55 | |
| whose names appear on our official program, | 53:57 | |
| have completed the professional training | 54:00 | |
| and all of the requirements of Duke University | 54:01 | |
| for that degree. | 54:03 | |
| I'm pleased to present them to you, Mr. President, | 54:05 | |
| to have the degree of master of health administration | 54:07 | |
| conferred upon them. | 54:09 | |
| - | By the authority vested in me, | 54:13 |
| I confer upon you the degree | 54:15 | |
| of master of health administration | 54:17 | |
| in recognition of your skill | 54:20 | |
| at one of the most demanding professions of service. | 54:23 | |
| Anyone who can master hospitals | 54:26 | |
| and doctors can master anything. | 54:29 | |
| (audience cheering) | 54:32 | |
| - | Candidates for the degree of master of arts in teaching, | 54:40 |
| please stand. | 54:45 | |
| (audience clapping) | 54:50 | |
| - | Mr. President, | 54:58 |
| the candidates for the degree of master of arts in teaching | 54:59 | |
| whose names appear on our official program | 55:02 | |
| and whose work has been an advanced prep preparation | 55:04 | |
| for public school teaching, | 55:07 | |
| have fulfilled all the requirements | 55:08 | |
| of Duke University for that degree. | 55:10 | |
| I'm pleased to present them to you, Mr. President, | 55:12 | |
| to have the degree of master of arts and teaching | 55:14 | |
| conferred upon them. | 55:16 | |
| - | By the authority vested in me, I confer upon each of you | 55:21 |
| the degree of master of arts and teaching, | 55:25 | |
| a degree of which testifies both to your learning | 55:28 | |
| in the liberal arts and to your fitness | 55:31 | |
| for the high calling of the teacher, congratulations. | 55:33 | |
| (audience clapping) | 55:38 | |
| - | Candidates for the degree of master of education, | 55:43 |
| please rise. | 55:47 | |
| - | Mr. President, | 55:56 |
| the candidates for the degree of master of education, | 55:58 | |
| whose names appear on our official program | 56:01 | |
| have completed the professional training | 56:03 | |
| and all of the requirements of Duke University | 56:05 | |
| for that degree. | 56:07 | |
| I am pleased to present them to you, Mr. President, | 56:08 | |
| to have the degree of master of education | 56:10 | |
| conferred upon them. | 56:13 | |
| - | You have been elected master of education | 56:16 |
| with which distinction I now invest you | 56:20 | |
| in recognition of your fitness for the professions | 56:23 | |
| of teaching and educational administration. | 56:26 | |
| Your profession is not of mere systems and programs, | 56:29 | |
| but one of ideas and people, congratulations. | 56:32 | |
| (audience clapping) | 56:38 | |
| - | Candidates and recent graduates | 56:44 |
| of the degree of master of science will now stand. | 56:46 | |
| (audience clapping) | 56:54 | |
| - | Mr. President, | 56:59 |
| the candidates for the degree of master of science, | 57:00 | |
| whose names appear on our official program | 57:03 | |
| have completed the advanced study, | 57:05 | |
| the research, and all of the requirements | 57:07 | |
| of Duke University for this degree. | 57:09 | |
| I'm pleased to present them to you, Mr. President, | 57:11 | |
| to have the degree of master of science conferred upon them. | 57:13 | |
| - | You have been elected master of science | 57:21 |
| and I now invest each of you with that degree, | 57:24 | |
| marking the continuing progress | 57:27 | |
| which you have made on the high road | 57:30 | |
| of advanced learning, congratulations. | 57:32 | |
| (audience clapping) | 57:36 | |
| - | Candidates for the degree of master of arts, please stand. | 57:41 |
| (audience clapping) | 57:49 | |
| - | Mr. President, | 57:54 |
| the candidates for the degree of master of arts, | 57:56 | |
| whose names appear on our official program | 57:58 | |
| and completed the advanced study, | 58:01 | |
| the research, and all the requirements of Duke University. | 58:02 | |
| for this degree. | 58:06 | |
| I'm happy to present them to you, Mr. President, | 58:07 | |
| to have a degree master of arts conferred upon them. | 58:09 | |
| - | You have been elected master of arts | 58:14 |
| with which degree I now invest each of you, | 58:17 | |
| thus marking the progress you have started | 58:20 | |
| on the long, dusty, magnificent road of advanced learning. | 58:22 | |
| Congratulations. | 58:26 | |
| (audience clapping) | 58:28 | |
| - | Let the candidates for the degree of master of divinity, | 58:36 |
| please stand | 58:40 | |
| (audience cheering) | 58:43 | |
| and also will the candidates | 58:50 | |
| for the degree of master of theology stand. | 58:52 | |
| (audience clapping) | 58:58 | |
| - | These candidates of the degrees of master divinity | 59:05 |
| and master of theology | 59:08 | |
| have fulfilled all of the requirements for these degrees. | 59:10 | |
| It is with pleasure, Mr. President, | 59:14 | |
| that I present them to you. | 59:16 | |
| - | I confer upon you the degree of master of theology | 59:21 |
| in recognition of your growth and professional competence | 59:25 | |
| and on the others of you, | 59:30 | |
| I confer upon each the degree of master of divinity | 59:31 | |
| as the seal of your high calling to minister | 59:36 | |
| to the religious hopes of men and women | 59:39 | |
| in every condition of life. | 59:42 | |
| May you always know the master and never bow to the tyrant | 59:44 | |
| and may the still small voice of God be in your heart | 59:48 | |
| and in your speech, congratulations. | 59:52 | |
| (audience clapping) | 59:56 | |
| - | Will the candidates for the degrees of juris doctor | 1:00:03 |
| and master of laws, please stand. | 1:00:07 | |
| (audience cheering) | 1:00:11 | |
| - | Mr. President, as you can see, | 1:00:28 |
| there are 149 women and men | 1:00:30 | |
| who have satisfied the requirements | 1:00:33 | |
| for the juris doctor degree, | 1:00:35 | |
| one for the master of law degree, | 1:00:37 | |
| and it is with great pride that I present them to you. | 1:00:39 | |
| - | What about courtroom decorum? | 1:00:45 |
| I confer upon you the degree of juris doctor | 1:00:51 | |
| and one master of laws in recognition, | 1:00:54 | |
| not only of your professional competence | 1:00:57 | |
| for the practice of law, | 1:00:59 | |
| but also your preparation to assume leadership | 1:01:01 | |
| in the highest civil and public responsibilities. | 1:01:06 | |
| Congratulations. | 1:01:10 | |
| (audience clapping) | 1:01:12 | |
| - | Will the candidates for the degree of doctor of medicine, | 1:01:19 |
| please stand. | 1:01:23 | |
| (audience clapping) | 1:01:25 | |
| - | President Sanford, | 1:01:40 |
| the candidates for the degree of doctor of medicine, | 1:01:42 | |
| whose names appear in the official program, | 1:01:46 | |
| have completed all of the requirements of Duke University | 1:01:49 | |
| for that degree. | 1:01:53 | |
| I am honored to present to you these very competent | 1:01:55 | |
| and dedicated young men and women | 1:01:58 | |
| to have that degree conferred upon them. | 1:02:01 | |
| - | I confer upon each of you | 1:02:07 |
| the degree of doctor of medicine | 1:02:10 | |
| in recognition of your thorough training | 1:02:14 | |
| in the science of medicine | 1:02:17 | |
| and your willingness to serve mankind | 1:02:19 | |
| with both dedication and high skill. | 1:02:22 | |
| Congratulations. | 1:02:25 | |
| (audience clapping) | 1:02:27 | |
| - | Will the candidates and recent graduates | 1:02:37 |
| of the degree of doctor of education, please stand. | 1:02:40 | |
| (audience clapping) | 1:02:47 | |
| - | Mr. President, | 1:02:51 |
| the candidates for the degree of doctor of education, | 1:02:53 | |
| whose names appear on our official program | 1:02:55 | |
| and whose work has been in the advanced specializations | 1:02:58 | |
| of education have successfully completed the advanced study, | 1:03:00 | |
| research, and training required by Duke University | 1:03:04 | |
| for the degree of doctor of education. | 1:03:06 | |
| I'm pleased to present them to you, Mr. President, | 1:03:09 | |
| to have that highest degree in professional education | 1:03:11 | |
| conferred upon them. | 1:03:14 | |
| - | I confer upon each of you | 1:03:17 |
| the degree of doctor of education | 1:03:18 | |
| in recognition of your advanced preparation for careers | 1:03:21 | |
| of leadership and creative service | 1:03:24 | |
| in a profession specifically devoted | 1:03:27 | |
| to enriching the lives of people. | 1:03:29 | |
| Congratulations. | 1:03:32 |
| - | Special program that completed the advanced study, | 0:03 |
| the original research and dissertation, | 0:06 | |
| and all of the requirements of Duke University | 0:09 | |
| for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. | 0:11 | |
| It is a very special pleasure, Mr. President, | 0:14 | |
| to present them to you | 0:16 | |
| to have that highest and most honorable degree, | 0:17 | |
| the hallmark of academic excellence conferred upon them. | 0:20 | |
| - | In recognition of your long, rigorous training | 0:26 |
| in a particular field of learning, | 0:29 | |
| and your demonstrated ability | 0:32 | |
| to advance knowledge in that field, | 0:33 | |
| I confer upon each of you the degree of Doctor of Philosophy | 0:36 | |
| and congratulate you | 0:41 | |
| as you join the company of scholars past and present, | 0:42 | |
| long bound together in the search for truth. | 0:46 | |
| Congratulations. | 0:50 | |
| (audience applauding) | 0:51 | |
| In the name of Duke University, | 1:03 | |
| I declare that these persons | 1:06 | |
| to whom degrees have been conferred | 1:08 | |
| are entitled to the rights and privileges | 1:11 | |
| pertaining to their several degrees, | 1:13 | |
| and that their names will be forever born | 1:15 | |
| on the rolls of Duke University. | 1:17 | |
| Congratulations. | 1:20 | |
| (audience applauding and cheering) | 1:21 | |
| I should like to call your attention | 1:31 | |
| to a very special group of scholars. | 1:33 | |
| On the basis of a great expenditure of time and effort | 1:36 | |
| and the possession of unusual talent, | 1:40 | |
| these several individuals have qualified for | 1:42 | |
| and received today | 1:46 | |
| both the Doctor of Medicine and the Doctor of Philosophy. | 1:48 | |
| By virtue of their unusual breadth of training, | 1:51 | |
| they have unique contributions to make | 1:54 | |
| to the biomedical complex | 1:56 | |
| that serves as the base of all healthcare. | 1:58 | |
| We confidently expect them to contribute significantly | 2:02 | |
| to the continuous qualitative improvement | 2:06 | |
| of the scientific base of healthcare in the years ahead. | 2:10 | |
| Would you please stand? | 2:13 | |
| (audience applauding) | 2:16 | |
| Congratulations. | 2:26 | |
| I pay special tribute to those students | 2:28 | |
| of the graduating classes | 2:30 | |
| who have distinguished their careers while at Duke | 2:32 | |
| by achieving honors and special academic awards. | 2:34 | |
| You will see their names and the awards they have earned | 2:38 | |
| near the back of the printed program. | 2:41 | |
| The names on these pages | 2:44 | |
| merit individual attention by all, | 2:45 | |
| and especially by parents and friends and teachers. | 2:48 | |
| We can only say in a collective way | 2:52 | |
| that we recognize these students' achievements | 2:54 | |
| with pride and satisfaction. | 2:57 | |
| They represent in a very tangible way | 3:00 | |
| this university's goal of leadership, | 3:02 | |
| excellence, and creativity in education. | 3:04 | |
| I shall ask them to stand | 3:08 | |
| so that we may show them our regard | 3:10 | |
| for what they have accomplished. | 3:12 | |
| Please stand. | 3:13 | |
| (audience applauding and cheering) | 3:15 | |
| And now, | 3:31 | |
| to those who contributed so much | 3:33 | |
| to the success of this class, | 3:36 | |
| in spiritual encouragement and in worldly goods, | 3:38 | |
| I ask all the parents and those who stand in for parents | 3:43 | |
| of all graduates to please rise. | 3:47 | |
| (audience applauding) | 3:50 | |
| And... | 4:20 | |
| Since Duke students are notoriously dilatory or forgetful, | 4:22 | |
| and probably have forgotten presents, | 4:29 | |
| or even a kind word on this special day, | 4:32 | |
| as their Mother's Day present, | 4:36 | |
| and on behalf of all graduates, | 4:39 | |
| I would like to ask all mothers and grandmothers | 4:41 | |
| and those who stand in for them to please stand. | 4:43 | |
| (audience applauding and cheering) | 4:47 | |
| Mr. President, | 5:14 | |
| it is my pleasure to present to you | 5:16 | |
| the name of chancellor in Ferebee Taylor | 5:18 | |
| who is a candidate for the honorary degree | 5:21 | |
| of Doctors of Laws. | 5:23 | |
| The nomination has been approved by the faculties | 5:25 | |
| and by the board of trustees. | 5:28 | |
| Professor Dellinger will escort the candidate | 5:29 | |
| to the platform. | 5:32 | |
| (audience laughing) | 5:38 | |
| I suppose I read this. | 5:56 | |
| Nelson Ferebee Taylor, distinguished chancellor | 6:03 | |
| of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, | 6:06 | |
| you have set the highest of standards | 6:10 | |
| for all who labor... | 6:12 | |
| (audience laughing) | ||
| for all who labor in the cause | 6:19 | |
| of higher education in America. | 6:20 | |
| You exemplify deep devotion | 6:23 | |
| to the nurturing of excellence in scholarship and teaching, | 6:26 | |
| and you have attained imminent success in that endeavor. | 6:29 | |
| As a native son of North Carolina, | 6:34 | |
| as a graduate of her oldest university, which you now serve, | 6:36 | |
| you demonstrate a commitment | 6:41 | |
| to the great traditional values, | 6:42 | |
| the highest ideals of both your state and your alma mater. | 6:44 | |
| 28 years after your graduation | 6:50 | |
| from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, | 6:52 | |
| you returned to that institution | 6:55 | |
| to offer it your leadership. | 6:57 | |
| The qualities that prepared you so well | 7:00 | |
| for your present duties were developed as an honor student, | 7:02 | |
| a Rhodes Scholar, | 7:06 | |
| during wartime service in the United States Navy, | 7:08 | |
| which awarded you the bronze star, | 7:11 | |
| during the study of law at Harvard University, | 7:13 | |
| and finally, as a member of the New York Bar, | 7:16 | |
| respected for your legal craftsmanship | 7:18 | |
| and your personal rectitude. | 7:21 | |
| The achievements of your seven years at Chapel Hill | 7:23 | |
| are a shining source of inspiration | 7:27 | |
| to all who serve in the academic field. | 7:30 | |
| We, your neighbors here in the Duke Community, | 7:34 | |
| have observed you from up close. | 7:38 | |
| And for us, your example glows even more brightly. | 7:40 | |
| By the authority vested in me, | 7:45 | |
| I confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Laws | 7:46 | |
| and I admit you to its rights, | 7:50 | |
| its privileges and its obligations. | 7:52 | |
| (audience applauding) | 7:56 | |
| (audience applauding) | 8:17 | |
| - | Mr. President, it is my privilege to present to you | 8:27 |
| the name of Perry Como, | 8:31 | |
| who is a candidate for the honorary degree | 8:33 | |
| of Doctor of Humane Letters. | 8:36 | |
| The nomination has been approved by the faculties | 8:39 | |
| and by the board of trustees. | 8:42 | |
| Professor Jay Arena will present the candidate | 8:44 | |
| to the platform. | 8:48 | |
| (audience applauding and cheering) | 8:50 | |
| Very good. | 9:06 | |
| (men chatting indistinctly) | 9:07 | |
| - | Perry Como. | 9:11 |
| (audience applauding and cheering) | 9:13 | |
| As humanitarian, and as entertainer, | 9:21 | |
| you are recognized and held in affection and esteem, | 9:25 | |
| not only in America but throughout the world. | 9:29 | |
| Your following of fans and admirers | 9:33 | |
| is not bound by geographical lines, | 9:35 | |
| nor is your appeal as a man of music | 9:38 | |
| limited in terms of time, | 9:41 | |
| but greater than these is the extent of your caring | 9:44 | |
| for your fellow human being, | 9:47 | |
| and the sharing of your talents | 9:49 | |
| in behalf of suffering humankind. | 9:51 | |
| You have brightened the days of the sick | 9:54 | |
| and the disadvantaged, | 9:57 | |
| hospitalized veterans, the children of the land, | 9:58 | |
| and all of those who wage battles against cancer | 10:01 | |
| and other diseases | 10:04 | |
| can testify to your concern for them, | 10:06 | |
| and your desire to alleviate their pain | 10:09 | |
| and to lift their spirits. | 10:12 | |
| We at the Duke and Durham Communities | 10:15 | |
| have heard your song and have had our hearts gladdened. | 10:17 | |
| You have entertained our students, | 10:21 | |
| faculty, and townspeople with Easter concerts. | 10:23 | |
| You have sung in our chapel, | 10:27 | |
| and you have encouraged our students in music. | 10:29 | |
| We have also heard the song of your life, | 10:33 | |
| and our hearts especially gladdened | 10:36 | |
| by your personal concern and dedicated work | 10:38 | |
| for the children in Duke Hospital. | 10:42 | |
| By using your art as a means of expressing your Goodwill, | 10:45 | |
| you have given unselfishly of yourself over the years. | 10:49 | |
| And so by the authority vested in me, | 10:52 | |
| I confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. | 10:55 | |
| And I admit you to its rights, | 11:00 | |
| its privileges, and its obligations. | 11:01 | |
| (audience applauding) | 11:06 | |
| (audience cheering) | 11:33 | |
| (audience laughing) | 11:37 | |
| - | Mr. President, it's a very real honor | 11:44 |
| and deep pleasure to present to you | 11:49 | |
| the name of Chancellor Lewis Carnegie Dowdy, | 11:52 | |
| for the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. | 11:57 | |
| The nomination has been approved | 12:01 | |
| by the faculties and the board of trustees, | 12:02 | |
| and professor Lawrence Goodwin | 12:06 | |
| will escort the candidate to the platform. | 12:08 | |
| (audience applauding) | 12:12 | |
| - | Lewis Carnegie Dowdy, scholar, educator | 12:29 |
| civic leader in the state of North Carolina for 40 years, | 12:33 | |
| you have risen to national prominence | 12:38 | |
| in American higher education | 12:41 | |
| as president of the National Association | 12:43 | |
| of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. | 12:45 | |
| You brought vigorous and innovative leadership | 12:49 | |
| to the organization that represents 130 public institutions | 12:51 | |
| of higher education across America, | 12:56 | |
| the more than 30% of all college students in the nation. | 12:58 | |
| As a distinguished president of North Carolina | 13:03 | |
| Agricultural and Technical State University | 13:06 | |
| you have served for over a decade | 13:10 | |
| as one of the driving forces for excellence | 13:12 | |
| in mass education within the state of North Carolina. | 13:15 | |
| Unafraid of new ideas and experiment, | 13:19 | |
| you have wrought changes which have served as models | 13:22 | |
| for other colleges and universities | 13:25 | |
| throughout the South and the nation. | 13:28 | |
| Perhaps most important of all, in human terms, | 13:31 | |
| your own personal quest for an education | 13:35 | |
| speaks to all of the young of America | 13:38 | |
| for it was a quest that carried you | 13:41 | |
| from behind a plow mule on a South Carolina farm | 13:43 | |
| to a Bachelor of Arts degree from Allen University in 1939. | 13:47 | |
| And then through many summers of work, | 13:52 | |
| to a Master of Arts Degree | 13:54 | |
| from Indiana State College in 1949, | 13:55 | |
| and to a doctorate in education | 13:59 | |
| from the University of Indiana in 1965, | 14:01 | |
| your remarkable tenacity, | 14:05 | |
| sustained for more than a generation | 14:07 | |
| as you taught the young, raised your own family, | 14:09 | |
| and helped lead North Carolina | 14:13 | |
| through the important and necessary changes of the 1960s, | 14:16 | |
| stands as a convincing testament | 14:22 | |
| to mankind's capacity for, | 14:25 | |
| and commitment to a free and democratic life. | 14:27 | |
| The years that lie ahead | 14:32 | |
| promised the possibility of further change. | 14:34 | |
| And we, in this state in this nation, | 14:36 | |
| are fortunate to have your example, | 14:39 | |
| your experience, and your vision. | 14:42 | |
| Your life and your work provides substance | 14:45 | |
| for the hopes of all people. | 14:47 | |
| And so by the authority vested in me, | 14:49 | |
| I confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Laws | 14:52 | |
| and admit you to its rights, | 14:56 | |
| its privileges, and its obligations. | 14:57 | |
| (audience applauding) | 15:02 | |
| (audience applauding) | 15:20 | |
| - | Mr. President, it is my warm pleasure | 15:27 |
| to present to you and to all of those assembled here, | 15:31 | |
| ambassador George Frost Kennan | 15:36 | |
| as a candidate for the honorary degree | 15:42 | |
| of Doctor of Laws. | 15:46 | |
| Ambassador Kennan's nomination | 15:49 | |
| has been approved by the faculties | 15:52 | |
| through the academic council | 15:55 | |
| and by the board of trustees of Duke University. | 15:57 | |
| I now call on his faculty sponsor, | 16:01 | |
| Professor Orly Rudolph Holstein | 16:04 | |
| to escort to this platform | 16:09 | |
| ambassador George Frost Kennan. | 16:12 | |
| (audience applauding) | 16:16 | |
| - | George Frost Kennan, | 16:35 |
| we honor you today for two distinguished careers. | 16:38 | |
| First, as a diplomat, whose years of service | 16:41 | |
| span some of the most crucial in our nation's history. | 16:44 | |
| And second is a historian | 16:48 | |
| whose writings have done much to illuminate | 16:50 | |
| the challenges and opportunities | 16:52 | |
| arising from America's relations | 16:54 | |
| with friends and adversaries. | 16:56 | |
| Your perceptive diplomatic reports from Moscow | 16:59 | |
| served as the intellectual foundations | 17:02 | |
| for much of American foreign policy after World War II. | 17:05 | |
| As director of the State Department policy planning staff, | 17:09 | |
| you had made your responsibilities | 17:13 | |
| for the creating of the Marshall Plan, | 17:15 | |
| an undertaking that represented the best | 17:18 | |
| in America's global leadership and humane concern. | 17:21 | |
| Since retiring from government service, | 17:26 | |
| your many writings, | 17:28 | |
| unmatched in insight and style, | 17:30 | |
| have placed you among the most thoughtful analysts | 17:33 | |
| of international affairs | 17:37 | |
| in American foreign policy and Soviet-American relations. | 17:39 | |
| Duke University is proud to join the many other institutions | 17:45 | |
| that have recognized your distinguished contributions | 17:48 | |
| to our nation's foreign policy, | 17:51 | |
| and to our clearer understanding | 17:53 | |
| of America's role in the world. | 17:56 | |
| By the authority vested in me, | 17:58 | |
| I confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Laws, | 18:00 | |
| and I admit you to its rights, | 18:03 | |
| its privileges, and its obligations. | 18:04 | |
| (audience applauding) | 18:09 | |
| (audience applauding) | 18:25 | |
| That presentation was by WM Upchurch, | 18:38 | |
| who's been a trustee a long time | 18:41 | |
| and has just made a trustee emeritus. | 18:43 | |
| I think with all that verb and spirit, | 18:46 | |
| maybe we ought to put him on active duty again. | 18:48 | |
| (audience laughing) | 18:50 | |
| (audience applauding) | 18:52 | |
| I call your attention to your program | 18:55 | |
| where you see listed the names of 12 members of the faculty | 18:57 | |
| and administrative staff of the university | 19:00 | |
| who have retired since commencement of 1976, | 19:04 | |
| or are retiring at the end of the present academic year. | 19:08 | |
| Some have reached mandatory retirement age | 19:12 | |
| and others are taking early retirement. | 19:15 | |
| The sum total of their years of service to Duke University | 19:18 | |
| is 336 years. | 19:22 | |
| These retiring members, through their dedication, | 19:25 | |
| contributions as teachers, administrators, | 19:30 | |
| researchers, and practitioners | 19:33 | |
| have shared significantly in the growth of Duke University. | 19:36 | |
| To each, we owe a debt beyond measure. | 19:40 | |
| I counted a privilege to have a part | 19:42 | |
| in recognizing before this assembly | 19:44 | |
| their long careers of distinctive service to our university. | 19:47 | |
| I shall ask those members | 19:52 | |
| of the retiring group who are present | 19:53 | |
| to stand as I call their names | 19:56 | |
| so that you might recognize | 19:59 | |
| that significant service to Duke. | 20:01 | |
| Leon Chaiken, Professor of Forest Management | 20:05 | |
| for 25 years at Duke. | 20:09 | |
| (audience applauding) | 20:11 | |
| Gwendoline Fortune, for 13 years, | 20:22 | |
| Professor of Nursing. | 20:25 | |
| (audience applauding) | 20:27 | |
| Ellen S. Halpert, Professor of Education, | 20:33 | |
| serving Duke for 21 years. | 20:37 | |
| (audience applauding) | 20:39 | |
| L. Siegfried Linda Roth, Professor of Mechanical Engineering | 20:43 | |
| at Duke for 12 years. | 20:48 | |
| (audience applauding) | 20:50 | |
| Harold T. Parker, Professor of History for 38 years. | 20:54 | |
| (audience applauding and cheering) | 20:59 | |
| I was in San Francisco with Professor Parker | 21:37 | |
| one Sunday morning where he had flown all night to arrive. | 21:41 | |
| They had to receive the most significant award | 21:45 | |
| given to a professor | 21:48 | |
| in a Methodist-related college or university, | 21:49 | |
| and he received the award about 10 o'clock | 21:52 | |
| and I said, now you've never been to San Francisco before. | 21:55 | |
| I've got some things I wanna show you. | 21:58 | |
| He said, "Oh no, I have a 12:05 plane home." | 22:00 | |
| And I said, "Cancel it." | 22:04 | |
| "Stay here with me and I'll show you some good times." | 22:05 | |
| (audience laughing) | 22:09 | |
| He said, "Oh no, I've got a Monday morning class." | 22:11 | |
| (audience laughing) | 22:14 | |
| And I think his dedication is legendary. | 22:15 | |
| And I think you've shown him that. | 22:19 | |
| (audience applauding) | 22:21 | |
| Louella Herhane, | 22:32 | |
| Associate Professor of Health Education for 30 years. | 22:34 | |
| (audience applauding) | 22:38 | |
| And James H. Phillips, Professor of Religion for 31 years. | 22:45 | |
| (audience applauding) | 22:50 | |
| Is that all? | 22:56 | |
| The next thing on the program, if you are following it, | 23:07 | |
| and not just fanning with it... | 23:11 | |
| (audience laughing) | 23:13 | |
| Indicates that the president is to deliver a message. | 23:15 | |
| (audience laughing) | 23:21 | |
| Well, I've always felt | 23:23 | |
| when we've come to this part in the program, | 23:24 | |
| like most of your mothers probably felt | 23:26 | |
| when you were coming to Duke in the first place. | 23:30 | |
| As you were leaving in the car, on the bus, or whatever, | 23:33 | |
| she wanted to run after you and say, | 23:36 | |
| "Oh, I've forgotten one or two things," | 23:37 | |
| but she had taken you to the place of leaving home | 23:40 | |
| and coming here. | 23:43 | |
| And I think our faculty and your fellow students | 23:45 | |
| have brought you to the place where you may go now | 23:48 | |
| without any more advice from me. | 23:52 | |
| To put it another way, we've done about all for you we can. | 23:55 | |
| (audience laughing) | 23:59 | |
| I do want to say to you | 24:03 | |
| that I have appreciated the association, | 24:04 | |
| especially the the seniors who are graduating, | 24:08 | |
| who have worked so hard to demonstrate | 24:12 | |
| what I think is the the best of the Duke spirit: | 24:16 | |
| your concern for other people, | 24:19 | |
| your concern for the future of Duke. | 24:22 | |
| And your class particularly has shown that concern | 24:25 | |
| by your work to raise scholarship funds | 24:28 | |
| and to raise funds to assure that | 24:32 | |
| we have a new university center, | 24:35 | |
| and your participation in that has made it a reality. | 24:37 | |
| And it's going to be. | 24:41 | |
| Also, I think you demonstrate a spirit | 24:44 | |
| that's recognized now all over the country, | 24:46 | |
| because this year, in spite of | 24:50 | |
| all other indications around the country, | 24:52 | |
| Duke University had the highest number of applicants | 24:55 | |
| for next year's freshman class | 24:59 | |
| in all the history of Duke University. | 25:01 | |
| (audience applauding) | 25:06 | |
| And the reason for that... | ||
| And the reason for that, I know, | 25:09 | |
| is that you are going home | 25:12 | |
| and talking to high school students, | 25:14 | |
| and telling them, whatever you say to me I know better | 25:17 | |
| because you've been telling 'em | 25:22 | |
| that Duke is a great intellectual place. | 25:24 | |
| (audience laughing) | 25:27 | |
| Witness, you. | 25:28 | |
| (audience laughing) | 25:30 | |
| And you've been letting them know | 25:36 | |
| about your spirit and your feeling about Duke. | 25:38 | |
| And we do appreciate that. | 25:41 | |
| And as Secretary Krepp said, | 25:43 | |
| don't let go of what you had when you came | 25:45 | |
| and what you've gotten. | 25:48 | |
| I hope you'll not let go of that spirit. | 25:49 | |
| And I hope you will not let go | 25:51 | |
| of that love for your university, Duke University. | 25:54 | |
| So go now with the assurance | 25:59 | |
| that Duke has pride in your competence, | 26:01 | |
| your concerns, and your spirit, | 26:04 | |
| and that your Alma mater deeply appreciates, | 26:07 | |
| in every sense of the word, | 26:09 | |
| you and the enrichment you have brought to Duke University | 26:11 | |
| as a student. | 26:16 | |
| Congratulations. | 26:17 | |
| (audience applauding) | 26:19 | |
| - | Let us all stand to sing the alma mater. | 26:29 |
| (audience cheering) | 26:32 | |
| (horns solemnly playing) | 26:36 | |
| ♪ Dear old Duke, thy name we'll sing ♪ | 26:44 | |
| ♪ To thee our voices raise ♪ | 26:50 | |
| ♪ We'll raise ♪ | 26:56 | |
| ♪ To thee our anthems ring ♪ | 26:59 | |
| ♪ In everlasting praise ♪ | 27:06 | |
| ♪ And though on life's broad sea ♪ | 27:13 | |
| ♪ Our fates may far us bear ♪ | 27:20 | |
| ♪ We'll ever turn to thee ♪ | 27:28 | |
| ♪ Our Alma Mater dear ♪ | 27:36 | |
| (audience cheering) | 27:44 | |
| (audience applauding) | 27:47 | |
| (horn solemnly playing) | 27:59 | |
| - | Let us pray. | 28:43 |
| Oh, holy, loving, merciful God. | 28:49 | |
| The time of celebration, of commemoration, | 28:56 | |
| and graduation is ending. | 28:59 | |
| May each of us leave this service and this place | 29:04 | |
| with a clearer sense of what is just and right, | 29:09 | |
| a nobler sense of what is true and pure, | 29:16 | |
| a deeper sense of what is real and lasting. | 29:21 | |
| Help each of us | 29:28 | |
| not only to see the ideal, | 29:31 | |
| but to strive continually for it. | 29:34 | |
| Not only to know the right, | 29:39 | |
| but to seek always to do it. | 29:43 | |
| Not only to recognize our duty, | 29:49 | |
| but to try earnestly to follow it. | 29:53 | |
| Not only to yearn for the truth, | 29:58 | |
| but to search to understand it. | 30:02 | |
| And so we go from this place, oh God, | 30:07 | |
| not knowing what lies ahead | 30:11 | |
| but we rest our weakness in your strength. | 30:17 | |
| Take us and do for us what we cannot do, | 30:22 | |
| and make of us who we cannot be. | 30:26 | |
| But for your grace, | 30:31 | |
| in your loving name, we pray. | 30:34 | |
| Amen. | 30:39 | |
| (marching band joyfully playing) | 30:48 |