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Excerpt from An Address at the Dedication of Pardee Hall, Lafayette College: October 21, 1873
Mr. President, Brethren of the Faculty of Lafayette College, Ladies and Gentlemen: The precise position of the orator on this occasion is not perfectly clear. We are gathered in this edifice, beautiful with all the adornments of art and with the higher beauty of adaptation to the ends for which it is con structed - a palace, the possession of which might make any man proud and which will presently be transferred, we all being witnesses, to the formal charge of those intrusted with its administration in the interest of the great cause that inspired its erection. Until that transfer shall have been made, I sup pose we are in some sense the guests of Mr. Ario Pardee, and perhaps it is a part of my duty to Speak for him in bidding you Welcome on this occasion. But this were unnecessary. The jubilant city below you, these open doors before you, the cordial faces around you, and, most of all, the presence of the generous host himself, have long since bid you heartily wel come. Between him and you no mere interpreter is called to stand. How can words speak for him whose deeds are the best eloquence of this hour? Nor is it necessary that I should speak for you, yet I cannot but attempt a feeble expression of the sentiment whichi know is uppermost in all your minds. When a multitude is filled with one common feeling, the single voice that utters but an echo of it is not unworthy to be heard.
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