"And you, men and women, who have had the advantages of a college training are not to be excused if you fail to do not as well as, but if you fail to do more than the average man outside who has not ha..."
"It would be hard to overestimate the amount of good work done by the Young Men's Christian Associations and the Young Women's Christian Associations."
"The more efficient a man is the more dangerous he is if that efficiency is not guided by the proper type of spirit, by the proper sense of moral responsibility."
"I want you to play hard without encroaching on your work."
"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions in mankind."
"It is a fine thing to have before a body of students men who by their practice have rendered it unnecessary that they should preach"
"With decency there must go the power practically to apply it in life, practically to work it out, and to work it out for the benefit of others as well as for one's self."
"I want to see you play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all."
"To pin those cards up there is as much out of place as if you tacked so many tin cans up there."
"I want to thank you very much for your courtesy in receiving me."
"I am, oh, so glad to be here."
"Where the individuals and associations of individuals cannot preserve them, the State, and, if necessary, the nation, should step in and see to their preservation."
"Cut down one of these giants and you cannot fill its place."
"We should keep the trees as we should keep great stretches of the wildernesses as a heritage for our children and our children's children."
"It is a very great pleasure to be here."
"I do hope that it will be your object to preserve them as nature made them and left them, for the future."
"We must go on with the task as we have begun it."
"I have enjoyed every hour I have been in your beautiful and wonderful State."
