I CONGRATULATE you most cordially upon the seventy-fifth anniversary of Lincoln University and wish you and all who have part in its labors all success in the future development of its splendid service in behalf of education and of the improvement of the condition of the negro and of his relations with the other races.

I am sorry that I cannot be present in person, but I shall be present in spirit to share with you in paying respects and honor to my old friend and great servant of the University, Professor Arthur Martin Cathcart on the completion of his twenty-five years as teacher of law at Stanford University.

The increasingly complex structure of the society requires more and more of the technical skill and of the cultural background that the colleges undertake to provide.

As politics is but one aspect of the social order, its need of men of special educational equipment is as obvious as this need is now in business or the professions.

Additional thousands of farm boys and girls may be given greater opportunities for development and achievement.

The standards of living have been raised, a splendid educational system established, the fundamental rights of the people preserved.

A new importance is attaching to the cause of education.

I shall be glad that I shall not have any property to leave to my boys, of whom I have two, but only a good character and a pride in themselves and a good education; but for my daughter I am going to scrape together as much as I can give her and as good an education as I can so that she shall take in the lesson which I first sought to announce as the text of my discourse, that she marry only when she chooses to marry and not because of circumstances.

I know it is generally supposed that those who inherit wealth are in the best situation for a future happy life—I mean in this world—but I venture to think that the best legacy that can be left to a young man is a good education and a good character.

All churches and buildings devoted to religious worship and to the arts and sciences, all schoolhouses, are, so far as possible, to be protected.