Herbert Hoover actually said...

"I AM SHOCKED to learn of the sudden death of Miss Van Rensselaer."

"His example and the example of your spiritual forebears challenge you who are leaders of this generation to a commensurate share in solving the hardly less difficult problems of our own day."

"An equal courage and boldness in declaring the sound principles of life and government which they helped bequeath to us."

"No institution doing the work this Seminary is doing should be allowed to fail, particularly in times like these."