Herbert Hoover actually said...

The small college is irreplaceable in many of the services it renders and the inspiration it gives.

No better memorial can be built to the American women of the World War--and no truer inspiration given to the women of today.

May they ever see in this memorial a token of the honor and affection in which their country holds them.

I warmly commend the effort to maintain these institutions, which have played and should still play so large a part in the development of le...