Herbert Hoover actually said...

the following described tract of public land, property of the United States, in the Philippine Islands, is hereby reserved and set apart for...

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

The inscription in the hall below calls this 'A Living Memorial.'

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...