11/10/1953
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"And long may this library here stand and serve the needs of Defiance College."
"This community and this College have a deeper significance than anything done or any words that can be spoken here this noon."
"What value dollars, or acclaim, or position in a world where justice and opportunity and freedom are lost to us by force, by subversion, or by our own neglect?"
"They were explorers and trappers and missionaries, traders, and farmers, and teachers, diggers of waterways and skilled operators of an industrial empire."