01/21/1962
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"One hundred years ago, Ignace Jan Paderewski was born in the eastern Polish Province of Podolia, a region which was then under Russian control."
"The elephant never forgets but he never learns."
"Thus, today, the university is, in the words of Woodrow Wilson, 'the root of our intellectual life as a nation.'"
"We pledge ourselves to seek a system of higher education where every young American can be educated, not according to his race or his means, but according to his capacity."