10/16/1960
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"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."
"And that is why we intend to work until a college education is available to every young man and woman with the talent to pursue it."