09/05/1919
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"We have been watchful of your heroic struggle and of your heroic suffering."
"I was saying a little while ago at the monument to Columbus that he did a great thing, greater even than was realized at the time it was done."
"I feel that I am privileged to come into contact with you."
"It is delightful to me to feel that I am taking some small part in accomplishing the realization of the ideals to which his life and thought were devoted."