Excerpts from the Press Conference
10/02/1934
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But at the same time there is a definite place in American life —an important place—for broad, liberal and non-specialized education.
All of us must honor and encourage those young men and young women whose ambitions lead them to seek specialization in science and in schola...
The improvement of their hard lot—for they exist in every community—is a definite obligation on all of our citizens.
It must remain our constant objective to eliminate the causes of depression and the drags on prosperity.