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FDR: “The survival and the growth of the University through these two centuries are particularly symbolic of the eternal…”

On the recordSeptember 19, 1940
The survival and the growth of the University through these two centuries are particularly symbolic of the eternal strength that is inherent in the American concept of the freedom of human thought and action.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Address at University of Pennsylvania

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