He can make it in but one way; he can return what he owes to his alma mater only by making his alma mater proud of what he does in service rendered to his fellow-men.

I am particularly glad to see such a society as this flourishing as your society has flourished, because the future welfare of our Nation depends upon the way in which we can combine in our men—in our young men—decency and strength.

And one of the things dwelt upon in that sermon was the fact that a man must be clean of mouth as well as clean of life—must show by his words as well as by his actions his fealty to the Almighty if he was to be what we have a right to…

We have good Scriptural authority for the statement that it is not what comes into a man’s mouth but what goes out of it that counts.

I am addressing strong, vigorous men, who are engaged in the active hard work of life; and life to be worth living must be a life of activity and hard work.

I ask you to remember that you can not retain your self-respect if you are loose and foul of tongue, that a man who is to lead a clean and honorable life must inevitably suffer if his speech likewise is not clean and honorable.

I do not want to see Christianity professed only by weaklings; I want to see it a moving spirit among men of strength.

I do not expect you to lose one particle of your strength or courage by being decent.

Oh, how often you see some young fellow who boasts that he is going to “see life,” meaning by that that he is going to see that part of life which it is a thousandfold better should remain unseen!

I ask that every man here constitute himself his brother’s keeper by setting an example to that younger brother which will prevent him from getting such a false estimate of life.

If any one of you in the presence of younger boys, and especially the younger people of your own family, misbehave yourself, if you use coarse and blasphemous language before them, you can be sure that these younger people will follow your…

You must feel that the most effective way in which you can preach is by your practice.

I have told you that I wanted you not only to be decent, but to be strong.

They admire those who have the quality of being brave, the quality of facing life as life should be faced, the quality that must stand at the root of good citizenship in peace or in war.

If you are to be effective as good Christians you must possess strength and courage, or your example will count for little with the young, who admire strength and courage.

I want to see you, the men of the Holy Name Society, you who embody the qualities which the younger people admire, by your example give those young people the tendency, the trend, in the right direction; and remember that this example…

I want to see every man able to hold his own with the strong, and also ashamed to oppress the weak.

I want to see each young fellow able to do a man’s work in the world, and of a type which will not permit imposition to be practiced upon him.

I want to see him too strong of spirit to submit to wrong, and, on the other hand, ashamed to do wrong to others.

I want to see each man able to hold his own in the rough work of actual life outside, and also, when he is at home, a good man, unselfish in dealing with wife, or mother, or children.

Remember that the preaching does not count if it is not backed up by practice.

I do not praise you for being brave; that is expected.

But in addition you must know how to use to the utmost advantage the gear and the weapons.

You must know how to fight as well as know how to die; only thus can you become the most efficient fighting force in the world.

Every man aboard the Olympia must feel that on him rests a double duty, to see to it that the ship’s name shall be for evermore a symbol of victory and of glory to all the people of our country.