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Marshall College, of the State of IVest Virginia... ACKNOWLEDGING My obligation to the beneficienr Creator of all men, who has bestowed upon me the blessings of life in a great and prosperous state whose marvelous beauty of mountain, forest, and stream, and whose extraordinary riches of natural resources hourly urge me to higher planes of civic duty and reverent thinking; ACKNOWLEDGING My debt to the race, which has made me heir to a civilization wrought out by centuries of toil and thought and preserved by the bravery of its heroes, the wisdom of its sages and the faith of its saints; ACKNOWLEDGING My debt to this Nation and to this Commonwealth, which, through guardian organization and through open school doors, have jointly made it possible for me to come into the full riches of my natural and my racial inheritances; HERE AND NOW PLEDGE LIFELONG LOYALTY to the shaping ideals of American citizenship: LIBERTY, bounded by law drawn for the common weal, EQUALITY, of opportunity for all. and JUSTICE, administered in accord with the dictates of the common will, lawfully expressed. I HERE AND NOW FURTHER PLEDGE That in all the years to be granted to me and to the fullness of my allotted strength I SHALL SERVE both alone and with my fellows, to the high ends that uncleanness, greed, selfishness and pride shall lessen, that integrity, charity, comradeship and reverence shall in-that this, my generation, shall pass on to the generations to come after it a happier and a nobler civilization. We of the 1951 Chief Justice staff believe the Oath, signed by the graduating seniors of Marshall College each year, must be reaffirmed. Our generation has been prone too emphasize our rights; it is now time that we recognize our responsibilities.
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1 acknowledge my debt to the commonwealth whose whose extraordinary riches of natural Blessed with breathtaking natural beauty, an abundance of natural resources, and a dauntless freedom of spirit, the people west of the Alleghany Mountains established a new state in 1863, born of the confusion of the Civil War. Those early settlers left as a heritage to all West Virginians the motto, Mountaineers Are Always Free.” I
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