Merrimack College - Merrimackan Yearbook (North Andover, MA)

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CHARGE TO THE GRADUATING CLASS President: Having been awarded the degrees which admit you to the roll of graduates of Merrimack College, you are entering this day a worthy company composed of all those everywhere who have enjoyed the privileges and who bear the re- sponsibilities of scholarly culture and training. Your Alma Mater has endeavored by every possible means to inspire you with a love for truth, an awareness of the responsibilities of citizenship and un- faltering loyalty to God. It is right and just at this hour you do publicly declare your purpose and I claim from you, who become Alumni and Alumnae of our College, a pledge which you will repeat after me. Pledge of Loyalty With a Solemn Sense of My Responsibility I Pledge Myself To Hold My Degree as a Sacred Trust, An Emblem of My Obligation to Serve To Hold It with Untarnished Honor to Myself, In Generous Loyalty to Merrimack And With Fidelity to My God, Devotion to My Country, And Charity to My Fellow-Men. President: May the Lord direct you in all your doings, and further you with His Con- tinued help; that in all your works, begun, continued, and ended in Him, you may glorify His Name and obtain everlasting life.