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if historic foundations and deathless traditions count for anything. No one will deny that they do. Nor is all this a matter of bare historical facts alone. Over and above the facts, there is the spirit of the facts to be reckoned with, the French spirit, the French inspiration, as it acted on the minds and in the hearts of the founders of Notre Dame. Why did they come here? France sent them; and France sent them here. Can we imagine this Notre Dame of ours in Massachusetts? That was not the soil for it. This was. This was once French soil. The stamp of France is on it forever. The air we breathe is impregnated with the breath of the soul of France. And the soul of France is that Notre Dame whose name her sons perpetuated here in the Notre Dame of America. Once, in Notre Dame de Paris, I saw a memorable sight — all the Cardinals of France, all the Bishops, scores of priests, thousands of people, gathered around the Shrine of Our Lady to celebrate the coming of peace. The great organ thundered; the vaulted shadows trembled with the choral of hundreds of voices; silver trumpets blew a blast of heart-piercing, rejoic ing music; and over all, twined together on every pillar, the Tricolor and the Stars and Stripes floated in the shaken air. France and America wor ' shipped together — and my American heart stood still in the thrilling beauty of it all. Now, every June, when our graduates march slowly up the aisle, here in our Notre Dame, carrying Old Glory to the altar to be blessed, that feel ' ing surges through me again. Commingled and fused into one emotion, all that our Notre Dame means, all that the ancient Notre Dame of Paris means, comes over me: centre of the best that man ' s mind and heart can conceive; centre of worship, centre of learning, centre of patriotism; and at that moment I say, as I say often other times, Thank God for our traditions! Thank God for these traditions of Notre Dame, that make our University Church, our campus, our school, the home we live in during our college years, and all its environment, American in the highest and truest sense; historically American, because it is founded in the bedrock of our country ' s beginnings; spiritually American, because it was conceived and born of spiritual adventure — that basic force from which American life has sprung — the same force which animated and sustained the souls of those who built the first Notre Dame on the banks of the. Seine nearly a thousand years ago. CHARLES PHILLIPS
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