University of Maryland Baltimore Dental School - Mirror Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Every where young Americans have put their hands to the plough and are driving new furrows neath the opening morn with varied purposes. Some to grow more grain for barley feeding and material ease, others merely to show they can drive a deeper and a straighter furrow, others because they realize that it is not well to stand all the day idle while there is work enough, and good work to do; others because their souls are thrilled, as the earth in spring time with the quickened blood of roots, and they too would bring forth abundantly, sowing the great Hereafter in this Now. We the heirs of all the ages must add something to our heritage that the future may say of us as we of whom we inherit. Their crumbling dust is the soil our life fruit grows upon. We are coming to the fore as a nation great in battle, strong in wisdom, of barbarous opulence and it has become our manifest duty to develop some great and characteristic virtues with which to enrich the future. It will not do to be merely wise, strong of hand, and rich of purse. These if they stand alone are but the beginnings of evil and will prove not only our own, but a world ' s curse. We are not braver than other brave people, we are not more polite, we are not more honest or more truthful or more sincere or kind. I wish to God that some virtue, say the virtue of truthfulness, could be known throughout the world as the unfailing mark of the American — the mettle of his pasture. Not to lie in business, not to lie in love, not to lie in religion — to be honest with ones fellowmen, with women, with God. Suppose the rest of mankind would agree that this virtue constituted the characteristic of the American! That would be fame for ages. 20

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