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The Institute of Education

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and Statesmen of Renown

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in recognition of your

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signal achievement

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in the struggle for the

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defense of democracy

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You are deep interest in the development of culture and education.

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You are inspired advocacy of the liberty of man's mind and spirit.

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You are an airing effort for international understanding and cooperation.

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You resonate stand against the enemies of human decency, dignity and the call.

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You are a man of noble qualities and the first citizen of your nation.

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And in appreciation of your particular concern for the welfare and advancement of the Philippines

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and of your personal friendship for the Philippine people

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who have seen your rise from humble beginnings to the highest majesty of your native land

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and have rejoiced in your health and your life.

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The Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines,

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a unanimous vote of its members upon recommendation of the University President

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and the Committee on Honorary Degrees,

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today confers upon you the degree of Doctor of Law

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with all the honors, rights and privileges,

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as well as the obligations and responsibilities that you appertain.

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In testimony of the Earth, this diploma and its best men of this tradition

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initiate the indictment of the highest rank of honor in the University of the Philippines

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and hereby present it to you on this 16th day of June

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in the year of our Lord the 1960s

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of the Republic of the Philippines, the 14th and of the United States of the Philippines.

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Thank you.

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Mr. President,

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faculty members and staff, students and friends of the Philippine University,

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I express to you my deep and lasting gratitude

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for the honor you give us today.

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I am honored to be bestowed on me today

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the kindness of the University of the Philippines

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in granting me the honorary degree of Doctor of Law

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as a particular personal gift.

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Mr. President,

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if the records of the Philippine University

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were so fortunate as to survive

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the destruction of the late war,

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you will find in your records

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an incident in which another American

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was awarded an honorary degree of the Doctor of Law.

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This was General McArthur.

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As a major, I was a staff officer with him

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and accompanied him to the exercise.

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At that time,

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it could scarcely ever have crossed my mind

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that one day I should be awarded

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the honorary degree of this great university

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and indeed, later as president of my own country,

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to be privileged to carry back to you

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General McArthur's personal greetings

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transmitted to me only three or four days ago

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in Washington.

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He said one of the high moments of my life in the Philippines

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was when I received the honorary doctorate

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of this great university.

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This university stands as a visible monument to a tradition

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which your country and mine share.

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That tradition is

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the right of a citizen to education on the basis of merit.

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When I lived in Manila,

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the university was located in Armeca.

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At that time, the healthy growth of the school

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already required larger facilities

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and the move to Dillaman had begun.

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As one who has experienced the problems

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of an administrator in higher education, Mr. President,

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I congratulate you on the wonderful university which you have here

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and on the strength and vitality of the educational tradition

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which you represent.

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Now, sir, in order to get in perspective

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my own short experience as a president of a great university,

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I trust you will not be offended if I

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tell a story that was told years ago at my expense.

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The story was this.

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That in the university,

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when they found that a man was no longer

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a good professor, they made him a dean.

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But when he was no longer a good dean, they made him president.

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And I hate to my friends to ask,

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the story applied only to me.

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You and all who are associated with you,

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faculty, staff, and students,

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friends and public officials,

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are joined in a noble human endeavor.

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The search for truth,

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the truth in the truth,

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picture of it.

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The preservation of truth.

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For ages ahead.

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In the long future before us,

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command of technical skills, knowledge,

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understanding of the past and a vision of what men can accomplish,

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Integrity in every public trust and in every personal responsibility, faith in ourselves and in our fellows, and in the guiding hand of our Creator.

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All these qualities of mind and of spirit are essential if our accomplishments are to not mask our hopes and our dreams.

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Their possessions far outweigh all physical defects and walls.

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Given them, and a genuine fellowship, a sound partnership with other peoples of like-minded and purpose, every physical life can be filled.

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Every physical resource develops in the fullest measure for our mutual good and the profit of mankind.

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In these days, when an aggressive and strong ideology proclaims a purpose of world domination, the free world cannot afford to neglect its own security.

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Its moral, economic, intellectual, and material strengths.

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But all too often, we measure the place and the power and the prestige of a nation by its numbers and its riches in nature and in goals.

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Population in men and women, of course, is an index to potential status.

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If those men and women are eager in freedom to expand themselves and all their talent, growing in mastery of nature, ever more conscious of their dependence on their fellows,

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always devoted to supporting the prosperity, the dignity, the priceless freedom of their own nation and of all mankind.

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We are so minded, we of the Philippines and the United States, and all of the free world.

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In numbers, we are mightier than all those who are allied against us and those still in bondage under them.

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Let us never for a moment forget this world fact.

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The folk of the earth's people are joined with us in the eternal pursuit of freedom and dignity and justice for every single individual.

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But our chief and most potent asset in the battle for men's minds and their lives is our commitment to the mutual interchange of knowledge and wisdom and culture.

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And our commitment to the mutual interchange of new skills, of our power and machines, of our mastery over nature.

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Speaking, I merely echo a deep-seated conviction expressed by Jose Reza.

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Scholar and writer and scientist, doctor of medicine, leader of men, take this.

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Were he here today in the land he so fervently loved, in the halls of the learning that he pursued all his days,

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none of us could equal him in praise of this university's purpose.

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None of us, I am certain, could hope to reach his heights of inspiration or his exhortation that we use our every muscle, our body, every talent of mind and soul

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towards the golden goal of peace and friendship with freedom among men and their nations.

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Nevertheless, in all humility and in recognition of his greatness in voice and thought, I venture to suggest that the core of his message might be this.

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Filipinos, Americans, forever strengthen your brotherhood.

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Forever grow together in knowledge, in wisdom, in your faith as children of God,

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so endowed by God that you can achieve, under his guiding providence, mastery of the universe for all people's good.