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The Institute of Education and Statesmen of Renown in recognition of your signal achievement in the struggle for the defense of democracy You are deep interest in the development of culture and education.
You are inspired advocacy of the liberty of man's mind and spirit.
You are an airing effort for international understanding and cooperation.
You resonate stand against the enemies of human decency, dignity and the call.
You are a man of noble qualities and the first citizen of your nation.
And in appreciation of your particular concern for the welfare and advancement of the Philippines and of your personal friendship for the Philippine people who have seen your rise from humble beginnings to the highest majesty of your native land and have rejoiced in your health and your life.
The Board of Regents of the University of the Philippines, a unanimous vote of its members upon recommendation of the University President and the Committee on Honorary Degrees, today confers upon you the degree of Doctor of Law with all the honors, rights and privileges, as well as the obligations and responsibilities that you appertain.
In testimony of the Earth, this diploma and its best men of this tradition initiate the indictment of the highest rank of honor in the University of the Philippines and hereby present it to you on this 16th day of June in the year of our Lord the 1960s of the Republic of the Philippines, the 14th and of the United States of the Philippines.
Thank you.
Mr.
President, faculty members and staff, students and friends of the Philippine University, I express to you my deep and lasting gratitude for the honor you give us today.
I am honored to be bestowed on me today the kindness of the University of the Philippines in granting me the honorary degree of Doctor of Law as a particular personal gift.
Mr.
President, if the records of the Philippine University were so fortunate as to survive the destruction of the late war, you will find in your records an incident in which another American was awarded an honorary degree of the Doctor of Law.
This was General McArthur.
As a major, I was a staff officer with him and accompanied him to the exercise.
At that time, it could scarcely ever have crossed my mind that one day I should be awarded the honorary degree of this great university and indeed, later as president of my own country, to be privileged to carry back to you General McArthur's personal greetings transmitted to me only three or four days ago in Washington.
He said one of the high moments of my life in the Philippines was when I received the honorary doctorate of this great university.
This university stands as a visible monument to a tradition which your country and mine share.
That tradition is the right of a citizen to education on the basis of merit.
When I lived in Manila, the university was located in Armeca.
At that time, the healthy growth of the school already required larger facilities and the move to Dillaman had begun.
As one who has experienced the problems of an administrator in higher education, Mr.
President, I congratulate you on the wonderful university which you have here and on the strength and vitality of the educational tradition which you represent.
Now, sir, in order to get in perspective my own short experience as a president of a great university, I trust you will not be offended if I tell a story that was told years ago at my expense.
The story was this.
That in the university, when they found that a man was no longer a good professor, they made him a dean.
But when he was no longer a good dean, they made him president.
And I hate to my friends to ask, the story applied only to me.
You and all who are associated with you, faculty, staff, and students, friends and public officials, are joined in a noble human endeavor.
The search for truth, the truth in the truth, picture of it.
The preservation of truth.
For ages ahead.
In the long future before us, command of technical skills, knowledge, understanding of the past and a vision of what men can accomplish, 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.
All these qualities of mind and of spirit are essential if our accomplishments are to not mask our hopes and our dreams.
Their possessions far outweigh all physical defects and walls.
Given them, and a genuine fellowship, a sound partnership with other peoples of like -minded and purpose, every physical life can be filled.
Every physical resource develops in the fullest measure for our mutual good and the profit of mankind.
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.
Its moral, economic, intellectual, and material strengths.
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.
Population in men and women, of course, is an index to potential status.
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, always devoted to supporting the prosperity, the dignity, the priceless freedom of their own nation and of all mankind.
We are so minded, we of the Philippines and the United States, and all of the free world.
In numbers, we are mightier than all those who are allied against us and those still in bondage under them.
Let us never for a moment forget this world fact.
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.
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.
And our commitment to the mutual interchange of new skills, of our power and machines, of our mastery over nature.
Speaking, I merely echo a deep -seated conviction expressed by Jose Reza.
Scholar and writer and scientist, doctor of medicine, leader of men, take this.
Were he here today in the land he so fervently loved, in the halls of the learning that he pursued all his days, none of us could equal him in praise of this university's purpose.
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 towards the golden goal of peace and friendship with freedom among men and their nations.
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.
Filipinos, Americans, forever strengthen your brotherhood.
Forever grow together in knowledge, in wisdom, in your faith as children of God, so endowed by God that you can achieve, under his guiding providence, mastery of the universe for all people's good.
