Excerpt from Washington and the Higher Education: An Address Delivered Before Cornell University, February 22, 1888
Ladies and Gentlemen;-
In our national calendar there are three days of the secular year that have been formally withdrawn from the contentions of politics and the turmoil of traffic, in order that the people may fittingly celebrate certain great facts and principles that are believed to have exerted a transcendent influence on the welfare of American society. One of these days belongs to Christendom; one of them is the birthday of the nation; one of them is the birthday of him who has been enshrined in the national heart as the Father of his Country. The nation that lives well, holds in sacred remembrance the best things in its history; therefore it is fitting that the people everywhere should come together on these festal days in order to revive their recollections, and keep alive and aglow the fires on the altars of patriotism.
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