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About University of Oregon monthly. (Eugene, Oregon) 1897-???? | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1908)
,IG 1 UN IVERSITY OF OREGON MONTHLY sentiment of the American people is not behind it all, working deep and earnestly toward the very root of the evil?'“ The-men first to layjfcheir lives,on the'altar of their country to protect her flag from insult, here, too, could they only realise the danger, Would faithfully respond/ So again let go put that old time call of Liberty and Uflion. Hearing, let us?‘s ee,jand seeing; meet the foe. not «vade, we can nM^deny. We dare not extenuate, we dare not palliate, if we valure national existence. When we perish .from the earthy it will be from causes within. “Yet the wilfi^-free;-strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; thes^eds of gdd-like power are in.usW U,” We need fear no .foreign foesp long as we hold fast to1 the principles that were in the hearts o f our fathers when they’founded ¿jarss repub lic, the principles by which our institutions were conceived in purity, our standards of right aild wrong made stainless and high; and our laws held inviolable. Lest we forget, let us as of, old “go to the limpid fountain of unadulterated patriotisih,, and,' performing a solemn lustration, return divested of all sordid, selfish, and sinister impurities,^; and most of all, return with eyfes fdear to see the, right and will strengthened to stand/for 'that righteousness that exalteth a natibn, so that in reality this nation may not perish, but on through the ages "live ‘to fulfill its heaven appointed functions for' mankind. Bert Prescott. ; 'Editor’s N ote: “Mercy That -Condemns”, is the oration deliv ered at Monmouth, Oregon on Friday, March thirteenth, by Bert Prescott. This oration brought to the University for the -first time in nine years, victory in the Intercollegiate Oratorical .-contest^ The author is to be congratulated on the force and depth of his thinking. In a few minor details the, oration here printed differs, slightly from the oration delivered by Mr. Prescott a t ; Mohmbutli; in the main it is-substantially;-similar.
