It is in great universities like this that the ideas which can assure our national safety and make tomorrows history, are being forged and shaped. Civilization owes most to the men and women, known and unknown, whose free, inquiring minds and restless intellects could not be subdued by the power of tyranny.
This is no time for any man to withdraw into some ivory tower and proclaim the right to hold himself aloof from the problems and the agonies of his society. The times call for bold belief that the world can be changed by mans endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better. No man can sever the bonds that unite him to his society simply by averting his eyes. He must ever be receptive and sensitive to the new; and have sufficient courage and skill to face novel facts and to deal with them.
We may find in that sense of prupose, the personal peace, not of repose, but of effort, the keen satisfaction of doing, the deep feeling of achievement for something far beyond ourselves, the knowledge that we build more gloriously than we know.
morality n.1.道德 2.德行,品行 3.道德观,道德规范
eternal a.1.永久的,永世的 2.无休止的,没完没了的 3.永恒的,永不改变的
immortal a.1.长生的,不死的 2.不朽的,流芳百世的 n.不朽人物 transient a.1.短暂的 2.临时的,暂住的
perpetual a.1.永久的,永恒的 2.无休止的
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