"Challenging is the note of freedom that still rings out from the Harvard Yard, into a world by no means so eager to hear it as a century ago. The University is a school of liberty as well as of learning; and events of the last few years have driven home the lesson that only in an atmosphere of liberty, and in a body politic that practises as well as preaches democracy, can learning flourish. Standing on the threshold of her fourth century, the University asks of the State, freedom; of her sons, loyalty; of God, grace that she may be saved from the besetting sin of pride, wisdom to do his will, and power "to advance Learning, and perpetuate it to Posterity.""
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Samuel Eliot Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard (1936), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, seventh printing (1965), p. 489
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