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The Commencement Address of MR. FRANK R. AHLGREN University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Ark. June 3, 1950 I AM SURE that the patience and tolerance of this assembly will permit me to discuss matters that give me great concern. As poorly as I may state them, they should, nevertheless, give this group pause since this is, I believe and hope, the greatest number of students that this university will know as veterans of total war. One of the things about the University that made its imprint on me many years ago is em- bodied in a paragraph from the introduction to an annual report by your president Dr. Jones last No- vember. Wrote Dr. Jones: “We all---educators, state officials and private citizens alike---have a great responsibility in a pro- gram of higher education for the youth of Arkansas. No one individual, or a single group of individuals, can do the job alone. It is a task for all of us-- a task which can be accomplished only by co-opera- tion.” How well that sums up any undertaking that we, as a democratic people, might contemplate. We must project that to the end of worldwide co-opera- tion by all freedom-loving peoples, without haste but without ceasing, to the ultimate achievement of peace restored to the world. It need not be grim. We need not approach it with too much misgiving. After all, we are the greatest nation yet permitted on this earth in phys- ical resources, in ingenuity and in, as my...

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