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Hear our prayers, oh Lord, for this and every college. in our land. Senor sir to help us understand what And to strengthen us to do what we have understood. That we may become men, the fragments of whose words and lives are gathered by you into sensible

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wholeness. We confess the conflicts in which we are engaged. And acknowledge that the reasons are not always clear and our response is often confused. We pray not so much that the conflict cease. But for the wisdom to discern the issues that are really involved. The will

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to learn the facts. And the courage to decide where we stand. With gratitude that we have come this far. We pray also for your help in the time to come. That our lives may Richness of the world. He set against its meanness. And to the fullest

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measure of our gifts. Contribute to the life and freedom of men. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. 1. Quad bonum falsum que te et repoche literaria bene vertat the leg to santekrita sociottais jeu Boni. Drea a professorreolara and Seurus salute andrea. Ilodapo polizioregenes veterri concertini invaloit

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but qui doctrine laude recent post to your momentum curriculum solemni eitio aero. la. Quad insigne decus derique provendi ajamentum ne hut no stro sante cruciociparri Jesus verboni coegio de esa sapientire pugliche Massachusetts census concioet aeratecaome. Suareznaviparai. Foxoque Piclo aquaparrepiencia tradiquese no nobi probavere. A alum baccalauriatumaucient

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magistratum. Awe adepta euroomia etrevileia deannius satabulius etrite adeptum no gratulamo. Siena ao insuumus literary kleti sigillonasatwe manufamati. Watamariti Kalatique Honori sham leggentibus speedum 5 p.m. GA chemo, and you. Anomallaal nonal septualo. Josefa Robertase sociotarijo dean. Joanna Erez Brooks Sochi Parajo Freche. The following candidates are presented

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for degree Bachelor of Arts honors. Stanley John Aamme Doma cum laude. Paul Anthony Bockowitz. Magna cum laude. Joseph Anthony Bergentino. James Gregory Boulo Junior. Magna cum laude. Joseph John Bruce. Joseph Paul Burke Junior. John Felix Cambria summa cum laude. Richard Paul Cambria magna cum laude. Gary

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Richard Caputo Martin. The following candidates are presented the degree Master of Science. Mark Jerome Chatelain. Esteemed faculty, parents, alumni, graduates of the class of 1973, and friends. In Thomas Mann's 1924 masterpiece The Magic Mountain, the hero Hans Kostork arrives at a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium to pay

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a brief visit to his ill cousin. She has only been there a few days when he remarked. I shall never cease to find it strange that the time seems to go so slowly in a new place. Of course it isn't a question of my being bored.

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On the contrary, I might say that I am royally entertained, but when I look back in retrospect, that is, you understand, it seems an eternity back to the time when I arrived that has nothing whatever to do with reason or with the ordinary ways of measuring

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time. It is purely a matter of feeling. However, Kastork later discovers that he too is stricken with the disease. As a result, his short stay becomes 7 years. Consequently, Castro's sense of time is diminished, quote. Not only dazed and dizzy but flighty and lightheaded. Incap Distinguishing

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between now and then. And prone to mingle these together in a timeless eternity. It is quite conceivable that many of us graduates are presently occupied with similar thoughts concerning our sojourn, if it can be called that, at Holy Cross. When we first arrived in the fall

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of '69, the first week or two seemed interminable, not because of mere boredom, but for just the opposite reason, the veritable plethora of activities. However, as we glance back upon the last few years, we realize how relatively speedily they have passed. Almost all of us can

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remember something of what we did on that day in September 3 years and 9 months ago, but what about November 16, 1971, for example? But why then we ask ourselves this dulling of our sense of time. Is it the wearing off of a novelty, the transition

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from our preliminary superficial activities as freshmen to supposedly deeper and more significant concerns as upperclassmen. The relative placidity of these last few years compared with the disturbances of the first. The answer I believe is related to all of these. Transpired is rather obvious. We have unconsciously

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come to accept life at Holy Cross as an as an integral part of our existence, as a new reality. Just as Hans Kastort bit by bit accustomed himself to the carefree wasteful life at the Berghof. So we have gradually immersed ourselves in the so-called academic environment.

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History and literature are replete with cases of individuals or groups placed. involuntarily. Or gradually into new situations, new modes of existence. Consider for example the Israelites in Egypt, Gulliver in his travels, the blacks in the urban ghettos, Etheran in Catch 22, the Jesuit novice. The list

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is endless. Man's adaptive instinct allows him to feel in time at home in new surroundings. Gradually less attention is allotted to the circumstances around us as our habituation proceeds. Hence our sense of time's passage is altered. We must realize that by adapting, man gains the knowledge

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from the experience. Different facets of his existence of his universe are revealed to him. The matter at hand then with which we are primarily concerned today is not whether we have benefited from 4 years on the hill, but to what extent we have benefited. It would

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be foolish, of course, to assume that this question can be answered once for all seniors, but let us at least attempt a gross generalization or two. Our class, being one of the most talented in recent history, has profited academically, although some may wryly extend our analogy

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with the magic mountain, noting the patient's seeming inability to recuperate quickly, coinciding with the constantly increasing income of the sanatorium. As far as the social, religious, and other facets of our life are concerned, it is perhaps less accurate and useful to generalize, since these frequently depend

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on individual personalities and psyches. It would probably be much safer to approach the problem from the other direction. And attempt to discern what Holy Cross has intended for us. an imaginary poll taken among the students, faculty, and administration of this college would undoubtedly reveal a wide

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variety of opinions on this subject. Someone maintained that this institution still attempts to instill within the student a Christian love for his fellow man and for the quest for knowledge with the intention of rounding off his education for the greater glory of God. Some For many

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pre-medical and pre-law students would argue that Holy Cross's primary goal is preparing a person vocationally for the future. Some would adopt a somewhat neutral attitude and insists that Holy Cross's purpose must be defined by the individual student. In other words, the college merely provides the raw

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materials from which a person must choose in order to receive a complete education. But why this confused assortment of ideas? The reason is simple. Holy Cross itself does not adhere to any particular philosophy of education. Certainly 20 years ago, Holy Cross had a lucid idea of

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where it was, where it had been, as well as its immediate future. But subsequent events, both external and internal, have given it reason to question its raison d'etre. The war in Southeast Asia and its effect upon youth. Use of drugs, loosened sexual mores, and so forth

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have affected campuses throughout the nation, coercing them into an often painful transition state. Holy Cross has been influenced by these factors as well. Yet I occasionally wonder whether certain factions at Holy Cross would like to admit this to themselves. Just as World War One with a

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distant mental mirage to the residents of the Magic Mountain, so Holy Cross seems to be trying to resist the present and the future and cling to its past image. I'm not referring specifically to superficial anachronisms such as a somewhat archaic system of courses and credits, a

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predominantly conservative and perhaps reactionary administration, or the seeming lack of upper level interest in relatively novel fields such as music and the Russian language. To arrive, nor do I wish to discredit such notable advances, hesitant to arrive though they may have been, as a four course,

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no core requirement system, coeducation and the experimental studies program. Alluding to is the underlying principle, the inner dice of the college. What was once and still is labeled a Jesuit liberal arts college has actually passed through a transitory phase into purposeless stagnancy. Although the old goals

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were questioned and deemed outmoded, no new or revised aims have appeared. Certainly that old label Jesuit liberal arts college is capable of its extreme flexibility, but no one individual or group has yet come forth with a suitable reconciliation of that cliche with the present. What we

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have noticed instead is the insistence of many active and concerned parties on wasting their energies on a myriad of relatively unimportant activities. Consider for example, the amount of time spent on restricting and amending inter-house Congress Chairman or perhaps I should say chairperson campaign practices. Or the

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time which must have been expended on constructing the rigid and somewhat bureaucratic system of academic policy presently in use of which we seniors, particularly that handful of us unable to join us here, have been constantly reminded. It seems that an objective examination of the college as

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a whole has not yet been attempted. Perhaps many believe that Holy Cross has attained an equilibrium. It is an unstable one at best though, for we seniors, including myself, have seen much dissatisfaction with the present state of Holy Cross from several viewpoints. Faculty, students, as well

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as the so-called real world. the situation is truly akin to that of the patients at the Berghoff. People who are too selfishly concerned with minor elements of survival and too closely attached to their own surroundings to be capable of evaluating it as a complete entity. Thus

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we are left with the problem of defining the Holy Cross as it ought to be today. An adequate solution requires much more time and effort than is available to us at this time, but there are 3 virtually mandatory results of any satisfactory solution. First of all,

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Holy Cross must develop a closer link with the reality of the outer world. I mentioned earlier that with our arrival at Holy Cross, a process of adaptation to an unfamiliar and relatively isolated existence commenced. However, upon graduation, the majority of us must to some extent recondition

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ourselves when we reenter normal society and might now quite unlike that of 4 years ago due to our own heightened experience and maturation. Our favorite analogy can be extended further to this situation. After 7 years at the Bergh, Hans Kasdorp suddenly decides from an intermingling of

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ennui and a desire to rejoin a truly alive and active world to enter World War 1. At this point, the novel concludes. However, our lives are facing the beginning of a fresh chapter. If the transition involved here is overly drastic, adaptation can be exceedingly difficult. It

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is not a simple matter to arrive at a means of avoiding this problem, although several concepts such as the junior year abroad program, the advent of coeducation, and the work study program have provided a start. Caution must be exercised, however, That Holy Cross does not proceed

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too far in this direction. For it is important that these 4 years nevertheless possess a separate meaning from the remainder of our lives for the reasons noted previously. The second concern of such a solution is that the individual student be able to adjust the academic, social,

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cultural, and religious facets of education at Holy Cross, a term rather vague out of context, to his own specifications. Here the innately diverse interpretations of the cliche Jesuit liberal arts college should make their presence felt. Few would doubt though that 30 years ago such liberties were

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impossible. The general necessity of a flexible interpretation of reality is emphatically stated by Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. You think that reality is something fixed, something definite, and you feel as though you were being cheated if someone comes along and shows you that it was all an

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illusion on your part. Everyone must build a foundation for himself under his own feet. Bit by bit, step by step. to a You must pick aside a reality that does not belong to you. That you have not made it for yourself but you. parasite. The third

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facet closely intertwined. to a certain degree opposed to the first two is one which manages to escape precise definitions. Holy Cross must manage to preserve its tradition. Unfortunately, not only is this ideal a partial contradiction of the above two results, but it is also the ideal

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over which we can exercise the least control. The heart of this tradition is the underlying spirit to which I alluded earlier. Paradoxically this indeterminate and vague moiety is dependent in the very nature of an abstraction upon more or less concrete entities. Holy Cross's history, its well

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known and not so well known graduates. Its present students, its past philosophies, even its architecture. Since this quality is the very essence of the Holy Cross, we cannot afford to lose it. Otherwise, what will? College in a lifeless anemic state, a state found all too frequently

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elsewhere. Perhaps the best or at least the most appropriate conclusion to this address would be the final paragraph of Mo's The Magic Mountain. True, the high-mindedness and drawn out emotion implicit in this excerpt are obviously more characteristic of the end of a 700 page German novel

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than a mere 4 years in college, but perhaps a touch of unabashed anachronistic sentiment is needed in this turbulent, emotion-drained world. Although the second person references are to Hans Kasdorp, they apply equally well, if somewhat exaggeratedly, to the modern graduate. And if you live or die,

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your prospects are poor. The desperate dance in which your fortunes are caught up will last. Sinful year we should not care to set a high stake on your life by the time it ends. We even confess that it is without that we leave the question open.

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Adventures of the flesh and in the spirit while enhancing your simplicity granted you. Spirit, what in the flesh you scarcely could have done. moment Out of death and the rebellion of the flesh. That came to you as you took stock of yourself. of love Out of

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the of death. to a fire. See that love one day shall mount. Thank you. Tangible testimonials that a college can bestow upon those whose achievements and persons he sums. In this her 130 Of educational service to church and

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country. The College of the Holy Cross is happy to honor thus the following candidates for the degrees and Horis Causa. Thomas Doja. You have told us that faithfulness through Jesus. To write and preach the good news in Memphis. And everywhere we have felt the penetrating depth

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of your methods. And realize the consequences for ourselves if we are to respond with. The face of torpid acquiescence to the hot violence. war. You have roused us anew to the task of discipleship to make peace. In the vortex of the cold violence of racism, poverty,

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discrimination, and exploitation. Named our sins of structural and individual injustice. With prophetic insight and insistence. for a new order, a new structure. A new life And you urge us with a holy unrest to make haste and choose life. And justice, you cry until the Lord comes.

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With gratitude for the integrity of your ministry and the challenge of your faithful witness. The College of the Holy Cross honors her best traditions in conferring upon you, one of her sons, the degree Doctor of Letters. Hm.

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Your life and your love. And so law school. Fine force in the development of excellent legal talent, including a present member of the Supreme Court. Judge for the United States. Appeals at a time when basic freedoms of expression were threatened with eclipse. You would of lesser

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men and won the confidence and confirmation of the Senate. Your scholarly research, Luther. A sense of fairness as judge in the United States. old. was one of the nation's best. Constitute today a library of authority in a diversity of areas ranging from. Stop all to happen.

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of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals as chief judge in a period of explosive growth in its caseload. You insisted that the poet's authority ultimately depended upon the public's perception of impartiality rather than upon precipitate efficiency. In your learned responsibility to the law, your clear explication,

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your humane sense of fairness in exercising judgment. You have Lived and loved the law. And the College of the Holy Cross is today gratified to enroll you among her sons in conferring upon you the degree Doctor of Love. Jacob

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Hayat There is a work which destroys. would say. You have long directed your talents and your energies to all that stays. To those who support life and defend it. To those who know the highest state of art and enrich it. To those who as

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their hearts are able, move toward the truth and out of the shadows of fear. Worcester, a city of 250 years, has long recognized in you a. Its economic renewal who enriches its museums and antiquities. Who has generously fostered the growth of its institutions of higher learning.

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As the modern nation of Israel celebrates its 25th year, we must likewise acclaim your tireless efforts both at home in the many philanthropies of the Jewish community and. Itself where you and your devoted wife are the revered founders and patrons of the Jacob and Francis Hyatt

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Institute. In the Talmud we read that when a man is led for judgment, he is asked. Did you fix a time for learning? Man is not asked how much he knows, but how much he learns. Because you have made possible a time for learning for so

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many against the day of judgment. The College of the Holy Cross is honored to confer. Degree, Doctor of Humanities. In absentia. Accomplishments without venture win no praise among men nor in hollow ships. The splendor of toil is remembered of many. In the tradition

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of Harriet Boyd Hawes of Smith College. Whose work at Gora inscribed her name. The history of the archaeology of truths, Phyllis Williams Lehman will be remembered as long as the tradition of kindreds Samothrace endures. The modern archaeologist and historian of art. If he is to journey

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successfully into the past, must command a wisdom and technology comparable to that of the astronaut as he blazes a trail to the future. Like Orpheus, Jason, and the Argonauts. to the land of Electra, home of the Megaloikoi, the great gods of whose awesome mysteries the Greek

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poet was forbidden to speak. With enthusiasm and skill, you've devoted a full life to the recovery and understanding of important chapters in the buried records of man's past. Archaeologist and historian, writer, teacher and administrator. You are a distinguished and creative citizen of the International Commonwealth of

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Scholars. The College of the Holy Cross, sharing your conviction that the heritage of the past is a precious tamer. a treasure for the ages, celebrates your achievements and confers upon you the degree Doctor of Fine Arts. Louis Banvill Warren. The

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American challenge confronts Western Europe today and the multinational corporations. National pride can impair the perception of a technological and management gap. And failed to realize the vigor furnished by the accession of new techniques and new ideas. Your expertise in the commercial law of the Western European

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countries. Each with its proper tradition and ambience has provided a challenge to vigorous growth, not fruitless steel. You have conferred creative strength abroad. at home. Beyond these achievements, your success in forging social and cultural bonds as well, especially between France and Britain and the United States.

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I witnessed by the high honors recently accorded you by these nations. In recognition, therefore of your personal dedication to the service of men of every. And conditions, the College of the Holy Cross acclaims you truly a man for all nations whose learning and labors have given

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you hope and high purpose to many hearts. And is proud to confer upon you the degree, Doctor of Laws. I Dear friends, I must confess that in the course of the last brilliant hour on this platform, I've been undergoing a profound identity crisis.

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It's quite clear what Holy Cross does with People of distinction and divinity. And letters. But what does one do with a token felon? Quite plainly, one is not And quite almost as plainly one is practically worthy of dishonor. I decided, however, to go ahead. Some kind

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of perilous to. And self understanding in order to say in some merciful, brief, and clumsy way. What the day means to me. My reflections are tempered by the crowding events of the last week. More nearly to the fate of my brother Philip and myself. views that

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the advanced Of the Watergate 81 At the federal facilities. Take care. You remember that our. has always been an ad. One is stricken with silence for the implications of what you. Back when they come back. Meantime, my brother and I wish to play. But having undergone

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the extraordinary. Of a federal scholarship in the same institution. We wish now to lend our service. your brothers Well first of all, we see that honor for ourselves and now find them. Prudence, it the same honor. Not to be too extended about our proposal. We would

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like to offer two forms of service. To the Watergate brethren. Number one, we pledge that for each of them. Well, tell us the federal lockup. We will with the approval of the federal. under whose jurisdiction we stand. We will initiate a program of prison visitation to

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help ease the blow. Number 2, prior to this and perhaps more helpful, the two of us will undertake a crash program in Washington DC entitled How to Survive Under Federal Lockup. I was trying to understand more nearly our shame. The thunder of footsteps crossed the platform

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in front of me. I thought clumsily and have often thought of the implications of such a day for those who take. Does it mean that they are helping further to reinforce the old American mythology. It has to do with the fate of winners and losers. Is

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this degree in fact a credential? That one has mounted the escalator. That mechanical ladder Which is so often wrong with the bodies of the victims, the losers. Does it mean that the Jesuits too reinforce the old manicheism that says in the world by implacable decree, there

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must be so many losers and so few winners. Does it mean that we do? Please upon such an occasion. In order to reinforce in our own spirit. The idea That Americans Can continue And such desperate cause and bloodshed elsewhere. Catholics, black, white. Aspects of all time.

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To extend into the world. The ancient and sodden mysteries. That the original sin of all is one of color. And poverty Or can it perhaps mean something else? And trying to explore what else it might mean, can I quote from a recent letter. Friends from Vietnamese.

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They said when we in Vietnam. Difficult task to perform. We think not so much of winners and losers. As more concretely of eggs and rocks. And we say the task is that we must take an egg. Break a rock And this goes on. The story of

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the last. Of American war in Vietnam. Um Simple and fragile eggs. The great rock At the end of those years of bloodletting. Of torture, of imprisonment. Of wounding and exile. We find that the Vietnamese. And the American rock. It's broken. So comes the quote. A marvelous

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peasant wisdom, it seems to me a kind of. But as you slept. with the unders. Impregnated vision of a people that sees itself as living. As undefeated As finally unbreakable because alive. Confronted with the inert. And deadly power. Of the technological And finally tipping the balance

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up. In terms of its own survival and in terms of whatever hopes. right there. It makes no sense, as I have learned so often from the. It makes no sense In this war, to speak. Mm. Any more than it could make any sense today in the

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eyes or brain or heart of any conscious. to speak in life If one loses, If one wins, that is to say, achieve. and a place. And a voice. Or we Some extension. Of the old them. That we might see ourselves on such a day more clearly.

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And a very modest And perhaps unspoken. Might erase from our minds. That filthy conception of ourselves. I know. To many more jewels. That in order that we A To true with disorder and duplicity. And The then must bleed That in order for our machinery to function.

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It must be tested upon human bodies. Perhaps such a filthy mythology might dissolve in the face of a deeper wisdom. Whether it be Vietnamese. Or Jewish. A Christian That no good. There was only Minorities And a minority Stands above all and judges all but stands not

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in the middle. Not according to some cultural point of view, but stands with. The victim and the loser and himself is God of the minority in all traditions. Has dissolved The bloodshot distinct. who wins. And calling all To become human To allow that neglected and debased

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world. To enter consciousness. As the principle of life. No. And in tribute to the As well as our graduates. I would like to It is. Those of you who have tasted jail. will forgive me. It was composed there under the heat and isolation. Of this federal

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scholarship. And I leave it with you in the same manner without commentary. There was once a country in which willy-nilly and knowing no one knowing quite how. Everyone was divided. Into prisoners and wardens. This was the name of the game. And wouldn't. Economics, religion, education, law,

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as well as trade and building and selling and cobbling from the smartest to the crudest, that was how it worked. It was not merely that some lost and someone. Because some In fact born losers. That is, they were born with a kind of second umbilical cord

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joining their right hand to their left. immediately after birth. Where there was a feeling on the part of those in. But in this instance Genetics was playing a bad joke and ought to be cut back. Still, for a long time, the game was intact. And this

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is how it went. Every night at midnight There was a change of roles. Became wardens, wardens, prisoners, losers, winners and winners, losers. You The lockups opened. Half the country poured out, and the other half streamed in. took over chairs and boards and stock markets and bishops,

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miters and general stores. Everyone was what he was for a day only. like mad. Knowing 24 hours in order to prove something. Or to get over with what he had to submit to. If a person was down, he would be up again and heard some again

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shortly, and that kept him going. Only one day, the rules of the game suddenly changed. No one knew who first got the idea. But the idea went like this. That winners ought by right? To be what they had been only on occasion. I have to go.

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It was a time when the medics especially were conscious of something strange, for one day it happened that every child born. Parents were on the top side of the laura. Was born free clutching at the indistinct light and. But every child born on the other side

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is fine. By the strong cord of sin. Then the idea started in someone's head and went around unformulated and unspoken as such words always are. What if the cord were left intact? And the rules of the game changed. And the time of the game extended. The

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first step for national security. was only publicly revealed much later. One were quietly removed. To a remote ward of a Lingham Hospital out of public sight. The parents were told merely of the need of special care of mysterious symptoms. And they agreed they were down anyway,

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losers, and had no objection they cared to voice. Now over the next 24 hours and then the next, it was observed that this natural manacle did no harm to the infant. Meantime, their parents exchanged roles as usual. Did you know Hm. As far as the children

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were concerned, however, the results of the tests became clear. Those children that were born manacles. anything. On face right and left. Have the same vague hieroglyphics in the air. They were found normal in every respect perfectly adapted to the slight alteration that nature. Introduced in their

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bodies Then a great light dawned. The news was leaked to a small. People in Nature, they were told was demanding an alteration in the rules of the old game. Self on the side of those who could read the signs. The consequences, as someone. Secret gatherings were

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up to us. The moment, of course, was electric. In a remote conference room of the Central Committee. The intense faces around the table flashed like a two-headed coin spun in the air, danger and opportunity. They savored the moment like an elixir. What's to do? They knew

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what to do. They always do. The knowledge pass. to arm to arm. This unrepeatable moment, a moment that alighted in their midst like a miraculous. Decisions followed quickly. The borders The game was frozen. And wardens held firm. Declared themselves publicly as winners and wardens. Forever They

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composed the Recited on a day of national Thanksgiving quote for the preservation of the civilized from the depredations, toils, conspiracies, and ambushes so recently uncovered laid bare and foiled by responsible power. God Mary and the wise, they intoned at the high altar next day. A thrill

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of delicious. Into the cortex of the masked citizens. At the climax of the cathedral in the national in the national capital. Of the dungeon At the stroke of midnight. Those keys were brought forward, plunged in the sacred brazier before the altar, and fused. Into a white

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hot pool of sweat. White hot, then red, then warm, then solid, then cold. The dungeon was sealed. permanently. Under life sentence where the prisoner. And a generation of losers. Bad seeds. Who? When I was a And the preacher the following Sunday, Sunday. Pulpit when I was

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a child, I played games. But now that I I Mm. Of a time. Let us pray God our Father. We thank you for the joy of this day. For these young graduates from the gifts of mind and

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heart. Body and soul with if you have blessed them. Grant we pray that they may use these gifts well in your service. In the service of their fellow men. They have much to give to a world which needs desperately. The spiritual and moral values which they

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have been given here. Enlighten, direct, and help them all as we pray. To share what they have received generously and zealously. As good stewards of your manifold gifts. for. The the gifts of your Holy Spirit. That they may be empowered to fulfill their role of Christian

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leadership. Wherever they may go or whatever they may be. May he be their constant comforter and guide, their counselor and force of strength. As they confront the challenges and perplexities. Of their pilgrimage to this world. And may your blessing and that of the Son and Holy

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Spirit. Come upon them now And remain forever. Amen. I