So after thinking about it for awhile, Sister Holland and I have determined to continue being chief animal tamers at the fall welcoming assembly and then sometime early in the winter semester-like now-we will have a slightly more serious moment with you about things we feel deeply and hope you will enjoy. I love that first hour with you, but neither the time restraints we face there nor the frame of mind you are in is very conducive to much of a presidential message. As you well know, the atmosphere that day is a cross somewhere between Disneyworld and a Jamaican pep rally. I have been a little frustrated that the only real chance I get to address you is in our opening President’s Assembly the first week of the school year. But one of the advantages of being president of the university is that when you ask to be the speaker, they have to let you. I may well be striking it another fatal blow by inserting myself into an otherwise outstanding devotional calendar. Grant disproved forever the theory of evolution. Henry Adams once said that any succession of American presidents that could start with George Washington and lead to Ulysses S.
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