426 State Papers and Addresses

portunities. They are won by the strength of the hearth and the skill of
the arm.

Disappointment will not come from your performance, we may be sure.
The men of Georgetown, 1941, trained as were the men of other days, in high
principles and with justice as the watchword, will give their best to their
. Nation and to their fellowmen, in this supreme emergency.

In the heart of every graduate of this University, there burns that senti-
ment so ably expressed by a Georgetown alumnus of 1903—George Conrad
Reid—to be found in the Georgetown Anthology. No more fitting way to con-
clude could be found than this quotation from his poem:

While life shall last, they sons we stand

In homage, honor, fealty,

Loyal to God, to native land,

And Mother Georgetown, true to thee.