In this moment, too, there is a deep feeling of triumph after years of strenuous study, of toilsome learning, and of a wait that wavered between hope and disappointment. And in it, also, there is another feeling — a feeling of superiority: of superiority over some of one's fellow companions, and over the many thousands of girls whom circumstances did not favor with a seat at the table of knowledge, or even with drawing near to it. In this feeling there is a taint of that temptation which so often steals over man by virtue of his limitedness.

Would that every girl in my country might one day enjoy standing in this moment; then would our condition change, and we should become happy in our homes and in our society. And we have hope, today, in these throngs that come, in ever greater numbers, year after year, to the springs of learning.

We congratulate those who won their diplomas this year, and we hope for them a flourishing future, in which they will take their part, alongside the working women and men, in the field of the national renaissance.