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From address to graduating high school seniors 1912 (Samuel P. Capen Papers, 1894-1955, 4/7/19, #18.6):
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You know a teacher can never see a group of young people assembled together without wanting to tell them something. No doubt you have noticed this habit of teachers. We hope, of course, that you will remember some of the things that we may say.
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photograph of Chancellor Capen at his desk in Hayes Hall, taken for the Buffalonian yearbook, c.1942
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From Capen's inauguration speech, 1922 (Samuel P. Capen Papers, 1894-1955, 4/7/19, #19.39):
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I do not hold with those who would limit the number of college students on the basis of any distinctions of race or sex or creed or social standing. There is but one justifiable basis on which a university in a democratic community such as this can choose those who are to become members of it, the basis of ability. But a university is a place maintained at great expense to foster the philosophic point of view, to stimulate constructive thinking, because this point-of-view and this mode of thinking have been found necessary to the progress of civilized society.
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From a letter to Capen's successor, Chancellor, Raymond T. McConnell, 1954 (Samuel P. Capen Papers, 1894-1955, 4/7/19, #4.13):
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The daily acts of an administrator are written in water. The wind passes over them and they are gone. But the results of his administrative policy if it is positive and constructive, remain. They 'constitute another stratum in the long process of sedimentation by which universities are slowly formed, and acquire stability and traditions and their individual characteristics...: to know that he has been responsible for depositing one such stratum is the administrator's reward, if he needs one other than the fun of the job.
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