Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 5-1981
Abstract
Judge Wald offers advice to graduates, including: "But the most valuable legacy college can leave you Is an appetite and appreciation of language. Clarity, lucidity, precision with words is the most elusive of talents. Words inform, inspire, mislead and sometimes destroy. They are the most essential tool of humanity. Words plan, build, preserve, and often demolish civilizations, industries, empires, governments, and relationships. If you carry one lesson from college to life, let it be the knowledge that what you say is the expression of what you mean, what you intend to provoke in others, what you want to realize."
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Recommended Citation
Wald' 48, Patricia McGowan, "63rd Commencement Address" (1981). Commencement Addresses. 15.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/commence/15
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