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  ...COURAGE ***

Produced by Al Haines

THE RECTORIAL ADDRESS DELIVERED
AT ST. ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
MAY 3rd 1922

COURAGE
BY
J. M. BARRIE

HODDER AND STOUGHTON LIMITED TORONTO
To the Red Gowns of St. Andrews

Canada, 1922


You have had many rectors here in St. Andrews who will continue in bloom long after the lowly ones such as I am are dead and rotten and forgotten. They are the roses in December; you remember someone said that God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. But I do not envy the great ones. In my experience--and you may find in the end it is yours also--the people I have cared for most and who have seemed most worth caring for--my December roses--have been very simple folk. Yet I wish that for this hour I could swell into someone of importance, so as to do you credit. I suppose you had a melting for me because I was hewn out of one of your own quarries, walked similar academic groves, and have trudged the road on which you will soon set...   Svevo, Italo

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