"I cannot recall exactly when it was that I first heard of the great work going on for human development here at St. Francis Xavier University, but it had to be at least forty years ago, long before developmental studies and cooperatives were popular pioneering work was going on at Antigonish."
Address is missing except the first page and the last page.
"You have all heard the French saying that is a tribute to the ancient Greek cyclical theory of history: 'Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose,' the more things change, the more they are the same."
The Past and Present of American Higher Education
cc in (CPHS 142/13)
Same title and beginning as in (CPHS 142/12.02), but a different speech. With Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations.
"A year ago in Washington, I was sworn in as the United States Ambassador for the United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development, which will take place next August in Vienna."
Address is missing except the first page and the last page.
"Let me say first of all, I am very happy to be with you. This is a conference that I have looked forward to for a long time and I only regret that my being with you is so short lived as this luncheon."
Same as (UDIS H2/11.05).
cc in (CPHS 142/13)
"This is a day and an occasion on which all of you graduates tend to think long thoughts: a chapter of your life ending, a new one beginning; something accomplished, something yet to be done; a time for planning, dreaming, hoping."
Service to Others
Same as (UDIS H2/12.04).
"Before addressing my subject tonight, may I tell each of you how delighted I am to welcome you to Notre Dame."
Reflections on a Church-Related University
Same as (UDIS H2/12.05).
With the address: 1st "National Congress on Church-Related Colleges and Universities Board of Directors' By-Laws" 3 pages, 2nd a "Question and Suggestion Sheet" 1 page, 3rd the "Role of National Committee" 1 page, and 4th a Memorandum from The White House, Washington, to the Delegates at the National Congress on Church-Related Colleges and Universities, dated June 13, 1979, 2 pages.
"I am both honored and happy to be with you today to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Assumption College."
2 copies: 1st copy with Father Hesburgh's handwritten corrections, 2nd photopcopy.
"About twelve years ago, the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Higher Education produced its first, and one of the slimmest reports."
Same as (UDIS H2/12.07).
"We are gathered here on this last day of the seventies and the eve of the eighties to pay our final respects to one of the all-time great men of Holy Cross and Notre Dame, our good friend and colleague, Father John J. Cavanaugh."
Homily preached by Father Hesburgh at the Liturgy of Christian Burial, December 31, 1979, in the Sacred Heart Church, Notre Dame.
With the speech a printed brochure: "A Eulogy; John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., 14th President of the University of Notre Dame, 1899-1979."
"All of America must be grateful to Thomas Jefferson, then Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to the Board of Visitors of William and Mary who two hundred years ago 'formed it into a university,' to quote that famous letter of the student, John Brown, to his uncle in December of 1779."
The Future of Liberal Education
Also a revised copy (CPHS 142/16.01)
Same as (CPHS 142/15.09) except the 1st page and the last 2 pages.
Same as (UDIS H2/13.03).
"One of the most perceptive tourists ever to visit America made his trip to our shores about 150 years ago (1831)."
Same as (UDIS H2/13.04). Also same as (CPHS 142/24.01): a speech Father Hesburgh gave in Indianapolis in 1987.
Similar to (CPHS 142/15.05) and (UDIS H2/13.06): the speech Father Hesburgh delivered at Toronto, later, dated 21 April 1980. This address is an earlier version of the Toronto address.
Also a revised copy (CPHS 142/16.02)
Enclosed with the commemoration address is Father Hesburgh's handwritten introduction to John Hopkins graduation talk: "Johns Hopkins Graduation Intro," 5 pages. Father Hesburgh received an honorary degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1980 and it is possible that he gave a graduation speech there in 1980, but his commencement speech is missing. The text of the 22 February 1980 Commemoration Address starts where his introduction to graduation talk is left off: with Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America. He might have used the 104th anniversary talk for the graduation speech too.
Also on audio-cassette tape
"If this subject were being discussed in the 13th Century, we could dispense with the adjective Catholic in the title, since to speak of universities in the first century or two of their existence in the Western world would be to speak of them as Catholic, since there were no others."
The Catholic University in the Modern Context
Also revised copy (CPHS 142/16.03)
Same as "The Catholic University in the Modern Context" in (CPHS 142/12.06) and in (CPHS 142/15.07), except attached here is an introductory page about Elizabeth Ann Seton: "It was St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's instinctive interest in education that attracted other dedicated women to her and led to the founding of the Sisters of Charity in 1809 in Emmitsburg, Maryland", 1 page. Also the last paragraph is different.
"I am delighted to be here with you today to celebrate Founder's Day on this Palm Sunday, the eve of your Centenary Year."
Same as (UDIS H2/13.05).
cc in (CPHS 142/17)
"I am deeply grateful to the United Way of America for the great honor of the 1980 Alexis de Tocqueville Award."
With the speech a paper "Independent Sector" by John Gardner, dated November 1979, published in AGB Reports, and a copy of an article "The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism" by Michael Novak.
Same as (UDIS H2/13.06) except the first introductory page.
Also revised copy (CPHS 142/16.04), Father Hesburgh revised the text of the address he gave earlier in 1980 at The John Hopkins University to deliver this address on the occasion of the United Way of America's Alexis de Tocqueville Award in Toronto.
cc in (CPHS 142/17)
Similar to (CPHS 142/15.02), (CPHS 142/24.01), and (UDIS H2/13.04).
"One of the most perceptive tourists ever to visit America made his trip to our shores about 150 years ago, in 1831."
Reprint of speech on voluntarism. Enclosed is the address Father Hesburgh delivered in Toronto in April 1980 and used the text as an early draft for the Commencement Address he presented at RPI, Troy, New York, 14 pages.
"If this subject were being discussed in the 13th Century, we could dispense with the adjective Catholic in the title, since to speak of universities in the first century or two of their existence in the Western world would be to speak of the as catholic, since there were no others."
Catholic Education in the Modern Context
With the address a printed program: "The Twenty-Seventh Commencement at the University of San Diego" 10 pages.
Same as (CPHS 142/12.06) and (CPHS 142/15.03) except the introduction and the last paragraph.
Also revised copy (CPHS 142/16.03)
"I am greatly honored to receive the Sylvanus Thayer Award here at the United States Military Academy today."
Same as (UDIS H2/13.07).
cc in (CPHS 142/17)
With Father Hesburgh's handwritten annotations.
"... I would like to speak to you today quite seriously about the future of liberal education, and while I speak to this campus and its needs I speak also to the world at large on this issue."
President's Address to the Faculty
Address is printed in Notre Dame Report 10:08, Documentation, pp. 280-285. Also includes Father Hesburgh's remarks, made before delivering his address, at the Annual Faculty Convocation, October 13, 1980, in Documentation, pp. 278-280.
Enclosed with Father Hesburgh's remarks and speech an earlier draft of address, 17 pages.
cc in (CPHS 142/17)
Also 2 revised copies (CPHS 142/16.05)
Similar to "The Future of Liberal Education" in (CPHS 142/15.01), but the beginning and ending of the speeches are different.
"All of America must be grateful to Thomas Jefferson, then Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to the Board of Visitors of William and Mary who two hundred years ago 'formed it into a university,' to quote that famous letter of the student, John Brown, to his uncle in December of 1779."
The Future of Liberal Education
Copy of address Father Hesburgh delivered at College of William and Mary with his handwritten corrections and remarks. Manuscript of address is filed in (CPHS 142/15.01).
"One of the most perceptive tourists ever to visit America made his trip to our shores about 150 years ago (1831)."
Revised copy with Father Hesburgh's handwritten changes and remarks.
"If this subject were being discussed in the 13th Century, we could dispense with the adjective Catholic in the title, since to speak of universities in the first century or two of their existence in the Western world would be to speak of the as catholic, since there were no others."
Copy of the 12 March 1980 address delivered at Seton Hall University with Father Hesburgh's handwritten remarks and annotations.