May 22, 2025 and 101 years ago on this day in 1925, Edgar Rice Burroughs presented his daughter, Joan, with the handwritten draft of the graduation address he made to the graduating 1894 class at the Michigan Military Academy. He was president of the 1895 class.
The 100 word drabble for today is an excerpt from that speech. The entire speech may be read at:
I thank the Senior Class for the honorable and impartial way they have treated us both as officers and Men... and in bidding them a last farewell. May their future lives contain as many bright hours and as few real trials as this Cadet Day have in the past.
Our hearts fill and something rises in our throats as we look into the faces of the comrades about to leave us, We can well imagine that the same 'Something' rises in their throats as the thought comes to them that after tonight, Cadet Gray is a thing of the past.
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