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shall be in America no man in any public employment for any other reason than because the man or men who put him there believed him of all who might be chosen best fitted to do well the work he would there have to do, when that time comes, there will have been rounded to full completion the most lasting and most fitting of monuments to the virtues and the services of Carl Schurz.
The Chairman:
We shall now have the pleasure of listening to a poem by Mr. Richard Watson Gilder.
Mr. Gilder then read the following poem:
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