Note 529 — Part II
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President Taft considered the support of the University a national obligation. In his address at the commencement exercises, May 26, 1909, he said, in part:
"Everything that I can do as an executive in the way of helping along the University I expect to do. I expect to do it because I believe it is a debt of the people of the United States, it is an obligation of the Government of the United States, and it is money constitutionally applied to that which shall work out in the end the solution of one of the greatest problems that God has put upon the people of the United States."