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Friends: It is with pleasure that I appear before you in behalf of the members of the Alumni Association of the Male Seminary. We thank you for your presence and cooperation in everything____ youths of the Cherokee Nation.

         If thus organized, we can engender a more ardent love for the cause, if we

can succeed in having you realize the great work possible for the Male Seminary to accomplish, if meeting here will cause any of us to think over this work and if our Template:Unclear two words will be excused by the Bd an our suggestions received the utmost consideration as coming from those deeply interested in the Nation's welfare - thus our usefulness will go unchallenged.

          As citizens, we have a debt to repay our government in striving to suppress

those things which tried to degenerate the moral nature of humanity; as education, daily impels us to undertake to elevate, enlighten and Christianize the Cherokee race as members of this association Template:Uncear demands that we should seek to have Template:Unclear accomplished through the agency of our alma mater.

          By offering suggestions, we do not mean