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admitted as states, seems almost unbeliev- able, but to that, as much as anything, we owe the possession of Hawaii. That Cali- fornia gold miners sent their children to Oregon colleges fifty years ago has been forgotten. In the fact that a hundred centers have sister universities with Yale and Harvard, lies the glory of the West to-day.

When Lewis and Clark crossed the con- tinent one hundred years ago, the Greater West hove in sight. To-day that Greater West is no West, but East. And in that lies the significance of the Lewis and Clark Pacific Centennial. The front of the world has changed. A wiser world, a wider world, and a better world is here than was known a hundred years ago.

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