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Emeritus Professor Discusses the "Great Waste Product"

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"The 'Great Waste Product' is the unutilized capacity that lies within the ordinary human life," said Professor emeritus Francis Greenwood Peabody '69 when he addressed graduates yesterday afternoon at the Phillips Brooks House. He concluded:

"The World War was a moral miracle. It was a great discovery of American youths, who, in life believed themselves to be quite ordinary, to find at the end of a few months what they could really do. It was the using of ordinary talents in an extraordinary way, which gave them success."

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