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immediate backlash, a nearriot, and died within days. I got to thinking about “why?” Maybe part of it was his uniqueness. At my last count, there were 64 Eagles, 46 Tigers, and 33 Wildcats among college mascots. But there’s only one set of Boilermakers. But I think our attachment to Pete stems mainly from the way he personifies our selfimage of strength. When our upanding football program chose its slogan for this year, it was “Only the Strong.” One of the year’s YouTube sensations featured a fivefootnine Purdue player squatting 600 pounds. 英語(yǔ)演講稿2 Strength is a big part of the Boilermaker mystique. And it es in forms more important than the physical strength of our terrific athletes or those of you I see at the CoRec and on our intramural fields. Purdue has always been known for sending into the world young men and women who are strong and ready in all the ways that matter in adult life. That’s never been more important, or a bigger advantage, than right now. By making it to this hall today, you have proven that you are strong int