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We
men and women graduating from
The City College of New York, do this day,
after the manner of the Athenian youths of old
about to enter public life
take this oath of devotion
to
the City of New York:
we will never bring disgrace to our city
by any act of dishonesty or cowardice
nor ever desert
our
suffering comrades in the ranks;
we will fight for the ideals
and sacred things of the city,
both
alone and with many;
we will revere and obey the city's laws,
and do our best to incite
a like respect and reverence
in those about us
who are prone to annul them
and
set them at naught;
we will strive unceasingly
to
quicken the public's sense of civic duty;
and thus,
in all these ways,
we will strive to transmit this city
not only not less,
but greater, better, and more beautiful
than it was transmitted to us.
