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Adlai Stevenson ’22 spoke these words extemporaneously during a Princeton senior class banquet in 1954, exhorting the near-graduates to bask in “the serenity and quiet of this lovely place” and “touch the depths of truth.” This former managing editor of the Daily Princetonian earned a Harvard law degree before entering government service and politics. An impressive governor of Illinois, Stevenson became the Democratic candidate for President in 1952 and 1956 against war-hero and incumbent Dwight Eisenhower, but was twice defeated. Still enormously popular as a speaker and statesman, he was appointed ambassador to the United Nations in 1961, where he was famously forceful during the Cuban Missile Crisis. After his death in 1965, his Princeton classmates memorialized the Woodrow Wilson Award-winner in a special stained glass window in the University Chapel.

• To learn more about Adlai Stevenson, see Café Vivian picture #5 .
  
  
• To learn more about Princetonians in national service, see quotation #3, 8, 11, 17, 20, 21, 25, 33, and 41, and Café Vivian picture #5, 15, 35, 41, 42, 74, 107, 110, and 119.
  
  
• To learn more about Woodrow Wilson Award winners, see quotation #8, 16, 17, 21, 33, and 37, and Café Vivian picture #17, and 122.
  
  
• To learn more about notable Princeton undergraduate alumni, see icon #4, 5, and 10, quotation #3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 33, 36, 37, and 41, and Café Vivian picture #1, 5, 7, 15, 17, 39, 41, 55, 57, 59, 74, 76, 84, 88, 99, 101, 102, 107, 110, and 123.
  
  
• For more quotations about Princeton, see quotation #20, 25, 33, 35, and 38.
  
  
• To learn more about Princeton’s chapels, see Café Vivian picture #8, 16, 40, and 58.

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