College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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LORD BOTETOURT

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A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT Four years ago the Freshman class of 1937 and I started our career together Graduation then lay far off in a distant and cloudy future; the same dark uncertainties that surround the paths of all travellers through an unknown land beset ours, too, when we began, and yet once more a class has come to graduation, once again the doors of the Wren building open outward on the untried world, for whose mastery, or at least for whose endurance, the class has prepared itself. There before each succeeding body of graduates stretches the broad way of adventure, which none may avoid, for that adventure is life, from which there is no escape so long as life endures. The end and aim of college training Is not escape, but triumph; not avoidance of conflict, but victory in battle. For that testing every class makes ready, to the outcome of that trial every student looks with courage born of difficulties already surmounted, and with confidence sprung from an inner certitude of Increasing strength. it is not the province of Vyilliam and Mary, or any other college, to command success, but even so a higher privilege remains, the development of a spirit in its sons and daughters that overtops alike success and failure: that calm and steady radiance which does not flare and flame in transient prosperity, or flicker out in troublous times, but shineth more and more unto the perfect day. We students of William and Mary— for I am, and of necessity must be, a student, too— though we look back with pride to our great predecessors, we draw from them nothing for the future that does not lie in ourselves. Their examples of fortitude under suffering, of patriotism amidst greed, of resourcefulness in untried conditions, may well call out of the depths of our being courage and generosity and imagination of which we were unaware, but the final answer for Individual triumph or despair lies with each student today, and not with the recorded splendor of the men of other days. For the class of 1938, as for every other class since I have been President of William and Mary, I have observed a steady growth In the essential co-operation that marks real citizens; in the deepening grasp of learning that characterizes the scholar, and above all, In the fineness of feeling that is the highest attribute of the gentleman. ents, that are not recorded on diplomas To those who have attained, and to those who yet seek the higher way, I offer my greetings and These are acquirents. or shall we and cannot be taken away by tli ratSer say develop fate. ny praise. JOHN STEWART BRYAN il h THE COLONIAL ECHO

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