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Page 19 text:
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£ THE PIONEER 1915 r oreword IN PUBLISHING the Pioneer, the class of 1915 offers its friends a book which it hopes is by no means inferior to similar books published by the graduating classes of other institutions in the same class as Concordia. Many mistakes have perhaps been made in it, and much criticism will probably be incurred, but if our youth and inexperience is taken into consideration, we feel certain that a more fa- vorable opinion will prevail. Such as it is, however, we offer it to you. May it prove a pleasant reminder of college days, and a means of making our Alma Mater better known.
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Page 18 text:
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£ THE PI ONEER 1915 g this that to my boyish days as well as to untold numbers of others he was an ever present inspiration. In days when temptation came to cast all ideals overboard, to become hard and cynical, to become selfish and worldly minded, to give up the things of the mind and to strive only for pelf and power, it was the uncon- scious influence of his personality, of his idealism, of an occasional word of cheer or of mild rebuke, that made the soul ashamed of its weakness, and turned it from the flesh pots of material gain, from the thought of pelf and vanity to a realization of the value of the higher things of life. Though I do not remember that I ever heard him make many words on the subject, he impressed my boyish mind with this one idea that time and labor expended upon the pursuit of the highest ideals in cultivation of the mind was never wasted, as it were, upon a mere hobby, upon something merely ornamental, that all the learning one could acquire, could be turned to account in the service of Our Lord in His vineyard. Tis true, he strove to kindle in the souls of his students an ap- preciation of the great thinkers and doers of antiquity. He ever impressed upon our minds the thought that we could not but fail to understand the present unless we understood the past. He showed us that our culture was founded upon the culture of the Greeks, and that we, who were receiving what is commonly called a classical education, were highly favored among the children of men. But at the same time, we knew that our teacher would have us study these things for this sole purpose, namely, to serve our Lord and Master Jesus Christ. And now he has gone from us. He who held up before gen- eration after generation of students the flaming torch of idealism in study and in service is no more. But his spirit is not dead. A number of his colleagues who are imbued with the same spirit are still teaching at Concordia. And a number of his former pupils have taken up the work at our beloved Alma Mater, and are carrying it on, onward and upward, in the spirit of him that has gone to his reward. May his spirit ever be with us. M.
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