Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE To the Class of 1940: June, 1940, brings you to the time of graduation. The years of contact here with students and faculty arc over. You separate, each in his own field, to take up more definitely the business of life. We hope the years in college have been fruitful both in present satisfactions and in the acquiring of things needful for the days that follow. We hope you have been helped to sec more clearly the things that arc important, to distinguish between the things that arc transitory and the things that arc lasting. We live in uncertain days when the future offers possibilities of undreamed satisfac tions of the best desires of men and where also athwart our path lies the dark spectre of devastating ruin of things material and spiritual. It is ours to chcxisc. We can do our part in making the kind of world we wish hoping that those who come after will add their effort. We live in a new land, long' ing and laboring for a day when throughout its wide extent a man may be “a man for a that, without regard to class, race, or the externals of life. May we sec its dawning. Sincerely yours, Walter Livingston Wright. 8

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CLASS ADVISERS The class of 1940 is indebted to Professor Harold Fetter Grim and to Professor Shelby Albright Rooks from whose wealth of experience and friendly counsel we have borrowed much to help us to realize the fundamental principles of service which our “Alma Mater” has tried so generously to infuse in us, and we shall sincerely carry them with us into the world which we are about to meet. The sunset of graduation slowly dawns upon us, and ere we depart we sincerely thank our faculty advisers and hope it was as James Thompson said: “Delightful task! to rear the tender thought. To teach the young idea how to shoot.” 7

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DEAN WILSONS MESSAGE i To the Class of 1940—Greetings: The simple ritual of graduation ceremonies hears testimony to the acquisition of useful skills, the discovery of essential knowledge, and the cultivation of enlightened attitudes. To the extent that such achievement has actually taken place during your period of residence at the college, this public recognition of your attainments in sc hob arly pursuits is hut an introduction to those more deeply satisfying disciplines of mind and spirit so necessary to civilized persons in an age of intricate and exacting human relationships. In free concourse with congenial men and stimulating ideas, you have lived through late adolescence into early adulthood. May the level of your maturity he a match for the most rigorous demands of the rather impersonal, if not hostile, forces of that “greater society” beyond the reassuring confines of college. Let not “Commence' ment” he an invitation to frustration Be strong. Extend the areas of solid fact about man and nature, persist in critical inquiry into the unsolved problems of things human and divine, dedicate the energies of your Being to at least one great cause for the liberation and enrichment of human life. And this shall be a continuing comradeship between you who go out from college and those who remain for other years of endeavor on these grounds. May we to- gether renew our confidence in the power of truth over falsehood, light over darkness, good over evil; and wherever we may sojourn in time to come, let us bear practical and unremitting witness to the faith that is within us. Sincerely yours, Frank Theodore Wilson. 9