Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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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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IN MEMORIAM i Well may some local Milton in thinking of Kenneth Sinclair Dodson, inscribe lines such as those of the poet to his friend Lycidas. For his parting was taken with deep sorrow by all who knew him and realized his capabilities. Not a year has passed since he influenced student opinion and action here at Lincoln with his intensity of apprehension and his refreshingly new viewpoint. His interests were wide and varied and his accomplishments distinctive. He was a friend to all as his impartiality in judgment was responsible for the settlement of numerous individual and campus problems. His firm convictions and his zeal to elevate the standards of his fellow student made him a driving force in our community. Especially did Dodson devote himself to the publishing of last year's annual. He achieved such a high degree of practicality and informality in “recapturing visually the myriad activities of student life at Lincoln” that he influenced to a great extent the policy of this year's staff. To him do we owe a special debt of gratitude and to his memory do we, the class of '40, dedicate this book—the 1940 LION. 6

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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