Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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TO THE CLASS OF 1941: You approach your final days in college and soon you will go out to varied fields and vocations. Wo hopo the college days have been happy ones and that the memory of them will be pleasant in your later years of life. We of the faculty hope you will come back to Lincoln as opportunity offers, to renew your associations with your successors and ours. You go out in a time of controversy and doubt. Many voices fall on your ears of the failure of men to go forward in desirable ways of life You are tempted to contemptuous attitudes toward what men stand for and what they have accomplished, that can only load to lack of hope and courage in your own hoarts. May you have a deeper discernment to see that virtue and noble motives exist, that men have braved danger and discouragement to bring us where we are. and that the light of hope still shines bright along tho path of honest endeavor. Through eighty years of opportunity your own people have pressed increasingly into the varied life of America. You should not fail them now. For you in your youth — Life is too short to waste. In critic peep or cynic bark. Quarrel or reprimand: 'Twill soon be dark; Up! Mind thine own name, and God speed the mark!'' PRESIDENT.

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TO THE CLASS OF 1941: On the occasion of your departure from Lincoln I greet you with the wish that all that has been finest in our association during these years may constitute a bond of unity in hope and purpose as we move forward down the years. The world into which you go is characterized by expectancy and anxiety. The future is surrounded by a variety of question marks. A substantial section of the human race is releasing its energies through instruments of death and destruction for the purpose of righting old wrongs or with the idea of winning advantages regarded to be essential to national existence. Another section struggles against the prospect of annihilation or enslavement, while a third segment finds itself suspended between two contradictory forces with tragic uncertainty regarding its own survival Most of us are as discontented with the disadvantages of old systems of life as we are bewildered by the outlines of the world after the present orgy of armed conflict and destruction. Deep in the hearts and minds of men. women, and children in all parts of the world and in all circum- stances of life there is the insistent demand that the potential fullness and beauty and sacredness of life shall become the very essence of daily living in the common affairs of mankind. The existence of these fundamental urges is not nullified by factors of race, nationality, nor geographical location. Whatever the shape ol the world to come, it will be a place in which all of us must be able to think clearly, to know many useful facts, to do some one thina excellently, and to endure some measure of hardship in the interest of our hopes and beliefs. In this new world your very survival will involve the capacity for various kinds of self-sacrifice. Your continued development and usefulness as a human being will require internal fortitude and strength of character. In all this, whatever the structure of society may be. the actual world in which you live will expand or contract to the dimensions of what you have learned and the kind of person that you have become during these years of study and activity. It is my hope that you will go forth equipped and willing not only to confront a strange new world that exacts duties and imposes obliga- tions but also to exercise initiative and energy in creating an order of life which provides more goods and satisfactions of a higher quality for more and more people. With these morsels of knowledge that you now possess and the faint glimpses of the higher reaches of mind that have dawned upon you. let your departure from Lincoln mark your entrance into wider spheres of thought and study and work through which the deeper hungers of your spirit may be revealed even more clearly in the kind of activities that claim you and the kind of possessions that you seek May all that you strive for or attain be characterized by excellence which is the only ultimate permanence. Sincerely yours. w f Jhlo cVL DEAN OF MEN.