Mansfield University - Carontawan Yearbook (Mansfield, PA)

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The Influence of the Teacher Humanity lives and g ows by the developing power of a great tradition. Knowledge and skill and character and faith are passed from generation to generation of living men. With the single exception of the pai ent, it is the teacher who bears the heaviest responsibility for the safe transfer of this great inheritance. The teacher, often inexperienced and timid, must through his efforts pass on the rich treasures of the past, not only unimpaiied but, if possible, augmented and clarified. Teaching is therefore not a job nor a position; at its best it has not even been a profession or an art, but to the true teacher it has appealed as a vocation, a prophetic and sacred calling, worthy of the deepest devotion of the human heart. Looking backward we find ourselves profoundly grateful to these teachers who made possible for us those experiences with men and books and art and nature which we now enjoy. Though here they must be nameless we trust their deeds may truly live again in lives made nobler by their faithful service. Adequately to emulate them would be for all who know them a woithy ambition: to pass to others the torch once passed to us is our most earnest desire. A. T. BELKNAP. MARY E. BELKNAP.

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WILLIAM R. STRAUGHN, Ph. D. Johns-H:pkins University. His personality has had a p. ofound influence in our lives. Tiuth, justice and sincerity are his chief quali- ties. Our contact with him has impressed us with the ideals of service. This is Dr. Straughn, a man who has our confidence and to whom our thoughts will turn after we leave Noimal. HERBERT GRANT, B. Sc Columbia University Vice Principal We may well say: To know him is to love him. Pi :f. Grant is a person of the highest type. In the ciassroom or out; in the easy iesson or delving to the bottom of Science, his hearty smile and kindly woids are expressions that could come from only such a source. GERTRUDE BRADT Columbia University. A woman of high ideals, a teacher of excellence and great enthusiasm. We wish that in some way we could express to her just what she has meant to us.